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8:15 AM ET, June 13, 2006

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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Its Time To Transition  —  What do you do, when all your life you have chased scoops, and then got scooped on your own news?  You tip the hat to the person who beat you to your own story.  As kids would call it, I got punked by Valleywag.  —  I wanted to wait till end of this month …
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Valleywag:
Scoop: Blogger Om Malik quits Business 2.0 and takes funding  —  Keep inflating the media-bubble-about-the-tech- bubble: blogger Om Malik took funding for his tech site, GigaOM.  The news comes from a leaked internal memo from Business 2.0 editor Josh Quittner.
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Om Malik quits Biz 2.0, raises cash to build out broadband news site  —  It was only a matter of time.  —  Om Malik (bio), the San Francisco writer of the cutting-edge blog on broadband news, Gigaom, has raised several hundred thousand dollars from San Francisco venture firm True Ventures …
Discussion: Business Logs and paidContent.org
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Om Malik Leaves Business 2, Turns Free Agent  —  Business 2.0 journalist/blogger Om Malik is reportedly quitting Business 2.0 and going solo.  According to Technorati, Om's Gigom blog is the 85th largest in the world.  You know this is becoming a trend when ABC News asks "Should you quit your day job to blog?"
Discussion: Newsome.Org
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Judge won't block distribution of Google Earth  —  A federal judge in Massachusetts has rejected a request for an injunction preventing Google from distributing its popular 3D Earth-mapping and visualization program.  —  U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock on Friday denied …
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USA Today:
RIAA chief says illegal song-sharing 'contained'  —  LOS ANGELES — Nearly a year after the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling against online music file-sharing services, the CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America says unauthorized song swapping has been "contained."
Peter Pachal / SCI FI Tech:
GrandOpera: big screen with a modular PC  —  All-in-one monitor and PC units are convenient because of the space they save, but if either the monitor burns out or your computer dies, you end up tossing out a perfectly good component with the busted one.  Japan's Quixun knows that pain …
Discussion: Gizmodo and Ubergizmo
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Quixun's GrandOpera LCD with removable PC
Discussion: Gizmodo
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google GBuy Launch Later This Month To Challenge PayPal?  —  Google's GBuy Could Be 'Revolutionary' from Forbes covers news from RBC analyst Jordan Rohan that Google's existing payment system — Google Payments — may be expanded for any merchant to use outside of Google Base.
Washington Post:
The Internet's Future  —  THE SENATE will hold hearings tomorrow on "net neutrality," the idea that the pipes and wires that form the Internet should treat all content equally.  An alliance whose membership ranges from the Christian Coalition to MoveOn.org is demanding that Congress write …
Macworld UK:
Inside Apple's iPod factories  —  Apple's iPods are made by mainly female workers who earn as little as £27 per month, according to a report in the Mail on Sunday yesterday.  —  The report, 'iPod City', isn't available online.  It offers photographs taken from inside the factories …
Discussion: Guardian Unlimited and Boing Boing
David Bercovich / Official Google Enterprise Blog:
Put your business on the Map  —  For almost a year, the Google Maps API has been available for free, public-facing sites.  A remarkable variety of websites (over 30,000 in number) have already integrated Google's mapping technology using this API.  Including our own.  Check out the Google Mini Map here.
Google Blogoscoped:
Google "Onebox" Results We Still Need  —  A "onebox" is an instant result on top of Google's organic search result.  For example, when you enter weather ny, Google shows you the current New York weather without you having to leave the results page.  Here are a couple of onebox results we don't have yet, but which might prove useful:
Jeremy Kirk / InfoWorld:
Yahoo e-mail under worm attack  —  Symantec warns of mass-mail worm that exploits a vulnerability in Yahoo's Web e-mail  —  A mass-mail worm that exploits a vulnerability in Yahoo's Web e-mail is making the rounds but the impact appears to be low, security vendor Symantec said Monday.
Lars-Göran Nilsson / The Register:
PC-less VoIP Wi-Fi phone  —  Computex 2006 A little-known company called BCM used Computex to show a multi-format VoIP Wi-Fi phone based on the Windows CE kernel.  The WLAN800I is compatible with Skype, SIP services, MSN Talk and MSN Messenger.  —  There's no need for a PC for it to function …
Discussion: Gizmodo and 21talks
Ben Ames / PC World:
Intel Says More Efficient Chips Are Coming  —  Researchers have found a way to cut power consumption by 35 percent, company says.  —  Researchers at Intel have found a better way to insulate circuits, enabling them to save energy as they pack more transistors onto each processor.
Discussion: Engadget and VoIP Blog
Robert Weisman / Boston Globe:
Internet stealth company steps out  —  Waltham firm has 650,000 Web names  —  A venture-backed Waltham company that's quietly amassed more than 650,000 Internet domain names is stepping out of stealth mode today and unveiling its plans to build a substantial Boston-area Web 2. business around …
Discussion: paidContent.org
Ellie Gibson / gamesindustry.biz:
PS3 owners won't pay for online services, says Kutaragi  —  Sony seeks revenue from content but no fee for basic features  —  Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi has stated that while the company expects to earn healthy revenues from the sale of downloadable content for the PS3 …
Discussion: Joystiq and I4U News
Tom Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
MingleNow - social networking that mingles online and offline  —  I just got an early briefing on an interesting idea for social networking coming out of BlueLithium, the online advertising agency headquartered in San Jose, CA.  It's an idea developed in Blue Lithium Labs …
Discussion: Between the Lines
 
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