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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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Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge:
AT&T denies 6/29 rate plan claim, will announce earlier — According to AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel, a report today that AT&T will wait until the day of iPhone's launch to disclose rate plans for the device is inaccurate. "We will disclose before the 29th," said Siegel …
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
News Aggregation Site Daylife Gets $8.3 Million Second Round — Daylife, the much-hyped online news aggregation site which launched for public consumption in January but hasn't gained much traction as of yet, has raised $8 million in second round of funding, according to SEC filings, picked up by PEHub.
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Jeff Jones / Jeff Jones's blog:
Windows Vista - 6 Month Vulnerability Report — I was somewhat surprised (but pleased) at the level of interest back when I published my Windows Vista - 90 Day Vulnerability Report. It was about the earliest span of time I thought might give us some indicators, and the indicators did look good.
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Brendan Sinclair / GameSpot:
Take-Two shelves Manhunt 2 — Plans to release game "temporarily suspended" while publisher continues exploring options. — In the wake of international bans and an Adults Only rating in the US, Manhunt 2 won't make its July 10 release date, Take-Two Interactive has confirmed.
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Brendan Sinclair / GameSpot:Sony, Nintendo forbid AO-rated Manhunt 2
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Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
NEW ASK.COM COMMERCIAL: KATO — Just saw Ask.com's new commercial during Robot Chicken, and it's way better than the "Chicks With Swords" spot, if only because it didn't come off as misogynistic: — Got, I almost forgot about old Kato. What the hell is he up to?
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Lisa Barone / Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog:Ask.com Thinks You're An Idiot
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ClickZ, Internet Marketing Monitor, HipMojo.com, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and WebProNews
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.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
The ten most hated words on the Internet — The Internet has much to answer for, but one of its chiefest sins its relentless stupifidication of the English language. And no, I did not just make up the word "stupifidication." 1 — UK pollsters YouGov have just completed a survey …
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Yi-Wyn Yen / The Startup Game:
How a six-month-old startup got bought by Google — Three months ago, I met the two startup founders of Zenter, Wayne Crosby and Robby Walker, and blogged about how they wanted their online version of PowerPoint to get bought by Google. I listen to a lot of young entrepreneurs who desperately …
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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.
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, Krishwords, Brij Singh's One More Idea, Open Source, Compiler, broadstuff, Jeremy's Blog, Computer Business Review, Slashdot and digg
Skrentablog:
Are network effects getting weaker? — "This place is dead anyway." — I was thinking about how fast Facebook has replaced Linkedin for my valley connections. In a period of about 2 months, it seems like most of my contacts have all deserted linkedin and moved to facebook.
Arn / MacRumors:
New iPhone Television Ad: Youtube [Official Video] — After the announcement that the iPhone will offer Youtube videos, a new iPhone television advertisement has started airing. The new ad was spotted this morning on ESPN, and captured/uploaded by msdvideo: — Update: Official Video has been posted by Apple.
Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
Proposed Amendment Would Ban All DVD Copying — The proposed amendment was made public in a letter sent by Michael Malcolm, the chief executive of Kaleidescape, a DVD jukebox company which successfully defeated a suit by the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) this past March.
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Techdirt, Ars Technica, The Technology Liberation …, Geek News Central, Gizmodo and Slashdot
Techworld.com:
Mandriva says no to Microsoft Linux deal — French Linux vendor Mandriva said no to dealing with Microsoft on open source patents - the third Linux vendor in a week to do so. — In a statement on his company blog, Francois Bancilhon, CEO of Paris-based Mandriva, said …
