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11:25 AM ET, June 6, 2007

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Aaron Brazell / Technosailor:
Five Things MovableType Learned from Bilbo Baggins  —  Movable Type announced today that Movable Type 4 would be open source.  This is obviously a retreat on their move to a closed model back in Movable Type 3.  If you recall, MT 3 came under a tremendous amount of fire for moving away from the …
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Audrey Bright / Fox News:
CompUSA Store That Sold Texas Man an Empty Box Finally Agrees He Didn't Get Money's Worth  —  A Texas man who thought he got a bargain when he bought a camera from retailer CompUSA only to find out that he'd purchased an empty box, finally got his money's worth thanks to a Web campaign …
Kotaku:
Industry: Lay-Offs Hit SCEA HQ Today  —  Roughly 80 to 100 employees of Sony Computer Entertainment of America's Foster City headquarters were laid off today, Kotaku has learned from a source who was among those asked to hand in their badge and keys before leaving the premises.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Google: IIS twice as likely to serve malware as Apache  —  A new study by Google's Anti-Malware Team seems to confirm what many people have believed for years: Web sites running Microsoft's IIS are twice as likely to host malware than those running Apache.  —  Last month, Google studied about 70,000 malware-distributing domains.
Discussion: Computerworld
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Robert McLaws / Windows-Now.com:
Time for Microsoft to Change Its Patch Policy?
New York Times:
Doll Web Sites Drive Girls to Stay Home and Play  —  Presleigh Montemayor often gets home after a long day and spends some time with her family.  Then she logs onto the Internet, leaving the real world and joining a virtual one.  But the digital utopia of Second Life is not for her.
Discussion: CrunchGear and Clickety Clack
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.
Discussion: PSFK Trend: PSFK
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
What Apple TV Costs to Make  —  Analyzing and pricing out the components of Apple's new set-top video box reveal uncharacteristically slim profits  —  When Apple CEO Steve Jobs called Apple TV a "hobby," he wasn't kidding.  —  By typical Apple standards, the new set-top video box …
Discussion: CrunchGear, MacDailyNews and Inquirer
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Google Gears: Replacing One Problem with Another  —  I've been thinking a little bit about Google Gears recently and after reading the documentation things I've realized that making a Web-based application that works well offline poses an interesting set of challenges.
GeekSugar / Geek is chic.:
New Mercury Free MacBook Pro Unboxed!  —  I got my hands on the new MacBook Pro first thing this morning and saying everyone around me is gushing and jealous is an understatement.  Unlike last year's model, the new MacBook Pro has a mercury-free, power-efficient LED-backlit display.
Alex Iskold / Read/WriteWeb:
Clearspring Lands Major Deal With NBC  —  Clearspring is going to annouce tomorrow that it was chosen by NBC to be its exclusive widget platform for the next year.  This is a major deal for Clearspring, and for NBC as well.  The specific terms of this business arrangement have not been disclosed.
Daniel Drew Turner / eWEEK.com:
Woz Ponders Apple II's Impact and DIY  —  Steve Wozniak is sometimes thought of as "the other Steve," the one who isn't currently head of Apple Inc. and a media maven.  —  Wozniak—or Woz—stays mostly out of the public eye, working with his local school districts and charitable institutions.
Discussion: Slashdot: Apple
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ask.com Commercial: Now on YouTube  —  Ok, we got a copy of the actual Ask.com TV ad we mentioned earlier today and uploaded it to YouTube.  This will supposedly be broadcast on TV tonight for the first time.  The basic idea of the ad is a guy singing "I got what I was looking for," …
Discussion: BoomTown and rexduffdixon.com
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.
Discussion: broadbandreports.com
Red Sweater Blog:
MarsEdit 1.2: Growl, Picasa and Vox!  —  MarsEdit 1.2 is now available for download (or just "Check for Updates" from the app).  This is a free update for all registered MarsEdit users.  —  Three relatively big changes in this release:  —  Growl support.
Anoop Gantayat / IGN:
No Final Fantasy For Xbox 360  —  Square Enix has nothing in the works.  —  Looking for more Final Fantasy following the Xbox 360 port of Final Fantasy XI?  Then you're going to have to look to a different next generation system.  A Square Enix executive has disclosed to Japan's Nikkei BP …
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Politicos threaten schools over campus piracy  —  WASHINGTON—Politicians on Tuesday threatened to enact new laws if universities don't do more to prevent their students from unlawfully swapping music, movies and other copyrighted files on campus networks.  —  At the latest in what has become …
Discussion: Inquirer and FurdLog
Jason Lee Miller / WebProNews:
New AT&T Same As The Old AT&T  —  AT&T chief Ed Whitacre is out, retired, ready to sit back and enjoy his golden (and I mean golden) years.  As of yesterday, he's replaced by SBC front-man Randall Stephenson, a 25-year company man, and a man after Whitacre's own heart.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
AT&T's new CEO Randall Stephenson on iPhone, 1st day jitters and Ed Whitacre
Discussion: BloggingStocks
 
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benheck.com:
The Audio FX Pro 5+1 Headset
Discussion: Engadget, Gizmodo, Kotaku and Joystiq
Carlo Longino / Techdirt:
Brace Yourself For The Shock News: Government Still Doesn't Protect Data Well
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Specs and prices of Wal-Mart's new Dell desktops revealed?
Major Nelson / Xbox Live's Major Nelson:
Demo: Vampire Rain Demo (Japan)
Discussion: Kotaku, youNEWB and Joystiq
BBC:
Intel steps up cheap laptop race
Discussion: Gadget Lab
Valleywag:
Anthropology: Facebook frenzy
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Major League Gaming acquires GotFrag
Discussion: paidContent.org
Reuters:
New route for Volpi as Joost CEO
Discussion: Profy.Com
 Earlier Items: 
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Product loyalty: consumers mistake familiarity with superiority
Vince Veneziani / CrunchGear:
HTC Touch At A Glance
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch Party at August Capital on July 27
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Amp'd Mobile Runs Out of Juice
Smashing Magazine:
Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It?
Business Wire:
EA Appoints Kathy Vrabeck to Lead EA Casual Entertainment
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:
Firefox + Stylish = 10 Extremely Beautiful Websites
Discussion: JD on EP
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Firefox 3.0 may block sites fingered by Google
Discussion: digg