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5:50 PM ET, June 16, 2008

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Here's Our New Policy On A.P. stories: They're Banned  —  The stories over the weekend were bad enough - the Associated Press, with a long history of suing over quotations from their articles, went after Drudge Retort for having the audacity to link to their stories along with short quotations via reader submissions.
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Associated Press Hands Local And National News Sites An Opportunity …
Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Vista's big problem: 92 percent of developers ignoring it  —  And to think Microsoft used to be popular with the developer crowd...  Not anymore.  A recent report from Evans Data shows fewer than one in 10 software developers writing applications for Windows Vista this year.  Eight percent.
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Windows XP era draws to a close  —  After a long-announced transition, June 30 marks the end of an era at Microsoft.  Well, really it's the end of two eras.  —  Most people think of Bill Gates, of course, and I'll have plenty more to say about his impending shift to part-time work in the coming days.
TG Daily:
Dell launches final Windows XP PC systems
Discussion: Crave and TechSpot
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
$15 to check a bag, but free to charge an iPod  —  United Airlines has been subject to some pretty bad press recently for being one of several airlines to slap a $15 fee on checked bags, but here's a perk: the commerical carrier announced on Monday that it's starting to install iPod and iPhone connectivity features in its airplanes.
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Andy Space / 9 to 5 Mac:
iPod/iPhone join United's mile-high club  —  United Airlines has become the first US air carrier to offer iPod and iPhone connectivity within its in-flight entertainment systems, the airline announced today.  —  The company's solution allows passengers to watch and listen to their media on the 15.4-inch screen available at their seat.
United Airlines:
Tune In and Take Off on United Airlines  —  United Airlines First U.S. Carrier to Offer iPod & iPhone Connectivity  —  United guests may now reach cruising altitude with a new, personalized in-flight entertainment system.  United is the first U.S. carrier to offer iPod and iPhone connectivity …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple's iPhone 3G Is The New iPod, Sales To Triple (AAPL)  —  The iPhone 3G's faster speeds, cheaper price, apps platform, and wider distribution will lead to a breakout holiday quarter for Apple (AAPL), reminiscent of the iPod's December quarter in 2005, when sales tripled year-over-year …
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MacNN:
AT&T limiting iPhone speeds to 1.4Mbps?
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
iPhone 3G buyers may be able to complete activation at home
Discussion: Gizmodo and CrunchGear
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost Publications:
Web Do-Over: ABC Gives TV Advertisers Makegoods—Online  —  Broadcast networks are starting to experiment in giving makegood inventory in digital streaming episodes in lieu of traditional TV commercial time.  —  This past season, a handful of advertisers took makegood inventory from ABC …
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Donna Bogatin / STARTUP CHATTER:
Velocity Interactive VC: Web Video Needs a ‘30 second spot’
Discussion: HipMojo.com
Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
Average teenager's iPod has 800 illegal music tracks  —  Teenagers and students have an average of more than 800 illegally copied songs each on their digital music players, the largest academic survey of young people's music ownership has found.  —  The research also showed that half of 14 …
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple's open secret: SproutCore is Cocoa for the Web  —  One of the biggest revelations at WWDC was quietly unveiled in a session on Friday morning entitled “Building Native Look-and-Feel Web Applications Using SproutCore.”  While Apple maintained high security during the entire NDA-sealed WWDC session …
Darryl K. Taft / eWeek:
eBay, PayPal Open Up to Developers  —  EBay opens its platform to developers while PayPal offers new tools.  —  EBay and PayPal are rolling out new developer initiatives.  —  At the eBay Developers conference in Chicago June 16, eBay announced Project Echo, which is designed …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
eBay: New belle of Microsoft's merger ball?
Discussion: WebProNews and SEO and Tech Daily
Microsoft:
Microsoft Introduces First Embedded Operating System Optimized Specifically for Portable Navigation Device (PND) Manufacturers  —  Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 provides a platform enabling original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to quickly build next-generation connected PNDs.
Steve Litchfield / All About Symbian:
Nokia E71  —  Having been using the Nokia E71 for a little while now, Steve Litchfield delivers his verdict - what's new compared to its predecessor, the E61i?  And how close does the E71 get to being the perfect smartphone for the modern professional?  —  Version Reviewed:  —  Score: 85
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News.com:
AMD, Nvidia graphics chip designs diverge  —  On Monday, AMD and Nvidia are launching graphics chips based on distinctly different design philosophies.  —  Nvidia's GTX 280 and GTX 260 are designed to deliver the biggest performance bang per chip.  A so-called “monolithic” …
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
alt.blocked: Verizon blocks access to whole USENET hierarchy  —  Verizon has released details of the agreement it and other ISPs signed last week to block access to Usenet groups that have been caught trafficking child pornography.  Instead of simply blocking the handful of offending groups …
Discussion: CrunchGear and Lockergnome
Staska / Unwired View:
Microsoft Veda.  New look at mobile convergence  —  It was so easy to tell what is what and what for when we only had mobile phone and laptop to carry around.  —  But today, with the proliferation of smartphones, PDA phones, communicators, MID's, UMPC's, sub-notebooks and what not …
Discussion: Mobility Site and Engadget
 
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Laurel J. Sweet / Boston Herald:
Probe shows kiddie porn rap was bogus
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Google easily extending dominance to mobile search market
Discussion: WebProNews
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Vuze Becomes Social, Tears Down Walls
Discussion: TorrentFreak
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 hands on
Discussion: IntoMobile, CrunchGear and Engadget
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Pearl Jam offers streaming ‘bootlegs’
PC World:
Little Big Disk Quadra Offers 1TB of Portable Storage
Discussion: Electronista
JR Raphael / The Inquisitr:
Trusera Brings Medicine to Social Networking
Scott Ferguson / eWeek:
Parallels Slices Up Apple Xserve
Discussion: Macsimum News
 Earlier Items: 
Hank Williams / Silicon Alley Insider:
Who's Going To Be The Web's Tim Russert?
Ashlee Vance / The Register:
HP dishes 24 hour party people blade
Discussion: eWeek
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Can Hulu Help Struggling Web Series? We Doubt It.
Discussion: HipMojo.com
AMD:
AMD Stream Processor First to Break 1 Teraflop Barrier
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Microsoft's Next Quarry?
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Remote Clicks That Do More Than Just Change Channels
Pew Internet:
The Internet and the 2008 Election
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
The iPhone's Impact on Rivals