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1:35 PM ET, July 2, 2008

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Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Seeks Partners For a New Run at Yahoo  —  Plan Would Lead To Effective Breakup; Yang's Second Thoughts  —  Microsoft Corp., positioning itself for a new run for Yahoo Inc.'s search business, has approached other media companies in recent days about joining it in a deal …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ballmer on Yahoo Deal: The Bankers “screwed everything up.”  —  Interesting and surprisingly detailed story in the Wall Street Journal tonight about the ongoing (never ending) Microsoft/Yahoo deal.  The headline is that Microsoft, apparently not happy with simply destroying Yahoo's credibility …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
The Humiliating Detail Yahoo (YHOO) Left Out of Its “Microsoft Timeline”  —  Yahoo seems to be winning some folks over with its PR offensive about how it didn't blow the Microsoft deal (part of the board and Jerry Yang's campaign to ask you to please not fire them at the shareholder meeting).
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Yahoo shares jump on latest Microsoft report
Discussion: Valleywag
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Why Powerset is important and different
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
Google Ad Deal Is Under Scrutiny
InfoWorld:
Microsoft to sell Office ‘value pack’ for $70 per year  —  Microsoft has chosen the name “Equipt” for a forthcoming package of products that includes its Office suite, Internet security software and other services, and will sell it for an annual subscription fee of $69.99.
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Office subscription service ready to go
Discussion: Ars Technica and Valleywag
Josephine Lien / DigiTimes:
Samsung to reduce NAND flash supply in July amid Apple orders  —  Samsung Electronics has informed downstream customers it will start reducing its supply of NAND flash chips to them from July as its key customer Apple has placed a large batch of orders, according to sources at the company's customers.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple orders 50 million iPhone NAND chips from Samsung, rest of world put on hold?
Discussion: Electronista
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
AT&T says original iPhones can be inactivated and used as WiFi iPods  —  Original iPhone owners who prefer not to give away or sell their old iPhones after upgrading to an iPhone 3G can instead keep their devices and use them as WiFi-enabled iPods, AT&T has confirmed.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
How to launch an iPhone: A tale of two videos  —  With the July 11 launch of the iPhone 3G less than two weeks away, Apple and AT&T each posted videos Tuesday designed to soften the ground for what's shaping up as another frenzied triumph of Apple event marketing.
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Alex Iskold / ReadWriteWeb:
Is Email In Danger?  —  Human history is one of progressive improvement in communication.  From the 20th century mail was a fundamental form of communication.  The invention of electronic mail (email) changed two things.  It became cheap to send short mail, and delivery was instant.
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Ask.com Drops Map Product & Outsources To Microsoft Virtual Earth  —  The LiveSide Blog reported that Chris Pendleton,Virtual Earth Evangelist posted the news that Ask.com has now dropped their own mapping product for Microsoft's Virtual Earth.  —  Virtual Earth can now be found on Ask Maps …
Discussion: Screenwerk
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Chris Pendleton / Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog:
Ask Maps Now Using Virtual Earth
Discussion: Kelsey Group Blogs
Sunshine / LiveSide:   Ask Maps Now Using Virtual Earth
Lee Gomes / Wall Street Journal:
Study Refutes Niche Theory Spawned by Web  —  Had PowerPoint been around 150 years ago, Thoreau might have warned us to beware not only of enterprises that require new clothes, but also of those that require new paradigms.  —  A book from 2006, “The Long Tail,” was one of those that appear periodically …
Discussion: Screenwerk and rc3.org
Macworld UK:
Steve Jobs, others accused of fraud  —  Stock options nightmare continues to affect Apple management  —  Jonny Evans  —  Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been accused of fraud in a US court.  —  Jobs alongside a range of current and former board members and executives have been accused of fraud …
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Mike Gualtieri / CIO.com:
9 Reasons Why Application Developers Think Their CIO Is Clueless  —  From being a control freak to being a vendor puppet, here are nine behaviors management needs to steer clear of or risk being labeled “clueless.”  —  As CIO you hold one of the most important executive positions in your company.
 
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Marketing Execs And Privacy Execs Disagree Over What Companies Do With Private Info
Discussion: Slashdot
Elizabeth Montalbano / LinuxWorld.com:
ISO approves PDF as an international standard
Mozilla Developer News:
Firefox 2.0.0.15 security and stability update now available for download
Don Reisinger / The Digital Home:
What's next for Blockbuster and Circuit City?
Dana Blankenhorn / Open Source:
Linspire sinks under Xandros waves
Juan Aguilar / Hack a Day:
ssd hard drives tank laptop battery life
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
What's Next For The NYTimes Online?  Widgets, iPhone Apps, APIs, And More
Discussion: Webware.com and CenterNetworks
Karl / DSLreports:
AT&T Ending Dish Network Partnership at Year-End …
 Earlier Items: 
Mike Schramm / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Rolando: A different iPhone game
Matt Richtel / Bits:
Is the Government Tracking Us Through Our Cellphones?  Lawsuit Seeks Answers
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Another Big App Disappears: This Time, It's Social Me
BBC:
Government launches data mash-up
DigiTimes:
Transition to 16:9 aspect ratio unstoppable, says DisplaySearch
Wall Street Journal:
Chinese Bloggers Scale The ‘Great Firewall’ In Riot's Aftermath
Joshua Porter / Bokardo:
Co-evolving  —  I heard a term the other day that I really liked: co-evolve.
Cade Metz / The Register:
How to beat AVG's fake traffic spew
 

 
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

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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