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6:40 AM ET, June 12, 2010

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Avner Ronen / Boxee Blog:
Boxee Box by D-Link Release Set for November in North America  —  Earlier this week we got confirmation that the Boxee Box by D-Link will ship this November in US and Canada.  We realize many of you have waited months to purchase the Boxee Box, and we know how frustrating this is.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Boxee Delays Web TV Set-Top Box Five Months, Until November (AAPL, GOOG, SNE)
Discussion: I4U News and Neowin.net
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook: Calacanis Is Lying  —  Well, this is getting more interesting.  This morning, we reported that Jason Calacanis' Facebook account was still active, despite his very public deletion of the account about 20 days ago.  When he found out about this, Calacanis sent an angry email …
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Cameron Chapman / Smashing Magazine:
How To Permanently Delete Your Account on Popular Websites
Discussion: TechCrunch
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:   You Know Where Else It's Hard To Delete Your Account? Mahalo
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Comscore Says It'll Fix Search Share Measurement Now That Yahoo And Microsoft Are Gaming It (YHOO, MSFT, GOOG)  —  Yahoo and Microsoft's Bing have recently been “gaining” market share in comScore's search engine stats for somewhat sketchy reasons: The companies have increasingly been putting …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Time To End The Bulls**t Search Engine Share Figures?  —  Yahoo's up again in comScore's latest search rankings.  Reason?  It seems largely due to non-search “slideshow” activity.  Solution?  Time to end the bulls**t way search share figures are calculated.  Chance of success?
Erica Ogg / CNET News:
iPhone 4 at Wal-Mart on June 24  —  iPhone 4 goes on sale June 24.  —  If you'd rather avoid the lines at Apple and AT&T stores on iPhone 4 launch day, you have options this year.  —  Wal-Mart said Friday that it will be one of several retail outlets that will have the iPhone 4 on June 24, its first day of availability anywhere.
Thomas Catan / Wall Street Journal:
FTC Sets Apple Mobile Software Probe  —  WASHINGTON—The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will investigate whether Apple Inc.'s business practices harm competition in the market for software used on mobile devices, people familiar with the situation said.  —  For weeks, the FTC has been engaged …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Voice Desktop App Launch Delayed, May Be Scrapped  —  When Google acquired Gizmo5, a Skype competitor, in November Google Voice users rejoiced - presumably they'd be getting a much needed soft phone on the desktop for users to make and receive calls through Google Voice.
Diane Bartz / Reuters:
ITC to probe Apple for HTC patent infringement  —  (Reuters) - A U.S. trade panel will investigate allegations made by HTC Corp that Apple infringes its technology, as HTC seeks to win a ban on the U.S. sale of iPhones, iPads and iPods.  —  The International Trade Commission said in a brief notice …
Jean-Paul Cozzatti / The Twitter Engineering Blog:
A Perfect Storm.....of Whales  —  Since Saturday, Twitter has experienced several incidences of poor site performance and a high number of errors due to one of our internal sub-networks being over-capacity.  —  We're working hard to address the core issues causing these problems …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Law firm offers to defend ‘Hurt Locker’ sharers  —  The heat is being turned up on the company representing the producers of “The Hurt Locker” as it wages a wide-ranging litigation campaign against illegal file sharing.  —  In Arizona, a law firm called White Berberian recently began advertising …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple Hits 10,000 iPad Apps — Store Doubled In The Past Six Weeks  —  During his keynote address at WWDC on Monday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs rattled off some key statistics.  Among them was that there are 8,500 native iPad apps.  Actually, at the time, Apple had over 9,000, but we'll let that slide.
Discussion: App Advice and Yahoo! News
Hank Williams / Why does everything suck?:
Apple fears the killer app  —  Ok, so were finally getting down to it.  On at least two fronts, Apple has now essentially thrown out its draconian rules on what developers can and cannot do on its platform, and replaced them with essentially, no rules.  The new “rules” appear to be …
Discussion: The Register and MacRumors, Thanks:atul
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Exclusive: Twitter's Next Moneymaker-"Promoted Trends"  —  Twitter is beginning to roll out its ad platform, which allows advertisers to insert messages into users' streams.  But the microblogging service already has an idea for a new product: Selling some of the real estate dedicated to its …
Economist:
Blooming  —  Europe has become a more fertile place for technology companies.  But its tech industries still have to show they can burst through old constraints  —  MENTION the name of a big European technology firm in Silicon Valley and chances are the reaction will be a mixture of pity and disparagement.
Thanks:loic
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Hulu Founding CTO Eric Feng Leaving For KPCB, Al Gore  —  Hulu's founding CTO Eric Feng is leaving the streaming video company he helped turn into one of the web's most popular video portals.  Feng will be joining Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a Partner focusing on greentech …
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Cisco gets into the social network business with Quad  —  Does the world really need another business social network?  Apparently Cisco thinks so, because it plans to release one later this year.  The company has been revealing more details of the new product, called Quad …
Discussion: Techie Buzz
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The End Of An Era: Hotmail Ditches The Taglines  —  “Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service.  Get it now.”  —  When Hotmail launched in 1996 it grew fast.  Very fast.  It was one of the first free webmail providers, and they had a killer marketing idea - add a tagline at the end …
Discussion: Microsoft Watch and Technologizer
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Brian Hall / The Windows Blog:
Hotmail respects your inbox
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Google wants to face single mega-lawsuit over WiFi snafu  —  Google is attempting to consolidate the growing number of lawsuits against the company as a result of its “accidental” WiFi data collection.  Meanwhile, a privacy group has analyzed an independent analysis of the situation …
Discussion: CNET News and PC World
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Sara Jerome / Hillicon Valley:
Google letter to lawmakers: ‘Sorry’ for Wi-Fi breach, downplays harms
 
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Alexei Oreskovic / MediaFile:
DoubleClick's Rosenblatt in group shopping start-up
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Finland Plans To Decriminalize Using Open WiFi [Updated]
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Mobile Uploads Spurs Facebook Video Growth
Alexia Tsotsis / The Snitch:
iPad Hackers: Obtaining Emails Not Illegal, We Will Fight If Charges Are Pressed
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
How Much Is a Facebook Fan Really Worth?
Thanks:filos
JP Manninen / VentureBeat:
Report: Location check-in services are riddled with bugs
Discussion: Computerworld and p2pnet
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Indian 4G Wireless Auction Brings in $5.5B
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