AppleInsider:
Apple tells Mac mini fan to hang in there  —  Apple appears to be taking its policing of the rumor mill to the phones, in one case dialing a customer who expressed concern over Internet reports on the Mac mini’s fate to assure him the situation would be addressed in due time.

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn Cuts 10% Of Staff  —  We’ve just heard from LinkedIn that the Sequoia-backed business network will be cutting 36 of 370 employees, or around 10% of the company.  LinkedIn is saying that some of these employees will be reassigned to new roles (though the company won’t comment on how many […]

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
MySpace Music CEO Debuting Tomorrow?  —  MySpace’s very, very long search for someone to run the social network’s new music site is just about over: A person familiar with the situation says the company has just about wrapped up negotiations with Courtney Holt, who heads up digital music at Viacom’s (VIA) […]

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Live blogging at the Web 2.0 Summit: the kickoff with Larry Brilliant of Google.org  —  The Web 2.0 Summit has kicked off in San Francisco and there is no sign of a downturn here.  It’s a full house, with maybe 900 people in the room.  The crowd has a lot of […]

John Biggs / CrunchGear:
OMG! iPhone keyboard!  OMG!  —  This hack adds a third-party mini-keyboard to the iPhone, effectively turning Cupertino’s darling into a Compaq iPaq circa 2001.  Does the iPhone really need a keyboard, people?  —  After using the iPhone for a little over a year, I find that the onscreen keyboard is intuitive […]

Benjamin J. Romano / Microsoft Pri0:
WinHEC: Sinofsky, DeVaan keynotes cover details of Windows 7  —  Microsoft Windows engineering chiefs Steven Sinofsky and Jon DeVaan are set to take the stage at WinHEC in Los Angeles right now to tell hardware makers what they can expect from Windows 7.  You can access their keynote speech […]

Newsweek:
Hackers and Spending Sprees … The computer systems of both the Obama and McCain campaigns were victims of a sophisticated cyberattack by an unknown “foreign entity,” prompting a federal investigation, NEWSWEEK reports today.  —  At the Obama headquarters in midsummer …

John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Apple to Pay Departing “Father of iPod” $300,000 Shut-Up Money Annually  —  “Advisor” to Apple CEO Steve Jobs is a killer gig-if you can swing it.  Just ask Tony Fadell.  The now former senior vice president of the company’s iPod division will collect an annual salary of $300,000 until March […]

Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Rumor: Internal Yahoo memo suggests CEO Jerry Yang may be out  —  Here’s a rumor (printed below) that we got and which has apparently been making the rounds.  It’s important to note that the NYT has since written a story saying that Yahoo has denied the rumor, and that both Yahoo […]

DealBook:
Yahoo’s Stock Spurts on False Rumors  —  Yahoo’s stock jumped as much as 10 percent on Wednesday morning as rumors flew that it was on the verge of reaching a deal with Microsoft.  The rumors, which people close to both companies unequivocally say are not true, seemed to gain legs …