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7:00 PM ET, July 8, 2008

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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Spat with Rogers leaves Canadian Apple stores without iPhones  —  Apple, disgusted with Rogers Wireless for dumping egregious service plans on would-be iPhone 3G buyers, has decided that its Canadian retail stores will have no part in helping the carrier market the new handset to customers, AppleInsider has learned.
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Only U.S. Apple retail stores getting iPhone 3G  —  While Rogers, Canada's largest wireless carrier, has made few friends with its iPhone 3G rate plans, it's not the only foreign carrier that will have to go it alone with iPhone sales on Friday.  —  The Internet was all atwitter Tuesday …
Scott McNulty / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Want to buy an iPhone in Canada?  Don't go to an Apple store (Updated)
Discussion: Digital Daily and MacDailyNews
Benwilson / iPhone Atlas:   Apple/Rogers spat overblown: never any plans to sell iPhone 3G at Apple retail
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Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Apple may have shipped 2.5 million Macs in spring thanks to Vista  —  The poor reception of Windows Vista, along with a strong Mac OS X, will help Apple continue to ship Macs at three times the industry average by the end of the spring, according to BMO Capital Markets.
J. Nicholas Hoover / InformationWeek:
Microsoft Admits Windows Vista Mistakes, Criticizes Apple Ads
Discussion: Digital Daily
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Launches Virtual World Called Lively  —  Well, this sucks for Second Life.  Google is launching a new service today called Lively, a browser based virtual world add-on that lets users create and customize avatars and worlds, interact with other users, and generally have a richer social interaction than is offered by GTalk today.
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Niniane Wang / The Official Google Blog:
Be who you want on the web pages you visit  —  A while ago, I looked around the social web and wished that it could be less static.  Sure, you can leave a comment on a blog or write a text blurb on your social networking profile.  But what if you want to express yourself in a more fun way …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Web companies organize massive effort to patch fundamental Internet flaw  —  The entire underpinnings of the Internet are vulnerable to a major bug in how Internet addresses are managed, security researchers announced today.  The problem is so big that dozens of companies and government organizations …
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US-CERT:
Multiple DNS implementations vulnerable to cache poisoning  —  Overview  —  Deficiencies in the DNS protocol and common DNS implementations facilitate DNS cache poisoning attacks.  —  I. Description  —  The Domain Name System (DNS) is responsible for translating host names to IP addresses …
Agence France Presse:
Internet flaw could let hackers take over the Web
Discussion: CircleID
Rmogull / securosis.com:
Dan Kaminsky Discovers Fundamental Issue In DNS: Massive Multivendor Patch Released
Discussion: Hack a Day and Linux.com
Business Wire:
VMware Announces Change in Executive Leadership  —  PALO ALTO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—VMware's Board of Directors announced today that it has made a change in the leadership of the company with the departure of Diane Greene as President and CEO.  VMware's Board of Directors has appointed Paul Maritz …
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Kit Eaton / Gizmodo:
Is This the First iPhone 3G Unboxing?  —  A poster over at iPhonePortugal has revealed some photos of what they claim is the first iPhone 3G unboxing.  Apparently it's the 8GB version, and it certainly looks it, with its rounded back already carrying fingerprint smudges.
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Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Why you shouldn't buy the iPhone 3G on Friday
Discussion: Public Knowledge
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Bit.ly: Please Use This TinyURL of the Future  —  URL shorteners like TinyURL are a wildly popular way to share long links over email, IM, microblogging and other contexts.  The millions of shortcuts that have been created through such services represent a huge opportunity to capture interesting data …
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Bit.ly launches today
Cade Metz / The Register:
Google evaporates Docs and Spreadsheets cloud  —  Try again in 30 seconds.  Or an hour  —  Updated Google's Docs and Spreadsheets disappeared today for close to an hour, proving that the world's largest search engine is a long way from perfecting the art of online business applications.
Gmail Blog:
Fighting phishing with eBay and PayPal  —  Posted by Brad Taylor, Software Engineer and Gmail Spam Czar  —  Phishing messages are a form of spam that attempt to deceive recipients to gain access to their personal information.  A classic one is a message that appears to come from PayPal …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Gmail now blocking fake eBay, PayPal e-mails
Discussion: Business Wire and E-Commerce Times
Brian Crecente / Kotaku:
GameStop's Leaked Xbox 360 Price Drop Info  —  Just in case all of those retailer circulars from Best Buy, KMart, et al, wasn't enough proof of an Xbox 360 price drop coming on Sunday, here's one more tidbit of proof.  —  A GameStop employee has sent us cell pics of the internal announcement …
Connie Guglielmo / Bloomberg:
Apple Expects 15-Minute Setup Process for New IPhone  —  Apple Inc. will start selling its new iPhone at 8 a.m. nationwide on July 11 and plans to activate U.S. customer accounts with AT&T Inc. within 15 minutes.  —  “Our expectation is that in 10 to 15 minutes, you'll be set up and ready to go …
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Maps Tests Walking Directions  —  Google Maps tests a new feature: walking directions.  You can already get driving directions and, for a small number of locations, Google Maps has transit directions, but these directions are not always useful if you don't use a car or a bus.
 
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Hearst To Launch ‘Delish,’ A Food Site With MSN
Gpsmapper / GPS Tracklog:
TomTom HD Traffic heading to U.S.
Discussion: Gadgetell and Engadget
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News.com:
Select Flickr photos to sell via Getty license
Discussion: TechCrunch and Yahoo!
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Sprint Treo 800w User Guide
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Skooba makes with the pictures of TSA-friendly bags (update: not really)
Kkovash / Blog of Metrics:
Colbert Bump - Firefox 3 Proves its Existence
Discussion: VentureBeat
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Fox Business Snatches WSJ's Walt Mossberg From CNBC
Discussion: paidContent.org
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:
Loren Feldman is No Sacha Baron Cohen
 Earlier Items: 
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Asus offers $100 rebate on Eee PC 900, brings price down to $449
Canon USA:
CANON'S NEW EOS REBEL XS CAMERA LOOKS TO INSPIRE A NEW GENERATION …
Fred / A VC:
Has The Cafe Moved Online?
Hamilton Linden / Official Second Life Blog:
IBM and Linden Lab Interoperability Announcement
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Reality Check: Internet Poses No Threat To TV
Wall Street Journal:
Targeted Ads Raise Privacy Concerns
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Crosses A Line
Marko Karppinen / MK&C:
Apple just gave out my Apple ID password because someone asked
 

 
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