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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Is this the Zune HD? — Uh. Looks like something is happening — big time — in Zune land. We present what might possibly be your first look at, yes... the Zune HD. In the gallery below, you can see images from what appears to be a forthcoming marketing campaign for Microsoft's new PMP.
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Joshua Topolsky:
Why Engadget is blocking the DiggBar — Some of you may be wondering why you're not seeing the latest piece of Digg's news-puzzle — the DiggBar — on Engadget. Let me explain. — If you've seen the tool in action, then you know that it appears to offer an easy way to read an article …
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Ted Dziuba:
DiggBar is a Howl of Desperation — Since the most recent death of Uncov, I've tried to lay off the Web 2.0 s**t. However, as a conoisseur of fail, I thought the DiggBar is worth an examination. — DiggBar is a URL shortening service from Digg, the internet's largest community of whiners …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
The Growth Of Framebars & Kevin Rose On The DiggBar — The DiggBar has been out for about a week now. Since then, there continues to be concerns over twin issues of whether it robs sites of link love and frames their contents in a way that's unfair to publishers.
Faruk Ate / FarukAt.e:
JavaScript DiggBar killer (but not blocker) — EVENT: — Digg came up with the “DiggBar”, a frame that keeps visitors on the digg.com domain while framing the destination website below it. — EFFECT: — This event caused massive controversy and anger, and has led to the creation of many …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Skype Founders Seek to Buy Service Back — SAN FRANCISCO — The European duo who created Skype and sold it to eBay for billions may have another trick up their sleeve: buying it back. — Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the original founders of Skype, have approached several private equity firms …
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Download Squad, Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, Skype Journal, ReadWriteWeb, paidContent.org, The SiliconANGLE, HipMojo.com and AuctionBytes Blog, Thanks:atul
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Steve Jobs Still Running The Show At Apple (From Home) — While speculation has continued as to whether Steve Jobs will even back at Apple's helm at the midway point of a self-imposed six month medical leave, WSJ cites unidentified sources who contend the company's co-founder is still running the show, albeit from his home.
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
$1.29 iTunes Songs Mysteriously Get Less Popular — Billboard's crack scientists conducted a quick study on a mysterious new phenomenon: More expensive $1.29 songs on iTunes are becoming less popular! (Actually, the results will surprise you.) — One day after the price jump …
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple stores to ditch Windows EasyPay systems for iPhone tech — Apple retail stores are looking to move away from Windows Mobile-based handheld checkout devices in favor of iPod touches with custom accessory add-ons, with a transition expected to follow the release of iPhone 3.0 later this year.
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Silicon Alley Insider, The iPhone Blog, ifoAppleStore, Gizmodo, CNET News, VentureBeat, Ars Technica and The Technology Chronicles
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
How to Sell Your Soul on Twitter and Who's Buying — What are you doing? No what are you doing Apple, Skype, Flip, StubHub and Box.net?? These popular companies just couldn't resist paying off Twitter users to put advertisements into their Twitter streams using the new pay-per-tweet service Magpie.
Jennifer / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Federal Authority Over the Internet? The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 — There's a new bill working its way through Congress that is cause for some alarm: the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 (PDF summary here), introduced by Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Olympia Snowe (D-ME).
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Bye, MG Siegler, we'll miss you — especially your headlines — It's with a heavy heart that I write this post. Reporter MG Siegler is leaving VentureBeat to begin work at competing blog TechCrunch. We always viewed MG as one of our better writers, and he fit really well with our team.
Stephanie Condon / CNET News:
Google Book settlement faces legal assault — A proposed settlement in a copyright lawsuit involving Google's book search has drawn applause, envy, and from a handful of critics, an attempt to derail the deal. — The settlement covers orphan works, meaning books that are still copyrighted …
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Owen Thomas / Gawker:
Against Realtime — The future is now, more so than ever. Silicon Valley, filled with worshipers of the new, has embraced “realtime” as the latest trend. If it didn't happen in the last 10 minutes, it doesn't matter. — It's why blogs are supposedly killing sluggish print media.
Joseph L. Flatley / Engadget:
Apple releases iPod Shuffle VoiceOver Kit 1.0.1 upgrade — You know what really gets on our nerves? When we're listening to Van der Graaf Generator (look it up!) on our newfangled iPod Shuffle and it pronounces the band's name wrong. Seriously, this is an important function.
