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8:30 PM ET, June 6, 2007

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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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Associated Press:
Netflix Up on Rumor of Buyout by Amazon  —  Netflix Up on Rumor of Possible Buyout by Amazon; Analyst Reckons Deal Could Be $1.5B or More  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Netflix Inc. jumped Wednesday amid a rumor the online video rental company could be acquired by Web retailer Amazon.com Inc.
Discussion: paidContent.org and TechCrunch
Business Week:   Netflix: Starring in Merger Story?
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Rumor Mill: Amazon-Netflix, Yahoo!-Facebook
Discussion: Guardian Unlimited and CostPerNews
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).
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Apple, AT&T stores prepare for iPhone frenzy  —  NEW YORK—With a little over two weeks until the iPhone hits store shelves, Apple and AT&T retail sales representatives say they are preparing for a quick sellout and huge crowds on the June 29 launch date.  —  As of Wednesday …
Discussion: Gadget Lab
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The Boy Genius Report:
AT&T Apple iPhone internal talking points
Discussion: Gizmodo and wirelessinfo.com Blog
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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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 …
Discussion: SMS Text News
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Carlo Longino / MobHappy:
Vodafone UK, Doing A Lovely Job Of Supporting The Mobile Web By Breaking It
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Internet Companies Push For Mobile Phone Carriers to Open Up  —  In the US mobile phone carriers run closed networks: my Samsung phone will only run on the Verizon network, and if I switch to another carrier, the applications I bought over Verizon's service won't come with me.
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USA Today:
Skype: 'Locked' phones unfair
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 …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Substitute teacher spared sentencing for porn pop-ups, gets new trial  —  Julie Amero, the substitute teacher who could have received 40 years in jail after porn appeared on classroom PCs, was spared that fate—for now.  Instead, Amero will get a new trial after revelations that the original computer analysis was flawed.
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.
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Releases Calendar Directory  —  Google Calendar went live with a directory of public calendars, so you can quickly add calendars of interest (you could search for shared calendars before, but to be able to browse them too is a nice addition).  The gallery includes categories like …
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.
DigiTimes:
Computex 2007: Xceive claims smallest high-definition LCD TV copy ready design  —  Xceive, a maker of hybrid silicon tuners for PC, TV and digital home, on June 5 announced its "Breckenridge" reference design for small-size and transportable hybrid TVs and is demonstrating what it claims …
Discussion: Engadget, Gadget Lab and Gizmodo
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
HANDS-ON WITH NETSCAPE'S NEW SOCIAL BROWSER  —  Yesterday Netscape released a public beta of their new Navigator browser, and brought back the "Navigator" moniker.  Firefox users will feel right at home, as the browser has been built off the same architecture and even works with Firefox extensions.
Dan Kaplan / VentureBeat:
MeetMoi raises cash, for Twitter of sex  —  MeetMoi, a clever "location based" mobile dating service, has just raised $1.5 million in a first round of financing.  —  MeetMoi, which got a mention in the Wall Street Journal today (subscription required), lets you find people looking for a date, on-the-fly, wherever you are.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Google: Foreign workers are key to our success  —  WASHINGTON—A Google executive on Wednesday credited the company's phenomenal success to the United States' openness to immigrants and called on Congress to let in more foreign workers.  —  Laszlo Bock, the search giant's vice president …
Discussion: Associated Press and WebProNews
BBC:
Censorship 'changes face of net'  —  Amnesty International has warned that the internet "could change beyond all recognition" unless action is taken against the erosion of online freedoms.  —  The warning comes ahead of a conference organised by Amnesty, where victims of repression will outline their plights.
 
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Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
HD DVD and Blu-ray coming to Santa Rosa IGP
Carlo Longino / Techdirt:
Pro-Net Neutrality Group's Latest Propaganda Piece Hits New Level Of Lameness
Discussion: WebProNews
Sinead Carew / Reuters:
Coca-Cola sets up mobile social network
Discussion: Gizmodo
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Poor bets placed on new iMacs at Apple's developer conference
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Lawyer for woman sued by RIAA asks for sanctions, gets sanctioned himself
Katie Fehrenbacher / NewTeeVee:
Who Watches Mobile Video?
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
DRM loathing spreads around the world: next stop, Brazil
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Jon Udell:
Building conceptual bridges to a new media world
GamePolitics.com:
Florida Attorney General Looking into Wii Version of Manhunt 2
Fred von Lohmann / Washington Post:
Copyright Silliness on Campus
Discussion: UNDERNEWS and FurdLog
Audrey Bright / Fox News:
CompUSA Store That Sold Texas Man an Empty Box Finally Agrees …
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Google Gears: Replacing One Problem with Another
Kotaku:
Industry: Lay-Offs Hit SCEA HQ Today
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
What Apple TV Costs to Make
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Brian Stelter / CNN:
In a letter to Bob Iger, incoming FCC chair Brendan Carr raised concerns about ABC's negotiations with its affiliated stations, public trust in media, and more

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix will host NFL Christmas games, including Beyonce's Halftime show, for only three hours after streaming them live; replays will be available on NFL+

 
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