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3:45 PM ET, May 23, 2008

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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
What to expect from Steve Jobs on June 9  —  Thursday was a red-letter day for 3G iPhone rumors.  On Wall St., the “rumor of a rumor” of an iPhone delay was enough to drive Apple (AAPL) share prices down 5 points in midafternoon trading.  Meanwhile, a dozen subway stops to the north …
Discussion: Hardware 2.0 and PhoneDog.com
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David Richards / Channel News:
OZ 3G iPhone To Be Fastest In The World  —  Australia will have the fastest Apple 3G iPhone in the world a senior executive of Telstra has told ChannelNews.  “We know what is coming we have seen the new device and it will be available on our network as soon as it is launched in the USA.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
3G iPhone to support 42Mbps Evolved HSPA data?
Discussion: The iPhone Blog
Live Search:
Book search winding down  —  Today we informed our partners that we are ending the Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and that both sites will be taken down next week.  Books and scholarly publications will continue to be integrated into our Search results, but not through separate indexes.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Microsoft Burns Book Search - Lacks “High Consumer Intent”  —  Wow.  Earlier this month, I heard Microsoft execs highlight Live Search Books as a key advance they were doing in search.  Today, news that the site along with Live Search Academic are being closed next week, since they lack the …
Discussion: ResourceShelf
Royal Pingdom:
Smart and funny use of Google Adwords  —  Text ads can be smart, funny, and sometimes unintentionally hilarious when they show up in the wrong context.  —  David, our web designer and marketing maestro here at Pingdom was surfing the web last night and put together a list of really funny and original text ads from Google Adwords.
Discussion: CenterNetworks
TheStreet.com:
GameStop to Stop Zune Sales  —  AAPL (The Telecom Connection PICK) GME MSFT  —  SAN FRANCISCO - Video-game retailer GameStopGME has decided to stop selling Microsoft'sMSFT Zune players at its stores due to what it sees as insufficient demand from customers.
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:   Zune Now Eligible for Protection Under Endangered Species Act
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Alpha Geeks  —  In 1950, Dr. Seuss published a book called “If I Ran the Zoo.”  It contained the sentence: “I'll sail to Ka-Troo, and bring back an IT-KUTCH, a PREEP, and a PROO, a NERKLE, a NERD, and a SEERSUCKER, too!”  According to the psychologist David Anderegg …
Economist:
Down on the server farm  —  The real-world implications of the rise of internet computing  —  EVEN when the sky is blue over Quincy, clouds hang in the air.  The small town in the centre of the state of Washington is home to half a dozen huge warehouses that power the global “computing clouds” …
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
Popular blogger ignites uproar over Twitter harassment  —  This post was updated at 10:49 AM with comment from Ariel Waldman.  —  Some Web enthusiasts find microblogging service Twitter to be addictive because you can say absolutely anything you want—as long as it's 140 characters or less.
James Sherwood / The Register:
Incredible folding laptop untucked on eBay  —  Laptops are designed to be portable, so a 19.5in machine is really defeating the object.  Unless, that is you buy one that folds up.  Now, thanks to one eBayer, you can.  —  An intrepid eBay seller has posted a Xentex-brand prototype laptop …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Nine Company Blogs That Are Fun For Anyone to Read  —  Here at ReadWriteWeb we spend a lot of time reading the blogs of companies we write about (send yours to tips@readwriteweb.com) and we've found that some of them are just plain fun.  An interesting company blog can be a great way to draw …
Discussion: Ning Blog
Electronista:
Apple Canada preps staff for unknown event  —  Apple Canada is gearing up some of its representatives in advance of an upcoming event, Electronista has learned.  Key staff are being asked to travel to the company's Markham, Ontario regional headquarters for discussions that are taking place today.
Discussion: MacMegasite
IDG News Service:
Users Will Be Able to Transfer N-Gage Games, Says Nokia  —  N-Gage owners will be able to transfer games from one phone to another, according to Nokia.  Miscommunication is blamed for users not being told.  —  This week, fan Web site All About N-Gage noticed the existing licensing terms …
Discussion: mocoNews.net, Phone Scoop and Engadget
 
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News.com:
Nvidia buys ray-tracing tech company RayScale
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Joshua Karp / The Boy Genius Report:
HTC Touch Dual finally coming to Best Buy this weekend
Tenzin Pema / Reuters:
Goldman adds Apple to Americas conviction buy list
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The ailing new media brains trust of the BBC
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CrunchBase Now Integrated With LinkedIn API
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Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Intel to bundle SSDs as part of Centrino 2 platform
Amie Ferris-Rotman / Reuters:
Yahoo buy not a strategy in itself: Microsoft CEO
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Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
Adieu to the true audiophile?
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Analyzing Comcast's spinoff of cable networks, purposefully structured with low debt: the move might be a signal to the industry that it's time to consolidate

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Tubi launches Scenes, a mobile feature that lets viewers watch 60-to-90-second trailer-style clips from its library to help with content discovery

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
James Harding says the Tortoise-Observer deal could create a profitable media group and there isn't a guaranteed future for the Observer with the Guardian

 
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