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10:10 AM ET, July 3, 2007

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Wesley Chan / Official Google Blog:
All aboard  —  We're pleased to announce that we have acquired GrandCentral Communications, a company that provides services for managing your voice communications.  GrandCentral is an innovative service that lets users integrate all of their existing phone numbers and voice mailboxes into one account …
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Vincent / GrandCentral Blog:
We're now part of Google!
Om Malik / GigaOM:
GrandCentral pulls into Google
Sid Yadav / Rev2.org:
Zoho Launches Facebook Apps: Web Office Meets the Young  —  One of the web office suites I'm fond of is Zoho, which has been slowly building up its user base since day one.  Today, Zoho announced three applications for Facebook — Writer, Sheet, and Show — which might just do their part …
Discussion: Mashable!
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Donna Bogatin / Insider Chatter:   Zoho Meets Facebook: Match Made in Web Heaven?
Jeremyliew / Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog:
Four factors determine how much a Facebook app is worth
Discussion: Download Squad
Dennis Howlett / AccMan:
Zoho Office on Facebook
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Zoho Launches Facebook Application
Discussion: Zoho Blogs
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
SAP admits to corporate espionage against Oracle  —  Uh oh, we've got ourselves a true-blue corporate [competitive intelligence] espionage fiasco exploding on the international stage.  Germany's SAP has admitted to "inappropriate downloads" from arch-rival, Oracle in the US.
Discussion: Inquirer and The Register
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PR Newswire:
SAP Responds to Oracle Complaint  —  Affirms SAP Did Not Have Access to Materials Downloaded by TomorrowNow  —  Acknowledges Some Inappropriate Downloads Occurred at TomorrowNow  —  SAP Announces New Operational Oversight at TomorrowNow; Firmly Commits to Sustained TommorrowNow Support of its Customers
Discussion: Between the Lines and InfoWorld
BBC:
SAP admits Oracle downloads  —  SAP has admitted its TomorrowNow unit carried out "inappropriate downloads" of documents from its rival Oracle, but said SAP had not accessed the material.  —  Oracle is suing SAP, accusing it of hacking into its computer network and stealing vital product information.
The New / New York Times:
Russian Online Music Service Closes  —  AllofMP3.com, a Russian online music service accused of skirting copyright law, has shut down but may be back in business elsewhere on the Internet, authorities said yesterday.  —  The Web site gained attention for selling digital albums cheaply …
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Tai Adelaja / The Moscow Times:
Target of U.S. Ire Quietly Goes Offline
Discussion: paidContent.org and Slyck
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Makes FeedBurner MyBrand Free  —  Google is about making things accessible to everyone and one of the way to make this happen is to buy a service or software that used to cost money and release it for free.  Google did this with Keyhole (now Google Earth), Picasa, SketchUp …
Agence France Presse:
Youtube, SKorea's LG agree to develop mobile phone  —  SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea's LG Electronics said Tuesday it has signed an agrement with YouTube, the world's biggest video-sharing website, to develop a mobile phone which can operate the service.  —  LG Electronics said the proposed model …
Internet Stocks on Seeking Alpha:
Three Developments Driving Local.com Shares Into A Frenzy  —  Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: Yowza!  Local.com (LOCM) has been, until recently, a sleepy stock, trading nearly by appointment, with a focus on operating a search engine intended to help people find local businesses.
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
BSA announces $1 million reward for piracy snitches  —  Do you work for a business that's pirating software for its own internal use?  If so, you could be in for a windfall if you report it to the Business Software Alliance (BSA) in time.  The BSA announced today that they are increasing …
Discussion: CrunchGear, Neowin.net and MarketingVOX
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Grant Gross / InfoWorld:
BSA raises reward to $1M for reports of piracy
Discussion: Techdirt
Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 6: How much funding is too little?  Too much?  —  In this post, I answer these questions: … The first question to ask is, what is the correct, or appropriate, amount of funding for a startup?  —  The answer to that question, in my view …
Discussion: ben barren
MarketWatch:
Google appeals Belgian copyright law, talks ongoing  —  BRUSSELS (Dow Jones)—Google Inc. (GOOG : , , ) has filed an appeal against a Belgian court's February ruling that it violated Belgian copyright law, but says talks are ongoing and it hopes to avoid further court action.
Eric Pfanner / International Herald Tribune:
British media organizations look to U.S. market and beyond  —  LONDON: An article about the ex-girlfriends of Fred Thompson, the former U.S. senator and likely Republican presidential candidate, last Monday drew 200,000 visitors to the Web site of the Times newspapers of London.
Discussion: paidContent.org
Dan Goodin / The Register:
iPhone hackers disclose vulns and hunt for clues  —  The game is on for hackers trying to spot security vulnerabilities in Apple's iPhone and already they're scoring points.  —  Less than 72 hours after the iPhone's introduction, researchers have reported at least one flaw that could allow …
Discussion: Hardware 2.0, CrunchGear and eWEEK.com
Associated Press:
Online software service owned by Oracle co-founder files IPO plans  —  Online business software provider NetSuite Inc. on Monday filed its long-awaited plans for an initial public offering of stock, paving the way for another big payday for its owner _ billionaire Larry Ellison.
Discussion: Inquirer
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Five Bad Ideas from the Past Five Days  —  None of these was worth an entire post.  — Universal Music Group Refuses to Renew Apple's Annual License to Sell Their Music on iTunes: So this is what it looks like when an industry that has existed for decades begins to die.  I wonder who's going to lose out more?
 
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Ellen Lee / San Francisco Chronicle:
Apple denies big record label may quit iTunes
Discussion: iLounge and p2pnet
Richard Martin / InformationWeek:
Former FCC Chair: iPhone Hindered By Network Limitations
Discussion: Macsimum News and Gadget Lab
Philip Stafford / Financial Times:
Consumer group hits at Google $3bn move
Belkin News:
Belkin Cases and Cables Accessorize Your New iPhone
The Register:
Global mobile subscriptions hit three billion
Yahoo! News:
AT&T offers some customers free Wi-Fi
Discussion: Wi-Fi
Kim Hart / Washington Post:
Internet-Phone-Service Provider Drops a Fourth of Its Staff
Battousai / GaX:
The Darkness - Banned in Singapore
Discussion: Joystiq, Kotaku and Game | Life
 Earlier Items: 
Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Tada! The 6th Gen contract-free WiFi-enabled iPod
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Digg Needs Editors
Chris Kohler / Game | Life:
Nintendo: Smash Bros. Not Playable at E3
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Zenith Sees Rosier Picture For Online Advertising
Discussion: HipMojo.com
Editor and Publisher:
100 New TV and Radio Sites Join AP's OVN
Anh Huynh / DailyTech:
AMD Cancels "Lima"
Discussion: TechSpot News
Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC:
Are my online friends for real?
 

 
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