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2:25 PM ET, June 27, 2009

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Brandon Miniman / pocketnow.com:
Screenshots of the New TouchFLO 3D v2.5  —  When the Diamond2 and Touch Pro2 get the Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrade later this summer, it looks like they are getting a new version of TouchFLO 3D (Manila v2.5) that stretches the interface a bit deeper and makes it more customizable than seen on the current iteration.
Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Google thought Michael Jackson traffic was attack  —  Google has confirmed that the surge of Michael Jackson-related searches on Google News Thursday was first interpreted as an attack on its service.  —  Google News was inaccessible for some people Thursday afternoon right as rumors …
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Laura June / Engadget:
White iPhone 3GS reportedly overheats, turns a browner shade of white  —  Right after its launch, we noted the sundry problems reported by new iPhone 3GS owners, but this is the first time we've heard tell of this specific one... and it seems like a doozy.  It's unclear exactly what caused this …
BBC:
UK ‘has cyber attack capability’  —  The UK has the ability to launch cyber attacks but does not use it for industrial espionage like some other countries, minister Lord West has said.  —  He refused to be drawn on whether it was used for military purposes.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Apple kills Routesy app, my iPhone gets less useful  —  The fuss continues over Apple's capricious acceptance policy for its iPhone/iPod Touch App Store, most recently with the rejection of an app called Hottest Girls.  But for me and a few other San Franciscans, there's a much bigger cause of outrage …
Colin / Pre Insiders:
Palm Pre Mojo SDK Download Leaked To The Web (Links Updated!)  —  Just around an hour ago, @robovalzuniga sent out a tweet confirming that Palm's Mojo SDK had in fact leaked out.  What's better, he included a download link.  Yes, you can now download the (beta) SDK for the Pre.
Discussion: Engadget and Gizmodo
Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
Firefox 3.5 gears up for a possible Tuesday public release  —  A Mozilla spokesperson confirmed to Betanews early this evening that, if all pans out as planned, the organization will officially release the Firefox 3.5 Web browser to the general public as soon as Tuesday, June 30.
Alex Pham / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Warner Bros. emerges as sole bidder for Midway Games  —  All over but the shoutin' for Midway sale?  Credit: Togoodtobe4gotton via Flckr.  —  Times up!  The deadline for submitting bids to buy Midway Games passed Wednesday afternoon with just one offer — a $33-million deal from Warner Bros …
Discussion: VG247, Kotaku, GoNintendo and Joystiq
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Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
The True Story of True Ventures  —  San Francisco-based True Ventures emerged on the venture scene in 2005 and its way of doing business — focusing on seed-stage startups that it can afford to back for the long haul — quickly resonated with LPs.  Not only did they give True $155 million …
Discussion: The SiliconANGLE, Thanks:mrinaldesai
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Tour hitting Verizon Wireless on July 12th, selling for $199?  —  Well, you heard that right peoples.  It looks like Verizon Wireless is gearing up to launch the much-awaited BlackBerry Tour on July 12th.  The best part?  It appears it's going to go for $199 with a two-year agreement according to Verizon's testman site.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Dear Comcast: The Idea When You Bundle Is That People Are Supposed To Get A Discount  —  When companies offer “bundles” of the various services they offer, part of the point is that if you're buying multiple packages together, you get some sort of “discount.”
Kiyoshi Takenaka / Reuters:
Sony eyes cellphone/game gear hybrid - Nikkei  —  Sony Corp is considering developing a cellphone-game gear hybrid in a bid to better compete with Apple Inc's highly popular iPod and iPhone, the Nikkei business daily said on Saturday.  —  The Japanese electronics and entertainment conglomerate launched …
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
New in Snow Leopard: Activity Monitor shows you exactly what is killing your CPU  —  Before, you'd just see that Safari was nailing your CPU.  Now there's a more specific breakdown, which shows the true culprit.  Plug-in sandboxing is good thing.  It is especially helpful when a plug …
Joe McDonald / Associated Press:
Companies appeal to China to drop Web filter plan  —  BEIJING -  —  Global business groups have made an unusual direct appeal to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to scrap an order for PC makers to supply controversial Internet filtering software, citing security and privacy concerns.
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com and Mashable!
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
iPhone Bob leaves Apple to pursue venture capital investing  —  The man who took us on a guided tour of the iPhone 3G is leaving Apple to help a venture capital firm invest its horde of $1 billion.  —  Bob Borchers, who most recently served as senior director of worldwide product marketing …
Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
Winning Teams Join to Qualify for $1 Million Netflix Prize  —  The Netflix Prize, a computing challenge that's been compared to scaling Mount Everest and flummoxed programmers for more than three years, has been summited.  —  Two front runners in the contest, Team Pragmatic Theory and Team Bellkor in Chaos …
 
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John Letzing / Total Telecom:
Rivals move to flag IBM as anticompetitive in mainframes
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internetnews.com:
EMC Dangles the Bait for Data Domain a Bit Longer
Discussion: eWeek and Tech Trader Daily
John Leyden / The Register:
Blue chip FTP logins found on cybercrime server
Discussion: Softpedia News and SC Magazine US
Patrick Smith / paidContent:
Moreover May Sue Newspaper Biz Over Online Copying Levy
Discussion: paidContent
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Google chief: Iran can't control the net
Discussion: Danger Room
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Briefly: more affordable iMacs from Apple expected by fall
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
imeem Wants to Simplify Its Service - Deletes All User-Generated Photos and Videos
Discussion: Music is Social and Softpedia News
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Top Facebook Application Developer Slide Building Virtual Goods …
Zachary M. Seward / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Link from Yahoo breaks traffic records at New York Times
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Adding Insult To Injury: MySpace Botches Layoffs
Discussion: TechFlash and Gawker
 

 
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount's Shari Redstone backs CBS co-host Tony Dokoupil after execs criticized his work and says she lacks editorial control but “something needs to be done”

Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
A group of Wikipedia editors form the WikiProject AI Cleanup to “combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content” on the website

Nate Rattner / Wall Street Journal:
Analysis: among 200 politically focused TikTok accounts with viral posts, ~20% were news influencers, as news influencers take a bigger role in the US election

 
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