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3:55 PM ET, June 18, 2009

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Daniel Ionescu / PC World:
iPhone 3.0 Update: 10 Hidden Features  —  It has been a crazy night trying to download the latest iPhone update, with many reporting that they are unable to access Apple's servers due to unusually high traffic.  But Apple's servers are now up to scratch and everybody should have the 3. software …
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Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Bigger Than The New iPhone  —  Apple's most important product this year isn't a smart phone.  It's software.  —  BURLINGAME, Calif. — Apple is not an iPod company.  It is not a smart phone company.  It's not even a computer company.  It's a software company.
Jesse David Hollington / iLounge:
Instant Expert: Secrets & Features of iPhone OS 3.0
Discussion: Gizmodo, MacRumors and The iPhone Blog
Brandon Badger / Google Book Search Blog:
New Features on Google Books  —  Think about how you use a book.  You want to read it, sure—but there are a host of other ways for you to interact with the words between the covers.  You might want to flip through the pages to find an image.  You might want to open right up to the table …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Munster: 500,000 new iPhones this weekend  —  Will there be long lines outside Apple Stores Friday at 7 a.m. when the iPhone 3G S goes on sale?  —  Gene Munster thinks there will, although not as long as last year's.  —  Piper Jaffray's senior research analyst issued a report to clients Thursday …
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richardlai's Xanga:
Enable tethering on iPhone 3.0 - Too easy...  (WORLDWIDE carriers)  —  Tested platform: iPhone 3G 16GB, Firmware 3.0, O2 Contract  —  iTunes not needed.  —  This is a walkthrough of how I enabled tethering on my iPhone 3G on O2 UK.  It was a lot easier than I thought - no jailbreaking needed …
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Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac:
Enable tethering shortcut found - iPhone 3.0 is Live!
internetnews.com:
Comcast Embraces IPv6  —  Is this the big IPv6 shift we've been waiting for?  —  Comcast is making a move to IPv6, making IPv6 transit services available to its wholesale customers.  —  This a significant development because in less than two years, the IPv4 (define) address space will be exhausted …
Discussion: Techgeist and DSLreports
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Carolyn Duffy Marsan / Network World:   Feds: IPv6 is a priority
Owen Fletcher / PC World:
T-Mobile to Offer Huawei's Android Phone Next Quarter  —  T-Mobile will release a smartphone running Google's Android operating system in Europe in the late third quarter, the phone's Chinese manufacturer, Huawei Technologies, said Thursday.  —  Huawei's U8230 will go on sale in Europe …
Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
Tear Down This Cyberwall!  —  The unrest unfolding in Iran is the quintessential 21st-century conflict.  On one side are government thugs firing bullets.  On the other side are young protesters firing “tweets.”  —  The protesters' arsenal, such as those tweets on Twitter.com, depends on the Internet or other communications channels.
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Nancy Scola / Personal Democracy Forum:
Iran Roundup: Inside an Internet-Charged Resistance
Discussion: Digits and New York Times
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Sirius XM on the iPhone: Siriusly Disappointing  —  There was a time when I was a raving satellite radio fan.  I still own an XM receiver and enjoy some of its stations.  But let's just say it: It's not going to be that long until satellite radio is a largely obsolete technology (I suspect truckers will be the last holdouts).
Discussion: Orbitcast and Zatz Not Funny!
