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Ian C Rogers / Yodel Anecdotal:
Yahoo! Music goes radio silent — Apologies to anyone who was hoping to listen to free LAUNCHcast today. We're shutting down the Internet's #1 radio service for the day to draw attention to the outrageous rates recently set by the Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, D.C.
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Guardian Unlimited, IP Democracy, TechCrunch, Alec Saunders .LOG, Tom Conrad, Digital Music News, Mark Evans, Last.fm, Profy.Com, 901am, Read/WriteWeb and paidContent.org
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Mike / CrunchNotes:
Sorry CNET, You've Mistaken Me For Someone Who Gives A Damn — The blogosphere (but not CNET) seems to have moved on from this weekend's diversionary game of whack-a-blogger. Valleywag started the mud slinging by suggesting that a bunch of FM authors, including me, were taking payoffs to write advertising content.
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Between Mike and Charles — Charles Cooper says "the blogosphere" needs to get real about the line between church and state. — My response: The tech blogosphere was invented because of the sloppy church-state line at CNet and other professional pubs. They're the last people who get to preach this particular gospel.
Steve Dowling / Apple:
AT&T and Apple Announce Simple, Affordable Service Plans for iPhone — All Plans Include Unlimited Data & Visual Voicemail — AT&T Inc. and Apple® today announced three simple, affordable service plans for iPhone™ which start at just $59.99 per month.
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog
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Steve Dowling / Apple:
Apple and AT&T Announce iTunes Activation and Sync for iPhone — Already Familiar to Tens of Millions of iPod Users — Apple® and AT&T Inc. today announced that iPhone™ users will be able to activate their new iPhones using Apple's popular iTunes® software running on a PC …
Reuters:
AOL takes page from blogs, relaunches news — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc. plans to launch a test of its overhauled news portal on Tuesday, drawing influences from the uncluttered design of popular Internet blogs. — The online division of the world's largest media company …
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Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Google calls for more limits on Microsoft — Google on Monday called on a judge to extend part of the US government's four-year antitrust scrutiny of Microsoft, intensifying a lobbying battle in which the arch-rivals have sought to limit each other's power.
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Chris Williams / The Register:
IBM turbo charges world's fastest supercomputer — Blue Gene has long division licked. Next: killer sudoku — IBM has unleashed a new iteration of its chess-playing powerhouse Blue Gene, which it also reckons is useful in academic and commercial fields like drug discovery and mineral exploration.
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Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
Apple: iPhone Line Has Started...100-Hours Early — Two dudes are already waiting in line at the NYC 5th Avenue Apple flagship store. Even for the PS3, PS2, and Wii, I've never seen a 100-hour lead time on a gadget queue. I'm disgusted, but also kind of jealous.
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Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
The First Apple iPhone Display Goes Up In Seattle and No, It's Not The One You've Already Seen — Score one for my homies on the West Coast, the first iPhone kiosk has gone up in Seattle. The display is looping a video of the UI, docks to charge your iPod while you drool over the video and "alarm sticker things."
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AppleInsider:
Insanity: First iPhone line forms in Manhattan (four days early) — Two individuals can now flaunt the crown of "the very first iPhone line waiters", having camped out Monday morning on a Midtown Manhattan sidewalk more than four days before the Apple device is due to go on sale.
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rexduffdixon.com
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:The Ultimate iPhone Campout Guide: Updated
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IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband
Michael Foroobar / VentureBeat:
Lijit raises $3.3M for intimate blog search — Lijit, a provider of a more extensive search service for blogs, has said it raised a $3.3M second round of funding. — Lijit, of Louisville, Colorado, doesn't limit readers to searching blog posts. It also provides them results …
USA Today:
U.S. Net access not all that speedy — The USA trails other industrialized nations in high-speed Internet access and may never catch up unless quick action is taken by public-policymakers, a report commissioned by the Communications Workers of America warns.
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Lost Remote
LiveScience:
Odds Given on iPhone Failure — When the long-awaited iPhone hits store shelves this week, no doubt many Apple enthusiasts will adopt early as they've done in the past with other products from the company. But just how crazy it gets is anyone's bet. — In fact, BetUS.com figures the odds …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Friendster sees massive 40 percent page view boost in May — Friendster, the early social network that stumbled badly three years ago and gave up leadership status to MySpace, Facebook and others, continues to recover — and its 40 percent page view boost last month is remarkable.
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Valleywag, TechCrunch, Microsoft (MSFT), HipMojo.com, mathewingram.com/work and broadstuff
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Mitch Kapor's Foxmarks To Leap Into Search World — Mitch Kapor likes to solve problems. In the 80's, he was the guy behind Lotus 1-2-3, the first killer app for computers. More recently he decided to tackle a a simpler problem - synchronizing Firefox bookmarks across multiple computers.
