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5:20 PM ET, June 21, 2007

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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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Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge:
AT&T denies 6/29 rate plan claim, will announce earlier  —  According to AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel, a report today that AT&T will wait until the day of iPhone's launch to disclose rate plans for the device is inaccurate.  "We will disclose before the 29th," said Siegel …
Discussion: Engadget
AppleInsider:
AT&T exec: iPhone data plans to be announced June 29th [Updated]
Discussion: CrunchGear
CNNMoney.com:
AT&T hires extra 2,000 for iPhone launch
Discussion: CNET News.com and Macsimum News
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Two top Google engineers leave — to Benchmark Capital  —  Two more high-level Google engineers have left the Googleplex — this time to join well-known venture capital firm Benchmark Capital.  —  Bret Taylor (left) and Jim Norris (right), two of the masterminds behind Google Maps and several …
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Adario Strange / Epicenter:   Flight of the Googlers: Benchmark Capital Raids Mountain View
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Internet radio to go silent on June 26?  —  If you depend on the sounds of Internet radio to get you through your workday, don't be surprised if your headphones pipe out little more than dead air next Tuesday.  —  In protest of the elevated royalty fees Webcasters are poised to begin owing …
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Jack Shafer / Slate:
Apple Suck-Up Watch  —  IT'S NOT JUST A NEW KIND OF CELL PHONE, IT'S A CULTURAL WATERSHED!  —  iPhone  —  The press corps' love for all things Apple routinely swells and bursts in a dewy explosion whenever the company readies a new gizmo for sale.  Like the Detroit automakers of yore …
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Valleywag:   Talking Points: Three defenses for iPhone hype
Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:
Instant Search Changes to Windows Vista Service Pack 1  —  Give Microsoft a bit of credit for its seemingly never-ending flexibility: In response to a horrifically baseless charge from Internet search giant Google, the software giant this week has agreed to make major changes to Windows Vista (see my review).
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Google says Vista search changes not enough
Discussion: PC World
Brendan Sinclair / GameSpot:
Sony, Nintendo forbid AO-rated Manhunt 2  —  Console-makers confirm policies preventing licensed third parties from releasing Adults Only games on their systems, effectively banning the Rockstar title.  —  When Take-Two Interactive yesterday confirmed that the Entertainment Software Rating Board handed …
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BBC:
Banned video game is 'fine art'
Agence France Presse:
'Blog', 'cookie', 'wiki' top list of hated Internet words: poll  —  LONDON (AFP) - "Blog", "netiquette", "cookie" and "wiki" have been voted among the most irritating words spawned by the Internet, according to the results of a poll published Thursday.  — EU body to expand Web search probe, write to Google
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.
Discussion: WebProNews and Ben Hammersley
Reuters:
Sony to boost PS3 software to reverse slump: Nikkei  —  TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp. (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research) expects a sharp increase in the number of games released for the PlayStation 3 this business year, in a move that should help the game console's slumping sales …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Congress grills DHS CIO over repeated security breaches  —  Officials from the Department of Homeland Security faced Congressional grilling yesterday over the (lack of) security on DHS computer networks.  The department charged with safeguarding America's borders, ports …
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Computerworld:   House panel blasts DHS CIO for security failures
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.
Google:
A New Way to Pay - Google Expands Pay-Per-Action for Google AdWords™  —  Google announced today the worldwide expansion of its pay-per-action advertising beta.  Pay-per-action is a new pricing model that allows advertisers to pay only when a pre-defined action is completed on their site …
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
Verizon: More Upside to Come In Wireless  —  How do you get more than 100% of a market to buy product?  I'm not sure, but that's the contention of CIBC World Markets telecommunications analyst Tim Horan, who says that Verizon Communications's (VZ) Verizon Wireless has the opportunity to stay …
Discussion: Computerworld
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Forbes:
EU says Apple has responded to iTunes deadline; EU 'studying it carefully'  —  BRUSSELS (Thomson Financial) - The European Commission said Apple Inc responded to a midnight deadline yesterday in relation to antitrust concerns over the pricing of songs on its iTunes online music store.
Miguel de Icaza:
Implementing Silverlight in 21 Days  —  The past 21 days have been some of the most intense hacking days that I have ever had and the same goes for my team that worked 12 to 16 hours per day every single day —including weekends— to implement Silverlight for Linux in record time.  We call this effort Moonlight.
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.
Discussion: MacUser and Ajaxian
Yahoo! Search Marketing Blog:
Short Descriptions Now Live  —  Ad descriptions longer than 70 characters on Yahoo! in the U.S. will now be cut off  —  Starting today, ads that appear in U.S. Yahoo! Search results with descriptions longer than 70 characters will be cut off ("truncated") at the nearest complete word, followed by an ellipsis.
 
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Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
NEW ASK.COM COMMERCIAL: KATO
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
The ten most hated words on the Internet
Discussion: Reuters
Peter Kaplan / Reuters:
FCC official backs open-access for wireless auction
Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:
TOUCH ME, I'M SLICK  —  Microsoft's Multi-touch laptop, Based on the Surface Table
Skrentablog:
Are network effects getting weaker?
Discussion: A VC
Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
Proposed Amendment Would Ban All DVD Copying
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Intel wants fair and balanced online gaming
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Yahoo! Acquires Rivals: Seemingly Smart Content Move, But Where's The Peanut Butter?
Kim Tae-gyu / koreatimes.co.kr:
LG Unveils Genuine Google Phone
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
REPRISE REPORT ON PANAMA
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Danal, another mobile payments company, launches
Kevin Kelleher / GigaOM:
Who should buy Yahoo? Handicapping 5 likely suitors
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
EMI says DRM-free music is selling well
USA Today:
Tech blogs go from hobbies to businesses