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John C. Dvorak / MarketWatch:
Time to short Apple? — Commentary: Functionality of iPhone will be duplicated by others — BERKELEY, Calif. (MarketWatch) — If you follow the rules and sell on good news and buy on the bad, now would be time to short Apple Inc. There is no company out there with this much good news.
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Jeff Gamet / The Mac Observer:
Analyst: Apple to Sell 45M iPhones in '09 — Apple's iPhone launch is only weeks away, and Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster is predicting that will signal the beginning of a skyrocketing climb leading to 45 million units sold in 2009. For calendar year 2007, he expects Apple will sell 3.2 million units, and 12.4 million in 2008.
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Peter Burrows / Business Week:
How Big Will the iPhone Be? — The new must-have smartphone may be a $10 billion business—and could send Apple shares even higher — Few stocks trade on emotion the way Apple Inc. does. Its rip-roaring initial public offering in 1980 created the template for modern tech mania, while making Steve Jobs a gazillionaire.
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Jonathan Fildes / BBC:
Wireless energy promise powers up — A clean-cut vision of a future freed from the rat's nest of cables needed to power today's electronic gadgets has come one step closer to reality. — US researchers have successfully tested an experimental system to deliver power to devices without the need for wires.
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David Derbyshire / Daily Mail:
The end of the plug? Scientists invent wireless device that beams electricity through your home — Scientists have sounded the death knell for the plug and power lead. — In a breakthrough that sounds like something out of Star Trek, they have discovered a way of 'beaming' power across …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for June 2007 — Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: June 7, 2007 — Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: June 12, 2007 — This is an advance notification of six security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on June 12, 2007.
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Leichtman Research Group:
Over Half of U.S. Households Subscribe to Broadband Internet — Household Income Still a Key Factor in Broadband Adoption — New consumer research from Leichtman Research Group, Inc. (LRG) finds that 53% of all US households now subscribe to a broadband high-speed Internet service at home.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Americans willing to pay (a little) more for privacy — Are American consumers willing to pay more in order to protect their privacy, or is online commerce all about the lowest possible price? That's what researchers from Carnegie Mellon University set out to learn in a new study on privacy and commerce …
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Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:Study: Shoppers will pay for privacy
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Facebook's copyright quagmire? — Facebook Platform's tremendous growth in popularity over the past few weeks has thrown the company into a thorny legal quagmire concerning copyright and music pirating. — The problem began two weeks ago, when Facebook opened Platform to allow applications built by outside developers.
The Steampunk Workshop:
Steampunk Monitor Mod — The Steampunk Keyboard looked terribly anachronistic sitting in front of my Dell 1907FP flat panel monitor and while I hesitated to tear open a $300 monitor that was still under warantee, art must be served. — Inside I found that the whole thing was encased in steel sheet.
Jackson West / NewTeeVee:
Phil Hellmuth Bets on SplashCast — SplashCast, the Portland-based startup that offers a multimedia Flash player with a number of advanced features for syndication and aggregation, recently scored some angel funding from professional poker celebrity Phil Hellmuth, bringing its funding total …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
New YouTube Interface for Embedded Videos — Embedded YouTube videos have now received the new interface that had been around for a while, as Daniel Garcia reports in the forum. For a live sample, have a look at the two promotional videos posted here earlier.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Parallels updates Windows-on-Mac software — Parallels on Thursday released an updated version of its Parallels Desktop software, which enables users of Intel-based Macs to run Windows and Mac OS X simultaneously. — The software has gained quite a following since the release of its first version …
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Carlo Longino / Techdirt:
New Webcast Royalty Rules Will Line SoundExchange's Pockets With Billions In 'Administrative Fees' — from the there's-greed-then-there's-greed dept — There's been plenty of backlash against the new royalty rates for webcasters, set by the Copyright Royalty Board at the suggestion of SoundExchange …
Business Wire:
YP Corp. Acquires LiveDeal and Goes Hyper-Local — Creates Revolutionary Integrated Online Local Yellow Pages/Classifieds Marketplaces — MESA, Ariz.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—YP Corp. (OTCBB:YPNT), a leading provider of nationwide Internet Yellow Pages and related services with more than 16 …
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1UP.com:
ASSASSIN'S CREED TO BE RELEASED IN NOVEMBER — Prince of Persia follow-up coming this fall. — Ubisoft today announced the long-anticipated Assassin's Creed will be released across PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and the PC this November. — Additionally, as is becoming the de facto standard these days …
Phil Windley's Technometria:
Why Does HP Software Suck Sooooo Bad? — I have an HP Scanjet 4670 that I've owned for 3 years now. I haven't used it for a year however, and a few months ago when I rebuilt my machine, I didn't reinstall the HP drivers on purpose. This morning I needed to make a scan.
