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11:00 AM ET, May 8, 2007

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Paul Krill / InfoWorld:
Sun's JavaFX to take on AJAX, Silverlight  —  JavaFX, which covers Java development in desktops and mobile devices as well as online, is Sun's latest push into the rich Internet apps world  —  Sun will detail a plan Tuesday that could make Java a formidable player in the scripting language space.
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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Sun tries again with consumer-flavored Java  —  Sun Microsystems on Tuesday will introduce a friendlier way to write Java applications for consumer devices, an attempt to fulfill Java's potential and stake a greater claim in the next generation of Web applications.
Ryan Stewart / The Universal Desktop:
Sun enters the Rich Internet Application world with JavaFX
Discussion: vnunet
BBC:
Linux evolves for mobile phones  —  A version of the increasingly popular Linux operating system Ubuntu will be developed for use on net-enabled phones and devices.  —  The Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded project aims to create the open source platform for initial release in October 2007.
Discussion: All About Symbian and Slashdot
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Daniel Lyons / Forbes:
Dell's Linux Problem  —  Dell became a hero to Linux fans worldwide when it announced last week that it would begin selling PCs loaded with the Linux operating system instead of Microsoft's Windows.  —  But a week later Dell (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) may have blown that good will away.
Discussion: Open Source and Reuters
John Blau / PC World:
Ubuntu Plans Mobile Linux Version
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Is the Web half full or half empty?  —  Lots of chat out there about the latest Pew study into how people use the Interweb.  These studies are useful in part because the Pew Internet & American Life Project does such a thorough job with them — you know they weren't cooked up by marketing types to sell more banner ads.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Ad-Supported VOD From ABC/ESPN Launching on Cox; Ad Skipping Disabled  —  Also to be announced at the Cable Show on Tuesday: Disney's two big TV networks, ABC and ESPN, are launching free, ad-supported VOD of hit shows and football games on cable operator Cox Communications' service …
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Brooks Barnes / Wall Street Journal:
ABC, Cox Bar Ad Skipping in Video on Demand
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Hot or Not Tears Itself Apart, Reinvents  —  When James Hong and Jim Young founded HotorNot in October, 2000, they had no real plans for the service to be anything other than a fun site for a few friends.  They turned a free low end computer they received for setting up an etrade account into a web server …
Discussion: rexduffdixon.com and AppScout
ongoing:
OpenID at Work  —  On both the Internet and behind the firewall, the identity problem gets uglier every year.  How many passwords do you have?  If you're in IT, how much pain do you go through getting your all your apps to share a notion of who someone is?
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Phil Windley's Technometria:   Sun Supports OpenID and Opens the Question of Reputation
Business Wire:
HP Lifts Guidance for Second Quarter Earnings, Revenue  —  PALO ALTO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—HP (NYSE:HPQ - News) today announced that it has raised its financial guidance for the fiscal second quarter ended April 30.  —  Based on preliminary data, HP expects to announce on May 16 …
Discussion: Between the Lines and BARRONS.com
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!:
Me.com Launches A Ning Competitor  —  me.com is a service that lets you essentially build your own MySpace.  They're launching their SNAPP program today, which will power their online communities.  —  me.com has been around for a couple of years now, but they've only just launched a free service for the creation of your own networks.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Photobucket Was A Steal v. Google/YouTube  —  By almost any measure, MySpace got Photobucket for an absolute steal when compared to the Google YouTube deal.  The companies are somewhat comparable - both have very large libraries of user-created videos, and both built their business on the back of MySpace.
kottke.org:
Growth of Twitter vs. Blogger  —  In mid-March, Andy Baio noted that Twitter uses publicly available sequential message IDs and employed Twitter co-founder Evan Williams' messages to graph the growth of the service over the first year of its existence.  Williams co-founded Blogger back in 1999 …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Top 15 Web 2.0 Startups in Europe?  —  Here is the list of the top 15 European Web 2.0 projects, which will be presented next Thursday in Madrid.  The information below was provided to me by the organizers:  —  Panoramio.com (http://www.panoramio.com): Photo-sharing of geolocated photos.
Discussion: alarm:clock euro
Luke Jerod Kummer / New York Times:
A Boston Newspaper Prints What the Local Bloggers Write  —  While most newspapers are trying to stake bigger claims online, one new publication is pulling material off the Internet to be printed in ink.  —  John Wilpers, editor in chief of BostonNow, a free weekday daily introduced last month …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
ShareOffice Launches - Open Standards Based Web Office Suite  —  At the Software 2007 conference on Tuesday in San Jose CA, on-demand document management provider ShareMethods will announce the launch of an open standards Web Office suite called ShareOffice.  The company says it is the world's first open standards online office suite.
Discussion: StartupSquad.com
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Fox Interactive Nears Deal to Buy Photobucket  —  Photobucket, a four-year-old, rapidly growing Web company, is in advanced talks to be acquired by Fox Interactive Media, a division of the News Corporation, a person briefed on the negotiations said Monday.  —  Photobucket allows its users …
 
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
BBC Trustees agree to let BBC infect Britain with DRM
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Verizon says phone record disclosure is protected free speech
Discussion: madisonian.net and digg
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Converting movies for Apple TV using Roxio Crunch (an in-depth review)
Discussion: Zatz Not Funny! and digg
Rich Brown / CNET News.com:
HP to debut Blu-ray HD DVD combo drive
Discussion: Gadgetell and CrunchGear
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Mono developers to bring Silverlight to Linux
Discussion: digg
Computerworld:
IRS wants data on users from Internet firms
Discussion: RSS and digg
DesktopLinux.com:
Who are the Linux desktop users?
Discussion: eHomeUpgrade and digg
WebWire:
Warner Bros. Television Group Joins Joost
 Earlier Items: 
James Thomas / CenterNetworks:
My life without Google
Discussion: Library Stuff and digg
Karen / Official Google Blog:
Some updates from Google Finance
Newspaper Association of America:
NEWSPAPER WEB SITE AUDIENCE GROWING AT NEARLY TWICE THE RATE …
Ashwin Navin / CNET News.com:
Perspective: The P2P mistake at Ohio University
Discussion: Bit Player and TorrentFreak
DigiTimes:
Production cost of PS3 could be cut by US$100
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
ThinkFree to Add Flickr Style Community Features
Discussion: uncov
Yahoo! Search Blog:
Rock the Cash Box?
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Record shops: Used CDs? Ihre papieren, bitte!
Discussion: Gizmodo, CrunchGear, Slashdot and digg