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5:55 PM ET, June 10, 2006

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Bloomberg:
Ruling Backs Internet-Phone Wiretapping  —  WASHINGTON, June 9 (Bloomberg News) — Comcast, Vonage and other companies that provide telecommunications services over the Internet must allow wiretapping of phone calls by law enforcement officials, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
Discussion: Engadget
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Appeals court upholds Net-wiretapping rules  —  update The Bush administration's plans to force Internet providers to comply with extensive wiretapping rules received a boost on Friday, when a federal appeals court upheld the controversial regulations.  —  A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
John Dvorak explains how he tweaks Mac users for traffic  —  Last night after being on "This Week in Tech" (#1 tech podcast with about 250,000 downloads a week) we were standing around and John Dvorak came up to me and said hi and thanks for being on the show.
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Xbox 360, iPod and Plasma TVs Are Going to Transform In The New Transformers Movie  —  Xbox 360, iPod and Plasma TVs Are Going to Transform In The New Transformers Movie  —  READ MORE: HOME ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TRANSFORMERS, IPOD, PLASMA, XBOX 360  —  According to a leaked script …
Discussion: Piaras Kelly PR and DigitalBattle
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Anti-iTunes DRM demonstrations across the USA tomorrow  —  Tomorrow, activists in seven cities across the US will picket Apple Stores, handing out information about the dangers of the DRM hidden in Apple's iTunes. iTunes DRM may seem pretty innocuous at first, but every time you invest …
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Google researchers use ambient audio to augment the television experience  —  Developers from Google's research laboratory presented a paper (PDF) about interactive television applications that leverage ambient audio analysis at the Euro Interactive Television conference last week.
Chris Pirillo:
Windows Vista: Download vs. DVD  —  A few minutes ago, in an online group chat, Microsoft Windows Featured Community leaders received the following stream of information regarding the number of sanctioned downloads for Windows Vista Beta 2.  This report comes directly from Microsoft's own Aaron Coldiron:
Discussion: Scobleizer and Tech.Life.Blogged
Tony Ruscoe / Tony Ruscoe's Blog:
Google RS2, SSD and Mobile Download Console  —  Right then folks, this is going to have to be a quick post because it's a beautiful sunny day here so I'll be soon playing golf, watching the England match and having a BBQ...  After stumbling across M Scrapbook (aka Google Weaver) a few days ago …
Discussion: Googling Google
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Visiting Sun's CEO  —  Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, just dropped me off at the lobby of building 10.  So, I'm sitting on the floor near a power outlet and am blogging my experiences.  —  What an enjoyable guy!  We walked across the street to a Togos sandwich shop.
Simonc / GameSetWatch:
Garage Sale Unearths Nintendo Motherload  —  The game collecting community is apparently buzzing thanks to a new eBay auction, only a small fraction of an insane array of Nintendo rarities unearthed at a garage sale in New York State.  —  Excuse us for not retyping the all-caps …
Discussion: Kotaku
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MattG / Press The Buttons:   RARE NINTENDO PROTOTYPES DISCOVERED
MattG / Press The Buttons:
Monopoly: Nintendo Collector's Edition Coming Soon  —  Now this is a surprise.  Let's take the classic board game Monopoly and strip out all that Marvin Gardens and New York Avenue nonsense.  Then we'll replace it all with Nintendo-themed characters and elements, such as Slippy Toad, Princess Zelda, and King Dedede.
Ina Fried / ZDNet:
Microsoft wraps up code for 'supercomputer' Windows  —  Microsoft has taken another step in its effort to bring Windows in the world of supercomputing, having finished development of its computer cluster operating system.  —  The software maker said Friday that it has finalized the code …
rentzsch.com:
What's a MacBook Pro doing in my fridge?  —  Installing Mac OS X, of course.  —  I went to reinstall Mac OS X 10.4 from scratch, from the original DVDs.  However, the MBP had difficulty mounting the disks.  The same disks mounted fine in my Quad and my old Pismo, so they weren't the problem.
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Microsoft enlists developers for Live push  —  In Microsoft's burgeoning competition with Google, the software company is recruiting its most trusted allies: software developers.  —  At its TechEd conference next week in Boston, Microsoft is expected to further detail the "Windows Live Platform …
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
No fix for 'critical' hole in Windows 98, ME  —  Microsoft will not fix a serious flaw in Windows 98 and Windows Millennium Edition because a patch could break other applications.  —  The security bug relates to Windows Explorer and could let an intruder commandeer a vulnerable PC, Microsoft warned in April.
Discussion: Bleeding Edge, TechBlog and TechSpot
Alexandros Roussos / macosXrumors.com:
Exclusive: Leopard to bring collaborative documents  —  Since Apple announced Leopard last year during WWDC, MacOSXRumors obtained reports on two major features in the next release of Mac OS X. The first is a redesigned Finder making extensive use of Spotlight and the second is the inclusion virtualization software.
Discussion: Mac Rumors
Avinash Kaushik / Occam's Razor:
Top Ten: Signs You Are A Great Analyst  —  I am often asked what we look for when we hire Web Analysts or what quality do good Analysts possess or how to measure if a resource that already exists is optimal or how to mentor / motivate / guide our more junior Analysts to propel them to become great Analysts.
Discussion: WebMetricsGuru and Web Strategy
Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:
MobilePro Pulls out of Sacramento  —  Company issues press release about rug being pulled: MobilePro uses Strix gear to build privately operated metro-scale networks that provide some services to cities—typically mobile workers—with a larger focus on mobile and fixed access for consumers, businesspeople, homes, and businesses.
Kim Cameron / Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog:
STRAIGHTENING OUT OUR NAMING  —  'Windows Cardspace' - the new name of the Windows identity selector - resolves the confusion between "InfoCard" and "InfoCards"...  Posted on Friday 9 June 2006  —  Well, it's a good thing I read Pamela Dingle's blog or I might have missed out on this breaking news:
Discussion: MSBLOG and Microsoft News Tracker
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Do: use flash drives.  Don't: use the ones you find on the street  —  You read Engadget, so you're probably smarter than the next guy when it comes to tech — unless you're reading Engadget in a room full of nerds or something.  So it probably goes without saying that if you picked …
Discussion: Pocket PC Thoughts
 
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