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Jesusdiaz / Gizmodo:
iPhone 3G Launch Date Confirmed — We all suspected it, but now it is confirmed: someone very, very close to the 3G iPhone launch has told me that Apple will announce their new model at the WWDC Keynote on June 9th. The second-generation iPhone will be available worldwide right after the launch …
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
A Gamble, but What if He Wins? — About a month and a half ago, Carl Icahn and I went to dinner at Tse Yang, an upscale Chinese restaurant in Midtown Manhattan. Mr. Icahn, the corporate raider turned activist investor, came blustering through the dimly lit restaurant about 20 minutes late …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Investing legends circle Yahoo; Does a breakup make sense? — The Microhoo saga has attracted a who's who list of investors to Yahoo in a big bet that Carl Icahn will force some sort of “shareholder value.” — The latest investing star to enter the Microhoo sweepstakes is T. Boone Pickens …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:Carl Icahn Already Up $120+ Million on Yahoo Bet (YHOO)
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Joanna Stern / LAPTOP Magazine:
First Look: OLPC XO Generation 2.0 — I am here this morning in Cambridge, Mass., at OLPC's Global Country Workshop. Opening the conference this morning was OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte, who announced the second generation of the OLPC XO laptop. — Negroponte didn't share many details …
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Wade Roush / Xconomy:
Negroponte Unveils 2nd Generation OLPC Laptop: It's an E-Book — Wade Roush wrote: — I'm “live blogging” from the One Laptop Per Child Foundation's day-long media event at the MIT Media Lab. The big news is that OLPC founder Nicholas Negrponte has just unveiled the design …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Netflix Roku: Free Is Such A Beautiful Word — Netflix made a big splash today with their announcement of a $100 set top box, built by a California startup called Roku, that streams free movies (for Netflix subscribers) to the living room. — Good for them.
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John P. Falcone / CNET News.com:
Look out, Apple TV: The $100 Netflix Player has arrived — The Netflix box is finally a reality. — The Netflix Player by Roku is the first product that allows subscribers to have movies and TV shows from the service's Instant Viewing feature (aka “Watch Now") to be streamed directly to their TV screen.
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Danny Dumas / Gadget Lab:Review: Roku Netflix Set Top Box is Just Shy of Totally Amazing
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
How to Make Facebook Useful Again — Oh the heels of some of Facebook's missteps (ahem, Beacon) and the proliferation of a myriad of useless, silly, and time-wasting apps, some former Facebook users decided to quit the site for good this year. However, a handful of early adopter angst doesn't have Facebook worried.
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Videos Taken Down From YouTube — YouTomb is an interesting project by MIT Free Culture that collects YouTube videos taken down because of copyright infringements. “More specifically, YouTomb continually monitors the most popular videos on YouTube for copyright-related takedowns.
Darren Waters / BBC NEWS | dot.life:
DRM is dead, long live DRM — I've just had a fascinating conversation with Mark Mulligan, an analyst with Jupiter, on the subject of DRM and music. — His view, and one that might trouble some, is that DRM on music isn't going away anytime soon. — Now that might seem odd …
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Jasmine France / CNET News.com:Now at Napster: 6 million DRM-free MP3s
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Nielsen: MySpace, Club Penguin growth static, LinkedIn soaring — The April 2008 iteration of those numbers that Nielsen releases each month about social-networking site activity indicate that growth on News Corp.'s MySpace continues to slow, and that kiddie virtual world Club Penguin …
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Peter Sanders / Wall Street Journal:
Fans Resist End of Virtual Disneyland — Created to Celebrate 50th Anniversary, Free Game to Shut — For Walt Disney Co., the task of opening a virtual version of Disneyland on the Web was relatively easy. Closing it, though, is proving to be quite a bit more difficult …
Scott Ferguson / eWeek:
HP, Wyse Roll Out Thin-Client Notebooks — The next challenge is crafting the VPNs to support taking these devices from the office to a home or on the road. — Hewlett-Packard and Wyse Technology, the two leading vendors of thin-client PCs, are attempting to expand their share …
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
IAC Acquires GirlSense.com Parent StarNet; Targeting Tweens — On path to break into five pieces, IAC (NSDQ: IACI) has announced the acquisition of StarNet Interactive, the parent company of the GirlSense.com community site. Basically the site offers a virtual way to play dressup …
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Richard Ford / Times of London:
‘Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails — A massive government database holding details of every phone call, e-mail and time spent on the internet by the public is being planned as part of the fight against crime and terrorism. Internet service providers (ISPs) …
