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3:40 AM ET, June 29, 2007

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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Internal Apple Stevenote: iPhone, iPods with OS X, and "off the charts" Macs in the pipeline  —  Apple held a somewhat rare, company-wide virtual meeting with Steve Jobs this morning (11am Pacific Time), wherein Steve Jobs discussed the gravity of the iPhone on Apple's business …
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John Markoff / New York Times:
A Trade-Off on iPhone Data Speed  —  On the eve of the Apple iPhone's debut, the top executives of Apple and AT&T today defended their decision to rely upon AT&T's slow Edge wireless data network, rather than a faster network that is less widely available.  —  Early reviews of the iPhone …
USA Today:
Q&A: Apple's Steve Jobs and AT&T's Randall Stephenson  —  With the much-awaited iPhone set to launch Friday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs and AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson spoke with me about the hotly-desired phone.  An edited transcript follows.  —  Q: IPhone Day is finally here.  How do you feel?
Wall Street Journal:
iPhone 'Surfing' On AT&T Network Isn't Fast, Jobs Concedes  —  Apple and AT&T CEOs  —  Say Wi-Fi Gives Boost;  —  Seeing Parallels to Mac  —  In an interview on the eve of the iPhone launch, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs and AT&T Inc. CEO and Chairman Randall Stephenson addressed concerns …
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Readers consider taking the iPhone plunge
Discussion: Macsimum News
Jasmine France / CNET News.com:
The iPod ain't dead yet
Discussion: PC World
Kent German / CNET News.com:   Jobs hints at wireless music downloads on the iPhone
Kate / Google LatLong:
It's a click & drag situation  —  Posted by Ryan Sturgell and Barry Brumitt, Software Engineers, Google Maps  —  Can you imagine going back to clicking arrows and waiting for the screen to refresh just to move the map left/right/up/down?  It'd be as big a bummer as going back to 8-track tapes.
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Drag Directions in Google Maps
Discussion: Rev2.org
Valleywag:
Hypebusting: Facebook has 'thrown the entire startup world for a loop'  —  FROM A FACEBOOK PLATFORM DEVELOPER — I work for a startup in the Valley and have nothing natural against Facebook at all - in fact my team and I have spent every hour of every day for the past four weeks developing …
Discussion: Inside Facebook and Howard Lindzon
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Valleywag:
Hypebusting: Facebook's 'platform'
Discussion: VentureBeat
Valleywag:
Debunk: Steve Jobs buries radical transparency  —  Corporations have to adjust to the new era of radical transparency, says slavishly trend-following magazine, Wired.  Which means it's time for a debunk.  Read past Robert Scoble's self-aggrandizing anecdote about one of his guests …
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Gonzales: It's time to punish 'attempted' piracy  —  Attorney General Alberto Gonzales created quite a stir last month when he called for an aggressive rewrite of criminal copyright laws, including prison time for "attempted" copyright infringement, life behind bars for pirated software use …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
First in line  —  When we arrived at the Apple store this morning there was no one in line.  We're still the first two idiots in line.  But it's been good for PR.  We've been interviewed almost constantly since 9:30 a.m.  —  Anyway, we're posting live video and chatting with people from the line over on Kyte.tv.
Valleywag:
Data Junkie: The world map of social networks  —  Click for the full-size version, and the map notes.  —  Let's play global domination.  Here's a map of the world, showing the dominant social networks by country, according to Alexa.  There are way more players than anybody, from a vantage point in Silicon Valley, would expect.
Eric Pooley / Time:
Exclusive: Rupert Murdoch Speaks  —  "They're taking five billion dollars out of me and want to keep control," Rupert Murdoch was saying into the phone, "in an industry in crisis!  They can't sell their company and still control it — that's not how it works.  I'm sorry!"
Inside AdSense:
Referrals 2.0 launches to all AdSense publishers  —  This past March, we launched a referrals beta to test the feature and iron out some wrinkles.  Now that we've finished our testing, we're pleased to announce that referrals 2.0 will soon be available to all AdSense publishers in referrals-supported languages.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Powerset's search technology scoop, may scare Google  —  Powerset, a San Francisco search engine company, will announce Friday it has won exclusive rights to significant search engine technology it says may help propel it past Google.  —  The technology, developed at Palo Alto Research Center …
Discussion: Between the Lines and Joe Duck
Raju Vegesna / Zoho Blogs:
iZoho - Zoho for iPhone  —  ...or should I say 'Office for your iPhone'.  This is fun project going live in record time (thanks to our APIs and of course our team).  —  iZoho (no, its not an online desktop ) is an easier way to access your Zoho Apps on your Mobile...atleast, iPhone for now.
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Justices End 96-Year-Old Ban on Price Floors  —  Striking down an antitrust rule nearly a century old, the Supreme Court ruled today that it is no longer automatically unlawful for manufacturers and distributors to agree on setting minimum retail prices.  —  The decision will give producers …
Discussion: Slashdot and digg
 
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Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Screenshot Tour: Show Us Your Firefox, Part 1
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Direct2Dell:
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Evan Blass / Engadget:
iLoser retains place in line, crisis averted
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Eric Goldman / Technology & Marketing Law Blog:
Another Court in 2d Cir. Says Buying Keyword Ads Isn't TM Use …
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ZDNet:
Malware finds a new home
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NewCo Update: September Launch Maybe Yes, Maybe No
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Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
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