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3:52 AM ET, June 27, 2007

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Wall Street Journal:
The iPhone Is Breakthrough Handheld Computer  —  One of the most important trends in personal technology over the past few years has been the evolution of the humble cellphone into a true handheld computer, a device able to replicate many of the key functions of a laptop.
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David Pogue / New York Times:
The iPhone Matches Most of Its Hype  —  Talk about hype.  In the last six months, Apple's iPhone has been the subject of 11,000 print articles, and it turns up about 69 million hits on Google.  Cultists are camping out in front of Apple stores; bloggers call it the "Jesus phone."
Steven Levy / Newsweek:
First Look: Test Driving the iPhone  —  A first look at the most eagerly anticipated gizmo ever.  —  A couple of weeks ago I went to Pittsburgh for what I thought would be a day trip.  Since I was headed back that evening, I didn't take my laptop, but because of thunderstorms across the Eastern Seaboard …
USA Today:
Apple's iPhone isn't perfect, but it's worthy of the hype  —  The mania over Apple's iPhone launch has created stratospheric expectations that are near impossible to live up to.  Yet with a few exceptions, this expensive, glitzy wunderkind is indeed worth lusting after.  —  That's saying a lot.
Discussion: Mossblog, iLounge and MacDailyNews
Ryan Block / Engadget:
How does the iPhone stack up in total cost?  —  It's no secret or surprise that Apple pushed AT&T into whipping up some new plans for the iPhone — specialness aside, one look at AT&T and users can get lost in its myriad plans, 44 in all (including prepaid, data, etc.).
Discussion: CNET News.com and Jay & Silent Rob
Ryan Block / Engadget:
iPhone facts from the first reviews
Discussion: The EduTech Blog
John Dvorak / PC Magazine:
Shut Up About the iPhone, Already!
Discussion: CrunchGear, Scobleizer and Neomeme
Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
Roundup: Apple iPhone Reviews
Steve Dowling / Apple:
AT&T and Apple Announce Simple, Affordable Service Plans for iPhone
Kennethn / Official Google Docs & Spreadsheets Blog:
An entirely new way to stay organized  —  Posted by: Ron Schneider, Technical Lead, Google Docs & Spreadsheets  —  Today we introduced some exciting changes to Google Docs & Spreadsheets.  —  Here's what's new:  — Looking pretty - The entire document list has been given a complete visual overhaul …
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Karen / Official Google Blog:
Why we're buying DoubleClick  —  In April we announced that we're buying DoubleClick, a leading company in the ad serving business.  When we made this announcement, we gave some of our reasons.  But because online advertising is complicated, I thought I'd step back a bit and offer some more context.
Eric Auchard / Reuters:
LinkedIn marks progress to IPO, hires ex-Tivo CFO  —  Armed with a bevy of new managers from top Silicon Valley firms and explosively growing revenues, business networking site LinkedIn Corp. is gearing up to become one of the first big post-dotcom Internet IPOs.
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
MySpace's Anderson, DeWolfe Want Megabucks To Re-Up With News Corp.: Report  —  If Nikki Finke's info is correct—and I've confirmed some of it—Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe are asking for the kind of money that would put them in the top five of News Corp.'s executives in terms of compensation …
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Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
Vista-only game cracked to run on XP  —  Microsoft has been displaying a rather schizophrenic attitude towards PC gaming recently—on one hand, the company wants the PC platform to be recognized as a first-class gaming citizen, but at the same time it is fragmenting the market unnecessarily …
Discussion: DailyTech
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Tom Ivan / Next Generation:
'Vista-Only' Titles Cracked
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Betas: Windows Live Photo Gallery; Microsoft Live Drive Here  —  Ever since Microsoft launched Live Search last year, they've been keeping a steady pace of new services integrations as they grow the Live Suite, specifically integration between interfaces for mobile, desktop, and web …
Tolles / blog.topix.com:
Topix Cracks the Top 20 & Gets a New Suit  —  For the first time, Topix hit the top 20 most visited news and info sites, according to Hitwise May 2007 data.  I'm especially happy about this, since the other big news is that Rich is stepping up to manage from the board, and I'm stepping in as CEO of Topix.
Inside AdSense:
We go round and round  —  As you'll recall, we recently introduced new formats for AdSense ads.  This week, we've added a new dimension for publishers in customizing these ad formats.  You've long been able to customize the size and colors of your ad units; now, you can also customize …
 
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Karen / Official Google Blog:
Put your photos on a map, and Picasa on your phone
Discussion: Googlified and mocoNews.net
slight paranoia:
Executive Summary  —  Using nothing more complex than an …
Discussion: The Register
Aaron Ricadela / Business Week:
Oracle's Mixed Message
Discussion: eWEEK.com
Kim Hart / Washington Post:
Sprint Ad Campaign Leaves Nextel's Name in the Dust
Discussion: mocoNews.net
Yahoo! Search Blog:
Flickr-izing Image Search
Discussion: ResearchBuzz
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Bush's spectrum boss shouts down network neutrality supporters
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Study Shows US Mobiles Outpacing Land Lines
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Apple stores hosting 'iPhone World Premiere' Friday night
Discussion: Ars Technica and TechSpot News
 Earlier Items: 
Ryan Kim / The Technology Chronicles:
iPhone keeping survey-takers busy
Discussion: Digital Media Wire
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Hack Attack: Sync your Firefox extensions and profiles across computers
Discussion: DailyTechRag
Elizabeth Montalbano / Computerworld:
New Yorkers camp out for iPhone despite summer heat
Discussion: Apple 2.0 and Pogue's Posts
Behind the Scenes:
A special note for our CNN Pipeline subscribers
Chris Ziegler / Engadget Mobile:
Fake iPhones: a retrospective
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Facebook for the Enterprise = Facebook  —  Guest post …
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
AOL launches new blog-like news site
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Modder faces jail time after raid turns up counterfeit games, mod chips