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2:30 PM ET, June 3, 2007

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Rafat Ali / mocoNews.net:
Amp'd Bankruptcy Filing: Verizon Wireless Largest Creditor With $33 Million  —  Amp'd Mobile's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware has a wealth of info on the company's creditors, and a list of shareholders of the company (we broke the story first here).
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Rafat Ali / mocoNews.net:
Amp'd Mobile Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy; Hopes To Restructure, With Funding In Place  —  Update: it has filed...see this follow-up post.  —  Amp'd Mobile, the content-heavy MVNO which has had close to $360 million pumped into it over the last two years, [will be filing] …
Valleywag:
Breaking: Amp'd declares bankruptcy
Discussion: MobileCrunch
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine  —  THESE days, Google seems to be doing everything, everywhere.  It takes pictures of your house from outer space, copies rare Sanskrit books in India, charms its way onto Madison Avenue, picks fights with Hollywood and tries to undercut Microsoft's software dominance.
Frank Taylor / Google Earth Blog:
New Imagery for Google Earth - June 2nd!  —  [UPDATED several times]  —  Google has just released new imagery for Google Earth (exit GE and re-load it if you had it turned on over night).  Most of the UK is now in high resolution.  It appears there are many new strips …
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RevDanCatt / geobloggers:
Flickr, KML, and a stroll down memory lane.  —  It was just under 2 years ago that I first got my hands on Google Earth, which at the time was called Keyhole.  I'd been running geobloggers.com as a site to add geotags to Flickr photos and then plotting them on Google Maps for a few months.
Discussion: Ogle Earth
Ryan Block / Engadget:
iPhone release date: June 29th?  —  Take this one with a grain of salt, but we have it from a source that works in television who tells us that Apple's next round of iPhone commercials (three different spots) have been submitted for airtime, and at least one prominently features the magic number: release date on June 29th.
Discussion: CrunchGear, I4U News and Mobility Site
G. Pascal Zachary / New York Times:
Genius and Misfit Aren't Synonyms, or Are They?  —  THE story of the college dropout who became the world's richest man still has the power to inspire us.  It affirms our deeply engrained view that rejecting the received wisdom (do my own thing!) is a path to creativity and wealth.
Discussion: IMT Blog and rexduffdixon.com
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
My Soul, and 10 Other Things that Google Owns  —  The headlines just don't stop for Google.  But with the now complete acquisition of Feedburner, are there any parts of our online lives that don't reside somewhere within the Googleplex?  Through acquisitions and a few thousands …
Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
TiVo Warns Investors New Open Source License Could Hurt Business  —  Under Linux's GPLv3, expected this summer, TiVo would no longer be able to implement measures it says are essential to protecting copyrighted material.  —  Novell isn't the only company that could be hurt by new license terms likely …
Discussion: TiVo Lovers, Bink.nu and Slashdot
Ryan / Invisible Inkling:
10 obvious things about the future of newspapers you need to get through your head  —  Invisible Inkling  —  Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education.  — home  — work  — about  — more  —  10 obvious things about the future of newspapers you need to get through your head
Roy Mark / internetnews.com:
Court Rules VoIP Providers Must Pay USF Fees  —  Internet telephone companies like Vonage must contribute to the Universal Service Fund (USF), a federal appeals court ruled Friday afternoon.  If VoIP providers follow the lead of local, long-distance and wireless services that already pay into the USF …
Discussion: VoIP Blog
David Lenehan / Read/WriteWeb:
The Next Web Conference happened today in Amsterdam.  It was a one day event hosted by Scott Rafer of MyBlogLog fame and was a mix of presentations from startups and keynotes from various people in the industry.  Marc Canter from Broadband Mechanics and Jeff Clavier a VC from the valley assumed the role of …
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Associated Press:
The Google 'ick' factor … SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) — Google Inc. bills the latest twist on its online maps as "Street View," but it looks a bit like "Candid Camera" as you cruise through the panorama of pictures that captured fleeting moments in neighborhoods scattered across the country.
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Essay: Usenet, the Original Piracy Hotbed  —  So you think piracy is primarily taking place on BitTorrent, eMule and Gnutella?  Think again.  There is a whole parallel universe out there with people trading huge amounts of DVDs, TV shows, warez and porn.  Three terabytes of new content every single day, to be precise.
Discussion: GigaOM
Tom Evslin / Fractals of Change:
Time to Write the FCC  —  Within the next month the Federal Communications Commission is very likely to issue final regulations governing the auction of valuable 700MHz spectrum, which, by law, must start at the beginning of 2008.  Now's the last chance to have a voice in this process and it's worth taking a minute to respond.
 
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