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4:05 PM ET, May 28, 2009

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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Wave Drips With Ambition.  A New Communication Platform For A New Web.  —  Yesterday, during the Google I/O keynote, Google's VP of Engineering, Vic Gundotra, laid out a grand vision for the direction Google sees the web heading towards with the move to the HTML 5 standard.
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Google Wave: What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invented Today?  —  Yesterday's Google I/O keynote highlighted the power of HTML 5 to match functionality long experienced in desktop applications.  This morning, Google plans to announce an HTML 5-based application - still very much in the early stages …
Discussion: PC World
Lars Rasmussen / The Official Google Blog:
Went Walkabout.  Brought back Google Wave.  —  Back in early 2004, Google took an interest in a tiny mapping startup called Where 2 Tech, founded by my brother Jens and me.  We were excited to join Google and help create what would become Google Maps.  But we also started thinking about what might come next for us after maps.
Tom Krazit / Webware.com:
Gmail in real-time: Google does the Wave
Discussion: CNET News, CIO.com and Gizmodo
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: Video Interview With The Google Wave Founders
Discussion: VentureBeat and TheNextWeb.com, Thanks:atul
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Bing!  Microsoft Prepares For War With A Revamped Search Engine (Screenshots)  —  Today, Microsoft publicly unveiled its soon-to-launch search engine Bing.  It will become available over the next few days, and be fully launched by June 3.  On the surface, Bing has a distinct gloss.
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Microsoft's Bing Vs Google: Head To Head Search Results  —  Let's just get it out of the way: no, Bing is not a “Google Killer.”  It's also safe to say that Microsoft doesn't see it that way either.  My understanding of what Microsoft believes it has in Bing is a much more competitive product than Live Search.
Discussion: Screenwerk
John Paczkowski / D7 Highlights:
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: Bing!  —  “Search and advertising, we are a small share....It's all about Google.  They have share, we don't have share.”  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that back in February, and according to the latest metrics from comScore (SCOR), it's as true today as it was then.
Microsoft:
Microsoft's New Search at Bing.com Helps People Make Better Decisions
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Meet Bing, Microsoft's New Search Engine
Ina Fried / CNET News:   How Microsoft's Bing came to be
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Palm Pre First Hands On!  —  Yes — you're looking at the first site in the world to have a Palm Pre (or at least be able to post it up).  There's so much to say but that's going to have to wait for our full review.  In the meantime, here's a couple first impressions of the phone and a few more photos after the break:
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Reuters:
Verizon to sell Palm Pre, new BlackBerry Storm  —  *Verizon to sell Palm Pre, new BlackBerry storm  —  *Palm shares rise 11 pct, Sprint shares fall 3 pct  —  Verizon Wireless plans to start selling Palm Inc's (PALM.O) Pre and a new version of the touchscreen BlackBerry Storm in about six months …
Scott Moritz / TheStreet.com:   Palm Surges as Pre Goes to Verizon Next
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Hulu Desktop Lets You Rot Your Brain From The Comfort Of Your Couch  —  Since launching in late 2007, Hulu has done one one thing very well: it lets you watch your favorite TV shows and movies from your computer, free of charge.  But aside from improving the user experience with assorted niceties …
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Hulu Launches Desktop App, Forbids Use on Anything Other than PCs
Discussion: TechCrunch and last100
Eric F. / Hulu Blog:
Lab Doors Are Open
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and boxee blog
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
AOL Spinoff Approved Last Night by Time Warner Board: Here Are the Inside Details (Not in the Press Release)  —  While there were reports that the Time Warner board was meeting today to approve the spinoff of its AOL online unit, it actually gave the move an “enthusiastic endorsement” last night, according to sources.
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James Warren / Atlantic Correspondents:
Shhhh.  Newspaper Publishers Are Quietly Holding a Very, Very Important Conclave Today.  Will You Soon Be Paying for Online Content?  —  Here's a story the newspaper industry's upper echelon apparently kept from its anxious newsrooms: A discreet Thursday meeting in Chicago about their future.
Discussion: Doc Searls Weblog
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Exclusive: Steve Ballmer demos the Zune HD for Engadget!  —  That's right kids — Ballmer himself whipped out the newly minted Zune HD for us during D7 and showed of a few of its finer features... including its ability to play a Pixar movie on its gorgeous OLED screen.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Meet GigaOM Pro, Our Subscription-Only Research Service  —  When I was looking for funding for GigaOM nearly three years ago, I had a very simple, four-slide PowerPoint presentation that I showed to potential investors.  Two slides focused on the past, but the other two — the “money slides” — focused on my plan to build the company.
Matt Richtel / Bits:
Google: Expect 18 Android Phones by Year's End  —  Summer Of '09 Phone War update: By year's end, there will be at least 18 phones on the market worldwide based on the Android operating system, Google disclosed for the first time today.  —  Andy Rubin, senior director for Mobile Platforms …
Christopher Lawton / Wall Street Journal:
More Households Cut the Cord on Cable  —  Amid tighter budgets, more people are trying to save money by cutting their cable cords.  In response, cable companies are beginning to experiment with new Internet services.  —  In what's shaping up as the home-entertainment equivalent of severing …
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Joe Mandese / MediaPost:   Nielsen Finds ‘Cord-Cutting’ …
Jefferson Graham / USA Today:
Economy isn't slowing Apple's building plans  —  Apple (AAPL) isn't letting the recession slow its retail ambitions.  —  The company said Wednesday that it plans to remodel 100 of its stores this year, to make more room for customer training and displayed products.
Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge:
Purported next-gen iPhone bezel shows speaker, color changes  —  Images from Hong Kong depict several significant changes from the bezels of prior iPhones to the next-generation model, if their source is to be believed.  Listings pages from Hong Kong-based part vendor China Ontrade depict …
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Mole: PSP-Go details confirmed, smaller PS3 is on the way  —  Our trusty inside source spills the beans about Sony's long-term strategy.  The PSP-Go! is real, and should be announced at E3.  The more surprising news?  A slimmed-down PS3 is in fact coming, but not until Sony sells the PS3s sitting on retail shelves.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
D7 Buzz: Bartz And Ballmer Meeting This Morning  —  When Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz suggested yesterday at the D7 conference that she would consider doing a deal with Microsoft for “boatloads of money,” she might have been doing more than just answering a hypothetical question.  It could have been an opening salvo.
 
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
The Patents of Steve Jobs
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John Paczkowski / D7 Highlights:
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Hands on: Google Chromium browser alpha for Linux
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Tech ain't that hot on Google
Peter Kafka / D7 Highlights:
Washington Post Exec Katharine Weymouth: I Wish Our Headlines …
Discussion: TechCrunch and CNET News
Jeffrey Veen / The Typekit Blog:
Introducing Typekit  —  When we started Small Batch Inc. last year …
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 Earlier Items: 
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
U2 manager: ‘Ultimately free is the enemy of good’
Chris Lynch / Inside Facebook:
Omniture Releases Analytics Tools for Facebook
Discussion: eWeek and All Facebook
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
New version of HDMI cables brings Internet into consumer electronics
Discussion: TWICE, OhGizmo! and I4U News
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Semantic technology gains publishing foothold
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Landmark study: DRM truly does make pirates out of us all
Discussion: TeleRead, TechSpot and CrunchGear