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2:25 AM ET, June 6, 2007

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Ashlee Vance / The Register:
Google shivs server crowd with PeakStream buy  —  Exclusive Google has stunned the server world by acquiring superstar start-up PeakStream, The Register can confirm.  —  PeakStream's website and phone lines mysteriously crashed yesterday, indicating that the software maker was struggling to pay its bill or had been gobbled.
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Google Buys Sequouia-backed, Multi-threaded Code Startup Peakstream
Discussion: paidContent.org
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
WordPress vs. Movable Type: Open Source Blogging Software Showdown  —  Movable Type has just released version 4.0 and reversed a decision that nearly killed MT 3.0 and led to the rise of WordPress — MT 4.0, currently in beta, will be released in open source later this year.  (See Read/WriteWeb coverage.)
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Anildash / Movable Type News:
Movable Type 4 Beta: We're On A Mission  —  If you're reading this blog, you probably know a lot about Movable Type.  It's the power bloggers' tool, made by people who just wanted to make a good, flexible blogging application.  Over half a decade, it's grown into a platform that even enterprises …
Michael Gartenberg:
HTC Touch Innovates the Windows Mobile Platform - First Take  —  HTC announced a new smartphone today called the HTC Touch and it shows how these folks are leading the innovation on the Windows Mobile Platform.  I've spent some time with the unit and both the device and the initial market strategy for launching are dead on.
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Niels Provos / Google Online Security Blog:
Web Server Software and Malware  —  In this post, we investigate the distribution of web server software to provide insight into how server software is correlated to servers hosting malware binaries or engaging in drive-by-downloads.  —  We determine server operating system by examining the 'Server …
Discussion: Zero Day and Computerworld
Red Sweater Blog:
MarsEdit 1.2: Growl, Picasa and Vox!  —  MarsEdit 1.2 is now available for download (or just "Check for Updates" from the app).  This is a free update for all registered MarsEdit users.  —  Three relatively big changes in this release:  —  Growl support.
Will Watts / The Register:
Microsoft threatens its Most Valuable Professional  —  Who said you could improve our software?  —  What's the best way to attract a pile of threatening lawyers' letters from Microsoft?  Sell pirate copies of Windows?  Write a DRM-busting program?  —  Londoner Jamie Cansdale has just discovered a new approach.
Apple:
Apple Updates MacBook Pro  —  Latest Intel Core 2 Duo Processors, Memory Up to 4GB and Higher Performance Graphics Across the Line  —  Apple® today updated its MacBook® Pro line of notebooks with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, memory up to 4GB, and high-speed graphics in a stunning …
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Gizmodo:
Apple Interview: Details on the New LED Macbook Pro
Discussion: Macworld, MacUser and Engadget
Inside AdSense:
Policy updates — and it's not even Thursday!  —  After our many weeks of policy posts on Thursdays, you're probably intimately familiar with all of our program policies.  So we can imagine your surprise when you woke up today, got your morning coffee, and settled in for your daily re-read of the policies …
Business Wire:
EA Appoints Kathy Vrabeck to Lead EA Casual Entertainment  —  New Group to Focus on Lighter Games for Family and New Consumers  —  REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS - News) today announced the formation of EA Casual Entertainment …
Tony Long / Wired News:
June 5, 1977: From a Little Apple a Mighty Industry Grows  —  1977: The Apple II, the world's first "practical" personal computer, goes on sale.  —  The Apple II is the computer that made Apple a driving force in a new industry.  The company's original computer bore little resemblance …
Fareastgizmos.com:
Porsche Design Mobile Phone P'9521 presented  —  Stephane Bret, director of Porsche Design Mobile Group, holds a Porsche Design Mobile Phone P'9521 in Essen June 4, 2007.  The Porsche Design Group and Sagem Communication are presenting the first Porsche Design Mobile Phone, the P'9521, at the Red Dot Design Museum in Essen.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch Party at August Capital on July 27  —  Update: Ok, tickets are selling faster than we thought.  We've sold 300 in about 45 minutes.  We are going to shut down the list for now and re-open it in a few days.  —  After a long hiatus of old-fashioned social networking (a.k.a parties) …
Discussion: Eventbrite and bub.blicio.us
Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
Intel, Asus Announce $199 'Eee PC'  —  TAIPEI — Asus and Intel have teamed up to develop a $199 notebook PC, the companies announced here on Tuesday.  —  In a keynote address given by Sean Maloney, an executive vice president at Intel and chief marketing and sales officer, Jonney Shih …
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Intel updates compilers for multicore era  —  Intel has announced major updates for its C++ and Fortran tools, updates that are aimed at making it easier for programmers to exploit thread-level and data-level parallelism in multicore processors.  On the data parallelism side …
Discussion: The Register and Slashdot
Alex Iskold / Read/WriteWeb:
Clearspring Lands Major Deal With NBC  —  Clearspring is going to annouce tomorrow that it was chosen by NBC to be its exclusive widget platform for the next year.  This is a major deal for Clearspring, and for NBC as well.  The specific terms of this business arrangement have not been disclosed.
 
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Robert McMillan / InfoWorld:
Google at odds with the locked-down enterprise
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Yahoo! Search Crawler, Slurp, has a new Address and Signature Card
Shane Richmond / Telegraph Blogs:
Putting the 'ahhhh' into RSS
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Coalition wants FCC to save 700MHz spectrum for wireless broadband
Frank Caron / Ars Technica:
Microsoft to unify MSN, Xbox and Zune with Ignition music platform
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Xbox 360 getting next-gen 'Pac-Man'
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