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12:30 PM ET, June 2, 2008

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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Adobe Launches Online Office Suite and New Flash-Enabled Acrobat 9  —  Back in March, we said Adobe was slowly building an online empire.  Today, that news turns out to be true.  Adobe is has just launched their version of an online office suite available at Acrobat.com, complete with word processor …
Discussion: VoIP Watch
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Webtop Watch: Adobe Launches Acrobat.com and Releases Acrobat 9 (With Flash).
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Live Search Toolbar to Be Distributed on 2009 HP Consumer PCs  —  North American distribution deal also includes Live Search browser defaults, custom toolbar based on Microsoft Silverlight.  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has won a key distribution deal with HP …
Duncan Riley / The Inquisitr:
Today's Hot Meme Comes To Us From Plurk  —  Plurk is a newish microblogging service that is spreading like wildfire through the first adopter community today.  —  According to Plurk, the service is “a really snazzy site that allows you to showcase the events that make up your life …
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Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:
I Like Plurk Better Than Twitter, But Should I Even Bother?
Discussion: /Message
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Microsoft's Robbie Bach ‘thought about killing’ Surface  —  Microsoft's Surface computing is the kind of Buck Rogers' technology that can dazzle consumers and boost a company's “cool” factor.  But in an interview last week, Robbie Bach, Microsoft's president of Entertainment & Devices Division …
Discussion: Engadget and Incremental Blogger
Financial Times:
Intel to re-enter mobile market  —  By Chris Nuttall in San Francisco and Paul Taylor in New,York  —  Intel is poised to re-enter the mobile phone market as operators earn a greater portion of their revenues from data and internet access, said Paul Otellini, the company's chief executive.
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Cate Doty / New York Times:
Is the Main Character Missing?  Maybe Not.  —  When Dan Walsh, a 33-year-old technology manager in Dublin, started posting doctored versions of the comic strip “Garfield” on his blog in February, he thought he might amuse a few friends.  —  Instead, his site on Tumblr started receiving …
Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
Turner Forms Ad Net: Links Sales for Web Holdings  —  The cable-centric company said it plans to begin packaging both display and video ad inventory for advertisers from 19 different Web sites.  —  Turner is pasting together its vast collection of Web properties to form a sizable …
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:
Europe Online Advertising Market Size: Catching up to US Market?  —  I think Europe could surpass the US ad market if for no other reason that different markets means different languages and different ad campaigns.  In other words, it's harder to find efficiencies when you have to duplicate …
Discussion: WebProNews
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
IAB Report: Europe Up 4 Billion Euros in 2007; Closing In On U.S.
Discussion: TechCrunch UK
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
The Humans Behind the Google Money Machine  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — If Google were the United States government, the data that streams onto Nicholas Fox's laptop every day would be classified as top secret.  —  Mr. Fox is among a small group of Google employees who keep a watchful eye …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
NetSuite acquires OpenAir  —  NetSuite said Monday that it has acquired OpenAir, which provides on-demand professional services automation software, for $26 million in cash.  —  The tuck-in acquisition(statement)-all 56 OpenAir employees will continue to work at NetSuite-will give the company …
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
TrendWatch: Comparing MicroMemes, Network Feeds, and MacroMemes  —  I want you to start thinking differently about how you get information.  As you know from my postings, that trust is highest from our peers, we trust those that are like us, or our friends above all us.
IDG News Service:
Sony Appears Ready to Ship Via-based Mini-laptop  —  Sony appears ready to release a small, low-cost laptop that uses a processor from Via Technologies.  —  A prototype of the laptop, based on the open-source Via OpenBook reference design announced last week, was shown by contract manufacturer …
louisgray.com:
Are Blog Comments Really Conversations, or Are They Just Replies?  —  The issue of comment fragmentation has been rearing up every other week or so since the initial discussion flared up in early April, but of late, I've been thinking about the purpose of comments in the first place.
Discussion: WinExtra, TechTicker and Beth's Blog
Chris Williams / The Register:
UK cops arrest six alleged BitTorrent music uploaders  —  Surprise new arrests in OiNK investigation  —  Cleveland police have today confirmed that six people have been arrested for allegedly sharing music files via the defunct BitTorrent tracker OiNK.cd.  —  Five men aged between 19 and 33 …
Discussion: TorrentFreak, Listening Post and Digg
 
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Darryl K. Taft / eWeek:
IBM Gets Jazzy with Web 2.0
Discussion: Computerworld
Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
Mars lander's robotic arm makes contact
Dan Nystedt / IDG News Service:
Qualcomm Says Windows Mobile 7 Key for Mini-laptops
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Trion Preps First Server-Based Game, Inks SciFi Channel Deal
Brian McConnell / GigaOM:
How to Fix Muni Wi-Fi
Discussion: MuniWireless
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Semiconductor sales up 5.9 percent in April
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Future Of Social Isn't Content Spewing (I Hope)
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
From NeXT to Cocoa  —  This is the third part of a four-part …
Discussion: Digg
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PrimeNewswire:
NASDAQ is the First U.S. Stock Exchange to Facilitate Free …
Emru Townsend / Today @ PC World:
Self-Destructing DVDs Make a Comeback
Discussion: Engadget and Gizmodo
Lilly Peel / Times of London:
New iPhone could be £100 by July
Rafe Needleman / CNET News.com:
Microsoft launches Task Market for Office jocks
Discussion: Gear Diary
Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Good 6.0 takes smartphones behind the firewall
Discussion: Computerworld
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Backblaze: Online Backup With Time Machine's Finesse
Discussion: Ars Technica
Kate Greene / Technology Review:
The Future of Mobile Social Networking
IDG News Service:
Asus Shows off Atom-based Eee PC
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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