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Apple:
YouTube Live on Apple TV Today; Coming to iPhone on June 29 — Best YouTube Experience on a Mobile Device — Apple® today announced that iPhone™ users will be able to enjoy YouTube's originally-created content on their iPhones when they begin shipping on June 29.
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Michael Gartenberg:
YouTube on Apple TV and surprise, the iPhone as well — Apple is rolling out YouTube for Apple TV as promised a few weeks ago but there's a little surprise in the press release, Apple's also adding YouTube support for the iPhone. Video access is through an Apple app on the phone and like Apple TV the video will be in H.264 format.
Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
News Corp explores swap of MySpace site for Yahoo! stake — News Corporation has discussed swapping MySpace, its internet social networking unit, with Yahoo! in return for a 25 per cent stake in the enlarged group. — The discussions remain tentative and could collapse after the departure …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:Rumors Of The Decline Of MySpace Are Exaggerated
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Peter Kaplan / Reuters:
Microsoft to change Vista after Google complaint — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) has agreed to modify its Windows Vista operating system in response to a complaint that its computer search function put Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) …
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:Details on Microsoft's antitrust search changes for Vista SP1
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:Microsoft flip-flops on Vista virtualization
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Eric Rabe / Verizon:
One Millionth FiOS Customer Video — At NXTComm today Ivan introduced this Massapequa, NY family. They are the one millionth connected FiOS customer since August, 2004. My bold emphasis is here to ensure that readers don't glance at this and think that it's just a home passed of a potential customer.
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:Verizon Fios hits 1 million subscriber mark
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Erick Schonfeld / The Next Net:
Veoh TV: Turning the Web Into TV — Dmitry Shapiro is tired of hearing about Joost, the peer-to-peer Internet TV service launched by the founders of Skype. "Joost is your old man's TV," sneers Shapiro, the CEO of competing Web video service Veoh. By that, he means that Joost is merely replicating …
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BBC:
Blackberry ban for French elite — French government officials have been ordered not to use handheld Blackberry devices amid fears that foreigners could spy on them, reports say. — Workers in the French president's and prime minister's office have been told their e-mails risk falling into foreign hands, Le Monde newspaper reports.
Anjali Athavaley / Wall Street Journal:
A Job Interview You Don't Have to Show Up For — Microsoft, Verizon, Others Use — Virtual Worlds to Recruit; — Dressing Avatars for Success — It's now possible to meet with recruiters without actually showing up for a job interview. — Some employers are experimenting with Second Life …
USA Today:
iPhone mania nears fever pitch — LOS ANGELES — Christopher Parr won't go so far as to bring his sleeping bag to his local AT&T store to be first in line for Apple's coveted iPhone when it goes on sale next week. — But he will be there opening night to plunk down $599 for the combination iPod …
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Illinois to become latest state to give telecoms statewide video franchise — Illinois has become the latest state to give new entrants into the cable television market a statewide franchise. Passed by the Illinois State Senate yesterday and sent to Gov. Rod Blagojevich for signature …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Judge deals blow to RIAA, says students can respond to John Doe lawsuit — A federal judge in New Mexico has put the brakes on the RIAA's lawsuit train, at least in the US District Court for New Mexico. The case in question is part of the RIAA's campaign against file-sharing on college campuses and names …
Direct2Dell:
More Systems Now Part of Vertical Line Issue — In April, I blogged about vertical lines appearing on some of Dell's notebook LCDs. At that time, we found that a small number of 17" LCD displays shipped with Dell Inspiron 9200, 9300 and Dell XPS Gen 2 notebooks may develop …
Damien Mulley:
Sky Handling Partners - The Return - So who's signing me up for dating websites? — This morning I noticed someone snooping around my website after coming to the site with the search "sky handling partners". It has happened before. Now for some background, I have had issues with this crowd losing my baggage.
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Microsoft Research demonstrates laptop-compatible multi-touch displays. Can touch this. — The word of 2007 is "multi-touch". It's everywhere, from the iPhone to the Microsoft Surface. We weren't happy with just one finger on the touch-sensitive screens, we wanted to put all 10 fingers …
Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:
Getty Is Primed To Acquire Pump — Seattle rock trio the Presidents of the United States of America haven't had a hit since their novelty song "Peaches" reached the top 40 in 1996 with the infectiously silly refrain "millions of peaches, peaches for me." — These days, singer …
Brian D Crecente / Kotaku:
PC: Spore Slip Sliding Away — The latest Game Informer reports that Spore has been "delayed indefinitely", but reached for comment today, Electronic Arts says that "Spore has slipped out of fiscal 08 and into fiscal 09". Either way you cut it, it means that the game we've all been waiting …
Chris Holland / Internet Brands Developer Blog:
iPhone: Apple's VoIP End-Game — When Steve Jobs first demoed the iPhone in January 2007, he made it clear that reaching someone by typing their phone number onto a keypad was no-longer acceptable, albeit tolerated. Instead, he showed an Address Book interface that unifies the concept of a …
Nokia:
Nokia organizes for the converging marketplace — Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced that it will introduce a new company structure from January 1, 2008. The move, driven by Nokia's strategy, is aimed at creating an organization aligned with the opportunities Nokia sees for future growth …
Alex E / MyStoreSpace.com Company Blog:
MyStoreSpace launches at eBay Live! (But My Google Shirt rains on the parade) — Saturday, June 16th was quite an eventful day for our two-man startup. My co-founder and I attended the eBay Live! conference in Boston to promote the launch of MyStoreSpace.com, our next-generation web store builder …
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