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11:10 AM ET, July 5, 2007

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BBC:
O2 'to get UK iPhone contract'  —  Mobile phone operator O2 is reported to have won the sought-after deal to sell Apple's iPhone in the UK.  —  Press reports said that O2 is set to sign an exclusive contract shortly and should have the new phones on sale in time for Christmas.
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John Oates / The Register:
O2 gets UK iPhone deal  —  Mobile network O2 is close to getting the exclusive right to sell Apple's ludicrously-hyped iPhone in the UK.  —  The handset has gone on sale in the US with one network partner, AT&T, and Apple is looking to set up similar exclusive deals across Europe.
Discussion: MarketWatch, vnunet, Inquirer and Gizmodo
Elizabeth Judge / Times of London:
O2 beats rivals in battle for the rights to Apple's iPhone  —  O2 has beaten its rivals to win the exclusive UK rights to offer Apple's iPhone.  The tie-up, the mobile phone industry's most sought-after deal in years, marks a major coup for the 18 million-customer group.
Discussion: Infinite Loop, iLounge and digg
Financial Times:
O2 nears iPhone partnership  —  By Andrew Parker and Maija Palmer in London and Paul Taylor in New York  —  Telefónica's O2 mobile phone business was poised on Wednesday night to clinch a deal as Apple's exclusive network partner for iPhone in the UK, said people familiar with the matter.
Nic Fildes / The Independent:
O2 closes in on exclusive deal to sell iPhone in UK
Discussion: Inquirer and mocoNews.net
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Twitter vs. Pownce  —  So, back to Nik's point that Twitter is better because of the API.  —  Absolutely correct.  But when we were standing in line last week for our iPhones Pownce's lead developer, Leah Culver joined us and we talked at length about where Pownce is going.
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Kent / Newsome.Org:
Declaration of Blogging Independence
Discussion: Joe Duck
USA Today:
The house that helped build Google  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Susan Wojcicki is reminiscing about her old home in Menlo Park, Calif.  —  "It's a very humble house, less than 2,000 square feet," she recalls fondly.  A cozy, four-bedroom home — and incredibly historic.
Discussion: Search Engine Land and Gadgetopia
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
South Koreans Connect Through Search Engine  —  Park Hye Ran, a 15-year-old high school student, wanted to know the shortest route from a bus terminal in the southern port city of Busan to a fish market to the east.  —  That is precisely the kind of question that Cho In Joon, 50, a seller of lottery tickets in Busan, loves to answer.
David Pogue / New York Times:
IPhone-Free Cellphone News  —  Man, oh man.  How'd you like to have been a PR person making a cellphone announcement last week, just as the iPhone storm struck?  You'd have had all the impact of a gnat in a hurricane.  —  But hard to believe though it may be, T-Mobile did make an announcement last week.
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Glenn Fleishman / CNN:
Service allows users to make calls on Wi-Fi network
Discussion: Neowin.net
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
eBay Brings Classifieds Site Kijiji To The U.S.  —  According to the Newspaper Association of America, U.S. print newspaper classified advertising was worth about $17 billion in 2006.  The category has been under pressure for years from top online verticals, some of which are owned by newspapers …
Discussion: Insider Reports Feed
Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear:
Samsung Blu-ray + HD DVD Player to Support Both Formats' Special Features  —  As we approach the release of Samsung's BDP-UP5000 combination Blu-ray/HD DVD player, more and more details are finding their way to the Intertubes, or whatever funny word we're using to describe the Internet these days.
Discussion: Techdirt
Gavin O'Malley / MediaPost Publications:
NBBC, We Hardly Knew Ye  —  THE NATIONAL BROADBAND COMPANY, THE unit created by NBC Universal last September to handle online video distribution, is being rolled into NewSite — the still-unnamed co-venture between NBC and News Corp.  —  Unfortunately, NBBC's partners …
Discussion: TechCrunch and The Next Net
Chris Williams / The Register:
Spanish telco unapologetic on huge broadband anti-trust fine  —  Telefónica claims clear conscience  —  O2 parent company Telefónica has protested innocence after it was slammed by European anti-trust regulators for gaming the broadband market in its Spanish home territory.
Discussion: Inquirer
Reuters:
Microsoft to launch Xbox 360 Elite in Japan in Oct  —  TOKYO, July 5 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday it would launch the advanced version of its Xbox 360 game console, Xbox 360 Elite, on Oct. 11 in Japan, a country where sales …
Discussion: DailyTech and CrunchGear
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
At I.B.M., a Smarter Way to Outsource  —  Jeffrey Taft is a road warrior in the global high-technology services economy, and his work shows why there are limits to the number of skilled jobs that can be shipped abroad in the Internet age.  —  Each Monday, Mr. Taft awakes before dawn at his home …
IFPI:
IFPI hails court ruling that ISPs must stop copyright piracy on their networks  —  A court in Belgium has confirmed that an Internet Service Provider must take responsibility for stopping illegal file-sharing on its network.  The ruling is the first of its kind in Europe and …
Joshua Coventry / SiliconUser:
History of the Compact Disc  —  The inventor of the compact disc, the most popular medium in the world for playing back and storing music, is often disputed as one individual did not invent every part of the compact disc.  The most attributed inventor is James Russell, who in 1965 was inspired …
Marie Boran / SiliconRepublic.com:
Irish technology claims energy breakthrough  —  Today, the public have been invited to come and observe Orbo technology, developed by Irish company Steorn, which produces a free, constant supply of energy that will change history if it does what it claims.  —  Orbo technology, which Sean McCarthy …
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Marc Canter / CNET News.com:
Open standards for social networking
Discussion: All Points Blog
Electronista:
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Respectance: Social Networking With A Deadly Twist
Associated Press:
Digital Purchases Rise as Album Sales Fall
Macworld UK:
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Discussion: iLounge
ZDNet:
Mobile broadband popularity rockets
 Earlier Items: 
George Gardner / TECH.BLORGE.com:
MPAA's Media Defender sets up 'fake' site to catch pirates
Inside Google Book Search:
Greater access to public domain works for all users
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Where are they now: Barry Schuler and his laser
Matt Sullivan / Popular Mechanics:
More than 750 parts  —  stretching a half-mile long.
Discussion: Slashdot and digg
BREITBART.COM:
Chinese Youth Killed By Cell Phone Battery Blast