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Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
Sirius XM iPhone app offers free 7-day trial
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Collecta And CrowdEye Join The “Real Time” Search Club  —  This morning there are two new entrants in the “real-time” search derby, run by two search veterans.  They are CrowdEye and Collecta.  CrowdEye is from Ken Moss, who ran search engineering at Microsoft, and built the new engine himself.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Is Now Resorting To Selling Killer Domain Names On The Cheap  —  No sooner do we finish writing up Yahoo deadpooling yet another project, Gallery, do we get a tip that Yahoo apparently has another money saving/making plan: Selling off domains it owns.  That's exactly what it has done …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Another Music Start-Up Sued: EMI Takes Grooveshark to Court  —  Digital music start-ups seem to come in two flavors these days: Those being sued by the major music labels and those with expensive licensing deals they can't afford.  —  But for some reason, plucky Grooveshark, which runs a very nice …
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Microsoft backtracks, extends XP availability to 2011  —  Hammered over downgrade plan, company gives OEMs more time to sell XP PCs  —  Computerworld - Just hours after a noted research analyst criticized Microsoft's plans to limit sales of Windows XP PCs, the company said it would extend …
Eric M. Zeman / Phone Scoop:
Global Wireless Modem Hits Verizon Wireless  —  Today Verizon Wireless announced the USB1000 Global Modem, a new dongle for laptops that will let subscribers access 3G wireless networks both in the U.S. and when traveling overseas.  Radios on-board include 800/1900 EVDO Rev. A …
Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
About that new BlackBerry Messenger... It's coming to all devices on OS 5.0, newer version revealed  —  You read the headline right, kids — the new and insanely hot BlackBerry Messenger that we exclusively showed off to the World looks to be headed to all BlackBerry devices that will receive the OS 5.0 treatment.
Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
$1 Million Netflix Prize So Close, They Can Taste It  —  Electrical engineer Martin Piotte and software engineer Martin Chabbert of Montreal decided to enter a million-dollar contest to improve Netflix's recommendation engine after they read about it in a 2008 Wired magazine article.
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Want to Work for the City of Bozeman, MT?  Hand Over Your Social Network Logins and Passwords  —  We have written quite a bit about the pitfalls of disclosing too much in your social network profiles, especially when it comes to employers accidentally stumbling over your party pictures on Facebook and MySpace.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Who's Watching Google Watch You?  Web Publishers Face Congress Today.  —  Here's a nice way to visualize the Internet privacy debate, circa 2009: Google's assessment of what I'm interested in, at least when it comes to Web browsing (click to enlarge):  —  That listing comes from Google's …
Google Watch:
Google Hunkers Down on Software Projects with ‘Innovation Reviews’  —  What's going on with Google?  Well, according to comScore's fresh May stats, the company has a whopping 65 percent search share worldwide.  But comScore also said Bing is moving up the search engine charts, at least in the first three weeks of its life.
Vanessa Fox / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo Supports Even More Structured Data In SearchMonkey  —  Yahoo started the push to structure the web when it launched SearchMonkey.  With SearchMonkey, a web developer could add semantic markup to a page and then build an enhanced listing for Yahoo search results.
Discussion: Macworld and Yahoo! Search Blog
Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
NBC Taps Microsoft For Ad-Sales System  —  General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal will use technology from Microsoft Corp. to sell commercial time on its broadcast and cable-TV networks in a process similar to the sale of online advertising.  The change, which the companies plan to announce Thursday …
Eric Lai / Computerworld:
Nvidia: For smartbooks, Windows CE beats Android  —  Mature CE trumps Google's upstart OS, says chip maker  —  Computerworld - Despite the hype surrounding Google Inc.'s Android operating system, Nvidia Inc. sees more immediate promise in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows CE for ARM-based netbooks.
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Collecting IP Addresses Illegal in Sweden  —  In June 2005, the Swedish Data Inspection Board - a public authority protecting individuals' privacy in the information society - decided that the activities of the Swedish anti-piracy bureau (Antipiratbyrån) went against the Personal Data Act.
Discussion: The Register, p2pnet and Slashdot
 
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Reuters:
China attacks Google over “pornographic” links
Discussion: Ars Technica
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Demdex Comes Out Of Stealth, Offers Advertisers Their Own Behavioral Data Bank
Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Quattrone back in spotlight over Data Domain battle
Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Why Can't We Get an Accurate Battery Life Test for Laptops?
Discussion: eWeek, The Toybox, BetaNews and Gizmodo
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Publishers Hire ComScore To Kill Off The Click-Through
Discussion: Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Thanks:atul
Timothy Hay / Venture Capital Dispatch:
Kleiner's iFund May Exceed Its $100M Cap For Mobile Apps
 Earlier Items: 
Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:
Not Ma Bell's Yellow Pages
Discussion: Search Engine Watch
Neil McAllister / Neil McAllister's blog:
Opera Unite: The real plan is to put software in control again
Discussion: Digits
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Fires Back At Bing, Launches “Explore Google Search”