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1:15 PM ET, June 14, 2007

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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Video Frames a Search Engine  —  Google Video, now a video search engine, shows a frame similar to the one from Image Search when you click on a search result.  The frame lets you rate the video, share it, and watch related videos.  You can also watch the previous or the next search result …
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Video Now a Video Search Engine  —  Google Video went through many reincarnations in the past.  It allegedly started out as one of those 20% side projects within Google, and Larry Page admitted, "We're not quite sure what we're going to get, but we decided we'd try this experiment."
Richard Koman / Silicon Valley Watcher:   Exclusive interview with Google video platform director Jennifer Feikin
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
YouTube Redesigns and Moves to Google Accounts
Discussion: InsideGoogle
Microsoft:
Microsoft and Linspire Collaboration Promotes Interoperability and Customer Choice  —  Broad agreement will facilitate interoperability between Windows and Linux, provide intellectual property assurance.  —  Today Microsoft Corp. and Linux desktop provider Linspire Inc. announced a broad interoperability …
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DesktopLinux.com:
Linspire, Microsoft in Linux-related deal
Discussion: digg
Ina Fried / ZDNet:   Microsoft signs technology pact with Linspire
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Linspire Joins Microsoft's Any One But Red Hat Group
Valleywag:
Housekeeping: Owen Thomas is the Valleywag  —  Owen Thomas, the Business 2.0 editor whom we've lured to run Valleywag, is all smiles.  But don't be deceived.  This Silicon Valley gossip rag, after he takes over in July as managing editor, will remain as obnoxious as ever.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Valleywag snags an editor from Business 2.0  —  NNow this is so off-topic, and so inside-baseball and so rife with conflicts of interest, that you just might skip reading this post.  However, if you indeed end up reading it, I got hold of some gossip too good to pass up.
Discussion: bub.blicio.us and Gawker
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:   The (B)Log-Rolling Post
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Windows Ultimate Extras is a sham - where's the responsibility?  —  I was going to write about this on June 30, because that would have marked the half-year anniversary of Windows Vista, but since Josh Phillips has already started the conversation, I thought I should keep it rolling.
Discussion: Channel 9
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Nick White / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Taking a detailed look at Windows Vista DVD hologram
Josh / Windows Connected:
Ultimate Extras, Where are you?  —  It has been over three months since …
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google Gives Up on Competing With eBay's Big Boston Party  —  It had all the appearances of a marketing stunt gone awry, the Internet industry's version of a wily playground taunt that quickly escalated into a tense standoff, until the taunter — Google, in this case — blinked.  —  Here's what happened.
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Alex Pham / Los Angeles Times:
EBay cancels ads in tiff with Google
Wall Street Journal:
Sprint Explores Options for WiMax  —  Sprint Nextel Corp. is exploring new options for financing its ambitious plan to build a wireless broadband network known as WiMax, including forming a partnership or joint venture with cellphone pioneer Craig McCaw and seeking an infusion of cash from cable providers …
Discussion: Ars Technica and dailywireless.org
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Sprint: Rethinking WiMAX?  —  Sprint, which broke away from the cellular camp, and bet big on WiMAX as its technology of choice for high-speed wireless connectivity, is apparently rethinking its strategy, mostly under pressure from activist shareholders, who believe that the company is spending too much money on an unproven technology.
Discussion: broadbandreports.com
Business Wire:
SIA Forecast: Semiconductor Industry Sales Will Grow by 1.8 Percent in 2007  —  Declining Prices in Key Market Segments Result in Slower Growth  —  SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Sharp declines in average selling prices (ASPs) for microchips in several key market segments - microprocessors …
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Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:   Freefallin': DRAM and Flash memory prices dropped by a third last year
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The 3D Real/Virtual World Hybrid: How Far Away?  —  How long will it be until we can stroll through the streets in a virtual world that is identical to our own?  Given the state of a number of technologies, not very long.  Over the last couple of years we've seen Microsoft Street Side …
Gizmodo:
Home Entertainment: Samsung 70-inch LCD TV Has Local LED Backlighting  —  The Samsung Intergalactic Empire keeps presenting hot models left and right.  And some LCD televisions too, like this 1080p 70-inch model they introduced today in Korea, the first commercial Full HD TV ever with selective local LED backlighting.
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
YouTube Passes Debates to a New Generation  —  The quadrennial ritual of presidential debates has long followed a tried and true format.  —  A guy in a suit asks mostly predictable questions of other people in suits.  The voter is a fixture in the audience, motionless until he or she gets to address the candidate, respectfully.
Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
NBC Developing Web Site for Students  —  Imagine Tim Russert introducing a classroom history lesson about the Articles of Confederation, or Brian Williams describing the reverberations of the Stamp Act.  —  NBC News actually has, and in a formal presentation to broadcast industry analysts today …
BBC:
FBI tries to fight zombie hordes  —  The FBI is contacting more than one million PC owners who have had their computers hijacked by cyber criminals.  —  The initiative is part of an ongoing project to thwart the use of hijacked home computers, or zombies, as launch platforms for hi-tech crimes.
Discussion: greg hughes
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Apple releases Windows Safari 3.0.1, squishes security bugs  —  Looks like Apple's issued a new version of the public beta of Safari for Windows today — highest on the list of fixes were patches for thee three separate security vulnerabilities that cropped up mere hours after launch.
Discussion: Morning Paper
 
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Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Intel readies massive multicore processors
Discussion: Macsimum News
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Google lobbies for 'open' wireless networks
Clive Longbottom / The Register:
SOA - dead or alive?
Discussion: Channel 9
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
California Looking To Pervert The Meaning Of Trademark Law
InfoWorld:
iPhone disappoints mobile developers
Discussion: JD on EP
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Advertising Is Content... In The YouTube Era
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Cowon's iAudio 7 packs 8GB of FLAC on flash
Discussion: Anything But iPod
Arn / MacRumors:
iPhone on June 29th at 6pm 'Local Time'
Maija Palmer / Financial Times:
Mobile phone groups take on iPhone
Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
Founders sell as Codemasters is driven towards a flotation
Discussion: paidContent.org
Associated Press:
Power partially restored to space station
Discussion: I4U News and digg
Arn / MacRumors:
First Hand Reports on WWDC's Leopard 9A466
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