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8:20 PM ET, June 6, 2007

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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Netflix Shares Higher On Rumors Of Amazon.com Bid  —  Netflix (NFLX) shares are higher today on rumors that Amazon.com (AMZN) might make offer to buy the company.  In a research note, Bank of America analyst Brian Pitz writes that there is speculation of a $34 a share bid "circulating in the press."
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Associated Press:
Netflix Up on Rumor of Buyout by Amazon  —  Netflix Up on Rumor of Possible Buyout by Amazon; Analyst Reckons Deal Could Be $1.5B or More  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Netflix Inc. jumped Wednesday amid a rumor the online video rental company could be acquired by Web retailer Amazon.com Inc.
Discussion: paidContent.org and TechCrunch
Business Week:   Netflix: Starring in Merger Story?
Longofest / MacRumors:
ZFS To Become Default File System In Leopard  —  Perhaps overcome with excitement (and forgetting that Apple doesn't like such pre-emptive disclosures), Sun's Jonathan Schwartz announced today at Sun event in Washington D.C. that Apple would be making ZFS "the file system" in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard (video link, requires RealPlayer).
Wall Street Journal:
EBay to Broker Radio Ad Time, Stoking Rivalry With Google  —  Online auctioneer eBay Inc. plans to begin brokering radio advertisements today, in the latest effort by a Web company to sell offline ads via the Internet.  The move ratchets up eBay's competition with Google Inc. and could shake up how radio advertising is sold.
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Apple, AT&T stores prepare for iPhone frenzy  —  NEW YORK—With a little over two weeks until the iPhone hits store shelves, Apple and AT&T retail sales representatives say they are preparing for a quick sellout and huge crowds on the June 29 launch date.  —  As of Wednesday …
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The Boy Genius Report:
AT&T Apple iPhone internal talking points
Discussion: Gizmodo and wirelessinfo.com Blog
Bill Ray / The Register:
Vodafone Live 'improvements' kill mCommerce  —  Find your perfect job - click here for thousands of tech vacancies  —  Vodafone UK has launched a mobile optimising technology which reformats web pages to fit onto a mobile phone screen.  —  Unfortunately, it also prevents anyone else doing the same thing …
Discussion: SMS Text News
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Carlo Longino / MobHappy:
Vodafone UK, Doing A Lovely Job Of Supporting The Mobile Web By Breaking It
USA Today:
Skype: 'Locked' phones unfair  —  NEW YORK — Are cellphone companies using their sway over handset makers to unfairly limit consumers' choices?  Skype, a pioneer in PC-to-PC calling, thinks so, and it wants the Federal Communications Commission to do something about it.
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Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:   Internet Companies Push For Mobile Phone Carriers to Open Up
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft preps Windows-based kitchen client  —  Microsoft is beginning work on the first of what it plans to make a family of customized Windows platforms designed for specific rooms around the home.  —  The "Kitchen Client" software will extend the Windows operating system and integrate …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Substitute teacher spared sentencing for porn pop-ups, gets new trial  —  Julie Amero, the substitute teacher who could have received 40 years in jail after porn appeared on classroom PCs, was spared that fate—for now.  Instead, Amero will get a new trial after revelations that the original computer analysis was flawed.
Rich Karlgaard / Forbes.com:
Sun's Coulda Woulda Shoulda  —  Sun Microsystems (SUNW) trades at $5 ... Google (GOOG) a hundred times more at $518.  —  Stock prices mean nothing on their own, of course.  Google's market cap at $159 billion is not a hundred times greater than Sun's at $18 billion.
Dylan Tweney / Epicenter:
How Craig Newmark Built Craigslist With "No Vision Whatsoever"  —  Craig Newmark started craigslist in early 1995 as a way of staying on top of San Francisco's busy arts and technology scene.  Despite (or perhaps because of) the site's determined non-commercialism, craigslist survived and even thrived in the post-dot-com days.
DigiTimes:
Computex 2007: Xceive claims smallest high-definition LCD TV copy ready design  —  Xceive, a maker of hybrid silicon tuners for PC, TV and digital home, on June 5 announced its "Breckenridge" reference design for small-size and transportable hybrid TVs and is demonstrating what it claims …
Discussion: Engadget, Gadget Lab and Gizmodo
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Releases Calendar Directory  —  Google Calendar went live with a directory of public calendars, so you can quickly add calendars of interest (you could search for shared calendars before, but to be able to browse them too is a nice addition).  The gallery includes categories like …
Dan Kaplan / VentureBeat:
MeetMoi raises cash, for Twitter of sex  —  MeetMoi, a clever "location based" mobile dating service, has just raised $1.5 million in a first round of financing.  —  MeetMoi, which got a mention in the Wall Street Journal today (subscription required), lets you find people looking for a date, on-the-fly, wherever you are.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
HANDS-ON WITH NETSCAPE'S NEW SOCIAL BROWSER  —  Yesterday Netscape released a public beta of their new Navigator browser, and brought back the "Navigator" moniker.  Firefox users will feel right at home, as the browser has been built off the same architecture and even works with Firefox extensions.
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Google: Foreign workers are key to our success  —  WASHINGTON—A Google executive on Wednesday credited the company's phenomenal success to the United States' openness to immigrants and called on Congress to let in more foreign workers.  —  Laszlo Bock, the search giant's vice president …
Discussion: Associated Press and WebProNews
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
HD DVD and Blu-ray coming to Santa Rosa IGP  —  In the second half of 2007, Intel's recently-launched Santa Rosa platform will get a next-generation DVD playback option, according to Intel mobile graphics spokesperson Mike Choi.  Intel will use a third-party hardware decoder to bring HD DVD …
 
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Carlo Longino / Techdirt:
Pro-Net Neutrality Group's Latest Propaganda Piece Hits New Level Of Lameness
Discussion: WebProNews
Sinead Carew / Reuters:
Coca-Cola sets up mobile social network
Discussion: Gizmodo
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Poor bets placed on new iMacs at Apple's developer conference
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Lawyer for woman sued by RIAA asks for sanctions, gets sanctioned himself
Katie Fehrenbacher / NewTeeVee:
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
DRM loathing spreads around the world: next stop, Brazil
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
ClearSpring - widgets with a business model for content owners
Discussion: mydigimedia
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Censorship 'changes face of net'
Discussion: p2pnet
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Fred von Lohmann / Washington Post:
Copyright Silliness on Campus
Discussion: UNDERNEWS and FurdLog
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Google Gears: Replacing One Problem with Another
Kotaku:
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New York Times:
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Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
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