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5:25 AM ET, June 17, 2009

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Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
Thoughts on Opera Unite  —  I met today's news about Opera's new initiative — called Unite — with a mix of shock and awe.  —  On the one hand, I was sickened by the lack of analysis from the echolalic blogger news corps.  It appeared that Opera PR had successfully reached out to all of them …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Exclusive Video: Hands-On With Opera Unite (It Rocks)
Kari Lee / Facebook Blog:
Look Who's Talking Now  —  Today, we're beginning to test new versions of Facebook Search with a small group — just a fraction of a percent of the people on Facebook.  Those of you in the test group will be able to find content from the people, organizations and public figures that matter to you as soon as they share it on Facebook.
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Starts Testing New Version Of Search, It's A Huge Upgrade
Discussion: TechCrunch
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Increases Capacity, Pats Itself On Back, Denies Being A Covert Government Agency  —  As just about everyone reading this likely saw, Twitter was down for a bit today.  The maintenance was planned, and was actually postponed from yesterday to allow for the protests flowing over Twitter about the Iranian elections to continue.
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Anderson Cooper 360:
State Department to Twitter: Keep Iranian tweets coming  —  Elise Labott  —  CNN State Department Producer  —  The halls of Foggy Bottom are ringing with the Tweets coming with Iran and the State Department is working to ensure they keep coming.  —  Senior officials say the State Department …
New York Times:
U.S. Steps Gingerly Into Tumult in Iran  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration says it has tried to avoid words or deeds that could be portrayed as American meddling in Iran's presidential election and its tumultuous aftermath.  —  Yet on Monday afternoon, a 27-year-old State Department official …
Apple:
iTunes: About unsupported third-party digital media players  —  Products Affected  —  Apple designs the hardware and software to provide seamless integration of the iPhone and iPod with iTunes, the iTunes Store, and tens of thousands of apps on the App Store.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple: Yeah, About That Palm Pre iTunes Sync Feature...  Right before the launch of the Palm Pre, the press was buzzing about a feature that had remained quiet until that time: That the Palm Pre can sync with iTunes.  This is a key feature at least in theory as the Pre is seen as the biggest competitor to Apple's iPhone to date.
Discussion: Macworld, CrunchGear and 9 to 5 Mac, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
Twitterverse working to confuse Iranian censors  —  Yesterday, I got an e-mail from a reader who had seen my story about Twitter users slamming CNN for its initial absence on the post-Iranian election protests, urging me to remove an image in the story.  —  The rationale?
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Geoffrey A. Fowler / Digits:
One Iranian's Internet Experience
Discussion: CBS News
Rafe Needleman / CNET News:
New versions of Tweetdeck, Seesmic square off  —  There's a new version of the Tweetdeck Twitter client, 0.26, launching tonight, following the earlier release today of a preview of Seesmic Desktop 0.3.  Both updated Twitter clients look like significant improvements from their previous versions.
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Sean Fallon / Gizmodo:
TweetDeck Now Available On The iPhone
Discussion: Mashable!, Pulse2, Kevin Rose and TUAW
Erica Ogg / CNET News:
Snow Leopard features hint at Apple tablet  —  Though Apple isn't saying whether it's working on a touchscreen tablet, the company may have shown its hand at its World Wide Developers Conference last week.  —  Of course, the Apple tablet has become the Apple press corp's version of a Bigfoot hunt.
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
iPhone 3.0 Update for iPod Touch Page Appears in iTunes, Not Yet Functional [Updated]  —  One MacRumors reader has discovered an iTunes page that appears to offer the iPhone OS 3.0 software update for iPod touch for download for $9.95.  While iTunes permits the transaction to go through …
Amol Sharma / Digits:
T-Mobile's Second Android Phone Expected Soon  —  and Jessica E. Vascellaro  —  T-Mobile USA is expected to announce details around a new phone powered by Google's Android operating system next week, say people familiar with the matter.  —  T-Mobile  —  T-Mobile is expected to unveil …
John Cook / Gawker:
You Don't Have a Right to Anonymity  —  A British court has ruled that the Times of London is free to unmask an anonymous British blogger, just ten days after the National Review caused and uproar by outing a left-wing blogger named Publius.  This is a good thing.
Discussion: Financial Times and Crime Central
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Frances Gibb / Times of London:
Ruling on NightJack author Richard Horton kills blogger anonymity
Discussion: Guardian
Miguel Helft / Bits:
Gmail to Get More Protection From Snoops  —  A group of 38 computer scientists, law professors and security experts is urging Google to do to more to protect Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs from snooping.  Specifically, the group is asking Google to use a standard encryption technology …
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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Microsoft gives up YouTube chase  —  SAN FRANCISCO—In the coming months, Microsoft plans to significantly scale back Soapbox, the video site it once hoped might take on YouTube in the user-generated content arena.  —  In an interview on Tuesday, Microsoft Vice President Erik Jorgensen …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
MySpace slashes head count by 30 percent  —  Amid economic woes, stagnant growth, and a management shakeup, onetime social-networking pioneer MySpace has announced that it has cut its head count by slightly under 30 percent in what the company calls a “return to start-up culture.”
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta's Layoff Memo
Discussion: paidContent, BetaNews and Digital Daily, Thanks:atul
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Want The Kindle Source Code?  You Can Have It.  —  So this isn't new, it's actually been available since late 2007 as far as I can tell, but enough people are tweeting about it today, that's it's worth mentioning again.  Amazon has a page where you can download the Kindle's source code.
Patrick Smith / paidContent:
News Bosses Tell MPs: Free Us To Fight Google  —  Newspaper publishers, in their latest plea for regulatory reform, want to be allowed to collectively lobby Google (NSDQ: GOOG) for story payments.  It was amongst a litany of woes Guardian Media Group CEO Carolyn McCall …
Discussion: paidContent
Kevin Maney / The Atlantic Online:
The Rating Game  —  RICH BARTON, A superstar of the Internet era, settles across from me in a coffee shop in Centreville, Virginia, looking like a 1950s sitcom dad—glasses, preppy haircut, V-neck sweater.  He built Expedia in the 1990s, co-founded the real-estate site Zillow in 2005 …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Your iPhone 3G S Is Here.  But You Can't Get It Until Friday.  —  Following up on our earlier story, it looks like Apple is holding back delivery of the iPhone 3G S units that we pre-ordered over the web, until Friday.  This, despite the fact that they're already in the United States …
Discussion: Engadget, Pulse2 and I4U News
Serkan Toto / TechCrunch:
Facebook Loses Lawsuit Against German Clone StudiVZ, Gets Criticized For Sloppy Preparation  —  Bad news for Facebook from Germany today.  Facebook has had issues with Berlin-based social network StudiVZ ("student directory" in German) for years before deciding last summer to finally sue their German clone in the US.
Discussion: Agence France Presse
Rob Hof / Tech Beat:
Maybe Google Isn't Losing Big Bucks on YouTube After All  —  Ever since Credit Suisse came out with a report in early April estimating that Google's YouTube will lose as much as $470 million this year, many people have been predicting the video sharing site is doomed and calling Google stupid for continuing to run it as is.
Discussion: AdAge, GigaOM and InformationWeek
Ryan Rea / Neowin.net:
Exclusive: Microsoft's new Anti-Virus, ‘Morro’, revealed  —  Ever since Microsoft discontinued its “OneCare” Anti-Virus suite, gossip has been flying that Microsoft would be releasing a free Anti-Virus\Anti-Spyware tool codenamed “Morro”.  —  The software product, codenamed “Morro” …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Time Inc. CEO Ann Moore: Let's Put the Digital “Genie Back in the Bottle” [UPDATED]  —  Poor John Squires.  The Time Inc. SVP seems like an affable fellow.  So what has he done to deserve this impossible task-figuring out a digital strategy for Time Warner's (TWX) publishing unit?
Discussion: paidContent
 
