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3:17 AM ET, June 7, 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.
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Rumor Mill: Amazon-Netflix, Yahoo!-Facebook  —  Rumors of a potential acquisition by Amazon today sent shares of Netflix up over 5.5%.  Amazon closed down nearly 2%.  The price of the rumored acquisition is anywhere from $1.5 to $2.1 billion.  —  Because Netflix's stock has been stuck …
Discussion: CostPerNews
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).
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Finding a Date — on the Spot  —  Internet Matchmakers Migrate  —  To Cellphones, Promising  —  More-Immediate Results  —  Earlier this week, Jeff Blum was out buying a sandwich when his mind wandered toward his social life.  So he got out his cellphone and sent a text message …
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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.
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 …
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Karen / Official Google Blog:
What U.S. immigration policies mean to Google
Discussion: Epicenter
Rick Green / Hartford Courant:
Amero Granted New Trial  —  NEW LONDON — A Superior Court judge Wednesday granted a new trial for Julie Amero, 40, a Norwich substitute teacher whose faulty computer spewed pornographic images in her seventh grade classroom.  —  "A great weight has been lifted off my back," said a tearful Amero.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Substitute teacher spared sentencing for porn pop-ups, gets new trial
Discussion: Associated Press, Neowin.net and digg
Sony:
SONY ADDS NINE MODELS TO BRAVIA® FLAT-PANEL LCD LINE  —  Models Compatible with BRAVIA Internet Video Link and Feature XMB Menu System  —  Sony today introduced nine new BRAVIA® flat-panel LCD high-definition televisions with advanced features.  —  The new models all feature 1920 …
Discussion: Gizmodo, Digital Trends and Engadget
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Sony:
SONY INTRODUCES SLIM SXRD MICRODISPLAYS WITH HIGH FRAME RATE
Discussion: Engadget HD and Gizmodo
Reuters:
If it's not tennis elbow, it may be 'Wiiitis' … BOSTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) — When Dr. Julio Bonis awoke one Sunday morning with a sore shoulder, he could not figure out what he had done.  It felt like a sports injury, but he had been a bit of a couch potato lately.  —  Then he remembered his new Wii.
Discussion: Engadget and youNEWB
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
Donna Bogatin / Insider Chatter:
Craigslist's Craig Newmark: 'My life is a sitcom'  —  Craig Newmark, of Craigslist fame, shared with me today that sometimes it feels that his life is just like a "sitcom."  —  Craig is on an extended New York City sojurn.  He addressed the Social Media Club last Thursday and is speaking …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: TechSpot News
Between the Lines:
iPhonomics and the post-PC era  —  My friend Steve Gillmor is known for his very occasional cryptic and sometimes prescient posts that attempt to connect the dots and unpack the logic between seemingly unrelated events.  —  This week he focused his attention on the iPhone …
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
VATOR.TV LAUNCHING TONIGHT: YOUTUBE FOR START-UPS  —  Bambi Francisco, formerly of MarketWatch, is taking the wraps off her own business tonight: Vator.tv.  It's a YouTube for entrepreneurs, a place where people looking for funding or partners for their business ideas can display their …
Kerry McGovern / us.slingmedia.com:
National Hockey League Becomes First Professional Sports League to Team With Sling Media Inc. Around Forthcoming "Clip and Sling" Service  —  NHL Gives Fans the Power to Pick Their Favorite Hockey Footage To Share with Others through Clip+Sling™ Technology
 
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Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Internet Companies Push For Mobile Phone Carriers to Open Up
Discussion: USA Today
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Apple, AT&T stores prepare for iPhone frenzy
Discussion: Gadget Lab
Carlo Longino / Techdirt:
Pro-Net Neutrality Group's Latest Propaganda Piece Hits New Level Of Lameness
Sinead Carew / Reuters:
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Lawyer for woman sued by RIAA asks for sanctions, gets sanctioned himself
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Rich Karlgaard / Forbes.com:
Sun's Coulda Woulda Shoulda