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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Comscore Says It'll Fix Search Share Measurement Now That Yahoo And Microsoft Are Gaming It (YHOO, MSFT, GOOG) — Yahoo and Microsoft's Bing have recently been “gaining” market share in comScore's search engine stats for somewhat sketchy reasons: The companies have increasingly been putting …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Time To End The Bulls**t Search Engine Share Figures?
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MediaFile, Silicon Alley Insider, TechSpot, internetnews.com, Future Tense, Digital Daily, TechCrunch and comScore Voices, Thanks:atul
Erica Ogg / CNET News:
iPhone 4 at Wal-Mart on June 24 — iPhone 4 goes on sale June 24. — If you'd rather avoid the lines at Apple and AT&T stores on iPhone 4 launch day, you have options this year. — Wal-Mart said Friday that it will be one of several retail outlets that will have the iPhone 4 on June 24, its first day of availability anywhere.
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App Advice, MobileCrunch, Electronista, Gizmodo, MacRumors, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, TechFlash, TiPb, Erictric, Edible Apple, Gadgetell, The Register, MacNN, Boy Genius Report and everythingiCafe
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Just When He Thought He Was Out, Facebook Pulls Calacanis Back In — This morning, we got a tip that despite all the hubbub about Jason Calacanis deleting his Facebook profile, it was still active. Sure enough, it was. So what gives? — We emailed Calacanis to find out what the deal was …
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Avner Ronen / Boxee Blog:
Boxee Box by D-Link Release Set for November in North America — Earlier this week we got confirmation that the Boxee Box by D-Link will ship this November in US and Canada. We realize many of you have waited months to purchase the Boxee Box, and we know how frustrating this is.
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Silicon Alley Insider, Technologizer, Crave, eHomeUpgrade, Engadget, Tubefilter News, TechSpot, Neowin.net and MacNN
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Voice Desktop App Launch Delayed, May Be Scrapped — When Google acquired Gizmo5, a Skype competitor, in November Google Voice users rejoiced - presumably they'd be getting a much needed soft phone on the desktop for users to make and receive calls through Google Voice.
Thomas Catan / Wall Street Journal:
FTC Sets Apple Mobile Software Probe — WASHINGTON—The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will investigate whether Apple Inc.'s business practices harm competition in the market for software used on mobile devices, people familiar with the situation said. — For weeks, the FTC has been engaged …
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Ars Technica, mocoNews, CNET News, Associated Press, Mashable!, Technologizer, DailyFinance, TheAppleBlog, Epicenter, Bloomberg and Silicon Alley Insider
Diane Bartz / Reuters:
ITC to probe Apple for HTC patent infringement — (Reuters) - A U.S. trade panel will investigate allegations made by HTC Corp that Apple infringes its technology, as HTC seeks to win a ban on the U.S. sale of iPhones, iPads and iPods. — The International Trade Commission said in a brief notice …
Jean-Paul Cozzatti / The Twitter Engineering Blog:
A Perfect Storm.....of Whales — Since Saturday, Twitter has experienced several incidences of poor site performance and a high number of errors due to one of our internal sub-networks being over-capacity. — We're working hard to address the core issues causing these problems …
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VentureBeat, Mashable!, NewTeeVee, Tech Eye, Lockergnome Blog Network, MediaMemo, Softpedia News and textually.org
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The End Of An Era: Hotmail Ditches The Taglines — “Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. Get it now.” — When Hotmail launched in 1996 it grew fast. Very fast. It was one of the first free webmail providers, and they had a killer marketing idea - add a tagline at the end …
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Hank Williams / Why does everything suck?:
Apple fears the killer app — Ok, so were finally getting down to it. On at least two fronts, Apple has now essentially thrown out its draconian rules on what developers can and cannot do on its platform, and replaced them with essentially, no rules. The new “rules” appear to be …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Exclusive: Twitter's Next Moneymaker-"Promoted Trends" — Twitter is beginning to roll out its ad platform, which allows advertisers to insert messages into users' streams. But the microblogging service already has an idea for a new product: Selling some of the real estate dedicated to its …
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Mashable!, Fast Company, VentureBeat, Geekosystem, WebProNews, The Blog Herald and Silicon Alley Insider
Alexia Tsotsis / The Snitch:
iPad Hackers: Obtaining Emails Not Illegal, We Will Fight If Charges Are Pressed — According to reports, the FBI is currently investigating the AT&T iPad leak because of the sensitive (read governmental) nature of the data revealed, and Gawker Media is now under pressure to provide information …
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Joel Gurin / Reboot.FCC.gov:
Consumer View: Staying Safe from Cyber Snoops
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Reuters, The Register, The Next Web, Hillicon Valley, Gizmodo and Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Hulu Founding CTO Eric Feng Leaving For KPCB, Al Gore — Hulu's founding CTO Eric Feng is leaving the streaming video company he helped turn into one of the web's most popular video portals. Feng will be joining Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a Partner focusing on greentech …
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
World Cup Fever: Internet Has Busiest Day Ever as Tabulated by Akamai — Akamai, the world's largest operator of a network of computers which carry video content, reports that today, opening day of the World Cup, is the busiest day it has tracked, with some 11 million visitor requests to its network …
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Cisco gets into the social network business with Quad — Does the world really need another business social network? Apparently Cisco thinks so, because it plans to release one later this year. The company has been revealing more details of the new product, called Quad …
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Google wants to face single mega-lawsuit over WiFi snafu — Google is attempting to consolidate the growing number of lawsuits against the company as a result of its “accidental” WiFi data collection. Meanwhile, a privacy group has analyzed an independent analysis of the situation …
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Sara Jerome / Hillicon Valley:
Google letter to lawmakers: ‘Sorry’ for Wi-Fi breach, downplays harms
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Wall Street Journal, Post Tech, Multichannel News, p2pnet, dailywireless.org and PC World
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Law firm offers to defend ‘Hurt Locker’ sharers — The heat is being turned up on the company representing the producers of “The Hurt Locker” as it wages a wide-ranging litigation campaign against illegal file sharing. — In Arizona, a law firm called White Berberian recently began advertising …
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Slyck, Tom's Guide, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Ars Technica, TorrentFreak, ZeroPaid.com and Techdirt
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple ordering enough components to build 3M iPhone 4s per month — Apple has been ordering enough components to have built a stockpile of several million iPhone 4s in anticipation of this month's launch and continue on with a quarterly run rate of roughly 9 million units, according to a published report.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Finland Plans To Decriminalize Using Open WiFi [Updated] — Different countries have taken different approaches to the legality of “open WiFi.” We've often heard about police going around and trying to shut down open WiFi networks, but that seemed silly: what if you actually wanted to offer open WiFi?