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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
AP eyeing better deals with Internet heavyweights
Matt Holliday / Inside Facebook:
Leading Facebook Dating App Zoosk Raises $6 Million More
Discussion: All Facebook and VatorNews
Don Clark / Digits:
Nvidia CEO Says Its Computing Crusade Hits “Tipping Point”
Discussion: PC World and internetnews.com
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Image Recognition Startup SnapTell Acquired by Amazon Subsidiary A9.com
Discussion: SnapTell Blog, mocoNews and TechFlash
Reuters:
Obama backs repeal of tax on personal cell phones
Mel Martin / TUAW:
Are you really Sirius? Streaming radio iPhone app expected this week
Discussion: Engadget Mobile and iPhone Savior
Wolfgang Gruener / TG Daily:
Moore's Law to die at 18 nm, analysts predict
Discussion: Maximum PC all
Roy Mark / eWeek:
Genachowski Cruises Through Confirmation Hearing
Discussion: PC World and GigaOM
 Earlier Items: 
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Firefox 3.5 ‘Web upgrade’ planned for end of June
Discussion: Softpedia News and OStatic blogs
Markus / netzpolitik.org:
The Dawning of Internet Censorship in Germany
Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
Clearwire Launches WiMax In Atlanta—Its Largest City Yet
Discussion: Clearwire News Room
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Digital Britain: ISPs will have to cut filesharing by 70%
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

 
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