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11:30 AM ET, June 19, 2008

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Tom Neumayr / Apple:
iTunes Store Tops Over Five Billion Songs Sold  —  Apple Renting & Selling Over 50,000 Movies Per Day  —  Apple® today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over five billion songs from the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com). iTunes is the number one music retailer …
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Jonathan Skillings / CNET News.com:
Apple's iTunes hits 5 billion mark  —  The path to world domination is paved in round numbers, especially big ones like this: 5 billion.  —  That's the number of songs that have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Store, Apple said Thursday.  (Actually, for the record, the press release says “over 5 billion.")
Discussion: Infinite Loop, TG Daily and AppScout
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Yahoo Mail hopes to lure users with ‘ymail.com’  —  Yahoo Mail, the top provider of Web-based e-mail, is letting users sign up with the ymail.com and rocketmail.com domains in an attempt to attract new users and keep existing ones loyal.  —  The move is geared to help people find a better e-mail address …
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Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:
Ymail And Rocketmail?  Sorry, Yahoo, But That's Not Enough to Thwart Gmail  —  At 12 PDT today Yahoo will for the first time start offering free e-mail accounts under two new domains: ymail and rocketmail.  Both ymail.com and rocketmail.com already lead to the Yahoo Mail landing page …
Discussion: TechBlog and Pulse 2.0
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Who's Next to Go at Yahoo as Reorg Looms?  —  My special BoomTown Yahoo tip inbox is is filling up fast this week from Yahoo employees-who, by the way, seem to like to use Gmail as their secret one-all buzzing about the next shoe to drop.  —  That clodhopper would be, of course …
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
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Jack Schofield / Guardian:   Can Yang survive at the top of Yahoo?
Zero Day Initiative / DVLabs:
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Vulnerability  —  A number of people who monitor our Zero Day Initiative's Upcoming Advisories page noticed yesterday that we reported a vulnerability to Mozilla (ZDI-CAN-349).  Taking into account the coincidental timing of the Firefox 3. release, many are asking us …
Christina Holsberry / Facebook Blog:
Welcome to Facebook, homeschoolers  —  Back in September 2006, we decided to open up Facebook to everyone.  Well, almost everyone.  —  We realized Facebook would be most useful if more people were allowed to join, but we also weren't willing to compromise the security of the site by removing …
Jesse Stay / Stay N\' Alive:
Developers Bailing on Twitter … I've been following various development mailing lists lately, and I'm seeing a trend of developers starting to bail on Twitter.  This is a scary thought, because when the developers bail, so will the users.  It all started with a conversation …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Tracking Former Yahoo Execs - Where Are They Now?  —  Out of pure curiosity we started tracking Yahoo execs who've left the company since January 2007.  It's hard to believe, but at least fifty of them have bailed out in the last year and a half.  —  Some went to work for Google.  Others went to startups.
Discussion: Guardian Unlimited
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Internet-a-Gogo: Airlines to Offer In-Flight Access  —  Attention, laptop-toting U.S. airline passengers!  You are either about to become much more productive and happy, or to lose one of your last refuges from the digital deluge that afflicts your life.  —  Beginning this summer …
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
Free music service Qtrax is back with... wait, no it isn't  —  It's been a long time since we've heard from Qtrax, a me-too rebel of the Napster days turned legitimate P2P music download service in a hopeful-but-vaporware kind of way.  The service has had a number of false starts in the last year …
Discussion: hypebot
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Microsoft does 180, will continue to support MSN Music DRM  —  Microsoft has reversed its decision to pull the plug on MSN Music's authorization servers, according to an e-mail sent out to customers this afternoon.  Customers who bought music from the now-defunct service will now be able …
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Want XP on a new Dell?  You'll pay up to $50 extra for the aging OS  —  Vostro line gets surcharges; Latitude, OptiPlex, Precision get no-cost downgrades  —  Computerworld) Dell Inc. will charge customers up to $50 for factory-installed Windows XP on some PCs after Wednesday, according to the company's Web site.
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Friendster's growth in Asia could make it the top social network in the world, once again  —  In the current international land-grab among leading social networks, Facebook is overtaking MySpace as the largest social network in the world.  But there's a big caveat — Asia …
 
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Citi: YouTube Can Generate $500M In 2009 (GOOG)
Discussion: Between the Lines
Chris Morrison / VentureBeat:
Semantic search startup TextDigger unearths a business model …
Sam / Go Big Always:
Anatomy of the Enterprise Octopus
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Sprint to launch WiMax service in September
Chris Ziegler / Engadget Mobile:
BlackBerry Thunder, touchscreen Motorola on board for Verizon's visual voicemail
Associated Press:
China denies Microsoft monopoly reports
Discussion: CNET News.com
Timothy / Slashdot:
Mac OS X Root Escalation Through AppleScript
N'Gai Croal / Level Up:
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Telstra to sell 3G iPhone
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Gannett Gets Cozy With Cozi
Cade Metz / The Register:
FCC tests ‘vindicate’ white space lobby
Maura Dolan / Los Angeles Times:
Your boss shouldn't read your text or e-mail messages without an OK, court says
Discussion: Know It All
Liz Shannon Miller / NewTeeVee:
YouTube Screening Room Launches
Dion Almaer / techno.blog:
Keeping Google honest; The power of not being defensive
massless.org:
Leaving Google  —  How can I accurately summarize such a cardinal set of events?
Discussion: Mashable!
Heather Lane / Inside AdWords:
Landing page load time now affects keywords' Quality Scores
 

 
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