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5:50 AM ET, May 31, 2009

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Marianne Schultz / EverythingiCafe:
Purported 3rd-generation iPhone in the wild in Hong Kong  —  UMPCfever.com posted a story early this morning showing purported pictures of the next-generation iPhone.  As is usually the case with spy shots, the pictures are pretty fuzzy, showing mostly the screen without revealing the body of the phone …
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
First iPhone 3G 2009 Screens Look Very Real To Me  —  I'm looking at these images from a Hong Kong blog, and they totally look like The Real Thing™ to me.  Sure they are blurry, but those applications' user interface definitely screams Apple design.  The gallery shows the video/camera screen …
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Video: Sony's PSP Go leaks out before E3, is obviously a go  —  Look up there, folks.  That's the future of Sony's hopes and dreams in the handheld gaming sector.  With just hours to go before the company's official E3 2009 press event, it looks like the pieces are all coming together.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
HTC Killed The Physical Keyboard.  Smart Move.  —  We're less than a week away from the launch of the supposed next “iPhone killer,” the Palm Pre.  The iPhone has miraculously survived a few of these attempts on its life before — it somehow weathered the BlackBerry Storm, and before that …
Thanks:atul
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Shooting to Software Stardom on the iPhone  —  MITCHELL WAITE could think of only one reason that Apple's legal department would leave a voice message last February asking him to call back: he was about to be sued.  Mr. Waite has a tiny software company bearing his name …
New York Times:
Contractors Vie for Plum Work, Hacking for the United States  —  MELBOURNE, Fla. — The government's urgent push into cyberwarfare has set off a rush among the biggest military companies for billions of dollars in new defense contracts.  —  The exotic nature of the work, coupled with the deep recession …
Andrew Mager / The Web Life:
Live: Wordcamp 2009  —  The following is a live blog.  Beware of spelling errors, and lots of photos.  Enjoy.  —  Wordcamp is a conference about blogging and developing the future of the best blogging platform.  Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg is celebrating the 6th anniversary of the open source blogging software.
Discussion: Ben Werdmuller
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Aaron Brazell / Technosailor.com:
WordPress and WordPress MU to Merge
Discussion: Geekword, Thanks:technosailor
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Bartz's (S)mash Note to Ballmer: The Photographic Proof  —  If a search and advertising partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft is ever struck, perhaps a little CEO-to-CEO note-passing should get some credit.  —  Yesterday, we wrote about the purple Post-It that Bartz passed to Ballmer via …
Julie Weed / New York Times:
Finding New Employees, via Social Networks  —  ALAN KENNEDY, 54, had never used social networking sites until he was laid off from his job as an engineer last November.  Then he did what many job seekers are now advised to do: he set up profiles on Facebook and LinkedIn.
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Put Ad on Web.  Count Clicks.  Revise.  —  ON a recent Thursday, Darren Herman, the president of Varick Media Management, was sequestered in his SoHo office.  He wasn't scrutinizing a television ad or images from a photo shoot.  He was combing through graphs and Excel spreadsheets.
Thanks:atul
Phred Dvorak / Wall Street Journal:
In San Francisco, Homeless Stay Wired  —  Mr. Pitts Lacks a Mailing Address But He's Got a Computer and a Web Forum  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Like most San Franciscans, Charles Pitts is wired.  Mr. Pitts, who is 37 years old, has accounts on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.
Discussion: Boing Boing and isen.blog
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Study: Data Center Supply Near All-Time Low  —  Data center vacancy rates will reach an all-time low in 2010 as available space is absorbed and the credit crunch squeezes new construction projects, according to an analysis by commercial real estate specialist Grubb & Ellis.
Erik Sass / MediaPost:
Super-Marketing: Safeway Chains Offer Mobile Coupons  —  Two more supermarket chains are introducing mobile coupon services for shoppers, marking another advance for this increasingly popular marketing channel.  —  Tom Thumb and Randall's — both owned by Safeway — are currently cooperating …
 
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Chris Davies / Android Community:
HTC Hero video promo [Updated]
Discussion: Mobile Tech Addicts
Greg Sterling / Screenwerk:
Bing vs. Blekko: A Difference in Attitude
Jeff Bakalar / Crave: The gadget blog:
Our E3 2009 Predictions
Discussion: Technologizer
Bgurley / abovethecrowd.com:
Will Apple Make An Actual Television? Makes Sense To Me
Thanks:atul
Dan Goodin / The Register:
PC-pwning infection hits 30,000 legit websites
Discussion: securitylabs.websense.com, Thanks:blogfisher
 Earlier Items: 
Saul Hansell / Bits:
The Ascendance of Internet Radio
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Less Than A Third Of Australia's Censor List Actually About Underage Images
Gordon Borrell / Borrell Associates:
Are we NUTS?  —  We've had lots of questions about our numbers …
 

 
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Michael Gold / New York Times:
President-elect Donald Trump announces he has chosen Karoline Leavitt, who served as his campaign's press secretary, to be his White House press secretary

John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion

 
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