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8:05 PM ET, June 6, 2008

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Yahoo!:
Yahoo! Inc. Statement on Carl Icahn's Letter of June 6, 2008  —  SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jun 06, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today issued the following response to Carl Icahn in response to his letter dated June 6, 2008:
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Amazon suffers U.S. outage on Friday  —  Amazon.com has been inaccessible to many U.S. visitors since at least 10:30 a.m. PDT on Friday.  —  “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable” was the message that appeared when Amazon customers across the country attempted to log on.
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Amazon's Down: It's Hip To Be Down!
Decryption / MacTalk News:
What's in the Box?  The 3G iPhone Lands Down Under  —  What's in the Box?  —  The 3G iPhone Lands Down Under?  —  Late yesterday afternoon MacTalk received the above photo from a very reliable source who can not be named for obvious reasons (fear of assassination by the Apple Secret Police I presume).
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
The Evolution of Pre-Launch Gmail In Screenshots  —  When visiting Google yesterday for the unveiling of Gmail Labs, product manager Keith Coleman took us on a tour of the Googleplex's Building 47.  —  Along the way, we saw Googlers hard at work on Gmail, Reader, Calendar, and other related projects.
Discussion: Valleywag
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Robby Stein / Official Gmail Blog:
Introducing Gmail Labs  —  We have a lot of ideas for Gmail — many come as suggestions from Gmail users, many come from people here at Google.  But there's only so much we can do at any one time.  —  People often ask how we decide what to build next.  It's usually a mix of factors …
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
Hands on: Gmail Labs adds alpha features to beta product
Discussion: Mashable!
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple pushing iPhone developers to charge for would-be free apps  —  Developers wishing to release software applications for the iPhone and iPod touch for free are being encouraged by Apple to charge a fee instead, AppleInsider has learned.  —  People familiar with the iPhone Developer Program initiated …
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Steve O'Hear / last100:   Interview: zintin CEO talks iPhone, Android and mobile future
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Ballmer Tells the Washington Post That Print is Toast  —  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sat down for lunch with editors and reporters at the Washington Post and told them print will be dead in ten years: … I just hope the Post's Website will still be around because it is a great distribution partner for TechCrunch.
Discussion: GMSV and Incremental Blogger
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Ballmer on papers: Wrong, as usual
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Bits, Bands and Books  —  Do you remember what it was like back in the old days when we had a New Economy?  In the 1990s, jobs were abundant, oil was cheap and information technology was about to change everything.  —  Then the technology bubble popped.  Many highly touted New Economy companies …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Hey Firefox - Let Us Pick Our Own Search Engine!  —  So Firefox 3 has a new release candidate making news, suggesting that the browser is nearly done.  May I suggest that the browser is nowhere near being done until the Mozilla Foundation drops its favoritism to Google and allow users to pick their own default search engine?
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
Windows Mobile's Good, Bad and Ugly  —  Linux-based mobile operating shipments declined 477,440 units during first quarter 2008 from the same time period a year earlier, according to Gartner.  Additionally, mobile Linux OS market share receded a stunning 4.5 percent.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Microsoft packs 36 iPhone digs into one 7-paragraph letter
Discussion: The iPhone Blog and Valleywag
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Intel Facing Antitrust Investigation  —  WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation of Intel, the world's largest maker of computer microprocessors, for anticompetitive conduct, government officials and lawyers involved in the proceeding said Friday.
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
R.I.P. SanDisk's TakeTV, Fanfare Shut Down  —  TakeTV, we hardly knew ye.  Unveiled just last October, SanDisk's USB PC-to-TV video device along with Fanfare, its accompanying content portal, were both shut down on May 15th, a SanDisk spokesperson has confirmed.
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
A proposal for Twitter: Shut it down  —  As I write this, Amazon.com, like Twitter, is offline.  Amazon's outage is the big news Friday morning.  But what of Twitter?  —  I used to love Twitter.  But the site's pogo status—it's up! it's down! it's up again!—is driving me away.
Discussion: Scripting News and RyanSpoon.com
Brooke Crothers / CNET News.com:
Nvidia, AMD vie with Intel over USB 3.0  —  AMD and Nvidia aim to wrest control of a crucial PC specification from Intel, arguing that the chip giant is trying to box them out as they move to a new era of faster peripherals.  —  In play is the USB 3.0 specification, a next-generation high-speed connection standard due in 2009.
Discussion: TechSpot and The Tech Report
Danieleran / Roughly Drafted:
WWDC 2008: Moscone West Spy Shots!  —  Daniel Eran Dilger  —  We sent spies to Moscone West to capture the secret banners being erected for WWDC.  Here's what they brought back after being chased down the block by security.  Yes we're exaggerating slightly, but only for dramatic effect.
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
YouTube Set to Dominate the Boob Tube  —  Dominance perpetuates itself, and that adage looks like it will hold true for YouTube as the company positions itself to be the 800-pound gorilla of short-form video on your TV as well.  —  YouTube is spreading itself all over the set-top world …
1938 Media:
1938 Media And c|net Announcement  —  Shows / Topics  —  Yue - Yue talks about life.  —  Interviews - Interviews with cool people.  —  Ellen - My Mother.  —  Ethan Talks Tech - A five year old.  —  Jason's Place - All about jason Calacanis  —  Washington Hotlist - Politics  —  1938 Music - Music
Discussion: Mashable!
 
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Cade Metz / The Register:
Cavalcade of privacy watchdogs bark for data pimping probe
Chris Ziegler / Engadget Mobile:
Verizon's Palm Centro: June 13 for $199.99?
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Emil Protalinski / One Microsoft Way:
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 arrives on time, available now
Joanna Stern / LAPTOP Magazine:
Eee PC 901 Unboxing Shots and First Impressions
Waxy.org:
The Machine That Changed the World: The Paperback Computer
Electronista:
FCC delays plans for free broadband vote
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Warner Music (WMG) Pulls Out Of Last.fm (CBS)
San Francisco Chronicle:
High-tech visionary still looking ahead
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Deborah Yao / Associated Press:
Most Comcast Web service 100 Mbps-capable by 2010
Discussion: DSLreports
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
How to Comment About Your Company on Blog Posts, Without Being Spammy
AppleInsider:
Apple plans lavish 20,000-sf Las Vegas mega store
InfoWorld:
IBM to release enterprise mashup tool
Olivia M. / YouTube :: Blog:
Hear Ye, Hear Ye: Calling all Reporters
Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
“Spear Phishers” land 15,000 sucker fish
Ed Burnette / Ed Burnette's Dev Connection:
50 questions asked and answered on Android
Discussion: MobileCrunch
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple assigns new Senior VPs of iPhone Software, Mac Engineering
 

 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Trade body data: copyrighted music revenue was $45.5B in 2023, above cinema box office spending of $33.2B in 2023 and $41.9B in 2019; record labels made $28.5B

Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Sources: CVC Capital Partners and a major European broadcaster, thought to be France's Groupe TF1, are among those considering a takeover of the UK's ITV

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Press freedom groups send six questions to the Scott Trust over The Observer sale, including why there is only one bidder and why staff can't speak out freely

 
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