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1:05 PM ET, June 19, 2006

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Andy Kessler / Weekly Standard:
Give Me Bandwidth . . .  No one to root for in the net neutrality debate.  —  FINDING IT HARD TO UNDERSTAND the "net neutrality" debate?  On one side are the hip, cool, billionaire web service companies like Google, eBay, Yahoo, and even Microsoft.  Net neutrality is their rallying cry.
Discussion: Publishing 2.0
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Mike / Techdirt:
Forget Net Neutrality: Just Take The Networks Away From The Telcos  —  from the root-for-no-one dept  —  Slowly, but surely, people are starting to figure out what's really going on with the network neutrality debate.  While some of us have been trying to point out that the network neutrality debate …
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Sony Music wants bloggers to promo videos, music  —  Sony BMG Music Entertainment wants to give bloggers free music and video—sort of.  —  The music conglomerate is promoting a new site, called Musicbox Video, that showcases videos, artist interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and other material from a broad portfolio of its artists.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Wetpaint Launches: Wikis Evolve  —  Seattle based Wetpaint has been in private beta since March.  On Sunday night they launched to the world, allowing anyone to create a free wiki on any topic.  —  A good example wiki is this one around the XBOX 360.  Like pbwiki, Wikia and JotSpot …
Robert Levine / New York Times:
A Nod From Knopfler: I Want My A.M.D.  —  It's not unusual for guitar heroes to credit their guitar makers in album liner notes, or drummers to thank Zildjian for their cymbals.  In the notes for "All the Roadrunning," an album of duets by Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris …
Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Telecom Giants in Europe Plan $30 Billion Deal  —  Nokia of Finland and Siemens of Germany are expected to announce on Monday that they will merge their telecommunication network equipment businesses in a deal valued at more than $30 billion, people involved in the transaction said tonight.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:   Nokia, Siemens and Juniper's Future
Nancy Gohring / pcworld.idg.com.au:
Google Plans To Make All Products Available Everywhere  —  Internet users outside of the US may soon be able to access all of Google's products, many of which are currently available only in limited regions, if an executive search by the company is successful.
James Doran / Times of London:
Google to focus on London for next phase of growth  —  LONDON is to become the centre of operations for Google's next big phase of growth as the internet search engine company focuses its efforts on mobile phones, wireless laptops and personal digital assistants to increase its already massive user base.
John Boudreau / Mercury News:
Flash cashing in on growth of Web video  —  Adobe Systems, known among creative professionals for its suite of image management software, now has another billing: backstage player in the New Hollywood.  —  The San Jose company's Flash Web site development software helps bring …
Sara Ivry / New York Times:
Some Sites Off Limits, Even in a Newsroom  —  Last month, Bennett Haselton, the founder of Peacefire.org, a Web site that promotes open access on the Internet, got an e-mail message from a Los Angeles Times reporter who was writing an article about online censorship.
Francis / Francis' Weblog:
How not to fix an iPod shuffle  —  A friend of mine has an iPod shuffle ... or should I say, DID.  Mentioning no names, he decided to hunt out a site to see if he could fix it himself as it was out of warranty.  He dived onto Google and found a site all about opening up his ipod.
Discussion: MethodShop
Reuters:
UPDATE 1-Vonage hit by Verizon patent lawsuit  —  NEW YORK, June 19 (Reuters) - Internet phone service provider Vonage Holdings Corp. (VG.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday said it has been served with a patent infringement lawsuit filed by two units of Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ.N: Quote, Profile, Research).
Discussion: VoIP & Gadgets Blog and VoIP Watch
Steve Gillmor / Steve Gillmor's InfoRouter:
Ray in Charge  —  With my family visiting the in-laws in Charleston, I'm alone here with dog, 3 cats, and 3 (I hope that's the right number) fish.  On Friday I got up late and went down to Podshow for the Fubar Friday company get-together.  Sitting with Adam Curry in his cubicle, he asked me what was going on with GestureBank.
Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Ebay cautious on web mergers  —  Mergers between big internet companies are unlikely in the short term because of difficulties combining brands, says Meg Whitman, Ebay chief executive.  —  However, online conglomerates operating under different brand names could eventually emerge, she said.
Discussion: Valleywag and VoIP Watch
William C. Taylor / New York Times:
To Charge Up Customers, Put Customers in Charge  —  FOR more than three decades, the designer John Fluevog has been selling colorful and distinctive shoes that win raves among rock stars and fashion models, have adorned an Absolut Vodka ad and attract legions of loyal customers that his company calls "Fluevogers."
Discussion: Techdirt and Rex Hammock's Weblog
Evan Blass / Engadget:
Make's coverage of RoboGames 2006  —  Having already blown our entire travel budget attending CES, E3, and various other important events in sunny locations, we weren't able to scrape together the funds to hit up this year's annual RoboGames festival in San Francisco, but luckily Make magazine/blog …
Redbarren / ben barren:
"Instant Value to customers - solve a problem or create value with the first use"  —  The Double D Dodge, who may be the last 2.0 Product Planning Celebrity left @ 1 Microsoft Way, summarises a Kleiner Perkins' partners perspective at a 'Future of Software' conference on the characteristics of …
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Just drop the B  —  A few years back I wrote that the P in P2P is people.
Discussion: ben barren
David Chartier / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Apple's Windows site mentions Parallels Desktop instead of Boot Camp
Broadband / DX Gaming:
Game Console Energy Consumption
Discussion: Gizmodo
biologynews.net:
Engineering electrically conducting tissue for the heart
Chris / LiveSide:
Windows Live Messenger launches tomorrow
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Jeremy Pepper / POP! PR Jots:
Trademark Issues in Second Life