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Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Google thought Michael Jackson traffic was attack — Google has confirmed that the surge of Michael Jackson-related searches on Google News Thursday was first interpreted as an attack on its service. — Google News was inaccessible for some people Thursday afternoon right as rumors …
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Nicki Dugan / Yodel Anecdotal:
Losing Michael Jackson — It's been a rough week, especially for those of us who grew up in the 1970s. First, we lost Ed McMahon, who we always hoped would show up at our doorstep with a big check. Then, came news of Farrah Fawcett, who always got the bad guy and launched a hair revolution among us.
Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
Firefox 3.5 gears up for a possible Tuesday public release — A Mozilla spokesperson confirmed to Betanews early this evening that, if all pans out as planned, the organization will officially release the Firefox 3.5 Web browser to the general public as soon as Tuesday, June 30.
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Tour hitting Verizon Wireless on July 12th, selling for $199? — Well, you heard that right peoples. It looks like Verizon Wireless is gearing up to launch the much-awaited BlackBerry Tour on July 12th. The best part? It appears it's going to go for $199 with a two-year agreement according to Verizon's testman site.
Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
The True Story of True Ventures — San Francisco-based True Ventures emerged on the venture scene in 2005 and its way of doing business — focusing on seed-stage startups that it can afford to back for the long haul — quickly resonated with LPs. Not only did they give True $155 million …
Laura June / Engadget:
White iPhone 3GS reportedly overheats, turns a browner shade of white — Right after its launch, we noted the sundry problems reported by new iPhone 3GS owners, but this is the first time we've heard tell of this specific one... and it seems like a doozy. It's unclear exactly what caused this …
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Apple kills Routesy app, my iPhone gets less useful — The fuss continues over Apple's capricious acceptance policy for its iPhone/iPod Touch App Store, most recently with the rejection of an app called Hottest Girls. But for me and a few other San Franciscans, there's a much bigger cause of outrage …
Alex Pham / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Warner Bros. emerges as sole bidder for Midway Games — All over but the shoutin' for Midway sale? Credit: Togoodtobe4gotton via Flckr. — Times up! The deadline for submitting bids to buy Midway Games passed Wednesday afternoon with just one offer — a $33-million deal from Warner Bros …
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Brandon Miniman / pocketnow.com:
Screenshots of the New TouchFLO 3D v2.5 — When the Diamond2 and Touch Pro2 get the Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrade later this summer, it looks like they are getting a new version of TouchFLO 3D (Manila v2.5) that stretches the interface a bit deeper and makes it more customizable than seen on the current iteration.
Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
Winning Teams Join to Qualify for $1 Million Netflix Prize — The Netflix Prize, a computing challenge that's been compared to scaling Mount Everest and flummoxed programmers for more than three years, has been summited. — Two front runners in the contest, Team Pragmatic Theory and Team Bellkor in Chaos …
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Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
iPhone Bob leaves Apple to pursue venture capital investing — The man who took us on a guided tour of the iPhone 3G is leaving Apple to help a venture capital firm invest its horde of $1 billion. — Bob Borchers, who most recently served as senior director of worldwide product marketing …
Joe McDonald / Associated Press:
Companies appeal to China to drop Web filter plan — BEIJING - — Global business groups have made an unusual direct appeal to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to scrap an order for PC makers to supply controversial Internet filtering software, citing security and privacy concerns.
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
YouTube Doubles Upload Size Limit — YouTube has doubled the size of standard uploads for regular-Joe account holders to 2 GB from 1 GB. The company told us this afternoon the move was in order to accommodate users' HD uploads. But despite the size increase, non-partner videos are still limited to 10 minutes in length.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Mythbusters' Adam Savage Discovers Insane Roaming Fees: $11,000 iPhone Bill For A Few Hours Surfing — Every few months or so there's an article somewhere about an insane phone bill that someone gets because they took their phone out of the country without recognizing the insanity that is international roaming rates.
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Dear Comcast: The Idea When You Bundle Is That People Are Supposed To Get A Discount — When companies offer “bundles” of the various services they offer, part of the point is that if you're buying multiple packages together, you get some sort of “discount.”
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Briefly: more affordable iMacs from Apple expected by fall — Apple, which recently shaved down the cost of its popular Mac notebook lines, remains on track to pass on similar treatment to its all-in-one desktop line by this fall. — Back in April, AppleInsider reported that the Mac maker …
Michael Geist Blog:
Rogers Again Injects Web Pages With Its Own Content — Canadian Internet watchers may recall a controversy in late 2007 when Rogers began experimenting with adding its own content to webpages that its subscribers visit. The company used the technology to alert customers about their data usage.
John Leyden / The Register:
Blue chip FTP logins found on cybercrime server — Monster breach exposes Amazon and BBC to compromise — Security researchers have found a treasure chest of FTP passwords, some from high profile sites, on an open cybercrime server. — Jacques Erasmus, CTO at security tools firm Prevx …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Google chief: Iran can't control the net — Eric Schmidt hopes YouTube clips of Iranian election protests have helped lessen retribution meted out by the authorities — The Google chief executive, Eric Schmidt, said today that he hopes that clips of the Iranian election protests posted on YouTube …
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Liberty Media CEO Hints At Interest In AOL — Is Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) once again interested in purchasing part of AOL? In an interview with CNBC this morning (via Tech Trader Daily), Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei (pictured) was asked whether it was “just a nonsense rumor” …
