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10:20 AM ET, June 4, 2008

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Business Wire:
As the Exclusive Portal Reseller of Walmart.com Display Advertising, Yahoo! Enables Walmart.com to Bring New Value to Online Customers and Marketing Opportunities to Advertisers  —  NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News), a leading global Internet company …
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Business Wire:
Yahoo! and Havas Digital Announce Multi Year, Global Advertising Partnership  —  Leading Interactive Network to Adopt Right Media Exchange Platform and AMP!  From Yahoo!  —  NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Today, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO - News) and Havas Digital, one of the world's leading …
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Yahoo Ads: Partnership With Havas Digital; Video And Display On Walmart.com  —  Day-to-day life goes on at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), as the company comes out with a couple of ad announcements this morning timed to coincide with Sue Decker's appearance at Advertising 2.0.
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Third-party iPhone applications to arrive Monday  —  Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the App Store in March, and third-party applications delivered through the store should arrive Monday.  —  (Credit: Corinne Schulze/CNET Networks)  —  The era of officially sanctioned iPhone applications should kick off on Monday.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
How Big Is The Potential Market For the Apple iPhone?  —  At the Apple (AAPL) Worldwide Developers Conference coming up next week, CEO Steve Jobs is widely expected to unveil a new 3G version of the iPhone.  Meanwhile, in the last few weeks, a number of carriers have announced deals to sell the phone …
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
iPhone Apps Worth Jailbreaking For
Discussion: The Mobile Gadgeteer and Macworld
Cory Bohon / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Rumor: Mac OS X 10.6 to debut at WWDC 08?  —  TUAW has received some information that suggests Apple may be working to seed developers with an early build of Mac OS X 10.6 at this year's WWDC.  10.6 will not include any new significant features from 10.5; instead, Apple is focusing solely on “stability and security.”
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Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Mac OS X 10.6 to show at Apple developer event, drop PowerPC
Discussion: O'Grady's PowerPage
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
YouTube Annotations  —  YouTube added a new feature for video creators: annotations.  “Video Annotations are a new way for you to add interactive commentary to your videos.  Use them to add background information about the video, create stories with multiple possibilities …
TREND HUNTER:
Celebrity MySpace Hacking - Paris Hilton & Lindsay Lohan's Private Pics (GALLERY)  —  Some Canadian hackers were so curious about the private lives of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan that they managed to hack into their MySpace profiles.  After obtaining very personal images …
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
The HTC Touch Pro  —  Call it Raphael no longer!  HTC has officially thrown the cover off its Touch Pro today — the QWERTY slider sibling of the recently-unveiled Touch Diamond — which should cover the bases for those who loved the Diamond's keen looks but decided they'd go our of their gourds without …
Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Sony's PS3 to Get In-Game Ads  —  Sony Corp. reached an agreement that will allow advertisements distributed over the Internet to be inserted into PlayStation 3 videogames, a boost for what could become a significant new revenue source for games companies.  —  Sony's games division is expected …
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Mary Jane Irwin / Forbes:
Sony Set To Open Up To In-Game Advertisers
Tom Conrad / Pandora:
From the lab: Pandora Desktop Beta  —  We've always wanted to find a simple way to deliver Pandora as a desktop application — it's probably been on our to do list longer than any single feature.  Today we're dipping our toe into those waters for the first time with the release of a Beta version of Pandora Desktop.
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Pandora Hits the Desktop With AIR. *Thud*
Discussion: RIApedia and The Last Podcast
Lori Grunin / Webware.com:
Flip Video's mighty Mino  —  Although it was recently outed by B&H, Wednesday marks the official unveiling of Pure Digital's Flip Video Mino, the latest camcorder from one of the leaders of the low-res, straight-to-Web capture pack.  Thinner and smaller than its popular sibling …
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Start-Up Releases Smaller Version of Flip Camcorder
Discussion: Engadget and Gizmodo
Adam Howorth / Apple:
Apple Premieres Movies on the iTunes Store in the UK  —  Apple® today announced that movies from major film studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Sony Pictures Television International …
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BBC:   Movies on iTunes come to the UK
Vanity Fair:
How the Web Was Won  —  Fifty years ago, in response to the surprise Soviet launch of Sputnik, the U.S. military set up the Advanced Research Projects Agency.  It would become the cradle of connectivity, spawning the era of Google and YouTube, of Amazon and Facebook, of the Drudge Report and the Obama campaign.
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Trouble at eBay  —  “I think [fixed prices] will disappear online, simply because it is possible - cheap and easy - to vary prices online.”  That was MIT Media Lab's Patti Maes in 1999, at a time when eBay's business was booming and auctions were seen as the future of ecommerce.
Joanna Stern / LAPTOP Magazine:
Hands-On with the ECS G10IL Mini-Notebook  —  Finding a specific mini-notebook on the Computex show floor is like searching for buried treasure—it takes a bit of digging.  Elitegroup Computer System's (ECS) G10IL was one of those treasures I went in search of this morning.
Discussion: GottaBeMobile, Engadget and SlashGear
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Arn / MacRumors:
SoftBank Announces iPhone for Japan  —  SoftBank Mobile Corp announced today that they have signed an agreement with Apple for the iPhone “later this year”:  —  SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple® to bring the iPhone to Japan later this year.
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Wall Street Journal:
Softbank, Telefonica Reach Deal To Sell iPhone in Japan, Spain
Discussion: BloggingStocks
NeoSmart Technologies / The NeoSmart Files:
Firefox 3 is Still a Memory Hog  —  One of the biggest “improvements” that Mozilla claims has made its way into Firefox 3 is improved memory usage, in particular, the vanquishing of memory leaks: … We're sorry to have to break it to you, but if you thought it was too good to be true you were right.
 
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Tutorial: How to Sell your iPhone Online
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Adify exec: Social networks eating away at CPM value
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Verizon:
Verizon Wireless Offers Another Great Corporate E-Mail Solution …
Eric Auchard / Reuters:
U.S. Internet will shrink to 2 strong players: report