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12:00 PM ET, June 14, 2007

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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Video Frames a Search Engine  —  Google Video, now a video search engine, shows a frame similar to the one from Image Search when you click on a search result.  The frame lets you rate the video, share it, and watch related videos.  You can also watch the previous or the next search result …
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Video Now a Video Search Engine  —  Google Video went through many reincarnations in the past.  It allegedly started out as one of those 20% side projects within Google, and Larry Page admitted, "We're not quite sure what we're going to get, but we decided we'd try this experiment."
Richard Koman / Silicon Valley Watcher:
Exclusive interview with Google video platform director Jennifer Feikin  —  When Larry Page announced at the national cable convention a few weeks back that Google would start allowing users to upload digital video, he described it very much as an experiment.
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
YouTube Redesigns and Moves to Google Accounts
Discussion: InsideGoogle
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google Gives Up on Competing With eBay's Big Boston Party  —  It had all the appearances of a marketing stunt gone awry, the Internet industry's version of a wily playground taunt that quickly escalated into a tense standoff, until the taunter — Google, in this case — blinked.  —  Here's what happened.
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Molly Graham / Official Google Checkout Blog:
Update to our event on 6/14  —  eBay Live attendees have plenty of activities to keep them busy this week in Boston, and we did not want to detract from that activity.  After speaking with officials at eBay, we at Google agreed that it was better for us not to feature this event during the eBay Live conference.
Alex Pham / Los Angeles Times:
EBay cancels ads in tiff with Google
Microsoft:
Microsoft and Linspire Collaboration Promotes Interoperability and Customer Choice  —  Broad agreement will facilitate interoperability between Windows and Linux, provide intellectual property assurance.  —  Today Microsoft Corp. and Linux desktop provider Linspire Inc. announced a broad interoperability …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Linspire Joins Microsoft's Any One But Red Hat Group
Discussion: Between the Lines
Ina Fried / ZDNet:   Microsoft signs technology pact with Linspire
Sydney Morning Herald:
Microsoft Signs Another Linux Deal
Discussion: Inquirer
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Sprint: Rethinking WiMAX?  —  Sprint, which broke away from the cellular camp, and bet big on WiMAX as its technology of choice for high-speed wireless connectivity, is apparently rethinking its strategy, mostly under pressure from activist shareholders, who believe that the company is spending too much money on an unproven technology.
Discussion: broadbandreports.com
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Wall Street Journal:
Sprint Explores Options for WiMax
Discussion: dailywireless.org
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Windows Ultimate Extras is a sham - where's the responsibility?  —  I was going to write about this on June 30, because that would have marked the half-year anniversary of Windows Vista, but since Josh Phillips has already started the conversation, I thought I should keep it rolling.
Discussion: Channel 9
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Josh / Windows Connected:
Ultimate Extras, Where are you?  —  It has been over three months since we last saw anything from the Ultimate Extra team.  Intially this was offered by Microsoft as one of the big value adds to the Ultimate version of Windows Vista, but to date I can't say they have delivered that much value.
fbi.gov:
Over 1 Million Potential Victims of Botnet Cyber Crime  —  Today the Department of Justice and FBI announced the results of an ongoing cyber crime initiative to disrupt and dismantle "botherders" and elevate the public's cyber security awareness of botnets.  OPERATION BOT ROAST …
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BBC:   FBI tries to fight zombie hordes
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
YouTube Passes Debates to a New Generation  —  The quadrennial ritual of presidential debates has long followed a tried and true format.  —  A guy in a suit asks mostly predictable questions of other people in suits.  The voter is a fixture in the audience, motionless until he or she gets to address the candidate, respectfully.
Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
NBC Developing Web Site for Students  —  Imagine Tim Russert introducing a classroom history lesson about the Articles of Confederation, or Brian Williams describing the reverberations of the Stamp Act.  —  NBC News actually has, and in a formal presentation to broadcast industry analysts today …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The 3D Real/Virtual World Hybrid: How Far Away?  —  How long will it be until we can stroll through the streets in a virtual world that is identical to our own?  Given the state of a number of technologies, not very long.  Over the last couple of years we've seen Microsoft Street Side …
Discussion: The Praized Blog and JD on EP
Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
Founders sell as Codemasters is driven towards a flotation  —  Codemasters, the computer games developer behind the Colin McRae rally series, is preparing for a £200 million-plus flotation in the next year, after its principal investor completed the buyout of the brothers who founded the firm.
Discussion: paidContent.org
 
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Safari 3.01 released  —  Apple has just released version 3.01 …
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Arn / MacRumors:
iPhone on June 29th at 6pm 'Local Time'
Business Wire:
SIA Forecast: Semiconductor Industry Sales Will Grow by 1.8 Percent in 2007
Discussion: Ars Technica
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Valleywag snags an editor from Business 2.0
Discussion: Valleywag, BoomTown and Gawker
Maija Palmer / Financial Times:
Mobile phone groups take on iPhone
Associated Press:
Space station computers rebooted
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Arn / MacRumors:
First Hand Reports on WWDC's Leopard 9A466
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