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11:50 AM ET, June 16, 2008

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Here's Our New Policy On A.P. stories: They're Banned  —  The stories over the weekend were bad enough - the Associated Press, with a long history of suing over quotations from their articles, went after Drudge Retort for having the audacity to link to their stories along with short quotations via reader submissions.
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
The Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogs  —  The Associated Press, one of the nation's largest news organizations, said that it will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites …
Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:
AP backs off — or does it?
Discussion: Bloggasm
Steve Litchfield / All About Symbian:
Nokia E71  —  Having been using the Nokia E71 for a little while now, Steve Litchfield delivers his verdict - what's new compared to its predecessor, the E61i?  And how close does the E71 get to being the perfect smartphone for the modern professional?  —  Version Reviewed:  —  Score: 85
Discussion: Engadget Mobile and IntoMobile
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Bonnie Cha / CNET News.com:
New Nokia E66 and Nokia E71 go a little more business casual  —  It may be that the Nokia E series sometimes suffers from Jan Brady syndrome as it gets overshadowed by the flashier members of its extended family—the Nokia N series (aka Marcia Brady)—but they're just as bright and deserve some recognition of its own.
Dane Hamilton / Reuters:
Icahn says Yahoo-Google ad deal has merit  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionare financier Carl Icahn, who launched a proxy battle in May to replace the board of Yahoo Inc (NasdaqGS:YHOO - News) in the wake of its failed deal to be acquired by Microsoft Corp (NasdaqGS:MSFT - News) …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:   Yahoo's Google & Microsoft Deals, Side-By-Side
Peter Kaplan / Reuters:
Microsoft seeks support against Google-Yahoo deal
Discussion: The Register
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
eBay: Stifel Upgrades; MSFT Interest In PayPal/Skype?  —  Is Microsoft (MSFT) interested in taking a stake in eBay's (EBAY) PayPal and Skype units?  —  Stifel Nicolaus analyst Scott Devitt asserts in a research note this morning that he has “thought it possible for Microsoft to attain an equity ownership interest in PayPal/Skype.”
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Eric Auchard / Reuters:
EBay to let outside software work inside its site
Discussion: Pulse 2.0
Darryl K. Taft / eWeek:
eBay, PayPal Open Up to Developers
Discussion: Voices
Brooke Crothers / CNET News.com:
AMD, Nvidia graphics chip designs diverge  —  On Monday, AMD and Nvidia are launching graphics chips based on distinctly different design philosophies.  —  Nvidia's GTX 280 and GTX 260 are designed to deliver the biggest performance bang per chip.  A so-called “monolithic” …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Nvidia and AMD launch new salvos in graphics chip battle
Discussion: Macsimum News, Macworld and TG Daily
Austin Modine / The Register:
Nvidia launches GTX 200 series GPUs
Discussion: Hardware 2.0
Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:
T-Mobile to sell 3G iPhone from 1 euro in Germany  —  FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom AG's (DTEGn.DE) T-Mobile will sell Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) new iPhone for as little as 1 euro ($1.54) for the 8-gigabyte version together with a 69 euro monthly contract, it said on Monday.
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Andy Space / 9 to 5 Mac:
Germany offers one Euro iPhone 3G
Discussion: The Register
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Windows XP era draws to a close  —  After a long-announced transition, June 30 marks the end of an era at Microsoft.  Well, really it's the end of two eras.  —  Most people think of Bill Gates, of course, and I'll have plenty more to say about his impending shift to part-time work in the coming days.
Discussion: Engadget and Startup Meme
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Matt Asay / The Open Road:   Vista's big problem: 92 percent of developers ignoring it
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
The iPhone's Impact on Rivals  —  As Apple looks to make further inroads with its soon-to-be-released 3G device, both handset makers and wireless carriers may suffer  —  It didn't take Apple (AAPL) long to make its mark on the mobile-phone industry.  In the first year after the introduction …
Associated Press:
FCC head backs Sirius-XM deal  —  Chairman Kevin Martin is recommending the $5 billion deal in exchange for concessions.  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is recommending approval of the $5 billion merger between the nation's two satellite radio broadcasters …
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Mobile users get chance to snap up customised Nike trainers  —  Nike fans will be able to create their own trainers based on colourful pictures they take on a camera phone in an innovative pan-European mobile marketing campaign by the sportswear giant.  —  The new service, called Nike PhotoiD …
Pew Internet:
The Internet and the 2008 Election  —  A record-breaking 46% of Americans have used the internet, email or cell phone text messaging to get news about the campaign, share their views and mobilize others.  And Barack Obama's backers have an edge in the online political environment.
Discussion: Open Source, Switched and WebProNews
Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:
Google Docs gets limited PDF support  —  Google Docs, the online office suite from the search giant, now has some limited but still useful support for PDF files.  —  People using the service now can upload and view documents encoded with the widely used and now standardized Portable Document Format initially created by Adobe Systems.
Discussion: The Inquisitr and Office Tweaks
 
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Microsoft's Next Quarry?
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Remote Clicks That Do More Than Just Change Channels
Discussion: NewTeeVee and Lost Remote
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Can Twitter Be Saved?
BBC:
Council bans ‘anti-teen’ gadget
Discussion: Gadget Lab, Engadget and Digg
Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
Average teenager's iPod has 800 illegal music tracks
Discussion: Podcasting News and Coolfer
Tim Arango / New York Times:
EMI's New Boss Sees Cracks in Music World
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Why EA Wants Take-Two Now
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Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Yahoo: ‘Everything But The Kitchen Sink’ Approach Not Paying Dividends
Chris Kanaracus / LinuxWorld.com:
Microsoft now sponsor of Open Source Census
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
TheFunded now lets members refer companies to VCs
Discussion: TechCrunch, metarand and Mashable!
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
IE8 development: Microsoft should learn from Apple, Mozilla
Discussion: Digg
 

 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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