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12:55 PM ET, June 6, 2007

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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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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 …
Discussion: Joystiq and youNEWB
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Kiyoshi Takenaka / Reuters:
Nintendo Wii outsells Sony PS3 5-fold in Japan  —  TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp. took another blow with Nintendo Co.'s Wii game console outselling its PlayStation 3 by more than five to one in Japan last month, raising doubts over Sony's nascent earnings recovery.
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.
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.
Discussion: HipMojo.com and PSFK Trend: PSFK
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Politicos threaten schools over campus piracy  —  WASHINGTON—Politicians on Tuesday threatened to enact new laws if universities don't do more to prevent their students from unlawfully swapping music, movies and other copyrighted files on campus networks.  —  At the latest in what has become …
Discussion: Inquirer and FurdLog
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Audrey Bright / Fox News:
CompUSA Store That Sold Texas Man an Empty Box Finally Agrees He Didn't Get Money's Worth  —  A Texas man who thought he got a bargain when he bought a camera from retailer CompUSA only to find out that he'd purchased an empty box, finally got his money's worth thanks to a Web campaign …
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Jackie Huba / Church of the Customer Blog:
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New York Times:
Doll Web Sites Drive Girls to Stay Home and Play  —  Presleigh Montemayor often gets home after a long day and spends some time with her family.  Then she logs onto the Internet, leaving the real world and joining a virtual one.  But the digital utopia of Second Life is not for her.
Discussion: CrunchGear and Clickety Clack
Aaron Brazell / Technosailor:
Five Things MovableType Learned from Bilbo Baggins  —  Movable Type announced today that Movable Type 4 would be open source.  This is obviously a retreat on their move to a closed model back in Movable Type 3.  If you recall, MT 3 came under a tremendous amount of fire for moving away from the …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
SpaceTime: 3D Browser Eye Candy  —  New York based SpaceTime has released SpaceTime 3D, a web browser that literally takes tagged browsing 3D.  —  SpaceTime allows users to map out their browsing progress in a visual timeline, treating each site as an object that can be manipulated and rearranged within the 3D environment.
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 …
Discussion: CrunchGear, MacDailyNews and Inquirer
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Google: IIS twice as likely to serve malware as Apache  —  A new study by Google's Anti-Malware Team seems to confirm what many people have believed for years: Web sites running Microsoft's IIS are twice as likely to host malware than those running Apache.  —  Last month, Google studied about 70,000 malware-distributing domains.
Discussion: Computerworld
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Robert McLaws / Windows-Now.com:
Time for Microsoft to Change Its Patch Policy?
Discussion: Channel 9 and Zero Day
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.
Discussion: VoIP Blog and broadbandreports.com
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Kids' first exposure to gaming, cell phones becoming earlier  —  Kids are being exposed to consumer electronics at ever-younger ages, according to a new report, and the frequency of use is going up for some devices.  The numbers come as part of the NPD Group's third annual Kids …
GeekSugar / Geek is chic.:
New Mercury Free MacBook Pro Unboxed!  —  I got my hands on the new MacBook Pro first thing this morning and saying everyone around me is gushing and jealous is an understatement.  Unlike last year's model, the new MacBook Pro has a mercury-free, power-efficient LED-backlit display.
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.
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Product loyalty: consumers mistake familiarity with superiority  —  Anyone who has followed consumer electronics and online services knows that once a product reaches dominance, it becomes very hard for it to be dethroned (hello, iPod, Google, and Windows).  Economists have argued …
Discussion: journals.uchicago.edu and JD on EP
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.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Specs and prices of Wal-Mart's new Dell desktops revealed?  —  We just received an anonymous tip regarding the two new Dell desktops Wal-Mart will be carrying starting Sunday.  We have no way to verify the claim but the specs — which were apparently read directly off the packaging …
 
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Chris Finke / The Netscape Blog:
Navigator 9 Beta has been released
InfoWorld:
EBay to broker radio ads  —  San Francisco (IDGNS) …
Discussion: CrunchGear and WebProNews
Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
Nielsen to track mobile media use
Carlo Longino / Techdirt:
FTC Moves To Block Merger, Seeing Companies In A Narrow Market
iii.co.uk:
EU extends deadline for Apple to respond to iTunes antitrust concerns to June 20
Discussion: MacUser, Ars Technica and hypebot
benheck.com:
The Audio FX Pro 5+1 Headset
Discussion: Engadget, Gizmodo, Kotaku and Joystiq
Anoop Gantayat / IGN:
No Final Fantasy For Xbox 360
Carlo Longino / Techdirt:
Brace Yourself For The Shock News: Government Still Doesn't Protect Data Well
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Major League Gaming acquires GotFrag
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch Party at August Capital on July 27
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ask.com Commercial: Now on YouTube
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Amp'd Mobile Runs Out of Juice
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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

 
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