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2:40 PM ET, May 6, 2008

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Microsoft:
Zune Expands Beyond Music to Deliver Integrated All-in-One Entertainment Experience  —  New software updates bring popular television shows to online store, enhancements to online music community and subscription service.  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced that Zune, the company's …
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Nancy Gohring / IDG News Service:
After Abandoning ITunes, NBC Shows up on Zune  —  After a pricing spat with Apple led NBC to pull its video content from iTunes, the broadcaster has struck a deal with Microsoft's Zune online store.  —  On Tuesday, as part of an announcement about new Zune features, Microsoft planned …
Discussion: TG Daily, MacUser, MacDailyNews and Gizmodo
Royal Pingdom:
Social network downtime Jan-Apr 2008  —  This survey shows how much 16 of the largest and most popular social network sites have been unavailable during the first four months of 2008.  How much has MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, Twitter, LiveJournal and many others been offline?  Read on to find out.
Vodafone:
Vodafone to Offer Apple's iPhone in Ten Markets  —  Vodafone today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten of its markets around the globe.  Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal …
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Jonathan Richards / Times of London:
Apple forced into iPhone contracts U-turn
Discussion: MacRumors, MuniWireless and iLounge
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Andreessen to Facebook Board?  —  Silicon Valley luminary Marc Andreessen (pictured here) has been asked to join the board of Facebook, according to several sources with knowledge of the situation.  —  While the arrangement is not completed yet, sources said the longtime entrepreneur …
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Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
More unofficial Mac clones up for sale on eBay  —  A recent move by a little-known Florida-based solutions provider to openly challenge Apple on its Mac OS X licensing terms and begin selling an unauthorized Mac clone appears to have spawned a copycat.  —  A seller by the name of “chris555” …
Discussion: CrunchGear and One More Thing
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Jeff Smykil / Infinite Loop:
17-year-old creates impressive Mac OS X multi-touch table
Discussion: MacUser
Joshua Fruhlinger / Engadget:
HTC unveils new HTC Touch Diamond, “not too big, not too small”  —  Here we are in London at the Soho Hotel with HTC, and we are among the first to see their new Diamond handset.  While we thought we may see three new products in three different form factors, HTC Prez and CEO Peter Chou led-off …
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Google News Blog:
Related Searches in Google News  —  We're excited to share with you a new feature of Google News: related searches.  Now, when you do a search in Google News, we'll show a list of related searches at the bottom of the search results page.  We think that this feature can be useful …
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:   Google Testing Showing Google Product Images In Search Results?
Leigh / Leigh's Blitherings:
Have We Crossed The Chasm?  —  Geoffrey Moore wrote Crossing the Chasm over 15 years ago and it's still probably the foremost framework used for launching new technology products.  Wikipedia gives a nice summary to the theories basic premise:  —  “Moore's key insight is that the groups adopt innovations for different reasons.
Inside Higher Ed:
Mysterious Multiplication of Copyright Complaints  —  It'd be hard to argue that Indiana University doesn't take illegal downloading seriously.  As noted on its “Are You Legal” Web site, the university imposes a $50 fine for the first notice university officials receive from entertainment companies …
Discussion: Salon and p2pnet
Yahoo! Search Blog:
A Safer Way to Search  —  Today, we're announcing the beta release of SearchScan, a new feature from Yahoo! Search that helps protect users from viruses, spyware and spam.  We've heard from users that security and privacy continue to be major concerns when they are online.
Robert Hof / Business Week:
Why Yahoo Shares Lost Only 15%  —  The bottom didn't fall out of the stock after Microsoft yanked its bid.  One reason, says CEO Yang: “We have more alternatives” than before the offer  —  Justin Sullivan/Getty Images  —  When Microsoft (MSFT) pulled its sweetened, $33-a-share offer …
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Colbert's Webby honor: ‘Person of the Year’  —  He might not get to fulfill his presidential dreams, but comic pundit Stephen Colbert will still end 2008 with at least one, uh, honor: Person of the Year at the 12th Annual Webby Awards.  —  The “Oscars of the Internet,” …
Discussion: AppScout
The Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Javelin and BlackBerry Niagara explained!  —  There was a little bit of confusion with the 3G-less BlackBerry 9000 we posted.  We heard two different codenames: Javelin and Niagara.  Well, we were just told some more information on both devices.
Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
BlackBerry 9000 Review - eBay Purchased Device Emerges!!  —  Remember those three BlackBerry 9000 units that showed up on eBay?  As I made note in an earlier post, when the auction got pulled by the powers that be (err.. RIM?!!) there were still two units remaining, leaving …
Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
In praise of dual-class stock structures for public companies  —  A dual-class stock structure means that a company has two different classes of common stock.  Each class of stock has the same economic ownership of the company, yet different voting rights.  —  In a typical scenario …
 
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Dynamic Bookmarking Service Iterasi Launches Public Beta
Charles Jade / Infinite Loop:
The iMac turns 10  —  To understand how far the iMac has come …
Thomas Mennecke / Slyck:
RIAA Wants ISPs to Act on Piracy
Discussion: CNET News.com
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Geek parent tip: Use GMail as a baby book
MacGameStore.com:
Supercow  —  This game is for Macintosh  —  Visit ReallyNeatGames …
Discussion: PC World and Macsimum News
Eliot Van Buskirk / Listening Post:
Warner Music Group Plays with the Price of Music
Discussion: CrunchGear and Macsimum News
Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
When location is everywhere
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Comcast Abandons P2P Bill of Rights
Discussion: DSLreports
 Earlier Items: 
Sandra Tsui / Inside AdSense:
AdSense for search now powered by Custom Search
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Hard drive recovered from shuttle Columbia used to complete experiment
Discussion: sciam.com
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Become an Expert with the Power of Deliberate Practice
BBC:
Free satellite TV service begins
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
At Rearden Commerce, Addiction is Job One ($100 Million Round …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
We Lost A Blogging Giant Today: Duncan Riley Leaves TechCrunch
Mark / dive into mark:
The day the music died  —  This is a letter I sent to my father …
Discussion: Changing Way
Susan Stellin / New York Times:
Free Wi-Fi, but Not for All  —  The battle between free …
Discussion: GigaOM
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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