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1:00 PM ET, June 8, 2009

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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Analysts deem Palm launch a success; Pre inventory replenishment eyed  —  Analysts called the Palm Pre launch a success, but supplies were tight.  —  Piper Jaffray analyst Michael Walkley deemed the initial Pre sales “solid.”  And J.P. Morgan analyst Paul Coster reckoned that most Sprint stores he called were sold out.
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iFixit:
Palm Pre Teardown  —  Introduction  —  We got our hands on the new Palm Pre from Sprint!  Oh joy, our all-nighter in front of the Sprint store paid off!  We're finished disassembling it now.  Follow our updates @ifixit on twitter.  —  Teardown  —  This is a look at what is inside …
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Phil Schiller keynote live from WWDC 2009  —  9:44AM Radiohead... again.  ‘15 Step’  —  9:39AM And we're in!  We've just gotten ourselves a sweet aisle seat, and hey... power!  Thanks Apple, you sure know how to treat the livebloggers right.  —  Some thumping techno / rock on the soundsystem here — mood is nuts.
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
WWDC 2009 Predictions  —  What I know, don't know, and know I don't know about tomorrow's WWDC announcements.  As usual, please, no wagering.  —  iPhone 3GS  —  Everything I wrote about last month in “The Next iPhone” still stands.  I expect Apple to announce updated iPhones …
Charles Jade / TheAppleBlog:
Outside WWDC 2009  —  WWDC 2009 starts early in San Francisco, as in the day before.  First in line this year is Clay, who arrived at 5:30 p.m., June 7.  Behind him were hundreds more, all waiting for the keynote at 10:00 a.m. today.  —  By 5:30 a.m., the line for the keynote stretched …
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Apps Boom as Companies Seek Space on Phones  —  Developers of programs for the iPhone have already managed to make a decent living selling hundreds of thousands of copies of games from their living rooms or garages.  —  But now, a new way to profit from writing software for the iPhone is emerging …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
The Summer of the Superphone
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Movie studios launch Epix, 720p streaming service for films  —  Three major movie studios are about to try an interesting experiment.  They are launching a new TV network called Epix that will show their own recent films in HD, but they're going a step beyond by bundling it with an online …
Discussion: DVICE, Switched, Electronista and Gizmodo
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Loretta Chao / The Australian:
PC firms face China decree  —  Article from:  —  The Wall Street Journal  —  CHINA plans to require that all personal computers sold in the country as of July 1 be shipped with software that blocks access to certain websites, a move that could give government censors unprecedented control over how Chinese users access the internet.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Paid Twitter Streams Are Here: Super Chirp  —  A new service from 83 Degrees called Super Chirp launches this evening that lets Twitter users get paid for their content stream.  —  This is a theme we've touched on in the past.  There is a huge market for celebrity fan pages that Super Chirp will play right into.
Secure Channel:
Unconfirmed Reports of Massive T-Mobile Breach  —  Early reports indicate that hackers have penetrated the T-Mobile U.S. network and stolen proprietary operating data, customer databases and financial records.  According to a post on insecure.org, the hackers have claimed to be auctioning the pilfered data to the highest bidder.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Morality And Effectiveness Of Process Journalism  —  The New York Times Sunday edition team picks fights like no one else.  The problem is they tend to pick the wrong fights.  And mask opinion pieces as straight up factual articles.  —  In December they wrote about Facebook revenue woes just …
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Apple's CEO Conundrum  —  Tim Cook has run Apple well in Steve Jobs' absence, keeping alive the question of whether and how soon he might be named CEO  —  Apple (AAPL) appears poised to make good on repeated assurances that CEO Steve Jobs would be back at the helm by the end of June.
Discussion: CNBC, eWeek, Digital Daily, BoomTown and Apple 2.0, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Ted Dziuba / The Register:
Google Squared - the Cuilest search app ever  —  Everybody point and laugh  —  Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer - 30-day free trial  —  Fail and You Google recently released Google Squared, which is the Mountain View Chocolate Factory's attempt at structured data search.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Sony building Android-based Walkman and PND for 2010 launch?  —  We'll admit it, we expected to be knee-deep in Android gear by now.  However, it seems like the consumer electronics industry wanted to build more mature products around versions 1.5 and 2.0 of Google's open source OS instead.
Michael Manoochehri / ProgrammableWeb:
Microsoft Releases Bing API - With No Usage Quotas  —  When Microsoft launched their much-touted new search engine Bing last week it generated a lots of press and despite a somewhat muted expectations, it turned-out to be something of a hit.  But lost in all the broader buzz about Bing was some news for developers: Bing has an API.
Discussion: LiveSide and TheNextWeb.com, Thanks:atul
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Quick Peak?  Bing's Reign As #2 Search Engine Lasted One Day.  —  A couple of days ago we reported statistics from StatCounter suggesting the Bing, Microsoft's new “decision” engine, had bypassed Yahoo as the number 2 search engine in the U.S. and the world.  Well guess what?
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
The PC replacement cycle: Will Windows 7 light the fuse?  —  How long can enterprises milk their existing PCs without having to upgrade?  The answer for now is: Quite awhile, perhaps forever.  But technology chieftains are betting (praying?) that there's a big PC upgrade cycle looming …
Discussion: TechFlash and All about Microsoft
Jeffrey Burt / eWeek:
Sun Stockholders to Vote on Oracle Deal July 16  —  Sun Microsystems stockholders will get their chance to vote on Oracle's proposed $7.4 billion acquisition when they meet July 16 at Sun's Santa Clara, Calif., campus.  The deal would end more than seven months of nego-tiations between Sun …
Discussion: CNET News
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Pirate Party Wins and Enters The European Parliament  —  When the Swedish Pirate Party was founded in early 2006, the majority of the mainstream press were skeptical, with some simply laughing it away.  But they were wrong to dismiss this political movement out of hand.
Jessica Dolcourt / Crave: The gadget blog:
Opera Mobile 9.7 beta: Not what we expected  —  We knew that Opera Mobile 9.7 beta was on its way (in fact, we expected it in May,) but the build released to Windows Mobile consumers on Monday morning isn't exactly what we had anticipated given certain hints in the business build that support for Flash video was on its way.
DigiTimes:
Acer to launch 3D notebook at the end of October, new netbook for 3Q10  —  Acer plans to launch a 15.6-inch 3D notebook, which the company jointly developed with Wistron, at the end of October 2009, according to Campbell Kan, vice president of Acer's mobile computing business unit.
Discussion: I4U News, SlashGear and CrunchGear
 
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Sumner Lemon / PC World:
Nvidia Overcomes Bad Graphics Chips
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Brian Morrissey / Adweek:
Thinking Beyond the Online Banner
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
NYC Waterfalls: How Real-Time Cellphone Data Can Impact Local Economies
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On Trolls  —  A lot of people often ask what the biggest problem …
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Google: We'Re Actually Really Small
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