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9:30 PM ET, May 27, 2008

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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Windows chief talks ‘7’  —  REDMOND, Wash.—Since taking over the Windows development reins from Jim Allchin, Steven Sinofsky has chosen to fall almost completely off the public radar.  —  It's not that he hasn't been busy getting Vista Service Pack 1 out the door and starting work on Windows 7.
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John Paczkowski / D6 Highlights:
Windows 7 at D6  —  So those rumors about Microsoft Windows 7 making an early debut at D6?  —  They're true.  During tonight's interview with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Chairman Bill Gates, Microsoft (MSFT) will demonstrate Windows 7's all-new user interface.
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
What we just learned about Windows 7
Discussion: TechCrunch and Gizmodo
Chris / LiveSide:
Why Sinofsky's head-in-sand approach doesn't work for Windows Live
Discussion: ZDNet.com.au
Matt Hickey / CrunchGear:
Windows 7 screen grabs look better than they sound
oag.state.ny.us:
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE WINS MAJOR SUIT AGAINST DELL  —  Court Rules that Dell Engaged in Fraud, False Advertising, and Deceptive Business Practices  —  Companies to Pay Restitution and Forfeit Unlawfully Earned Profits  —  The Office of the Attorney General today won a groundbreaking lawsuit …
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Daisuke Wakabayashi / eWeek:
N.Y. Judge Slaps Dell for Fraud, False Adverting  —  Dell lured customers with advertisements that offered “no interest” or “no payment” financing options, but its financing arm would then charge higher rates.  —  SEATTLE (Reuters) - A New York court ruled against Dell on Tuesday …
Financial Times:
Web 2.0 fails to produce cash  —  Many members of the Web 2.0 generation of internet companies have so far produced little in the way of revenue, despite bringing about some significant changes in online behaviour, according to some of the entrepreneurs and financiers behind the movement.
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Web 2.0 = Bubble 2.0?  —  At TiECON East, Friday …
Discussion: Enterprise Alley
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The fbOpen Initiative: Facebook Confirms Plans to Open-Source Its Platform  —  A Facebook spokesperson has confirmed to us that the social networking company will announce an open-source initiative around its Facebook Platform sometime today or tomorrow.  We originally broke this story we broke yesterday.
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Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
The Social Networking Arms Race
Discussion: CNET News.com and The Social Web
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Intel's Centrino 2 Platform Delayed (Upshot: No New MacBooks at WWDC)  —  TGDaily is reporting that Intel's next-gen Centrino 2 platform (aka Montevina) has hit a series of snags and won't launch until July 14 at the earliest.  Aside from delaying new Centrino 2 notebooks generally (duh) …
Discussion: Crave, MacRumors, Electronista and TG Daily
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Wolfgang Gruener / TG Daily:
Intel delays Centrino 2 to July 14
Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider:
Amazon Slashes Kindle Price (AMZN)  —  The Kindle, Amazon's (AMZN) hyped-up e-book reader, is in stock but with a new price — $359, $40 cheaper than it has been in the past.  —  There's been a lot of speculation surrounding the Kindle over the last two weeks as analysts have weighed …
US Department of Justice:
Justice Department Announces Settlement with the National Association of Realtors  —  Settlement will Result in More Choices, Better Services and Lower Commission Rates for Consumers  —  WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a proposed settlement …
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Associated Press:   Realtors Agree to Stop Blocking Web Listings
Cyrus Mistry / Official Google Enterprise Blog:
The Google Mini gets a Not-so-mini Upgrade  —  Our small but powerful blue box has been working hard in companies all over the world, and now it works even harder so you don't have to.  We've outfitted the Mini with some great new features:  — Almost all employees store files on shared servers so other employees can access them.
iPhoneclub.nl:
Exclusive: More proof of curved, white iPhone 3G  —  Slow news day?  Not anymore!  Dutch communitysites iPhoneclub.nl and Macfreak.nl both received a couple of pictures of the supposed new casing of the second generation iPhone.  These pictures haven't surfaced on the internet before.
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Liberty Pulls Back from Vongo Internet Movie Service  —  In the race to figure out how movies will be delivered over the Internet, one of the more promising efforts, Vongo from Liberty Media's Starz Entertainment group, has floundered.  —  Liberty said it will still offer the standalone Vongo service …
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Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:
Verizon to offer Starz online video service
Discussion: VentureBeat and Parks Associates
von FAZ-ht / Netzökonom:
Google CEO Eric Schmidt: “The next big wave in advertising is the mobile internet”  —  FAZ: Search marketing works very well.  But where is the growth potential for Google?  Mobile Internet, video, web 2.0?  —  Eric Schmidt: First: There is still a lot of revenue in search …
Hank Williams / Why does everything suck?:
Arrington On Copyright: Wrong  —  I have always disagreed with Michael Arrington's position on copyright, which seems to be that people are going to steal, no one should do anything about it, and that copyright based businesses are going to die and that's not bad in his mind.  —  In January, Michael wrote:
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Catherine Clifford / Fortune:
MBA students go for Google  —  The search-engine giant is tops on new MBAs' wishlists, according to a new survey, though consulting and financial services firms remain popular.  —  NEW YORK (Fortune) — Where do MBA students most want to work when they get out of school?
Peter Burrows / Business Week:
Kleiner's Pick for the Killer iPhone App  —  The location-based software from Pelago will allow smartphone users to find friends' picks for local restaurants, shops, and activities  —  Apple won't crank up the hype machine about all the new things an iPhone can do until its Worldwide Developers Conference …
Nicole Fabris / ABI Research:
More Than One Billion Users Will View Online Video in 2013  —  Sparked by increasing broadband penetration and rising connection speeds available to a growing percentage of the world's population, over-the-top video has seen phenomenal growth in very recent years.
 
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Matthew Moore / Telegraph:
‘Biggest drawing in world’ revealed as hoax
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
It's Back: The D Bag o' Schwag
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Mobaganda: A Dead-Simple Invite Site Built On Google's App Engine
Discussion: Reuters
eWeek:
TSMC May Hike High-End Chip Prices
Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:
Everywhere, JPG - magazines for the future
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Google Fights for the Right to Hide Its Privacy Policy
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
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 Earlier Items: 
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
What if Microsoft had picked a different Chief Software Architect?
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Microsoft Jumping Into Social Bookmarking
Dion Almaer / Ajaxian:
Announcing AJAX Libraries API: Speed up your Ajax apps with Google's infrastructure
Yuvi / The StatBot:
TechCrunch Statistics A-W
Discussion: Furrier.org
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
German users claim MacBook Air can cut through bread, flesh
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Why Google is Wooing Web Developers
BBC:
Storm warning for cloud computing
Discussion: Rough Type
David Runk / Associated Press:
Borders returns to Web retailing after 7 years