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12:35 PM ET, June 25, 2008

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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant  —  Sometimes, software isn't so magical.  Even for Bill Gates.  —  For the opening piece in our series on Gates leaving daily life at Microsoft, one goal was to give a clear picture of the Microsoft co-founder's role inside the company, as a gauge of the impact his departure will have.
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Michael Krigsman / IT Project Failures:
Bill Gates' web experience: Byzantine, idiotic logic  —  Analyzing IT program management failures with the perfect vision of hindsight often leads the observer through a senseless and convoluted maze of past decisions.  Studying the Byzantine and idiotic logic behind many IT failures, one wonders, “How did we get here from there?”
Zoli Erdos / Zoli's Blog:   Microsoft, the Walking Dead
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Bold delayed on AT&T until at least mid-August!  —  We know what you're thinking... but this is for reals!  We've just confirmed this now with two high-level sources: the Bold is actually delayed until August on AT&T. It seems like AT&T and RIM are still having software issues with battery life and overheating.
Jesusdiaz / Gizmodo:
iPhone 2.0 Golden Master Could Hit this Friday  —  According to a sources inside the Cupertino's iPhone software development effort, it is “highly probable” that the iPhone 2.0 Golden Master will hit this Friday.  The final version could arrive two weeks before the introduction of the new iPhone 3G …
Discussion: I4U News, 9 to 5 Mac and iSmashPhone
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Google's Vint Cerf, ‘Father of the Internet’: “Online Video Will Be Distributed in Download Mode”  —  Vint Cerf, a computer scientist who is most often called the “father of the Internet,” says that the popularity and demand for online video will mean that the distribution will eventually be done …
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Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:   Vint Cerf: Video streaming to give way to downloading
Arn / MacRumors:
Time of iPhone 3G Launch Remains Unclear  —  Unconfirmed reports claim that the U.S. iPhone launch will take place starting at 8am, July 11th at AT&T stores nationwide.  A screenshot posted to our forums claims to depict the actual email sent to AT&T managers.
Sundeep Tucker / Financial Times:
Virgin Mobile and SK to combine operations in the US  —  Virgin Mobile USA is to acquire the US mobile phone operation controlled by SK Telecom of South Korea, after each side decided to combine their struggling businesses to build scale in the fast-maturing market.
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Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Farewell then, Symbian  —  Epoc's journey: from world-beater to basket case  —  The smart in smartphone disappeared  —  The smartphone wars once devoured a great deal of attention and energy, particularly during the long PR war that took place in the first four barren years …
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Next New Networks Inks With Hulu, Yahoo, Metacafe  —  Next New Networks, the conglomerate of niche video channels that's best known as home of Obama Girl, has struck online video distribution deals with Yahoo, Hulu and Metacafe.  Yahoo (YHOO) and Metacafe will get access to all Next New Networks programming …
Discussion: CenterNetworks and Mashable!
Chris Anderson / Wired News:
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete  —  “All models are wrong, but some are useful.”  —  So proclaimed statistician George Box 30 years ago, and he was right.  But what choice did we have?  Only models, from cosmological equations to theories of human behavior …
InfoWorld:
Yahoo fixes e-mail cross-site scripting flaw  —  Yahoo has fixed a vulnerability in its Web mail site that could allow a hacker to get access to a person's account.  —  The problem was in the way Yahoo's Web mail interacts with version 8.1.0.209 of its instant messaging (IM) desktop application …
Discussion: Zero Day and The Register
Jonathan D. Glater / New York Times:
Hidden Sex Scenes Draw Ho-Hum, Except From Lawyers  —  Lawyers who sued the makers of the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas profess to be shocked, simply shocked, that few people who bought the game were offended by sex scenes buried in its software.  —  Any buyer upset about hidden sex …
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Starbucks (SBUX) Dumping CDs, iTunes Gift Cards (AAPL)  —  Starbucks, which has been scaling back its once-grand ambitions to turn itself into an entertainment hub, is about to shrink its plans yet again.  We hear that by September, the chain will have dumped almost all of its in-store music retail offerings.
Discussion: hypebot
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Mixx Gets Serious About Community Building  —  Digg competitor Mixx just launched an extension to its groups feature that founder Chris McGill describes as “Ning for social media”.  —  Users can now set up Mixx community sites on their own subdomains (see ours here).
 
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Jason Perlow / Between the Lines:
I'm sticking with Windows XP
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JAMA current issue:
CARING FOR THE CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT: Electromagnetic Interference …
Dana Blankenhorn / Open Source:
One open source interface to rule them
Tech-On! : tech news:
E Ink: ‘E-newspapers’ to Go Commercial in late 2009
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Multiply: The Social Network That Backs Up Your Media, Too
Discussion: The Social and Pulse 2.0
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Comcast's goal: Integrate the screens
Greenpeace:
How the companies line up  —  We first released our 'Guide …
Jonathan Cassell / iSuppli:
New iPhone Carries $173 BOM and Manufacturing Cost, According …
 Earlier Items: 
Microsoft Corporation:
Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.0
Michael Geist / canada.com:
Uncle Sam's fingers are all over the Canadian copyright bill
Discussion: Digg
Jennifer Leggio / Feeds:
Is Microsoft accessible without Bill Gates?
Discussion: ZDNet and Forbes
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Kosmix Goes Horizontal
Discussion: Beet.TV
Devin Leonard / Fortune:
iPod Doctor makes house calls
Discussion: MacBlogz, Newlaunches.com, PSFK and Digg
Phil Manchester / The Register:
Eclipse will be watching you very closely
Discussion: eWeek and Z Trek
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
T-Mobile's home phone service goes nationwide
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
Internet Provider Halts Plan to Track, Sell Users' Surfing Data
 

 
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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”

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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