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Natalie Kerris / Apple:
iPhone Delivers Up to Eight Hours of Talk Time — Now Features Durable Glass Top Surface — Apple® today announced that iPhone™ will deliver significantly longer battery life when it ships on June 29 than was originally estimated when iPhone was unveiled in January. iPhone …
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Business Week:
How Big Will The iPhone Be? — It may be a $10 billion business-and further propel Apple shares — Few stocks trade on emotion the way Apple Inc. (AAPL ) does. Its rip-roaring initial public offering in 1980 created the template for modern tech mania, while making Steve Jobs a gazillionaire.
David Chartier / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:Apple announces iPhone now delivers up to 8 hours of talk time, new glass display
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Gary Gentile / Associated Press:
AP: Blockbuster to Favor Blu-Ray HD Disc … LOS ANGELES (AP) — Blockbuster Inc. will rent high-definition DVDs only in the Blu-ray format in 1,450 stores when it expands its high-def offerings next month, dealing a major blow to the rival HD DVD format. — The move, being announced Monday …
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Michael Schneider / Variety:
Fox locks deal with Web TV service — Brightcove pacts with company — Internet TV service Brightcove has inked its first companywide deal with a major conglom, signing to become the online video platform for Fox Entertainment Group. — Under the pact, the Fox broadcast net …
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Television Syndication will Never Be the Same: Fox Video is Sharable with Brightcove Player — Fox Television and Brightcove will announce tomorrow (Monday) a major development in the distribution of online video by a mainstream television company: The integration of the Brightcove player …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV and Multimedia Platform Debuts at NXTcomm — Latest update to award-winning IPTV platform includes exciting connected entertainment features; new ingredient brand to support service provider marketing activities. — Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability …
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Marguerite Reardon / ZDNet:
IPTV chugs along — The promise behind Internet Protocol television, or IPTV, is enormous, but fulfillment of that promise sometimes seems a long way off. — A year into major IPTV deployments around the world, progress on new features is slow, although a new version of Microsoft's IPTV software takes …
Aldamiz / MyStrands Blog:
MyStrands raises $25 Million to lead the social recommendation industry … We are very excited to announce that MyStrands has raised $25 million in Series B funding. The main investor is 25 year-old Spanish media mogul Antonio Asensio, owner and CEO of the third largest media group in Spain …
Adam / Google Public Policy Blog:
Taking the Wraps Off Google's Public Policy Blog — Posted by Andrew McLaughlin, Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs — At the beginning of 2005, I was Google's lone public policy guy. Today, there's a bigger - and growing - team of us scattered around the world …
John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
Steve Jobs in a Box — It's a stunning box, a wizard object with a passel of amazing features (It's a phone! An iPod! A Web browser!). But for all its marvels, the iPhone inaugurates a dangerous new era for Jobs. Has he peaked? — H — e saunters out onstage, and the first thing you think is, man, Steve Jobs looks old.
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Bill Ray / The Register:
T-Mobile terminates Truphone — Mobile operator, or not? — T-Mobile has stopped connecting its customers when they call someone using Truphone, saying the VoIP operator is overcharging for interconnection. — Instead, T-Mobile customers get a recorded announcement saying they must have misdialed.
Cutkillavince / Akihabaranews.com:
iRiver feeds your envy! — A couple photos had been seen here and there the last couple days, it is now official, here comes iRiver's latest jewel: the NV! This DMB-Navi co...
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Firefox Add-ons: All You Need To Know — Firefox is a browser that can be extended and enhanced in many ways - chief among those being Add-ons, which give you more functionality or perhaps just a new theme. In fact sometimes they give you a full-blown web app, like Yoono, BlogRovr or Trailfire.
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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
No Microsoft-Ubuntu deal in the works, Canonical CEO says — Anyone expecting a technical and legal partnership between Microsoft and Ubuntu distributor Canonical to follow existing Microsoft-Linux deals will be disappointed. — Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth in a blog posting on Saturday …
Joshua Karp / The Boy Genius Report:
Sidekick to get MySpace application — We've uncovered T-Mobile's MySpace plans for its Sidekick devices. The Sidekick MySpace application will allow users to edit their profiles, upload pictures from their device, read/send messages, post comments, and much more.
