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6:40 PM ET, June 4, 2009

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Steven Johnson / Time:
How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live  —  Evan Williams and Biz Stone of Twitter  —  The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression.  You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your “followers,” and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly?
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Ryan Tate / Valleywag - Gawker:   Time Puts Twitter on Cover, at Vanguard of American Economy
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
New 16GB, 32GB iPhones appear in Carphone Warehouse systems  —  Carphone Warehouse, the largest independent European mobile phone retailer and an official iPhone reseller, added four placeholders to their inventory list for new iPhone models earlier today, sources tell AppleInsider.
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Michael Jones / TUAW:
Rumor: New iPhone to be called “iPhone Video?”  —  Further fueling the iPhone fire (try saying that one five times fast), TUAW has received an anonymous tip stating that AT&T's support website will be updated with “iPhone Video” as one of the model choices when choosing Apple as the phone manufacturer.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Analyst: Apple's WWDC likely to ‘disappoint’  —  Given the rumors and high expectations, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster fears the World Wide Developers Conference that Apple (AAPL) is hosting next week in San Francisco could be a “slight disappointment” to investors.
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
App TV?  —  Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster may not have high expectations for Apple's WWDC gathering in San Francisco Monday, but he does for the company's Apple TV device.  Big expectations.  Munster believes Apple (AAPL) is working an update to the Apple TV — and an App Store to go along with it.
Discussion: Gizmodo
Mercury News:
Google recruiter: Company kept ‘do not touch’ in hiring list  —  A recruiter who left Google last year says that the company had maintained a “do not touch” list of companies including Genentech and Yahoo, whose employees were not to be wooed to the Internet search giant.
Discussion: Gawker
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Unwritten Code Rules Silicon Valley Hiring
Discussion: Techdirt, Thanks:mhelft
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
FTC Sues, Shuts Down N. Calif. Web Hosting Firm  —  In an unprecedented move, the Federal Trade Commission has taken legal steps to shut down a Web hosting provider in Northern California that the agency says was directly involved in managing massive global spam operations.
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Federal Trade Commission:
FTC Shuts Down Notorious Rogue Internet Service Provider, 3FN Service Specializes in Hosting Spam-Spewing Botnets, Phishing Web sites, Child Pornography, and Other Illegal, Malicious Web Content  —  A rogue Internet Service Provider that recruits, knowingly hosts, and actively participates …
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Palm's New Pre Takes On iPhone  —  In the new era of hand-held computers — super-smart touch-screen phones that run sleek, compelling software — Apple's iPhone has been king.  A new, improved iPhone is expected to be announced on June 8.  —  But on June 6, Apple will get a powerful competitor in this category.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Palm Pre review
Intel:
Intel to Acquire Wind River Systems for Approximately $884 Million  —  Intel Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Wind River Systems Inc, under which Intel will acquire all outstanding Wind River common stock for $11.50 per share in cash, or approximately $884 million in the aggregate.
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Google LatLong:
Introducing smart navigation in Street View: double-click to go (anywhere!)  —  Street View is a great way to see panoramas of streets from all over the world.  We've launched some great improvements to this tool, including most recently overlaying user photos and the ability to view Street View in fullscreen.
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
RIM quietly acquires Dash Navigation?  —  According to an article published yesterday by GPS Business News, RIM may have quietly acquired struggling nav/LBS firm Dash Navigation.  The site's co-founder and Editor allegedly spoke to a trusted source who claims that the acquisition is a done deal.
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple looks towards digital media sharing during iPhone calls  —  Apple has spent some time outlining technology that would add a new level of interaction between iPhone users, such as the ability to share and control playback of digital media files like music tracks and video during a telephone call.
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple working on adding multi-touch to iPod click-wheels  —  Having pioneered multi-touch for its iPhone and iPod touch handhelds, Apple later extended the technology to trackpads on its Mac notebook line and now appears ripe to introduce the first iPod click-wheels with similar capabilities.
Jon Lech / nanocr.eu:
Palm Pre USB hack confirmed  —  A little birdie provided me with the following:  —  As I speculated in my previous blog post on Palm Pre Sync and now confirmed by the image above, when the Pre is in “Media Sync” mode it identifies itself as an Apple iPod.  However, it's only the Mass Storage interface …
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Could social gaming run afoul of gambling laws?  —  A variety of social network gaming applications are making lots of money from virtual goods.  But could these services soon find themselves in trouble for allowing gambling — and get slapped with large fines or other punishment?
Discussion: internetnews.com
Andy Ihnatko / Chicago Sun Times:
Google's Wave of the future is genius, but will it work?  —  Five days is an eon in Internet time.  Given the huge amounts of discussion that Google Wave has earned online since the company unveiled it in an 80-minute live demo last week (as I write this, it's the top of the 15th inning …
Reuters:
Russia launches antitrust probe of Microsoft  —  * Agency says cutting Windows XP deliveries was violation  —  * Says demand for XP continues during switch to Vista  —  * Government continues to order Windows XP  —  Russia's state anti-monopoly service launched a probe of Microsoft Corp …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Six months later, no ISPs joining RIAA piracy fight  —  Last December, the music industry's message to song writers, publishers, and musicians was that antipiracy help was on the way.  Hopes soared after the major labels announced that they had convinced a group of telecoms to work with them.
Tommy Craggs / Deadspin:
Tony La Russa Is Not Laughing At Your Satire  —  Dugout genius Tony La Russa is suing Twitter, claiming he “suffered significant emotional distress” and “damage to his reputation” because of a fake La Russa account.  Sheesh, can't the man take a few jokes about dead pitchers and drunk driving?
Zachary M. Seward / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Alan Mutter's plan for newspapers is an industry-owned ad venture  —  When newspaper executives met in Chicago last week to discuss new business models for the industry, they expected to hear from Steve Brill about his well-publicized venture to charge for online content.
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Paltalk says it has settled suit with Microsoft  —  Group messaging company Paltalk said on Thursday that it has reached a deal with Microsoft to settle a patent dispute.  —  As part of the deal, Microsoft has taken a license to Paltalk's patents and is paying an undisclosed amount of money, Paltalk said in a press release.
Tech Daily Dose:
Internet Group Skewered By Lawmakers  —  A chorus of House Energy and Commerce Communications Subcommittee members today called for an extension of the U.S. government's formal oversight agreement with the nonprofit that administers the Internet domain name system, citing concerns …
Patrick Goss / TechRadar.com:
Increased competition ‘uncomfortable’ for Firefox  —  But Mozilla thriving  —  The president of Mozilla Europe has told TechRadar that competing with the likes of Microsoft, Apple and Google in the browser area has made things more uncomfortable for the makers of the ever-popular Firefox but that he welcomes the competition.
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Sony joins YouTube and Universal on Vevo video site
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Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
Tech Titans' Ties to Washington Grow Closer — and More Complicated
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Dan Nystedt / Macworld:
BenQ plans Android smartphones, netbooks for 2010
Discussion: IntoMobile
Rebecca Buckman / Forbes:
Hewlett-Packard's Move Into Software
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Royal Pingdom:
Number of domain names pass 183 million, up 12% from last year
Daniel Emery / BBC:
Nintendo unmoved by rivals' plans
Discussion: GoNintendo, VG247 and TG Daily
Martin Heller / Martin Heller's blog:
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 highlights
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Hulu Still Going Strong, But Growth Is Dropping Off Sharply
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