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12:45 AM ET, June 11, 2008

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AddyDugdale / Gizmodo:
AT&T Memo to Retail Managers Shows iPhone 3G Policy  —  We knew it wouldn't be long before someone from AT&T leaked a policy memo vis-a-vis the iPhone 3G's July 11 launch.  As well as all the mobile provider's pricing details from yesterday, the document contains a bit more info …
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Steve Jobs's Appearance Grabs Notice, Not Just the IPhone  —  Apple's iPhone 3G got most of the headlines on Monday after the product was announced at an Apple technical conference in San Francisco.  But blogs and other Internet news sites also took note of a gaunt-looking Steve Jobs.
Dawn Chmielewski / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Disney puts movies online for free  —  “The Wonderful World of Disney,” the venerable prime-time TV show originally hosted by Walt Disney himself, is getting its geek on.  —  For the first time, Disney.com plans to stream full-length movies online.  The films will air on TV …
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Business Wire:
Disney.com Breaks New Ground Streaming Full-Length Movies Online for the First Time Ever  —  ‘Wonderful World of Disney’ Films Will Hit the Web Following ABC Television Presentation  —  NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Disney.com announced today that for the first time ever the site …
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Yahoo: Severance Plan Not ‘Nuts’; Not Easily Revoked; And It Wouldn't Cost Microsoft $2.4 Billion  —  Following the latest twist in the shareholder lawsuit against Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), and Carl Icahn's continued jabs, Yahoo has filed an FAQ with the SEC, detailing everything you wanted …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:   Yahoo Execs Under Stress-Whither Weiner?
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Yahoo facing possible trial before Icahn showdown
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Result Offers You to “Skip Intro”  —  Oh, sweet.  You know when you look for some company homepage to get their support email address or something, and then the page will start with a super great 3D animation that will take a minute to load... before you can actually find the info you wanted?
John Markoff / Bits:
Apple in Parallel: Turning the PC World Upside Down?  —  At the outset of his presentation at the opening session of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, Steve Jobs showed a slide of a stool with three legs to describe the company's businesses: Macintosh, music and the iPhone.
Jiajun Zhu / Google LatLong:
Street View turns 1, keeps on growing  —  To celebrate Street View's one year birthday, I am very happy to announce we are bringing Street View to 37 (you heard me - 37!) new areas and we have expanded coverage in 15 of our existing areas.  All in all, this effectively doubles our coverage.
Heej Hwang / The Official Google Blog:
A new flavor of Google Trends  —  The latest version of Google Trends is now live!  If you've used it in the past, you know that Google Trends can be used to see how popular certain search terms are across geographic regions, cities, and languages.  With our latest update …
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
IBM goes modular in ‘green’ data centers  —  To wring efficiencies out of data centers, IBM has gone back to a familiar playbook: standard-size building blocks.  —  The company on Wednesday will launch an expanded line of data centers that use a modular design to cut energy consumption in half, compared with existing data centers.
Discussion: Data Center Knowledge
Duncan Riley / The Inquisitr:
Stealth Startup Glassdoor.com Launches: Employment Conditions  —  Sausalito, CA based stealth startup Glassdoor.com, the subject of months of speculation has launched and offers an employment conditions service.  —  Glassdoor.com has impeccable backing, with CEO and Founder Robert Hohman previously …
Discussion: Tech Confidential and VentureBeat
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
Google: Making Nick Carr Stupid, But It's Made This Guy Smarter  —  I will admit, I was entirely biased upon reading this story from Nick Carr, who has a knack for writing pieces that get a lot of attention by baiting his hook with contrarian link chum.  Heck, he's really good at it, and I have a lot of respect for Nick.
Discussion: mathewingram.com/work and Techdirt
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Record Store Owner Calls People Who Pay To Download ‘Idiots’  —  from the well,-that-might-be-a-bit-much dept  —  You would think that record store owners might be the folks most upset about the changing music landscape these days.  And, indeed, we've seen the “big players” like Tower Records and Warehouse Music go out of business.
Clint Ecker / Infinite Loop:
Ars at WWDC: Exclusive preview of mobile NetNewsWire  —  After yesterday's exhibition of iPhone third-party applications developed primarily by companies who had never programmed for the Mac before, we here at Ars were champing at the bit to get a peek at a few applications written by grizzled Mac veterans and see how they stacked up.
Discussion: MacRumors iPhone Blog
 
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Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
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Bill Virgin / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Will you read Microsoft's obit here?
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Colin Barras / New Scientist:
Robot Asimo can understand three voices at once
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
EU Commissioner disses Microsoft: open standards are smart business
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News.com:
HP Voodoo silicon mimics MacBook Air, ThinkPad
Chris Foresman / Infinite Loop:
Safari 4 to include SSB feature and fastest JavaScript ever
Discussion: MacRumors and AppleInsider
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
SharePoint To Run Enterprise 2.0?
Leonard David / USA Today:
Virgin Galactic will roll out mega-mothership
Discussion: Engadget and Switched
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Your perception is Apple's reality
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Friendfeed will Change Journalism, PR and Marketing
Discussion: Web Strategy