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1:50 PM ET, June 12, 2008

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Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
Leaving Yahoo!  —  It seems that word has started to leak out, so I might as well remove any speculation or ambiguity.  In the next few weeks, I'll walk the halls at Yahoo! as an employee one last time and turn in my purple badge.  After 8.5 years of service and a better experience …
Beltzner / Mozilla Developer News:
Coming Tuesday, June 17th: Firefox 3  —  Whenever we're asked “when is Firefox going to be released” we endeavor to answer to the best of our abilities, but the truth of the matter is that we'll only ever ship “when it's ready”.  We have a lot of indicators that help us understand when the product …
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Opera:
Opera redefines Web browsing yet again  —  New Opera 9.5 is beautifully engineered as the centerpiece of a Web experience without boundaries  —  Opera Software today released to the world the final public release of its flagship Web browser, Opera 9.5.  Opera's cross-device expertise …
Drew Olanoff / Download Squad:
Opera Desktop Browser 9.5 is Final - Take your stuff with you
Discussion: Mashable!
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Mozilla sets release date for Firefox 3: June 17
Discussion: The Register, Macworld and Mozilla
Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Google CEO talks of good, evil and monopoly fears  —  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt on Wednesday detailed his theory of competition in the Web industry while saying Google's famous mantra of “Don't be evil” is often misunderstood.
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Google's Moral Obligation To Newspapers: Help Both Sides Be Better Off
Discussion: CNET News.com and WebProNews
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:   Google CEO: ‘Moral imperative’ to help newspapers
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
iPhone 3G's True Price Compared  —  Ever since Apple announced that they're cutting $200 from the iPhone's price and lowering the iPhone 3G down to $199, people have been rumbling about how the increased AT&T data plan price negates any savings you get up front on the phone.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
RepairPal, It's Like Google Health for Your Car  —  Going to the mechanic is like going to the doctor.  When something needs to be fixed, for most people there is no easy way to tell if they are being charged the going rate or are being ripped off.  Enter RepairPal, a new site launching publicly today …
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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
RepairPal: Yes, your mechanic is ripping you off
Discussion: down the avenue, PSFK and geeksugar
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Palm Centro heads to Verizon, in stores tomorrow for $99  —  Come on, T-Mobile, all we need is you to get on board now and that'll make a perfect Yahtzee! for Palm with its surprise hit, the Centro.  Thanks to Verizon's expected announcement today, the top three US carriers now carry …
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Nick Knupffer / Technology@Intel:
USB 3.0 for the masses - Dispelling the myths.  —  There has been a lot of unanswered speculation recently regarding USB 3.0 and Intel's involvement; I thought it was about time to set the record straight.  By the way: USB 3.0 will be a new wired USB standard - operating at faster speeds than previous USB generations.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Intel: Enough with the whining; We're not holding back USB 3.0
Discussion: Electronista
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
Flixwagon Does Live Vidcasting on iPhone  —  Sure, we were a little crestfallen this week when Apple didn't announce a video camera in iPhone 2.0.  But who needs one when the industrious folks at Flixwagon just rigged up the current iPhone for live video broadcasting?  Here's the maiden footage:
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Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Mobile broadcaster Flixwagon hitches to iPhone
Discussion: Beet.TV
Matt Dodd / The iLife:
Live from the 2008 Apple Design Awards (Liveblog and Photos) - WWDC08  —  Since 1996, every year at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple has awarded the most innovative Macintosh software and related hardware produced by independent developers with a Design Award.
Discussion: iLounge and Macsimum News
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Andy Space / 9 to 5 Mac:   Apple Design Awards winners
Kim Hart / Washington Post:
A Flashy Facebook Page, at a Cost to Privacy  —  Add-Ons to Online Social Profiles Expose Personal Data to Strangers  —  Facebook fanatics who have covered their profiles on the popular social networking site with silly games and quirky trivia quizzes may be unknowingly giving a host of strangers an intimate peek at their lives.
Discussion: broadstuff and Digg
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
App Store has size and price caps, opening with iPhone 3G  —  Developers submitting content to the App Store will have wide-ranging control over how their app is offered, but face a definitive limit for the size of their apps, AppleInsider has learned.  The portal may also open its doors in sync with the launch of iPhone 3G.
Discussion: iLounge
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Weiner Will Leave Yahoo, but Might Not Be Replaced  —  Jeff Weiner (pictured here), as BoomTown reported in a story broken by BoomTown Tuesday and also yesterday, will be leaving Yahoo (YHOO) to become an entrepreneur in residence at both Accel Partners and Greylock Partners.
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Seawolf 9110 Joins the Pack, Javelin, Aurora and Thunder throw a party  —  It almost seems like we're unearthing a new BlackBerry model every week.  There were a number of doubters on the internet when we first posted news of the BlackBerry 9100 and external display.
Serkan Toto / CrunchGear:
New kissing robot from Japan  —  Sega Toys today announced [JP, PDF] they will start selling a new humanoid robot in Japan, E.M.A., on September 26th.  E.M.A. stands for “Eternal, Maiden, Actualization” (whatever that means).  —  The robot is supposed to be female and stands 38 cm tall.
Discussion: Ubergizmo, Engadget and The Raw Feed
Metallica.com:
Reviews . . .  While we occasionally enjoy reading the various comments, rumors, speculation, reviews, gossip and all the good that the internet brings, rarely do we feel the desire/need to respond to the “blogosphere” . . . hey, everyone is entitled to have their thoughts and opinions, right?
Business Wire:
Comcast Increases Upstream Speeds for Its High-Speed Internet Customers for No Additional Charge  —  Upstream Speed to Nearly Triple for Performance Customers and More Than Double for Performance Plus Customers  —  PHILADELPHIA—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Comcast (Nasdaq:CMCSK - News, CMCSA - News) …
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers  —  As programmers, we deal with a lot of unusual keyboard characters that typical users rarely need to type, much less think about: … Even the characters that are fairly regularly used in everyday writing — such as the humble dash, parens …
Discussion: Gadgetopia
 
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Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle:
Different sort of free Wi-Fi starts to thrive
Discussion: FierceWireless
Pauline Askin / eWeek:
Video Game Addicts are Not Shy Nerds
Discussion: WebProNews
Phil Wahba / eWeek:
NYSE to Sell Market Data to Web Sites
Discussion: paidContent.org
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
Firefox Mobile concept flaunted in Mozilla video
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Gmail.com Domain Made Disfunctional In Germany
Discussion: The Inquisitr
Bill Ray / The Register:
EU to ‘guide’ local regulators on digital dividend
Discussion: eWeek
InfoWorld:
Spam-free blog search goes public
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Ben Lorica / O'Reilly Radar:
When Micro-blogging Grows Up  —  Will Twitter and other micro …
Discussion: Mashable! and The Last Podcast
Zachary Rodgers / ClickZ:
Yahoo's Display Endgame: Combine AMP with Right Media
David Pogue / New York Times:
An Imitator That Rivals the iPhone
Discussion: GigaOM and The Praized Blog
Daniel Libit / The Politico:
Are members BlackBerry addicts?
Tara Parker-Pope / NYT:
How Much Radiation Does Your Phone Emit?
Discussion: textually.org
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Congressmen say Chinese hacked their PCs
 

 
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