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11:00 PM ET, April 12, 2007

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PR Newswire:
Apple Statement  —  CUPERTINO, Calif., April 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple today released the following statement:  —  iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned.  We can't wait until customers get their hands …
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David Chartier / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Apple announces Leopard delays due to the iPhone  —  Apple has just issued a [press release] statement announcing that Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard has been delayed until October.  The reason? iPhone: "we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Apple delays Leopard; blame the iPhone  —  Apple said its operating system upgrade Leopard won't be released in June as planned.  —  Why?  The iPhone has absorbed Apple's resources as it certifies it with AT&T/Cingular so it can ship in late June.  —  A Leopard delay wasn't totally unexpected.
Philiped / Apple 2.0:   Behind the Leopard Delay
David Heinemeier Hansson / Loud Thinking:
Twitter trouble  —  Twitter is an amazing success story in terms of rapid user uptake and flattering press.  I had a chance to speak with the team a while back about the wild ride they've been on.  At that time they were fielding spikes of up to 11,000 requests per second across some 16 cores …
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Rafe Colburn / rc3.org:
Twitter developer: Rails performance blows  —  Interesting interview with Alex Payne from the Twitter development team.  He says that Twitter's scalability issues are in part due to the fact that Ruby and Rails are just slow.  Here's a taste: … I think this is true and important …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
First a lawsuit, now Vonage loses CEO  —  Michael Synder, chief executive officer of Vonage, came, saw and scurried away.  Vonage chief executive resigned this morning, in what seems to be an un-ending string of bad news for the Holmdel, NJ-based VOIP service provider.  Snyder was the CEO of Vonage for less than a year.
Discussion: Epicenter and Smith On VoIP
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Joe / Techdirt:   Sinking Vonage Ship Throws Captain Overboard
Jeffry Bartash / MarketWatch:
Founder takes over Vonage in big shift
Bloomberg:
Google's Acquisitions Chief Looking for `Crazy' Ideas (Update1)  —  Google Inc. looks for ideas that are ``really crazy'' when sizing up potential purchases, the Internet company's top dealmaker said.  —  ``We look at everything very carefully,'' Salman Ullah, Google's director of corporate development …
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Valleywag:
KEVIN BURTON: A snooper snooped  —  A snooper snooped  —  Kevin Burton, founder of a Techmeme clone called Tailrank, has accused a Valleywag reporter of unethical behavior.  At a Palo Alto networking event last night, Valleywag's Megan McCarthy was spotted scrolling through the doughy entrepreneur's cellphone contact list.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Now a Rolling Stone Social Network  —  New York-based media giants are suddenly getting jiggy with the new new Media.  CBS announced its mega-digital media strategy, which means Quincy Smith, the CBS Interactive head-honcho is finally putting a PowerPoint presentation he showed me last year to good use.
Discussion: Valleywag and Mashable!
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:   Rolling Stone Says They'll Launch Social Network
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
DRM, lock-ins, and piracy: all red herrings for a music industry in trouble  —  A British media research company has peered into the music industry's crystal ball, and the outlook for the next couple of years isn't so hot.  Global music sales will drop to $23 billion in 2009 …
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Andrew Yoon / Joystiq:
Major Nelson talks Guitar Hero downloads, Halo 3  —  We had an opportunity to chat with Microsoft mascot-in-training Major Nelson, early yesterday morning as the internet began its incredible, violent reaction against the pricing of the Guitar Hero downloadable tracks on Xbox 360.
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Tina Wood / Channel 10:
Sprung: First (official) look at the Xbox 360 Spring Dashboard Update!
Discussion: Gizmodo and Engadget
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Yahoo Close To Acquiring Rivals.com; Price Could Reach Nine Figures  —  You're reading it here first: Yahoo is close to making its biggest sports acquisition after, well, the Broadcast.com deal: the college sports network Rivals.com, paidContent.org has learned.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Can PhotoBucket Survive Without MySpace?  —  There was a lot of fingerpointing, denials, and "he said, she said" going on today as everyone digested the news that MySpace had blocked PhotoBucket's 40 million members from embedding videos into their MySpace pages.
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Paula Lehman / Business Week:   MySpace Plays Chicken with Users
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
It's Official: CBS Launches Own Distribution Network; Includes Domestic And International  —  As we reported first this morning, CBS has made a large number of new online deals and is grouping them together in what is being called the CBS Interactive Network.
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:   Interview, Part 1: Quincy Smith, President, CBS Interactive …
WindowsServer / Windows Server Division WebLog:
VIRIDIAN AND VIRTUAL SERVER TIMING UPDATES  —  As the person who oversees the development plans, teams and strategy for Microsoft's virtualization software on desktops and servers, I want to update everyone on the timing of our server virtualization offerings.
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Y Combinator's WriteWith Launches - Collaborative Blogging  —  We mentioned WriteWith in a roundup post last month on new Y Combinator startups.  They've created a group writing platform that falls somewhere between a blogging platform, a wiki, and an online Word clone.
Discussion: uncov and Business 2.0 Beta
Kotaku:
Isle of Rhodes Site: Unlock GoW 2 HD Mode!  New Countdown!  —  Leave it to those pokey little puppies at GameFAQs to figure out that IsleofRhodes.org wasn't the suckfest we first thought it to be.  On the story page of the website, after hitting proceed to bypass the video, there are hidden Greek letters.
Discussion: Joystiq, Game | Life, PSP Fanboy and digg
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Watching the Apple TV...  Just was catching up on my reading of TechCrunch, among other feeds, and saw that Apple is giving video producers some suggestions of ways to make things look good on both Apple TV as well as iPods.  —  I've been watching a TON of Internet videos with my son the past few days.
Rustybrick / Search Engine Roundtable:
Ask.com To Launch New Search Algorithm Code Named Edison  —  Ask.com is set to launch a new search algorithm code named Edison.  The new algorithm will combine Teoma and Direct Hit, two search engine technologies that Ask.com purchased a few years back, to bring about a new algorithm, Edison.
 
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Valleywag:
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Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Facebook unveils new site design amid growth surge
Matt / uncov:
YouOS: YouHave To Be Kidding Me
Federal Trade Commission:
FTC Issues Report on Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children
Kate Holton / Reuters:
EMI and Beatles settle royalty dispute
Discussion: MacUser and Gizmodo
Victor Keegan / Guardian:
To the average Joe, blogs aren't cutting it