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1:15 PM ET, June 26, 2008

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Did Facebook Shut Down Slide's Top Friends?  How Very MySpace Of Them  —  MySpace used to be notorious for simply banning third party widgets that didn't play nice ("not playing nice" generally meant any kind of advertisements in the widgets, but it was very arbitrary).  Those days are long gone.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:   Facebook suspends app that permitted peephole
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Breaking: Top Friends Vanishes From Facebook Platform (Updated)
Discussion: Mashable!
Brad Stone / Bits:
Judge Ends Facebook's Feud With ConnectU  —  Facebook has finally has closed the book on its long-running, multi-front legal battle with rival college social network ConnectU — but not before a new question was raised about Facebook's supposed $15 billion valuation.
Discussion: CrunchGear
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Claire Hoffman / Rolling Stone:   The Battle For Facebook  —  Mark Zuckerberg launched …
Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:
Dell Dock Puts a Little Mac OS X Into Vista Studio Laptops  —  Dell's Studio Laptops will be getting a little touch of the Mac OS when they ship, thanks to the Dell Dock, a launcher that cleans up the Vista desktop in the most charming, albeit derivative, way.  Below you can see “Before” and “After” images of the cleanup:
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Dell gets “official” with colorful Studio 15 and Studio 17 laptop lines
Discussion: Crave, BetaNews and Tech Blog
BBC:
Internet overhaul wins approval  —  A complete overhaul of the way in which people navigate the internet has been given the go-ahead in Paris.  —  The net's regulator, Icann, voted unanimously to relax the strict rules on so-called “top-level” domain names, such as .com or .uk.
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IDG News Service:
Sony Previews ‘Life With PlayStation’  —  Sony is preparing a non-game service for its PlayStation 3 console that at first glance is similar to one available on Nintendo's Wii.  —  Called “Life with PlayStation,” the service will launch with news and weather information channels but is set …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Sony's PS3 movie download service rolling out Stateside this summer  —  Sony just released a rambling update to it corporate strategy through fiscal year 2010.  An interesting read for fans and competitors alike as Sony lays bare initiatives intent on moving Sony from recovery to the …
Jack Davis / Docu-Drama:
Google's multi-million dollar welcome to new CFO  —  Google finally named a replacement for its outgoing chief financial officer, George Reyes.  He is Patrick Pichette who comes to the search juggernaut after seven years at Bell Canada.  —  So how do you make a new top executive feel at home …
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
Intel stays behind the curve ... again  —  The Inquirer is making a big fuss over Intel's decision to continue using Windows XP instead of migrating to Windows Vista.  A stunning rebuke, obviously, leading to a rousing chorus of “I told you so.”  —  Except that there's nothing new here.
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Steve Lohr / Bits:
Et Tu, Intel? Chip Giant Won't Embrace Microsoft's Windows Vista
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Orders Lots More iPhones; More iPods, Macs (AAPL)  —  Last time FBR Research analyst Craig Berger checked in with Apple's suppliers, he reported that Apple had slightly cut its iPhone build orders, and could cut them again.  —  Good news: Now he says Apple has revised those orders …
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac and Macsimum News
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Opens Up The Data Pipe With Full Launch Of Data Availability  —  MySpace was the first of the Big Three to announce tools for third party sites to integrate MySpace user data into their services (called, collectively, Data Availability).  A day later Facebook announced Facebook Connect …
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Instant message service Meebo sees traffic from its embedded chat rooms on Facebook  —  Meebo, the company that lets you chat to people across instant message services on its site, and across IM services in chat rooms you can embed on the web, also lets third-party developers build applications …
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Chrysler takes Wi-Fi on the road  —  Chrysler is turning cars and trucks into wireless hot spots.  —  The company announced Thursday a new feature that will let people purchase a “Uconnect” in-car wireless system as part of a dealer upgrade in 20 various 2009 Chrysler, Dodge, and Jeep models.
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PR Newswire:
Chrysler LLC Launches Umbrella ‘uconnect’ Name for Connectivity Technologies
Discussion: dailywireless.org
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Joss Stone: Piracy is Brilliant, Music Should be Shared  —  Joss Stone, who won a Grammy last year, loves music, but hates the the music industry.  In a recent interview she said that - unlike herself - most artists are brainwashed by the industry, and she encouraged people to share her music.
Discussion: Mashable!, p2pnet, Changing Way and Digg
Chris Williams / The Register:
BT starts threatening music downloaders with internet cut-off  —  Exclusive BT, the UK's largest broadband provider, has begun threatening subscribers with disconnection from the internet if it is told they are sharing copyright music over peer-to-peer networks, The Register has learned.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft tries to go where VMware isn't  —  In Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner is wary of building a baseball diamond on his farm, which is already near foreclosure.  But a voice tells him, “If you build it, they will come.”  —  Microsoft has the same vision for its virtualization technology.
Discussion: Microsoft Watch and Beyond Binary
 
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Red Hat:
Red Hat Reports First Quarter Results
Yukari Iwatani Kane / Wall Street Journal:
Sony Outlines Strategy for Growth In TV, Videogame Businesses
Susie Pan / DigiTimes:
Innolux rumored to have secured touch panel orders from Apple
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Xobni, Xoopit, Gmail Labs: Inbox Addons Are Getting Hot
Discussion: eWeek
Charles Knight / Alt Search Engines:
Retrevo + PC World = Millions of new users
Discussion: MarketingVOX
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
Zero-day flaw haunts Internet Explorer
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Sorry, Ask.com — I Still Don't Think You're Focused On Core Search
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Inventor of the Internet takes aim at BitTorrent
Discussion: Slyck and GigaOM
 Earlier Items: 
Jason Mick / DailyTech:
Women With Long Fingernails, Fat Fingers Complain About iPhone
Tom Simonite / New Scientist Technology Blog:
Dual-display e-book reader lets you flip pages naturally
Discussion: jkOnTheRun, Gizmodo, Slashdot and Digg
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Could Microsoft Get Control of Yahoo Without Buying It Whole?
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
This Fall's TV Shows: Now on P2P Networks
Austin Bogues / New York Times:
Laptop Searches in Airports Draw Fire at Senate Hearing
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Judge upholds $107,834 in attorneys' fees award against RIAA
Discussion: hypebot
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Xobni Gets Even Better With LinkedIn Data For Your Contacts
itmanagement.earthweb.com:
The Mouse Is Dead  —  You're probably using a mouse today …
 

 
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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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