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1:50 PM ET, June 18, 2007

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Natalie Kerris / Apple:
iPhone Delivers Up to Eight Hours of Talk Time  —  Now Features Durable Glass Top Surface  —  Apple® today announced that iPhone™ will deliver significantly longer battery life when it ships on June 29 than was originally estimated when iPhone was unveiled in January. iPhone …
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Dan Frommer / Forbes:
Apple Upgrades iPhone  —  Steve Jobs isn't usually one to bow to his critics, but give Apple credit for addressing two major flaws on the iPhone before it goes on sale on June 29.  —  Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) said Monday that the iPhone will now come with a battery that supports …
David Chartier / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Apple announces iPhone now delivers up to 8 hours of talk time, new glass display
Discussion: digg
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:   Apple: You can gab on that iPhone for eight hours
Business Week:
How Big Will The iPhone Be?  —  It may be a $10 billion business …
Michael Gartenberg:
New Details on iPhone Screen and Battery - First Take
Discussion: Apple 2.0 and CrunchGear
Microsoft:
Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV and Multimedia Platform Debuts at NXTcomm  —  Latest update to award-winning IPTV platform includes exciting connected entertainment features; new ingredient brand to support service provider marketing activities.  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability …
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Marguerite Reardon / ZDNet:
IPTV chugs along  —  The promise behind Internet Protocol television, or IPTV, is enormous, but fulfillment of that promise sometimes seems a long way off.  —  A year into major IPTV deployments around the world, progress on new features is slow, although a new version of Microsoft's IPTV software takes …
Brandon Hill / DailyTech:
Microsoft Announces Mediaroom IPTV Platform
Discussion: Gizmodo
Microsoft:
Microsoft Furthers Its Telco 2.0 Vision at NXTcomm 2007
Discussion: All about Microsoft
Michael Schneider / Variety:
Fox locks deal with Web TV service  —  Brightcove pacts with company  —  Internet TV service Brightcove has inked its first companywide deal with a major conglom, signing to become the online video platform for Fox Entertainment Group.  —  Under the pact, the Fox broadcast net …
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Television Syndication will Never Be the Same: Fox Video is Sharable with Brightcove Player  —  Fox Television and Brightcove will announce tomorrow (Monday) a major development in the distribution of online video by a mainstream television company: The integration of the Brightcove player …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Blockbuster picks Blu-ray for movie rentals  —  Blu-ray is extending its early lead in the high-def video wars.  —  Blockbuster Inc. announced on Monday that it would rent only Blu-ray discs, and not HD DVDs, in its 1,700 company-owned stores.  That's supposed to take effect by mid-July.
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BBC:
Blockbuster to focus on Blu-ray
Discussion: Kotaku and Slashdot
John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
Steve Jobs in a Box  —  It's a stunning box, a wizard object with a passel of amazing features (It's a phone!  An iPod!  A Web browser!).  But for all its marvels, the iPhone inaugurates a dangerous new era for Jobs.  Has he peaked?  —  H  —  e saunters out onstage, and the first thing you think is, man, Steve Jobs looks old.
Adam / Google Public Policy Blog:
Taking the Wraps Off Google's Public Policy Blog  —  Posted by Andrew McLaughlin, Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs  —  At the beginning of 2005, I was Google's lone public policy guy.  Today, there's a bigger - and growing - team of us scattered around the world …
Cutkillavince / Akihabaranews.com:
iRiver feeds your envy!  —  A couple photos had been seen here and there the last couple days, it is now official, here comes iRiver's latest jewel: the NV!  This DMB-Navi co...
Discussion: Engadget, Anything But iPod and Gizmodo
Jo Best / CNET News.com:
Mozilla exec calls Apple's Safari plan 'duopolistic'  —  Mozilla's chief operating officer, John Lilly, is calling Steve Jobs' plans for building Safari's market share "out of date" and "duopolistic."  —  Lilly made his comments following the Apple CEO's keynote speech last week …
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
No Microsoft-Ubuntu deal in the works, Canonical CEO says  —  Anyone expecting a technical and legal partnership between Microsoft and Ubuntu distributor Canonical to follow existing Microsoft-Linux deals will be disappointed.  —  Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth in a blog posting on Saturday …
Electronic House Recently Filed:
Original Star Trek Props Anchor Home Theater  —  This "Star Trek"-themed home theater doesn't just capture the franchise's look and feel.  It uses props from the real Starfleet.  —  • Equipment Racks  • Home Theater Accessories  • Seating  • Touchpanels and Keypads
Discussion: CNET News.com and Gizmodo
Vivek / StartupSquad.com:
Quintura gets Series A from Skype backers  —  Quintura, the visual search engine whose angel funding round news was fist broken at StartupSquad.com is announcing today that it has raised Series A from Mangrove Capital Partners.  Mangrove is also the investor behind the likes of Skype, Nimbuzz, Properazzi, and several other startups.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Firefox Add-ons: All You Need To Know  —  Firefox is a browser that can be extended and enhanced in many ways - chief among those being Add-ons, which give you more functionality or perhaps just a new theme.  In fact sometimes they give you a full-blown web app, like Yoono, BlogRovr or Trailfire.
Gear Diary:
Unboxing the HTC Mogul, Sprint's New WM6 Phone  —  I got a sweet surprise from HTC on Friday: the brand new Sprint HTC Mogul, which is a major upgrade to the HTC Apache / Sprint PPC-6700 and which incidentally does not appear to be called the PPC-6800 anywhere but on its battery.
 
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Nathan Weinberg / InsideMicrosoft:
New Media Center Looking Delayed
Business Wire:
Accenture to Invest $250 Million to Expand Technology Consulting …
Discussion: Between the Lines
Bill Ray / The Register:
T-Mobile terminates Truphone
Discussion: Berlind's Testbed
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
With the Internet growth slowing in U.S., Sequoia pour more funds into China
Discussion: Mercury News
Erik Sass / MediaPost Publications:
MySpace...The Biggest Threat to Newspapers?
Andrew Adam Newman / New York Times:
Journey's Song Gets a Bump From TV Once Again
Discussion: IP Democracy
Samsung:
SAMSUNG Unveils the U3; Your Direct Source to Music on the Go
Discussion: Mobility Site and Gizmodo
Lisa Vaas / eWEEK.com:
Is It OK that Google Owns Us?
 Earlier Items: 
Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
Chinese Gold Farmers: Work or Fun?
Discussion: rc3.org
Chris Williams / The Register:
MySpace to make friends with eBay
Discussion: The Social Web
Craig Rubens / NewTeeVee:
YouTube's Disappointing New Editing Tools
Alex Iskold / Read/WriteWeb:
Random House - Widgets and Web Services Done Right
Zach Sims / Rev2.org:
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Wall Street Journal:
GE and Pearson Discuss Joint Bid For Dow Jones
eMediaWire:
Network Solutions Earns Authorized Google AdWords Reseller Status
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
EBay Moves to Recharge Its Auctions