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USA Today:
AT&T girds for iPhone launch on June 29 — For consumers eager to get their hands on an Apple iPhone, here's the good news: It will be available in all 1,800 AT&T phone stores at 6 p.m. sharp on June 29. — The bad news? "We fully expect one or more of our stores to run out of stock …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Two top Google engineers leave — to Benchmark Capital — Two more high-level Google engineers have left the Googleplex — this time to join well-known venture capital firm Benchmark Capital. — Bret Taylor (left) and Jim Norris (right), two of the masterminds behind Google Maps and several …
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Jack Shafer / Slate:
Apple Suck-Up Watch — IT'S NOT JUST A NEW KIND OF CELL PHONE, IT'S A CULTURAL WATERSHED! — iPhone — The press corps' love for all things Apple routinely swells and bursts in a dewy explosion whenever the company readies a new gizmo for sale. Like the Detroit automakers of yore …
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Internet radio to go silent on June 26? — If you depend on the sounds of Internet radio to get you through your workday, don't be surprised if your headphones pipe out little more than dead air next Tuesday. — In protest of the elevated royalty fees Webcasters are poised to begin owing …
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Agence France Presse:
'Blog', 'cookie', 'wiki' top list of hated Internet words: poll — LONDON (AFP) - "Blog", "netiquette", "cookie" and "wiki" have been voted among the most irritating words spawned by the Internet, according to the results of a poll published Thursday. — EU body to expand Web search probe, write to Google
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Guardian Unlimited, Online Media Cultist, Webomatica, CyberNet Technology News, TechFold and The Blog Herald
Brendan Sinclair / GameSpot:
Sony, Nintendo forbid AO-rated Manhunt 2 — Console-makers confirm policies preventing licensed third parties from releasing Adults Only games on their systems, effectively banning the Rockstar title. — When Take-Two Interactive yesterday confirmed that the Entertainment Software Rating Board handed …
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Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:
Instant Search Changes to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 — Give Microsoft a bit of credit for its seemingly never-ending flexibility: In response to a horrifically baseless charge from Internet search giant Google, the software giant this week has agreed to make major changes to Windows Vista (see my review).
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Graham Holliday / Press Gazette:
BBC reporter tours Turkey in social media experiment — The BBC has dispatched reporter Ben Hammersley to spend two weeks using new social media web tools to cover the run-up to the July general election. — He will visit four cities and report for BBC World, World Service radio, News 24 and BBC News online.
Reuters:
Sony to boost PS3 software to reverse slump: Nikkei — TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp. (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research) expects a sharp increase in the number of games released for the PlayStation 3 this business year, in a move that should help the game console's slumping sales …
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Michael Tiemann / Open Source Initiative:
Will The Real Open Source CRM Please Stand Up? — Dana Blankenhorn's story How far can open source CRM get? has finally pushed me to respond to the many people who have asked "When is the OSI going to stand up to companies who are flagrantly abusing the term 'open source'?" The answer is: starting today.
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Between the Lines, Open Source, Brij Singh's One More Idea, Jeremy's Blog, Compiler, Computer Business Review and Slashdot
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Congress grills DHS CIO over repeated security breaches — Officials from the Department of Homeland Security faced Congressional grilling yesterday over the (lack of) security on DHS computer networks. The department charged with safeguarding America's borders, ports …
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Google:
A New Way to Pay - Google Expands Pay-Per-Action for Google AdWords™ — Google announced today the worldwide expansion of its pay-per-action advertising beta. Pay-per-action is a new pricing model that allows advertisers to pay only when a pre-defined action is completed on their site …
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
Verizon: More Upside to Come In Wireless — How do you get more than 100% of a market to buy product? I'm not sure, but that's the contention of CIBC World Markets telecommunications analyst Tim Horan, who says that Verizon Communications's (VZ) Verizon Wireless has the opportunity to stay …
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Forbes:
EU says Apple has responded to iTunes deadline; EU 'studying it carefully' — BRUSSELS (Thomson Financial) - The European Commission said Apple Inc responded to a midnight deadline yesterday in relation to antitrust concerns over the pricing of songs on its iTunes online music store.
Xenon / Surfin' Safari:
Yet another one more thing... a new Web Inspector! — As some of you saw last week at WWDC, we have a brand new version of the Web Inspector. We know that a lot people have found the current Web Inspector useful, and we have gotten a lot of feedback and sugestions about how to make it even better.
Yahoo! Search Marketing Blog:
Short Descriptions Now Live — Ad descriptions longer than 70 characters on Yahoo! in the U.S. will now be cut off — Starting today, ads that appear in U.S. Yahoo! Search results with descriptions longer than 70 characters will be cut off ("truncated") at the nearest complete word, followed by an ellipsis.
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WebProNews, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Watch Blog, Todd Watson and Search Engine Roundtable
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
EMI says DRM-free music is selling well — Early sales indicate that DRM-free music is noticeably more popular than DRMed music, EMI senior VP Lauren Berkowitz recently told Bloomberg. The world's third-largest music label began selling its music without copyright protections …
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MacUser, Coolfer, TechSpot News, Engadget, The Tech Report, Smalltalk Tidbits …, hypebot, paidContent.org, Inquirer and digg
Tony Hung / Deep Jive Interests:
Yahoo! Acquires Rivals: Seemingly Smart Content Move, But Where's The Peanut Butter? — Hot off the heels of Jerry Yang's announcement as CEO, it seems like Yahoo! has dominated the tech blog cycles as of late. (If two large stories could be considered "domination", that is) A rumoured 25% swap to acquire MySpace?
