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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Report from the line — So, it's been non-stop in line here. I haven't had my hands on a keyboard until 3 a.m. — Why did I wait in line in Palo Alto and not the more sexy San Francisco? Easy, I knew there'd be more geeks in line here. And the line did not disappoint.
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
iPhone multi-city lineblog — This is it, iDay. Nerds from coast to coast will be lining up at their local Apple and AT&T stores to snag what's essentially the most anticipated consumer electronics launch ever. So what else is there to do but live blog those lines in whichever cities we can?
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Ars in line for the iPhone... in Cincinnati (Updated periodically) — Everyone else is covering the iPhone line in budding metropoli (is that a word?) such as New York City, San Francisco, and Chicago. I hear there were 50+ people in line for the iPhone at the Michigan Avenue Apple Store in downtown Chicago as of 5am.
Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:Exchange Update Fixes Potential iPhone Mail Issues
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All about Microsoft, Think Secret, Microsoft News Tracker, Engadget, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, TechBlog and Gadget Lab
AMD:
AMD to Ship Industry's First Native x86 Quad-Core Processors In August —AMD's Stable Infrastructure Strategy Enables Availability of Systems from Platform Partners in September— Continuing to lead the shift of mainstream enterprise computing to energy-efficient processors, AMD …
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Ars Technica, Computerworld, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Engadget, TechSpot News, The Tech Report and InfoWorld
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Free Software Foundation releases GPL 3 — After 18 months of sometimes inflamed debate, the Free Software Foundation on Friday released version 3 of the General Public License, a highly influential legal document that embodies the principles of the free and open-source programming movement.
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GigaLaw.com Daily News
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David Berlind / Berlind's Testbed:MonkCast #7: GPLv3 Day is here, Web APIs (good for business?)
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People Over Process
Verizon:
Verizon Wireless Stores Open All Day June 29 For Customers To Test Drive The Nation's Most Reliable Wireless Network, Purchase Any Of 18 Multi-Media Music Devices — Free Music Essentials Kit with Purchase of LG VX9400 — BASKING RIDGE, NJ — On June 29 Verizon Wireless stores and kiosks …
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Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
Verizon COO: 'iWhatever' — What do you do when your main competitor is about to unleash the most hyped gadget ever to the cell phone-toting masses? Give said gadget a mocking nickname in a memo to employees. — The Thursday letter to Verizon Wireless employees from Chief Operating Officer Jack Plating …
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog
kottke.org:
Facebook is the new AOL — Earlier in the week, I made a comment in passing in a post about Vimeo: … A few people picked up on it and speculated what I might have meant by it. In reading those posts and poking around a bit, I found a post that Scott Heiferman made just after Facebook Platform launched in May:
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Good Morning Silicon Valley, GigaOM, Insider Chatter, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, David Galbraith, SMC and Epicenter
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Guy J Kewney / Newswireless.net headlines:
Ignore US launch: European Tri-iPhone launch will reveal 3G iPhone for Voda, T-Mobile and Carphone Warehouse — A new 3G (European) version of the iPhone will be launched Monday in the UK by Apple - in a join promotion with Vodafone, T-Mobile of Germany, and Carphone Warehouse.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
iPhone accessories unveiled: Bluetooth headset (with dock) is $129 — The iPhone accessories have been announced. It's a fairly limited assortment with the most interesting being Apple's new Bluetooth headset. $129 is the price just like we heard. 5.5-hours of talk and 72-hours of standby.
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
AT&T customers seeing sudden boost in EDGE speeds? — Shortly after beginning the shutdown process of AMPS and TDMA networks, and just hours before the launch the EDGE-capable iPhone, a number of users are reportedly seeing dramatic increases in EDGE throughput.
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Roughly Drafted, Infinite Loop, Gadget Lab, MacRumors, TECH.BLORGE.com, Digital Daily, Mobilcaster, iLounge, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Mobility Site, Apple 2.0, New York Times, Life On the Wicked Stage, GigaOM, The Apple Core, Web Worker Daily, Wi-Fi Networking News, IntoMobile and Wall Street Journal
Peter Sayer / PC World:
EU Turns to YouTube to Create EUtube — The European Commission is turning to video-sharing Web site YouTube.com to disseminate information about the workings of the European Union to its citizens, through a new channel on the site called EUtube, it announced Friday.
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Arnold Zafra / Search Engine Journal:Sharing the Sights and Sounds of Europe through YouTube
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Computerworld
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Powerset: The natural language search mashup platform — Powerset finally came out of stealth mode tonight at its offices in San Francisco. The technology is not ready until September, but the company unveiled what it is doing to revolutionize search. "The patents and technology are locked down …
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
An AIR of Invisibility — Al Mandel, who helped market the original LaserWriter at Apple and later had several high-level positions at AOL, used to say, "The step after ubiquity is invisibility," by which he meant that once a technology had reached the point where everyone had it …
Michiko Kakutani / New York Times:
The Cult of the Amateur — Digital utopians have heralded the dawn of an era in which Web 2.0 — distinguished by a new generation of participatory sites like MySpace.com and YouTube.com, which emphasize user-generated content, social networking and interactive sharing …
Tech.co.uk:
Intel resurrects 90s Pentium for Larrabee — Advanced multi-core CPU will be based on Pentium MMX — Intel's upcoming massively multi-core Larrabee processor will be based on the long defunct Pentium MMX CPU, Tech.co.uk can exclusively reveal. — According to sources close to Intel …
Tom / Project Red Stripe:
And the idea is... After four and a half months of sweat and toil we are pleased to announce our idea: — We are developing a web service that harnesses the collective intelligence of The Economist Group's community, enabling them to contribute their skills and knowledge to international and local development organisations.
