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9:00 AM ET, June 5, 2006

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Ilse Jurriën / Lets Go Digital:
Sony Alpha 100  —  Sony Alpha 100 : Since Sony and Konica Minolta announced that Konica Minolta consigned their camera service operations for Konica Minolta, Konica Minolta brand cameras and related equipment to Sony, the news of a Sony digital SLR camera is a hot topic among digital SLR camera enthusiasts.
Discussion: Ubergizmo
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Darren / Digital Camera Reviews, Ratings …:
Sony Alpha 100  —  Get Weekly Digital Camera News and Tips via our Email Newsletter  —  We are hearing information today that the Sony Alpha DSLR that we've previously mentioned will be called the Sony Alpha 100.  It will be a 10.2 megapixel camera with the following specifications if the information we've been emailed today is true.
Discussion: Engadget and Gizmodo
Thomas Crampton / New York Times:
On a Russian Site, Cheap Songs With a Backbeat of Illegality  —  PARIS, June 2 — Rising consumer popularity is turning AllofMP3.com, a music downloading service based in Moscow, into a global Internet success story, but with a catch.  The site may well be illegal.
Robert Levine / New York Times:
Limited Appeal?  Sell Songs Online  —  Record companies often issue collections of the B-sides and soundtrack contributions of popular acts; Rhino Entertainment, a division of Warner Music Group, is once again faced with a band whose regular albums never sold very well.
Discussion: paidContent.org
timesofindia.indiatimes.com:
Apple software logs out of India  —  BANGALORE: The company that redefined the way we listen to music has decided to call it quits in India.  Apple, known for its popular iPods, is pulling out its software development and support operations in India.  —  The company had commenced operations …
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macnn.com:
Apple nixes off-shore support in India
Nicole C. Wong / Mercury News:
HP cuts back on telecommuting  —  SOME KEY WORKERS WILL HAVE TO COME TO OFFICE OR FIND NEW JOBS  —  Hewlett-Packard, the Silicon Valley company known for pioneering flexible work arrangements four decades ago, is canceling telecommuting for a key division of the company.
Jon's Radio:
Earth to Google PR  —  A Google developer and API evangelist, P., invites me to take a look at a new API.  I reply that, instead, I'd like to discuss the GData APIs.  P. thanks me for my interest in GData, and promises to try to connect me with someone.  —  A couple of days later I hear from S., on Google's "communication team."
Stan Beer / itwire.com.au:
Adobe yet to explain why no PDF in Microsoft Office  —  Microsoft has born the brunt of criticism for its massive domination of the computer desktop since the release of Windows 95.  For once, however, it is not Microsoft that has some explaining to do.  Microsoft's decision not to include …
Read/WriteWeb:
Cease and Desist defining Web 2.0  —  Jeff Clavier and Paul Kedrosky note that the chmod 777 definition of 'web 2.0' is coming back into fashion.  As Jeff nicely put it: … The chmod 777 meme got picked up recently by Tim Bray, who pointed to IBMer James Snell's definition a year ago.
Discussion: Scripting News and rev2.org
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Acme Packet, Another VoIPO  —  With all the attention focused on the Vonage's initial public offering, it just might be the beginning of a steady and long line of VoIPOs (aka Voice over IP public offerings.)  Acme Packet, a Burlington, Massachusetts has just filed its registration statement …
Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
The Video Game Goes Minimalist: Nintendo Comes Full Circle  —  SOME new media, like the Internet and cellphones, begin life in a niche, as curiosities even, before becoming everyday elements of mainstream culture.  Others evolve in the opposite direction.  —  Think about video games.
Thomas F. Anglero / Telecom's Tsunami:
The End of Telecom; The Emergence of Utilicom  —  For as long as I have been involved in VoIP (1994), I have been one of the guilty souls who have declared from the highest mountain top that Telecom was coming to an end due to the latest flavor of disruptive technologies, companies, regulations …
Discussion: EuroTelcoblog
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Internet Phones: Please Wait for the Next Available Opportunity  —  THE telephone and the PC are ubiquitous desk mates, separated by a few inches and about a century.  —  How soon we can use our home phones to exploit the efficiencies of the Internet, where calling costs are too small to be worth metering …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Fold.com...Folds  —  Well, the inevitable is starting to happen - a few new web startups are starting to close up shop as they find that building an application is a lot easier than getting users to try it out, and keep coming back.  Fold.com, an Ajax home page, has folded.
 
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Kathleen Day / Washington Post:
Vonage in Predicament After Public Offering
Claus / Grand Stream Dreams:
Firefox Commenting Extensions
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Sidekick III launches July 10th
Sue Zeidler / Reuters:
Hollywood, retailers eye movie download kiosks
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Katie Hafner / New York Times:
How eBay Makes Regulations Disappear
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Get Voicemail In Your Email Inbox: GotVoice
linuxdevices.com:
Nokia turns cellphones into webservers
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:
Samsung Q1 in the buff!
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Cringingly blurry pics reveal Microsoft's "iPod killer"?