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3:40 PM ET, May 28, 2007

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San Francisco Chronicle:
Getting in the game at Microsoft  —  Robbie Bach's job is to make software giant's entertainment division profitable  —  For all the challenges Microsoft Corp. faces as it moves into the future, the Redmond, Wash., software giant remains a formidable money machine.
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Kostas Tzounopoulos / Zune-Online.com:
Bach: More than 1 Million Zune players sold  —  According to Robbie Bach, Microsoft's president of the Entertainment and Devices Division, Zune will meet the goal of 1.000.000 players sold by the end of June, set at launch.  He also confirms that new Zune things will come in this fall, talks …
Vince Veneziani / CrunchGear:   One Million Zunes (Somehow) Sold
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
E-Commerce Report: Millions of Addresses and Thousands of Sites, All Leading to One  —  THINK you have a good handle on the Internet economy?  Try this one.  —  What Internet business has raised $120 million in financing in the last year, owns 725,000 Web sites, and has as its chief executive …
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Doing Evil to the Internet: Google and Yahoo! Promote Domain Squatting  —  Recently the mainstream media has been running profiles on people who have built businesses worth hundreds of millions of dollars by buying lots of Internet domain names then filling them with Google ads.
Discussion: thoughtsignals
Josh / Redeye VC:
Myspace - the next Prodigy?  —  Over the last year, there's been a tremendous amount of focus on the "Widget economy".  Newsweek has even dubbed 2007 as the "Year of the Widget."  While the concept of a "widget" might seem trivial to many outside of Silicon Valley, the ability to automatically embed …
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Marc Canter / Marc's Voice:   Facebook's platform - or "what I did for my summer vacation"
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace v. Facebook: "It's Not A Decision. It's an IQ Test"
Jon Newton / p2pnet:
p2pnet talks to AllofMP3.com  —  p2pnet.net news special:- An incredible, and inordinate, amount of mainstream media time is devoted to spreading the wild fiction that copyright infringement of corporate movies and music is threatening world economies.  —  AllofMP3.com is a small Russian company …
Discussion: Pito's Blog
Wagner James Au / GigaOM:
Desktop Tower of Money: 3 tips to profit from casual games  —  So here's a couple ways to a create successful game online: a), Find an investor who's crazy enough to give you millions of dollars, or b), Put it on a distribution network and hope you get enough customers willing to buy it as a download.
Discussion: youNEWB, PaulStamatiou.com and digg
Steven Chang / GeekNUZ:
Apple iPhone In The Wild!  —  Update: First of all, thanks to everyone for commenting about this story.  I didn't think it would be so upsetting to some people that my camera took some bad pictures, or that I didn't make a scene and go back to ask the the Apple guy to pose with the iPhone for me in the middle of his dinner.
Discussion: Engadget and GracefulFlavor
Paul Durman / Times of London:
Dotcom stars have designs on your home  —  THE founders of Lastminute. com, Brent Hoberman and Martha Lane Fox, have teamed up again to form a new business.  —  Hoberman has already spent several months recruiting a team for Mydeco.com, which aims to help people decorate their homes.
PC World:
Computer Glitch Tangles Japanese Flights  —  Hundreds of All Nippon Airways flights were cancelled or delayed Sunday because of computer error.  —  Hundreds of domestic flights in Japan were cancelled or delayed on Sunday as a result of a glitch in the computer system of All Nippon Airways Co. Ltd.
Discussion: Neowin.net
Om Malik / GigaOM:
In Africa, Money not necessary for mobile banking  —  Necessity, they say is the mother of invention.  It couldn't be more true in case of Africa, where pre-paid airtime is fast becoming the 'virtual' currency for Pan-African trade, overcoming conventional currency exchange and lack of banking infrastructure.
Discussion: Mike Rowehl
Emre Sokullu / Read/WriteWeb:
2007 Semantic Technology Conference - Showcased Big Internet Potential  —  The Semantic Conference was held last week in San Jose.  I went along to check it out.  In the keynotes, Oracle's Robert Shimp noted that the attendance has never been so great and remarked that this as a clear proof …
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
NSF picks ARPANET creator to build new experimental network  —  The National Science Foundation has tapped BBN Technologies to build and manage the GENI project, intended as a proving ground for next-generation network technologies.  For BBN, this is a bit of a return to its roots …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Germany adopts "anti-hacker" law; critics say it breeds insecurity  —  Germany has just passed a new law that adds more "anti-hacker" provisions to the German criminal code.  Although the new rules are meant to apply narrowly to hacking, critics are already complaining that they may prevent necessary security and network research.
Discussion: Neowin.net
 
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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
Sources: ~100 NYT Tech Guild members cross the picket line to work on Election Day; NYT engineer and union steward Benjamin Harnett says the figure is under 50

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
iHeart says it is laying off employees; a source says the layoffs affect less than 5% of a workforce of more than 10,000 employees

Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

 
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