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9:20 PM ET, June 24, 2009

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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Takes Aim at Twitter: New Publisher Makes Public Status Updates Easy  —  Facebook has just announced that it's now testing a new version of the “publisher” that allows users to choose who can see their status updates and posts.  The most interesting part?  The first option is “everyone.”
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Olaoluwa ‘Ola’ Okelola / Facebook Blog:
More Ways to Share in the Publisher  —  UPDATE on June 24: We've received some questions in the comments about default privacy settings for this beta.  Nothing has changed with your default privacy settings.  The beta is only open to people who already chose to set their profile and status privacy to “Everyone.”
Tom Whitnah / Facebook Developers:
Posting to the Stream in Real Time with the Live Stream Box  —  During the 2009 US Presidential Inauguration, we tested a new feature that let people share Facebook status updates and comments side by side with real-time streaming video on CNN's website.  It was a significant moment for Facebook Platform.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook Launches A Live Stream Box, Partners With Ustream  —  Today, Facebook is launching a new “Live Stream Box” feature which allows for Facebook Pages to offer their own live video and chat area.  And Ustream will be the first to take advantage of it with Ustream on Facebook …
Discussion: All Facebook, VentureBeat and Beet.TV, Thanks:bobcaswell
Theo Skye / Medialets:
Speed Test: iPhone 3GS Even Faster than Apple Claims  —  Apple has made claims that the iPhone OS 3.0 yields significant performance gains on the 3G model, and that the new 3GS can accomplish the same tasks up to twice as fast as its predecessors.  Anecdotally, the new 3GS definitely “feels” faster under certain conditions.
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Why Did A Hospital Lie About Steve Jobs?  —  A Memphis hospital said Saturday Jobs had never been a patient.  Then they changed the story.  —  BURLINGAME, CALIF. — Looks like Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs' reality distortion field is portable, because it now appears to have made a trip with Jobs to Memphis, Tenn.
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Bryan Barletta / Medialets:
Palm Pre App Catalog Reaches 1 Million Downloads  —  Just 18 days after the launch of the Palm Pre, their App Catalog has hit its first major milestone, 1 million downloads.  On launch day, Palm sold 50k devices and their App Catalog experienced 100k downloads - that's an average …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft: Outlook's not broken and we aren't ‘fixing’ it  —  Microsoft's decision to change the rendering engine in its Outlook mail client from HTML to the Word rendering engine back in 2007 wasn't one of its most popular moves.  In fact, there are still more than a few Outlook users …
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Stephen Totilo / Kotaku:
id Software Bought By Bethesda Parent Company, ZeniMax  —  Doom, Fallout, Oblivion, Wolfenstein, Carmack, Howard... all in one company.  —  Two of the most acclaimed game development studios of all time are joining forces.  ZeniMax Media, parent company of Fallout 3 and Elder Scrolls …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Richard Marx (!) attacks RIAA after $1.92M Thomas verdict  —  There was a time in my life during which I left Richard Marx's “Paid Vacation” album in my stereo system for weeks at a time.  This was not because I felt a spiritual craving for the music so strong that only repeated listenings would satisfy.
iSuppli:
iPhone 3G S Carries $178.96 BOM and Manufacturing Cost, iSuppli Teardown Reveals  —  With the new iPhone 3G S's Bill of Materials (BOM) and feature set nearly the same as the previous model in the iPhone line, you might think the product's component selection would be virtually unchanged.
TimeWarner:
Time Warner Inc. Announces Widespread Distribution of Cable TV Content Online  —  Comcast and Time Warner Develop Principles for “TV Everywhere Model”  —  Comcast to Begin National Technical Trial of “On Demand Online”  —  New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA - Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX) …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Changing Of The Guard: Jeff Weiner Takes CEO Spot At LinkedIn  —  LinkedIn had a management shakeup last December - CEO Dan Nye stepped down.  Founding CEO Reid Hoffman stepped in again and former Yahoo exec Jeff Weiner joined the company as President.  —  The hiring of Weiner as President …
David Coursey / PC World:
Wireless Charging Comes to iPhone  —  In less than three weeks, the iPhone has caught up with the Palm Pre in the one area where the Pre held an undisputed lead: wireless charging.  The ability to charge without wires is an idea that's been teasing us for a long time, with Palm the first company (I am aware of) to take it mainstream.
Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
AdMob shuts off ad aggregators  —  Update: Representatives from AdMob and AdWhirl are continuing the discussion in the comments below this article.  —  AdMob, the 800-pound gorilla of iPhone ad networks, plans to stop allowing other ad networks to deliver its ads as part of a multi-network service.
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Bloomberg:
Sharp TVs, Monitors Banned From U.S. in Samsung Win  —  Some Sharp Corp. liquid-crystal display televisions and computer monitors should be banned from the U.S. because they infringe a patent owned by Samsung Electronics Co., a U.S. trade agency said today.  —  Samsung, the world's biggest maker …
Discussion: Engadget, Gizmodo and Electronista
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
The Billion Dollar HTML Tag  —  Can a single HTML tag really make a difference on a corporation's financial results?  It can at Google, according to Marissa Mayer, who says web page loading speed translates directly to the bottom line.  —  “It's clear that latency really does matter to users …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
HTC Hero running Android and Sense UI leaks from HTC's own website (updated, official, video)  —  As we prepare for HTC's official launch event today, we're starting to see some details appear on HTC's own website of the much rumored Hero.  Through some URL trickery, we've managed …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Traditional media will not bounce back, warns Ballmer  —  Global advertising economy has been permanently ‘reset’ at a lower level, says Microsoft chief executive  —  Steve Ballmer, the Microsoft chief executive, said today that the global advertising economy has been permanently “reset” …
Discussion: The Microsoft Blog
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Analyst: Palm has sold 150,000 Pres  —  With Palm's (PALM) quarterly earnings due Thursday — along with Jon Rubinstein's debut performance as CEO — analysts have started to place their bets on what the quarter will show.  —  First out of the box — or at least, first in our inbox …
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Rumor: Zune HD Comes in 16/32GB Sizes, Launches September 8  —  A tipster just dropped off a few internal Microsoft docs that point to a September 8 launch of the Zune HD.  In addition to that, the tipster says it's coming in 16GB and 32GB versions.  All pretty logical.
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple TV 2.4 Update Now Available, Updated Remote App with Gestures [Updated]  —  Apple has quietly released a new software update to the Apple TV which brings the system software up to version 2.4.  The exact changes have not yet been listed by Apple so we can't tell you everything that's been changed just yet.
Business Wire:
MetroPCS Is First North American Carrier to Offer Unlimited International Calling for $5 per Month  —  Unlimited Plan Includes over 100 Countries and More Than 1,000 Destinations  —  DALLAS—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Continuing to provide consumers with the most economical, unlimited …
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Oracle's Ellison Rethinks Clouds as Economy Tumbles  —  Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is rethinking his earlier disdain for software as a service and all things cloud, according to a report today in The Wall Street Journal.  Maybe a dismal economy and a drop in Oracle sales are forcing him to change his position.
Discussion: internetnews.com and SiliconBeat
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
FriendFeed Adds File Sharing.  No Movies, But MP3s Are Fine.  —  The killer features of FriendFeed continue.  Today, the service has just added a way to share files on the service.  So now it's just as easy to share a PDF or text file as it is to share a picture.
Dan Moren / Macworld:
Apple updates Time Capsule, AirPort firmware and Final Cut Pro  —  Apple on Wednesday released a pair of updates: one for its Time Capsule and AirPort Base Station Firmware and a minor update for Final Cut Pro.  Both updates are available from Apple's Support Downloads site.
Discussion: Ars Technica and Softpedia News
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Evan Williams, Ron Conway, Caterina Fake and True Ventures Invest In Web Typography Startup Small Batch  —  Stealth startup Small Batch has raised an undisclosed round of equity funding from True Ventures with Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake …
 
