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1:05 PM ET, June 8, 2008

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Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
IPhone Rumors Conflict  —  Production problems?  Price cuts?  Will Mac fans be disappointed or relieved when the final show begins?  —  The Web continues to buzz with speculation about what might or might not happen Monday when Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) Chief Executive Steve Jobs …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
iPhone 3G?  —  The hype is in overdrive that there's a new iPhone coming on Monday.  On the other hand, I've been hearing that Forbes/Financial Times/Barrons' rumors of troubles in getting the new 3G iPhone design done and to production are correct and that there's no way that it'll be ready to ship this month.
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and Engadget
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Apple retail receiving shipments, new signs for Monday  —  We have received word that Apple retail stores have received unidentified shipments, as well as new signage, slated to go up on Monday.  The London Regent Street Apple Store has received a single box that is padlocked, and under orders to be put in a safe until Monday.
Discussion: I4U News, Mobilewhack.com and Gizmodo
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Nightmare on Microsoft Street  —  Imagine this:  —  Google (GOOG) starts buying up a series of promising and innovative Web 2.0 companies that Microsoft (MSFT) is either partnered with or clearly is or should be interested in.  —  It starts with Digg, moves onto, say, Spot Runner and others …
Robbie Bach / San Francisco Chronicle:
MICROSOFT ENTERTAINMENT & DEVICES DIVISION PRESIDENT: “We ship lots of 3G phones already on Windows Mobile. ...  We will outsell the iPhone.  We will outsell the BlackBerry.”  —  You won't hear the words “Zune” and “phone” uttered in any proximity to one another by Microsoft's Robbie Bach any time soon.
Discussion: wmpoweruser.com
Maggie Shiels / BBC:
Testing times  —  Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley  —  In a first, Google is opening up its testing process by calling on tens of millions of Gmail users to put new features of the service through their paces.  —  Gmail Labs has launched 13 settings for users to play around …
Discussion: Slashdot and Digg
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Steve Gillmor / TechCrunch:
The Mouse That Roared
Discussion: Outside the Lines
Corvida / ReadWriteWeb:
Generation Y - Welcome To Their World  —  We've showed how Gen Y is going to change the web.  In doing so, Gen Y is also changing the world.  Despite all of this, the world of Generation Y eludes a lot of the previous generations.  Generation Y is absorbed in a world made possible through technology.
Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider:
Slide Says It's Done Releasing New Facebook Apps  —  Slide, the company that makes Facebook's most popular apps, says it's done making new ones for the social network.  Keith Rabois, VP of strategy and business development, told us this week that the company wants to concentrate on making …
Discussion: Mashable!
Om Malik / GigaOM:
T-Mobile Sues Starbucks Over Free Wifi  —  What do they say - one man's meat is another man's poison.  Looks like that was for T-Mobile USA that has filed a lawsuit against Starbucks, which had recently switched over from T-Mobile to AT&T.  —  AT&T offering free WiFi at Starbucks locations …
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APC:
Router crashes blamed on Windows XP SP3 … Broadband modem/router maker Billion says XP SP3 has been causing its BiPAC 5200-series routers to go into a constant crash and reboot cycle.  —  The company has produced firmware upgrades that solve the problem.
Nitin Karandikar / GigaOM:
Powerset vs. Cognition: A Semantic Search Shoot-out  —  Powerset, which implements semantic search, recently released a public beta based on the limited data set of Wikipedia.  But while there is no question that Powerset has some interesting and valuable semantic search technology …
Discussion: Beyond Search
Yanko Design:
Eclipse Intuit Phone Love Sun  —  Check out the Eclipse Intuit Phone by Eddie Goh.  It's got all the basic stuff we've come to expect from our mobiles; powerful 5 megapixel camera with built-in software for editing and uploading to a photo album, slide-out touch keyboard with tactile feedback …
Virginia Heffernan / New York Times:
Rank and File  —  Blessed are the list makers, with their sharp pencils, their certainties, their mix of words and numbers.  Walt Whitman made lists.  Nabokov made lists.  Last year, while declaring in Time magazine that “literary lists are basically an obscenity,” Tom Wolfe admitted …
 
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Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
TileStack: HyperCard comes back from the dead and onto the Web
Discussion: Joho the Blog and Slashdot
Eliot Van Buskirk / Listening Post:
Warner Music Group Pulls Music from Last.fm
Discussion: Digg
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
The Five Questions Companies Ask About Social Media
Discussion: Scobleizer and Media Bullseye
Anne Eisenberg / New York Times:
Moving Mountains With the Brain, Not a Joystick
Tangos / China Web2.0 Review:
QQ To Compete With Xiaonei.com
Discussion: Pulse 2.0 and Mashable!
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Our New Social Media Deals Report: Charting VC and M&A Deals Over the Last Year
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Holly Jackson / CNET News.com:
British ISP, recording industry warn illegal downloaders
Dylan Tweney / Epicenter:
AT&T Embraces BitTorrent, May Consider Usage-Based Pricing
Discussion: Gizmodo, DSLreports and Slashdot
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Andrew Goudsward / Reuters:
A US judge orders the White House to lift access restrictions imposed on the AP while the AP's lawsuit moves forward

Alex Mahadevan / Poynter:
A survey of 1,128 US adults: 49% have no interest in using an AI chatbot to get info from news outlets, and 27% believe outlets often use AI to write articles

Richard Lawler / The Verge:
YouTube, the RIAA, and SAG-AFTRA express support for the reintroduced NO FAKES Act, which standardizes rules around making AI copies of a person's likeness

 
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