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Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
Firefox 3 Download Schedule on a World Time Map — Firefox 3 will be up for grabs at 10 AM Los Angeles time. — If you are in a different part of the world, refer to this world time map and know the exact time when Firefox 3 will become available in your region. Happy Firefox 3 Download Day.
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Kevin Heisler / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Download Firefox 3 Today: Firefox Download Day to Set a Guiness World Record — Firefox 3 will be released today which makes today Firefox Download Day 2008. — To build its user base, Mountain View-based Mozilla will attempt a Guinness World's Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden / Making Light:
The Associated Press wants to charge you $12.50 to quote five words from them — The Associated Press, having already announced its intention to harass bloggers who publish snippets as short as 39 words from AP stories, has now published a web form through which intimidated parties can give …
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Mark Glaser / MediaShift:
AP Badly Mistaken on Drudge Retort — Last week, the Associated Press decided that the Drudge Retort was in violation of copyright laws because it excerpted parts of AP stories and linked to them. The AP legal team sent a cease-and-desist letter to Drudge Retort's owner, the technology book author Rogers Cadenhead.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
BoomTown's Short List of Yahoo CEOs (Sorry Jerry, But Fortune Favors the Prepared) — Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn has asked for it. although he has gone all-kittenish now, after realizing his scheme to get Microsoft to buy Yahoo was over, once Yahoo signed on with Google to outsource some of its ad search business.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Time To Stem The Yahoo Bleed, Jerry — Having passed on a $35 exit bonanza by blowing the Microsoft deal, Yahoo (YHOO) now appears to have returned to its previous path of death by a thousand cuts. Specifically, the firm appears to have implemented a hiring freeze, suggesting that current business is weak …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Technorati Launches Blog Ad Network, Technorati Media — Blog-focused advertising networks are all the rage right now, with both Federated Media and Glam pulling down big valuation financing rounds in the last few months based on very early growth metrics. Other startups, like Six Apart …
Ryan Stewart / The Universal Desktop:
Brightcove refreshes with brand new service and new focus — Today Brightcove, one of the first RIA companies and one of the first to use Flex, announced that they've overhauled their service and dubbed it Brightcove 3. The primary goal of the new Brightcove is to provide better support for …
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:Brightcove Wants a Piece of Move's Long-Form Market
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Sony Ericsson:
Sony Ericsson brings out the photographer in us all unveiling its first ever 8.1megapixel camera phone and a stylish snapshot phone — 17 June 2008 The new C905 Cyber-shot™ and S302 Snapshot camera phones from Sony Ericsson allow consumers around the world to capture and share vivid photos whatever …
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Chris Brennan / Philly.com:
Wireless Philadelphia may survive after all — A deal to save Wireless Philadelphia is expected to be announced today and the new owners are scheduled to speak about their plans tomorrow night in a forum on the future of affordable broadband-Internet access.
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Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:Eleventh Hour Rescue for Phila. Network?
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Matt Asay / The Open Road:
To avoid Flash lock-in, Apple looks at SproutCore — Apple, continuing its reliance on open-source technologies, is using an open-source project called SproutCore to provide rich Internet applications like its new MobileMe service. — The idea is to use to keep Apple from being …
Business Wire:
EA Extends Expiration Date for Take-Two Offer to July 18, 2008 — REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Electronic Arts Inc. ("EA") (NASDAQ:ERTS - News) announced today that it has extended its tender offer for all of the currently outstanding shares of common stock (including …
Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
Glam Media to Announce Acquisition — Glam Media, the largest U.S. Web property aimed at women, plans to announce Tuesday that it has acquired London-based digital-marketing firm Monetise Ltd. to jumpstart its global ad-selling. Within a year, Glam says it will have ad operations up and running …
Eliot Van Buskirk / Listening Post:
Rapper Ludacris Seeks New Musical Talent via Web or Cellphone — Rapper Ludacris, a.k.a. Christopher Bridges, has scaled the upper peaks of the music industry with platinum sales and a Grammy to show for his efforts. Now he has a new game plan for finding the next generation of musical talent: the cellphone.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Survey: young people happy to pay for music—on their terms — A new UK survey of people aged 14 to 24 finds that kids still love their music and are willing to pay for it—but only on their own terms. — The survey (PDF), sponsored by British Music Rights (which represents songwriters …
