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6:10 PM ET, May 12, 2008

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Sean Carlson / Google:
Previewing Google Friend Connect: Website owners can make any site social  —  Easily insert social features to make “any app, any site, any friends” a reality  —  Tonight at Campfire One at the Googleplex (http://code.google.com/campfire/ ), Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) will announce …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Confirms Friend Connect  —  As we reported on Friday, Google will be launching its own data portability effort called Friend Connect.  It will be announcing more details about the preview later tonight, but in a press release this morning it confirms:
Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Google brings Friend Connect to the masses  —  As expected, Google has unveiled a preview of Friend Connect, a way to add social features to a Web site without programming.  —  David Glazer, director of engineering at Google, described Friend Connect as plumbing for the rest of the Web.
Charlene Li / Groundswell:   Google Friend Connect — making open social easy
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Friend Connect Tries to Strangle the Social
Discussion: FactoryCity
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:   Welcome to the social mess?
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
AT&T now showing “iPhone Black” model in device listing  —  AT&T Wireless, Apple's exclusive iPhone provider in the United States, is now listing a second model of the iPhone in its device database called “iPhone Black,” AppleInsider has been informed.  —  The finding, discovered by a reader …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
3G iPhone: Steve Jobs to deliver keynote June 9  —  Although no official announcement has been made, Apple public relations confirmed to Fortune that Steve Jobs will deliver a keynote address on June 9, the first day of the 2008 World Wide Developers conference.
Discussion: One More Thing, BBC, MacNN and GMSV
Matthew Karnitschnig / Wall Street Journal:
H-P Near Deal to Buy EDS  —  Hewlett-Packard Co. was close to a deal to acquire Electronic Data Systems Corp. for between $12 billion and $13 billion, according to people familiar with the mater.  —  The terms of the deal were not immediately clear but an announcement was expected soon, the people said.
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Business Wire:
HP Confirms It is in Talks with EDS Regarding Possible Business Combination  —  PALO ALTO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—HP (NYSE:HPQ - News) today confirmed that it is engaged in advanced discussions with Electronic Data Systems Corporation regarding a possible business combination involving the two companies.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
HP bidding for EDS; Deal would ramp up services
Discussion: PR Newswire
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Bold new BlackBerry 9000 to take on expected 3G iPhone  —  RIM said “hello” to the iPhone this morning when it introduced the long-anticipated BlackBerry 9000, also known as the BlackBerry Bold.  Aside from its dashing good looks, the Bold has tweaks under the hood that not only improve upon …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft and RIM to Bring Windows Live Services to BlackBerry Smartphone Customers  —  Agreement will enhance the communications experience on BlackBerry smartphones through popular Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger services.  —  Microsoft Corp. and Research In Motion (RIM) …
Research in Motion:
RIM Introduces the BlackBerry Bold Smartphone
Portfolio:
HBO In Your Pocket  —  Apple is close to announcing it has signed a deal to sell HBO programs and movies on the iTunes website, according to HBO employees involved in executing the agreement.  —  The deal marks the first time that Apple has agreed to a separate price structure for a content provider, one of the employees said.
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:   HBO, NBC may be cracking Apple's uniform iTunes pricing
Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:
Google extends online-video lead  —  People in the United States watched about 11.5 billion videos online in March, and Google extended its dominance in the area, according to new figures released Monday.  —  Google's sites served up 38 percent of the total videos watched …
Discussion: Podcasting News and WebProNews
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Twitter Beats (Wow, By 3 Minutes) The USGS With China Earthquake News  —  Hey, I like Twitter, but this entire thing Robert Scoble started about how Twitter had news of the Chinese earthquake before the US Geological Survey seemed absurd.  Did it really?  As it turns out, probably so — by about three minutes.
Harry McCracken / Techlog:
My New Adventure  —  As I've often said, I'm one lucky guy.  In my position as editor in chief of PC World, I have one of the best jobs in technology journalism.  I get to do work I thoroughly enjoy, and to be part of a remarkable team who serves an equally remarkable universe of online and print readers.
Discussion: Epicenter and Valleywag
Jon Swartz / USA Today:
Social-networking sites work to turn users into profits  —  SAN FRANCISCO — It is the burning question in tech circles, and Mike Murphy answers it before it is completed.  —  “I hear it every time I'm on a (tech) panel,” Murphy, Facebook's vice president of media sales, says with a wry smile.
Discussion: paidContent.org
Richard Siklos / Fortune:
Apple and Eve  —  Revealed: The heroine of Pixar's new release, Wall-E, was born from an iPod.  —  LOS ANGELES (Fortune) — In Pixar Films' upcoming animation epic, “Wall-E,” the title character is a cute but clunky robot whose centuries of solitude on an abandoned Earth is broken by the arrival …
 
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Phishers scamming IRS rebates
Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:
Where does Google go next?
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Associated Press:
iPhone sold out online
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PR Newswire:
SIRIUS Reports First Quarter 2008 Results
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 Earlier Items: 
Scott Gu / ScottGu's Blog:
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta
Discussion: All about Microsoft, Somasegar's WebLog, The Universal Desktop, One Microsoft Way, Julie Lerman Blog and Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft exec Raikes named Gates Foundation CEO
Discussion: Beyond Binary, The Register, Computerworld, All about Microsoft and Silicon Alley Insider
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Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:
Ars Technica Has No Shame, But That's Nothing New
Discussion: mathewingram.com/work, The Inquisitr and ParisLemon
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Sprint's inferno: Churn baby churn
Discussion: Techland, New York Times, DSLreports, Computerworld and mocoNews.net
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
FuelFrog: Track Your Gas Mileage
Discussion: Download Squad and jkOnTheRun
Jack Loftus / PC World:
WiiWare Launches With Six Titles
Discussion: VentureBeat, MSNBC and AppScout
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Windows XP SP3 blame game begins
Discussion: LinuxInsider and Hardware 2.0
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule
 
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