Around the Web 6.9.08: Fly a new iPhone

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-- Really? A new iPhone will be announced today? USA Today

(Steve Jobs talking around 10. Check back here for updates about the new iPhone).

-- And here’s what to do with it: JetBlue is buying Airfone, figuring that we won’t mind the massive fuel surcharges so much if we can e-mail friends midflight to complain. WSJ

-- The first computer to do a thousand trillion calculations per second will work on U.S. nuclear arsenal, global warming. Steroid use is not suspected. NYT

-- Here’s a strange case of a stolen digital camera phoning home and helping its owner figure out who had taken it. Reuters

-- Microsoft buddy Carl Icahn writes yet another letter to Yahoo board, probably because he’s seeking a volume postage discount. Reuters

-- Who needs Facebookers to click on your social ads when you can just get millions more from Sand Hill Road VCs? Not RockYou. TechCrunch

-- Biggest (not to say clunkiest) managed health group, Kaiser Permanente, to join forces with biggest (not to say clunkiest) software maker, Microsoft. Hilarity ensues. WSJ

-- Mattel launches a $5.99-a-month subscription service for its Barbie Girls website. GigaOm

-- A few months after poaching Douglas Merrill from Google to become digital president, EMI Music hires Second Life co-creator Cory Ondrejka as senior vice president of digital strategy. Silicon Alley Insider

-- Game off? Four big publishers have left the video game industry trade group, the Electronic Software Assn. WashPost

-- Joseph Menn