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Around the Web 5.23.08: Senseless Apple lines and Wii Fit review

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-- Hey Nintendo, you calling us fat? Pete Metzger reviews the new Wii Fit game and balance board, now selling for $89.99.

-- Yahoo pushed back its annual meeting from July 3 until late July, giving it more time to plan its proxy fight against Carl Icahn or reach a buyout deal with Microsoft. Icahn now has one fewer director to oust, as Ed Kozel is stepping down. AP via LAT

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-- Targeting texting teens: Seventeen magazine and other marketers are trying to engage with young people on their cellphones, Alana Semuels reports.

-- Forrester predicts what Apple will be selling in five years, including digital picture frames and a fancy set-top box. SF Gate ... Meantime, do you know why there’s a big line outside the NYC Apple store? Neither do the people standing in it. Engadget

-- AT&T‘s network is about to get faster. Apple 2.0.

-- Hewlett-Packard lives to serve: It passed IBM in the worldwide server revenue, according to Gartner. WSJ

-- Twitter finally closes its funding round, GigaOm says. Now maybe Twitter can afford to figure out why its mobile blogging service keeps crashing all the time. Here’s what people were tweeting at the Cannes Film Festival.

-- Google can’t stop talking about the search-advertising partnership it’s negotiating. You know, the deal that’s been within a week of getting done for a month now. SiliconValley.com

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-- Bit Player dives into OVGuide, a search engine/directory for finding online video.

-- Surface computing and computer games designed by kids: Venture Beat reports from Microsoft’s Silicon Valley road show.

-- Chris Gaither

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