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Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:
Mobile money seen as chance for world's poorest
Discussion: IntoMobile
Matt Asay / CNET News:
Red Hat: Bad economy is good for open source
Discussion: The Register and Red Hat
Gregg Keizer / PC World:
Site Reveals Friday Launch for Windows 7 Free Upgrade
Discussion: Digits
Anick Jesdanun / Associated Press:
Sources: Ex-cyberchief is top pick to head ICANN
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
IBM's Plans for Nimbler Encryption
Rafat Ali / paidContent:
SEC Watch: Andreessen/Horowitz's VC Fund Closes At $241.5 Million, For Now
Matt Burns / CrunchGear:
Vizio releasing Twitter-, Flickr-, Netflix-enabled TV
Discussion: OhGizmo! and Gadgetell, Thanks:atul
Michelle Donegan / Unstrung:
AT&T on Track for Femto Launch
Discussion: SlashGear, WMExperts and DSLreports
 Earlier Items: 
Financial Times:
China blocks Google website
Discussion: TechCrunch and The Register
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Microstock Photography Is Getting Big. iStockphoto Projects $200 Million In Revenues
Discussion: Techgeist
Adobe:
Security Update available for Shockwave Player
Discussion: Zero Day, Macworld and Security Watch
David Talbot / Technology Review:
$100 Laptop Becomes a $5 PC
 

 
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