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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
News Aggregation Site Daylife Gets $8.3 Million Second Round — Daylife, the much-hyped online news aggregation site which launched for public consumption in January but hasn't gained much traction as of yet, has raised $8 million in second round of funding, according to SEC filings, picked up by PEHub.
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Jeff Jones / Jeff Jones's blog:
Windows Vista - 6 Month Vulnerability Report — I was somewhat surprised (but pleased) at the level of interest back when I published my Windows Vista - 90 Day Vulnerability Report. It was about the earliest span of time I thought might give us some indicators, and the indicators did look good.
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Dennis K. Berman / Wall Street Journal:
Business.com Could Hit Jackpot on Auction Block — Entrepreneurs Jake Winebaum and Sky Dayton were widely mocked for lavishing $7.5 million on a single Internet domain name — business.com — back in 1999. It was the single highest price paid for a domain name at the time.
Michael / CTI Miami's Blog:
HTC phones galore! — We tried to tell you CTI Miami was hot! We've got a great online store so make sure you check that out because these should be in stock soon! HTC has given us a fantastic look at some upcoming phones. Unreleased phones like the HTC Touch for CDMA, HTC S640 (CDMA) …
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USA Today:
AT&T girds for iPhone launch on June 29 — For consumers eager to get their hands on an Apple iPhone, here's the good news: It will be available in all 1,800 AT&T phone stores at 6 p.m. sharp on June 29. — The bad news? "We fully expect one or more of our stores to run out of stock …
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Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
Proposed Amendment Would Ban All DVD Copying — The proposed amendment was made public in a letter sent by Michael Malcolm, the chief executive of Kaleidescape, a DVD jukebox company which successfully defeated a suit by the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) this past March.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:DVD CCA trying to close copying loophole in response to courtroom setback
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Brendan Sinclair / GameSpot:
Take-Two shelves Manhunt 2 — Plans to release game "temporarily suspended" while publisher continues exploring options. — In the wake of international bans and an Adults Only rating in the US, Manhunt 2 won't make its July 10 release date, Take-Two Interactive has confirmed.
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Brendan Sinclair / GameSpot:Sony, Nintendo forbid AO-rated Manhunt 2
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Graham Holliday / Press Gazette:
BBC reporter tours Turkey in social media experiment — The BBC has dispatched reporter Ben Hammersley to spend two weeks using new social media web tools to cover the run-up to the July general election. — He will visit four cities and report for BBC World, World Service radio, News 24 and BBC News online.
Yi-Wyn Yen / The Startup Game:
How a six-month-old startup got bought by Google — Three months ago, I met the two startup founders of Zenter, Wayne Crosby and Robby Walker, and blogged about how they wanted their online version of PowerPoint to get bought by Google. I listen to a lot of young entrepreneurs who desperately …
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Michael Tiemann / Open Source Initiative:
Will The Real Open Source CRM Please Stand Up? — Dana Blankenhorn's story How far can open source CRM get? has finally pushed me to respond to the many people who have asked "When is the OSI going to stand up to companies who are flagrantly abusing the term 'open source'?" The answer is: starting today.
Xenon / Surfin' Safari:
Yet another one more thing... a new Web Inspector! — As some of you saw last week at WWDC, we have a brand new version of the Web Inspector. We know that a lot people have found the current Web Inspector useful, and we have gotten a lot of feedback and sugestions about how to make it even better.
Techworld.com:
Mandriva says no to Microsoft Linux deal — French Linux vendor Mandriva said no to dealing with Microsoft on open source patents - the third Linux vendor in a week to do so. — In a statement on his company blog, Francois Bancilhon, CEO of Paris-based Mandriva, said …
Skrentablog:
Are network effects getting weaker? — "This place is dead anyway." — I was thinking about how fast Facebook has replaced Linkedin for my valley connections. In a period of about 2 months, it seems like most of my contacts have all deserted linkedin and moved to facebook.
Arn / MacRumors:
New iPhone Television Ad: Youtube [Official Video] — After the announcement that the iPhone will offer Youtube videos, a new iPhone television advertisement has started airing. The new ad was spotted this morning on ESPN, and captured/uploaded by msdvideo: — Update: Official Video has been posted by Apple.
Kev / Gluttonous:
Powerset to Launch Front-end on Ruby — Spread the word on digg — Powerset is fairly well-known in the Ruby community, but there's a certain amount of confusion as to what we use it for. As a consequence, I'm regularly asked what the front end is going to be written in, and just as regularly have to leave the question unanswered.
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