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7:05 PM ET, June 8, 2010

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Apple:
Apple WWDC 2010 Keynote Address  —  Watch Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduce the new iPhone 4.  See the video-on-demand event right here, exclusively in QuickTime and and MPEG-4.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
An Android User's Take On Yesterday's iPhone News  —  Yesterday's Apple keynote was, I think more than ever, a testament to Steve Jobs's presentation skills.  Faced with an audience that had already seen the grand finale, he still had no trouble evoking plenty of gleeful gasps and applause.
Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
Jobs has lofty goal for FaceTime video chat with an open standard  —  Apple CEO Steve Jobs bit off a lot when he vowed to make FaceTime video calling an open industry software standard and that Apple will ship tens of millions of FaceTime connected devices in 2010.
Sam Diaz / ZDNet:
iPhone 4: Apple raises the bar; AT&T pushes it back down
Discussion: Computerworld
Brad Stone / Bits:
Times Company Objects to News-Reader App  —  Last week I wrote about the Pulse News Reader, a popular iPad application developed by two students at the Stanford Institute of Design that collects and presents articles from Web sites of news organizations like The New York Times.
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Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog:
NYT lawyers play RIAA
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Apple Makes Good On Steve Jobs' Promise, Invites Other Advertisers.  But What About Google's AdMob?  —  Last week, Steve Jobs promised that his iPhone and iPads would be open to outside ad networks.  Yesterday Apple made good on his promise, by changing the terms of its developer agreement.
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Updated Applications Disappearing from Android Market  —  This is one headline Google doesn't want to see this morning.  Less than 24 hours after Apple introduced its latest and greatest creation, the iPhone 4, at its conference for Apple developers, a small, but growing group of Android developers …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Hello iPad, goodbye netbook  —  Morgan Stanley sees the tablet reshaping the PC market, raises its Apple target price to $332  —  Click to enlarge.  Source: Morgan Stanley  —  As if Steve Jobs wasn't getting enough attention after his iPhone 4 keynote Monday, Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty issued …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Costolo: Twitter Now Has 190 Million Users Tweeting 65 Million Times A Day  —  Twitter COO Dick Costolo offered some updated stats at the Conversational Media Summit today in New York City.  Twitter is now attracting 190 million visitors per month and generating 65 million Tweets a day.
Jolie O'Dell / Mashable!:
Twitpic Launches Face Tagging  —  Just one week after announcing Events grouping for photos, Twitpic is rolling out Face Tagging.  —  Just as you do on Facebook, you can now tag images of you and your friends and acquaintances on Twitpic.  Below the image in question, just click the blue link reading “Add/Edit Faces.”
Discussion: Maximum PC
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Chris Cameron / ReadWriteWeb:
How Twitpic Face Tagging Does & Does Not Work (Yet)
Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog and Twitpic Blog, Thanks:chcameron
Hibah Yousuf / CNNMoney.com:
BP buys Google, Yahoo oil spill search terms  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — As BP continues to try to stop the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, the energy giant is also dealing with a public relations nightmare.  —  That's why the company is snapping up search phrases like “oil spill” …
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Muglia on Google, Azure, and the future of Windows Server  —  Although he's presided over the expansion of Microsoft's server business, Bob Muglia is ready to help companies move away from that same server software.  —  Well, he is at least as long as those businesses are moving …
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Google, Bing ranking practices ‘remarkably similar’ under hood  —  As the SMX Advanced conference got underway in Seattle this morning, one thing was abundantly clear: Microsoft Bing is on the minds of the search industry more than ever, thanks to its deal to take over Yahoo's underlying search engine …
Michael Wolff / Newser:
The Last Mogul: Has Steve Jobs Won?  —  The age of Steve Jobs is, to say the least, unexpected.  Windows knocked him off the main stage for 10 years; then the Internet seemed to sideline him; not to mention that serious business people (along with many others) thought he was nutty …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
OnStar Gets Directions From Google Maps
Discussion: PR Newswire and Xconomy
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
How-to: check your iPhone 4 upgrade eligibility  —  AT&T's made it pretty clear how this upgrade sitch is going to go down for existing customers moving to an iPhone 4 on the 24th of the month, but if you want to double-check and make sure you're good to go (we can't blame you) …
Discussion: AppleInsider
Mark Knichel / Gmail Blog:
Google Maps previews in Gmail and Google Buzz  —  I often receive emails containing addresses in them — where to meet for dinner, the location of my friend's new apartment, etc.  To find out where these places actually are, I have to copy the address, open up Google Maps, and paste it in.
Reuters:
iPhone maker Foxconn seeks price hikes to offset wages  —  (Reuters) - iPhone maker Foxconn International Holdings said it will seek higher prices from its clients to help offset wage hikes at a plant in southern China that has been hit by a series of suicides.
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Lorraine Luk / China Real Time Report:
Hon Hai Fallout Could Include Relocations
Discussion: Fast Company
 
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Sean Garrett / Twitter Blog:
Links and Twitter: Length Shouldn't Matter
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
TiVo Loses USPTO Ruling On Software Claims In DVR Patent
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Messenger Social: Building the Ultimate Social Dashboard for Staying …
Bill Howard / Gearlog:
2TB Hard Drives Crack the $100 Barrier
Discussion: I4U News
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Amtrak to take free onboard WiFi nationwide
Discussion: The Next Web, MuniWireless and Erictric
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes on Competition From Apple, Netflix, Nintendo, and Redbox
Discussion: The Next Web and Gizmodo
Jon / p2pnet:
Does LimeWire owe the RIAA $1.5 trillion?
 Earlier Items: 
Ars Technica:
Windows Phone 7 Marketplace to be porn-free zone
Michiko Kakutani / New York Times:
Books of The Times: ‘The Facebook Effect’ by David Kirkpatrick
Discussion: Beet.TV, Thanks:beet_tv
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Still More on Android Fragmentation
Discussion: only rainwater …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple's Matrix-Style App Wall Reloaded
Discussion: Mashable!, MacStories and MacNN
Jason Moore / The Windows Blog:
Office is now live on SkyDrive!
 

 
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Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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