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Wall Street Journal:
EBay to Broker Radio Ad Time, Stoking Rivalry With Google — Online auctioneer eBay Inc. plans to begin brokering radio advertisements today, in the latest effort by a Web company to sell offline ads via the Internet. The move ratchets up eBay's competition with Google Inc. and could shake up how radio advertising is sold.
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Radio Time to Join List of eBay Items Up for Auction — SAN FRANCISCO, June 5 — The auction giant eBay said it would begin selling radio airtime to advertisers starting Wednesday, expanding into a business that Google entered last year — EBay, through a partnership with Bid4Spots …
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Netflix Shares Higher On Rumors Of Amazon.com Bid — Netflix (NFLX) shares are higher today on rumors that Amazon.com (AMZN) might make offer to buy the company. In a research note, Bank of America analyst Brian Pitz writes that there is speculation of a $34 a share bid "circulating in the press."
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Longofest / MacRumors:
ZFS To Become Default File System In Leopard — Perhaps overcome with excitement (and forgetting that Apple doesn't like such pre-emptive disclosures), Sun's Jonathan Schwartz announced today at Sun event in Washington D.C. that Apple would be making ZFS "the file system" in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard (video link, requires RealPlayer).
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Bill Ray / The Register:
Vodafone Live 'improvements' kill mCommerce — Find your perfect job - click here for thousands of tech vacancies — Vodafone UK has launched a mobile optimising technology which reformats web pages to fit onto a mobile phone screen. — Unfortunately, it also prevents anyone else doing the same thing …
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Carlo Longino / MobHappy:Vodafone UK, Doing A Lovely Job Of Supporting The Mobile Web By Breaking It
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The Mobile Technology Weblog
Dylan Tweney / Epicenter:
How Craig Newmark Built Craigslist With "No Vision Whatsoever" — Craig Newmark started craigslist in early 1995 as a way of staying on top of San Francisco's busy arts and technology scene. Despite (or perhaps because of) the site's determined non-commercialism, craigslist survived and even thrived in the post-dot-com days.
Kotaku:
Industry: Lay-Offs Hit SCEA HQ Today — Roughly 80 to 100 employees of Sony Computer Entertainment of America's Foster City headquarters were laid off today, Kotaku has learned from a source who was among those asked to hand in their badge and keys before leaving the premises.
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CNET News.com, Ars Technica, DailyTech, Metaversed, 1UP.com, GamePolitics.com, Game | Life, GamesIndustry.biz, Good Morning Silicon Valley and digg
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
What Apple TV Costs to Make — Analyzing and pricing out the components of Apple's new set-top video box reveal uncharacteristically slim profits — When Apple CEO Steve Jobs called Apple TV a "hobby," he wasn't kidding. — By typical Apple standards, the new set-top video box …
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Ars Technica, Gadget Lab, Macsimum News, Inquirer, MacDailyNews, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband and CrunchGear
Rich Karlgaard / Forbes.com:
Sun's Coulda Woulda Shoulda — Sun Microsystems (SUNW) trades at $5 ... Google (GOOG) a hundred times more at $518. — Stock prices mean nothing on their own, of course. Google's market cap at $159 billion is not a hundred times greater than Sun's at $18 billion.
GamePolitics.com:
Florida Attorney General Looking into Wii Version of Manhunt 2 — Is Manhunt 2 worse on the Wii? — GamePolitics has confirmed via multiple sources that Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum (R) has expressed concern over the impending release of Rockstar's controversial game on Nintendo's next-gen console.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft preps Windows-based kitchen client — Microsoft is beginning work on the first of what it plans to make a family of customized Windows platforms designed for specific rooms around the home. — The "Kitchen Client" software will extend the Windows operating system and integrate …
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Google Gears: Replacing One Problem with Another — I've been thinking a little bit about Google Gears recently and after reading the documentation things I've realized that making a Web-based application that works well offline poses an interesting set of challenges.
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Web Worker Daily, Microsoft Watch, WebProNews, JD on EP, Smalltalk Tidbits …, InsideGoogle and Ajaxian
USA Today:
Skype: 'Locked' phones unfair — NEW YORK — Are cellphone companies using their sway over handset makers to unfairly limit consumers' choices? Skype, a pioneer in PC-to-PC calling, thinks so, and it wants the Federal Communications Commission to do something about it.
NEWS.com.au:
Sony mulls cutting PlayStation 3 price — SONY may cut the price of the PlayStation 3 which is facing fierce competition from Nintendo's Wii, the president of the electronics giant has indicated. — Sony "does not rule out the possibility of lowering the price'' of the PS3 …
Fred von Lohmann / Washington Post:
Copyright Silliness on Campus — What do Columbia, Vanderbilt, Duke, Howard and UCLA have in common? Apparently, leaders in Congress think that they aren't expelling enough students for illegally swapping music and movies. — The House committees responsible for copyright and education wrote …
