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1:55 PM ET, May 28, 2008

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Chris Flores / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Microsoft demonstrates Multi-touch  —  For years Microsoft has been investing in many forms of natural input in order to simplify the way people interact with their PC's and devices.  The advent of the original Windows graphical user interface forever changed the way people used their PC's.
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John Paczkowski / D6 Highlights:
Guys Like Us Avoid Monopolies ...
Discussion: mathewingram.com/work and Gizmodo
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Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Amazon's Jeff Bezos: A passion for Kindle and digital content delivery
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Amazon Launching Pay-Per-View Streaming Next Week (AMZN)
Discussion: paidContent.org
Rafe Needleman / CNET News.com:
Sony CEO Stringer: You can't afford our best TV  —  Walt Mossberg interviewed Sir Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony, at D6.  He started by pointing out the failures of Sony's digital music player and interactive TV ventures.  Stringer said that Sony is now running about 5% margins …
Discussion: paidContent.org and Electronista
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
LIVE Sony CEO Howard Stringer At D6  —  A couple of years ago Howard Stringer had high hopes for his e-reader.  But Jeff Bezos Kindle has stolen that thunder, and we assume we might hear about that when Walt Mossberg chats with him.  We definitely know we're about to see a very, very thin TV.
Discussion: Tech Trader Daily, Engadget and Gizmodo
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
SNEAK PEEK: Sony's Ultra-Thin OLED TV
Discussion: Gizmodo, Ubergizmo and Engadget HD
Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
Google Earth Escapes the Client and Comes to the Browser  —  Google's 3D data has escaped the client and is now a welcome addition to the browser!  Today at Google I/O a Google Earth Browser plugin is going to be released.  With the plugin installed anybody with a Windows machine will be able …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
D: Activision's Kotick Unveils Guitar Hero World Tour  —  Next up at D6 in Carlsbad, it's the guitar hero himself, Activision (ATVI) CEO Robert Kotick.  The news here is supposed to be a demo of the yet-to-be shipped Guitar Hero World Tour.  He's being interviewed by Kara Swisher.
Discussion: Gizmodo and AppScout
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
‘Guitar Hero’ rocks D6
Discussion: Valleywag
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Shows Facebook How It's Done: Google Gears To Power Messaging  —  The Google I/O conference in San Francisco kicks off today with a really welcome announcement: MySpace has integrated Google Gears into its messaging system, which will back up all messages to a user's local machine and allow for very fast search and sorting.
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb
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Chris Prince / Official Google Blog:
Happy birthday, Google Gears!
Discussion: The Inquisitr
Office of the United States Trade Representative:
U.S. Files WTO Case Challenging EU Tariffs on Certain Technology Products  —  WASHINGTON - United States Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab announced today that the United States has requested World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement consultations with the European Union (EU) …
Discussion: Associated Press and CNET News.com
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InfoWorld:
U.S. files trade complaint against EU tech product taxes
Discussion: Neowin.net
Gene Marcial / Business Week:
Yahoo's End Game  —  Negotiations with Microsoft and Google are taking place behind the scenes, writes BW's Gene Marcial.  A deal of some kind is imminent, according to his sources  —  Yahoo! finally looks ready to do a deal, according to people familiar with the situation.
InfoWorld:
Belgian newspapers ask Google for $77.5 million in damages  —  A group of Belgian newspaper publishers wants Google to pay up to €49.2 million ($77.5 million) in damages for violating copyright law by publishing their articles on Google News and caching their Web pages.
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Reuters:
Belgian group seeks up to $77.2 mln from Google
Discussion: ZDNet Government and TechSpot
Apple:
About the Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update  —  The Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update is recommended for Mac OS X 10.5, 10.5.1, and 10.5.2 Leopard.  It includes general operating system improvements that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac.  For detailed information about security updates, please visit this website.
Kevin Poulsen / Threat Level:
Man Allegedly Bilks E-trade, Schwab of $50,000 by Collecting Lots of Free ‘Micro-Deposits’  —  A California man has been indicted for an inventive scheme that allegedly siphoned $50,000 from online brokerage houses E-trade and Schwab.com in six months — a few pennies at a time.
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
SezWho acquires Tejit to expand commenter reputations  —  Distributed commenter reputation service SezWho is growing a little bigger Wednesday morning with the acquisition of Tejit, an engine that tracks content around the Web to see how it links up with people, events, places, and more.
Darryl K. Taft / eWeek:
Google Opens Google App Engine  —  Google also announces pricing for the development technology.
Qualcomm:
Qualcomm and Adobe Collaborate to Empower Developer Ecosystems With BREW Mobile Platform  —  BREW Mobile Platform Integrates Adobe Flash to Accelerate Advanced Application and Web Content Development for Mass Market Devices  —  Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM) and Adobe Systems Incorporated …
Vator.tv:
Video - the next acquisition for CBS Interactive?  —  CBS, which just recently swallowed up CNet for a cool $1.8 billion, is still on the prowl.  That's according to Mike Marquez, the head of mergers and acquisitions and business development for CBS Interactive.
Discussion: Beet.TV and HipMojo.com
Market Wire:
D-Link Introduces Ethernet-to-Coax Kit for Extending the Home Network Using Existing TV Cabling in the Home  —  Easy-to-Use Adapter Kit Enables Fast Transfers of HD Video, Music, Gaming; Quick Solution for Connecting Devices in Multiple Rooms  —  D-Link, the end-to-end networking solutions provider …
Discussion: DailyTech, Ubergizmo and Engadget HD
 
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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple boosts iPod orders for current quarter, trims Macs slightly
Gartner:
Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Increased 14 Per Cent …
APC:
Palm readies next-gen ‘Web 2.0’ OS
ScottIsAFool / LiveSide:
Windows Live Agents SDK Released
Andrew Wallenstein / Reuters:
Is Apple changing course on variable pricing?
Discussion: CNET News.com
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Fatal bandwidth: 6 cell tower deaths in 5 weeks
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
For Coors Light, a Night Out That Begins on MySpace
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Evri building a data graph of the Web
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The man who would run Yahoo
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HP packs two independent servers on a blade
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Asus Eee PC 1000 to Debut First Week of June
Margaret Robertson / BBC:
Play time  —  I'm insufferably lucky: for the last few years I've made my living playing.
Discussion: Changing Way
Jenna Wortham / The Underwire:
Weezer's Memetastic Video Director Spills the ‘Pork and Beans’
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Host Joanne Colan Leaves Rocketboom
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Patrick Frater / Variety:
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