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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Firefox 3: New front in the browser war — Mozilla plans to release Firefox 3 on Tuesday, and the open-source project is opening a new front in the browser wars. — As the Web transforms from a static repository of content into a foundation for applications such as word processors and graphics editors …
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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.
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.
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BBC:
Firefox aims for download record — Version 3 of the popular Firefox web browser is going on general release on 17 June. — Wide take-up of the new version would further boost the market share of the browser which is currently used by about 15% of net users.
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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 (MSFT) to buy Yahoo (YHOO) was over, once Yahoo signed on with Google …
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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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations …
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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 …
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 …
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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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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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Microsoft:
Microsoft Announces Plans for European Search Technology Center to Deepen Investments in Live Search — European research and development center of excellence designed to help Microsoft disrupt the search and advertising marketplace. — At the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival …
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Mike Saviage / Seeking Alpha:
Adobe F2Q08 (Qtr End 5/30/08) Earnings Call Transcript — Executives — Shantanu Narayen - President and Chief Executive Officer — Mark Garrett - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer — Analysts — Presentation — Operator — Good day, everyone and welcome …
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
EA Still Trying To Wait Out Take-Two. It May Be Working — Electronic Arts' most recent deadline for Take-Two shareholders to accept its $2 billion offer expired yesterday. Which means, of course, that EA (ERTS) has extended its offer yet again. This new deadline supposedly expires in another month.
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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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tradingmarkets.com:
Local investors to rescue Philly wi-fi — Jun 17, 2008 (The Philadelphia Inquirer - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) — ELNK | PowerRating — A group of local investors will rescue the city's trailblazing wireless network from what seemed like imminent shutdown …
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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 …
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Search Read Items in Google Reader — One of the most useful features that is missing in Google Reader is a way to search the items you've read in the past. This is useful, since Google Reader's search results are sorted by date and it may be difficult to find an article published two years ago.
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Devin Leonard / Fortune:
Music blogs' network effect — Advertisers and record labels are turning to MP3 websites to reach a much-desired demographic. — (Fortune) — Pity the music industry. Between 99-cent downloads, free - if not always legal -file-sharing services and MP3 blogs, and an increasingly fragmented audience …
