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12:55 PM ET, July 10, 2008

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Arn / MacRumors:
iPhone 2.0 Firmware (5A347) Available Early  —  Once again, digging through Apple's XML files has revealed the url to the iPhone 2.0 Firmware that is presently available on Apple's servers.  One of our readers found this new firmware image:  —  iPhone1,2_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw (download link)
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
iPhone App Store Has Launched (Updated)  —  Update: The iPhone 2.0 software is now available.  —  Apple's iPhone App Store is now live, several hours ahead of its rumored 9 am PST launch.  To access it, download iTunes 7.7 here.  Once iTunes has upgraded, you can access the App Store here.
New York Times:
Apple's Latest Opens a Developers' Playground  —  PALO ALTO, Calif. — When Apple opens its online App Store for iPhone software on Thursday, Steven P. Jobs will be making an attempt to dominate the next generation of computing as it moves toward Internet-connected mobile devices.
Arn / MacRumors:
App Store: Apps Available for Download on iTunes  —  Apps have already appeared in the iTunes App Store and can be found and downloaded by searching for their names.  AOL's AIM Application (iTunes Link), for example, is available as a free download.  —  Apple's free Remote Application …
Jefferson Graham / USA Today:
App Store for iPhone already a hit with developers  —  Apple CEO Steve Jobs expected to launch his App Store — the online venue for third-party iPhone and iPod Touch applications — with 200 software offerings; he ended up with more than 500.  —  “The reaction has been so strong,” he says.
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
iPhone remote control app goes live
Discussion: VentureBeat and Gizmodo
Greg / Pinch Media:
iPhone application price distribution
Discussion: Macworld
Yahoo! Search Blog:
BOSS — The Next Step in our Open Search Ecosystem  —  Today, Yahoo! Search is taking another step in extending the Yahoo! Open Strategy with the launch of Yahoo! Search BOSS, a web services platform that allows developers and companies to create and launch web-scale search products by utilizing …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Yahoo's desperate search times call for open source
Discussion: Open Source and WebGuild
Vanessa Fox / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo! Lets You “Build Your Own Search Service”
Discussion: BoomTown, The Inquisitr and Shoemoney
Dave Shaw / Bloggle:
Strange symbols appear on Google!  —  I'm hoping this is a Bloggle exlusive (even though I've not been blogging here for while).  A strange symbol (swastika?) has just made it HOT on Google Trends.  Why?  Could be an example of Google ‘bombing’?  —  Check it out here.
Business Wire:
New Belkin FlyWire™ Delivers HD Video and Audio Wirelessly to Any HDTV, Anywhere in Your Home  —  By Eliminating the Need for Unsightly Cables and Labor-Intensive Custom Installation, Belkin's FlyWire Offers Endless Placement Possibilities for Your HDTV
Discussion: Engadget and Ubergizmo
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DigiTimes:
Asustek Eee PC shipments fail expectations but Acer still confident about Aspire one sales  —  Acer Taiwan president Scott Lin is confident the company's Aspire one will enjoy a strong sales record despite recent news that Asustek Computer's Eee PC sales failed to meet expectations sparking concerns for the netbook market.
Discussion: The Tech Report
Joseph Pisani / CNBC.com:
Workplace BlackBerry Use May Spur Lawsuits  —  Addicted BlackBerry users have already nicknamed themselves crackberrys, but lawyers are now calling the digital device in the workplace something else: A lawsuit waiting to happen.  —  As employers hand out electronic devices to their employees …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Yahoo Games shifts to free games in alliance with two game ad start-ups  —  Yahoo Games is the giant of online game portals with 18 million unique visitors a month.  But the company is shaking things up as it announces today that it is shifting to a new business model based on free ad-supported games for many of its pay-only titles.
Discussion: Webware.com, Yahoo! and GigaOM
Chris Morrison / VentureBeat:
NowPublic buys up Guy Kawasaki's Truemors (believe it or not)  —  When Guy Kawasaki started Truemors, a site for spreading Internet rumors, his intentions weren't quite clear.  Was it an experiment?  A joke?  The product of too much free time?  Or perhaps not too much time — after all …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Pirate Bay wants total network encryption, but does anyone else?  —  The Pirate Bay has ambitious plans to bring end-to-end encryption to all network activity, essentially blacking out a user's traffic from deep packet inspection gear and other prying eyes.  Interesting project, sure, and definitely ambitious, but will it work?
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Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
The Pirate Bay Wants to Encrypt the Entire Internet
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google News Tests New Design  —  Google News experiments with a lively and visually-rich design that shows images, videos, quotes, but also interesting and popular stories.  There's a “featured photo” section that uses images from AFP, The Associated Press, Reuters, marking …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
The ‘Fake’ Steve Jobs Is Giving Up Parody Blog  —  The once-mysterious blogger known as “Fake Steve Jobs” is turning off his iPhone for good.  —  Daniel Lyons, the former Forbes magazine journalist who wrote the blog The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs for the last two years, is moving on with his professional life and creative pursuits.
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!:
Planeteye, Blowing Other Travel Sites Out of the Water?  —  There's a great deal going on in the online travel resource sector, and many of the recent developments have moved towards a nice approach for data aggregation and search tools, whether it be for flight search, trip-planning or virtual tours.
BBC:
Net address fix foxes web users  —  Many users of the ZoneAlarm firewall have been floored by a fix to the net's addressing system.  —  Those hit found they could not get online after installing a Microsoft patch to close a security loophole.  —  Left open the flaw would have allowed malicious hackers …
Discussion: Boy Genius Report
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Stefan Constantinescu / IntoMobile:
Nokia Chat: Location based micro blogging with chat built in, I think
Electronista:
Seagate reveals first 1.5TB drive, more
Discussion: CNET News.com and eWeek
DealBook:
Sun Valley Diary: The Yahoo-Google Power Table
Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
Zombie botnets continue to defy containment attempts
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Yahoo and TBS enter sports-centric alliance
Discussion: paidContent.org
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The iPhone's Been Good To AdMob.  A Quarter Billion Ads Served, And Counting
Discussion: Mashable!
Business Technology:
EBay Drops PayPal Plan Down Under
Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Ballmer: We'll look at open source, but we won't touch
Discussion: Open Sources
 Earlier Items: 
Anand Rajaraman / Datawocky:
The Real Long Tail: Why both Chris Anderson and Anita Elberse are Wrong
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
iTunes is Anti-Web  —  Ever find yourself clicking on links …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Where Apple's New iPhone Doesn't Help: AT&T's 3G Dead Zones
Lucas Gonze / Silicon Alley Insider:
Why Ad-Supported Music Won't Work: Blame The Labels
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
Graspr Grabs $2.5 Million
Discussion: VentureBeat and TechCrunch
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Launches MobileMe and Apple TV 2.1 [Me.com Offline for Now]
New York Times:
Redstone Says No to Anointing His Daughter
BBC:
Mobile web reaches critical mass