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Thai Tran / Google LatLong:
Google Maps Mashups 2.0 — When we were building the original Google Maps site, we envisioned that it would eventually become a platform for navigating all kinds of location-based information, such as home listings and travel information. Within weeks of the launch of Google Maps …
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Ecamm Network News:
iPhoneDrive Released — Ecamm Network today announced the release of iPhoneDrive for Mac. — The new program allows iPhone owners to store files and data in the iPhone's flash memory. The iPhone can now be used for storage and backup, as well as moving files from Mac …
Susie Pan / DigiTimes:
Wintek to ship touch screen panels for new Apple iPods — Taiwan-based Wintek will be the panel supplier of Apple's new iPod video, according to sources at upstream suppliers. Apple is set to launch a next-generation iPod video in August with the new products featuring a touch screen panel similar to the iPhone, the sources noted.
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Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
Microsoft Plays Up Family Appeal of Xbox — As Microsoft executives played down the impact of an extensive repair program for defective Xbox 360 game machines, they announced several efforts to broaden the appeal of their machine to families. — Opening the annual E3 game conference here …
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Robert Levine / New York Times:
Digital Music Group Plans to Merge With the Orchard — The Orchard, a digital music company that has built a business distributing albums from independent labels to online stores like iTunes, plans to announce today that it will merge with Digital Music Group.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Infosys FY Q1 Beats Street; Solid Q2 Outlook; Ups '08 Est In Dollars, But Down In Rupees; Stock Slips — Infosys (INFY) this morning reported revenue for its fiscal first quarter ended June of $928 million, beating the Street consensus of $909 million. EPS of 46 cents topped the Street at 40 cents.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Pay-for-blogging site raises questions — news analysis The controversy around a young Web site called Associated Content boils down to perspective. — Does it exist to game Google search results and generate revenue through Google's AdWords advertising service by displaying contextual ads next to the copy?
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Did ya know? It's Fair Use Day: July 11, 2007 — Get out your party hats and DeCSS coasters and t-shirts! — July 11, 2007, will mark the third-annual global "Fair Use Day," but chances are this is the first you've heard of it. Started back in 2005, "Fair Use Day" …
Kendra Marr / Washington Post:
Nielsen Alters Web Ratings, Favoring AOL Over Google — Nielsen/NetRatings has changed the way it rates Web sites and in the process has upended the rankings of the top online destinations, vaulting AOL and Yahoo over rival Google. — The research service announced yesterday …
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Performance regressions lead Mozilla to delay Firefox 3 beta, change roadmap — As we have previously reported, the first official Firefox 3 beta release was tentatively scheduled for late July. The beta has now been pushed back due to performance regressions and the need for extra front-end development …
John Cook / John Cook's Venture Blog:
Zillow enters citizen journalism — On Monday, Zillow.com apologized for a company e-mail that inadvertently promoted a new neighborhood service that wasn't quite ready. — Now, after that minor dust-up, the mystery is over. The Seattle company this evening is taking the wraps off community Web pages …
Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
DX10 is do-able on Windows XP — Microsoft backpedals for Nvidia, you lose — EVER WONDER WHY MS refuses to release DX10 for XP, forcing users to Linux, and barring that, Vista - also known as Me II? It is easy, there was a technical reason, but it shot that down when Nvidia couldn't cut it.
Elsa Wenzel / Webware.com:
WHEN IN ROME, PRADA IS PLENTIFUL. BRINGSOME? — It's always those little things spotted in a foreign country that I wish I'd grabbed more of to bring back home, like $2 cartoon-print chopsticks from Tokyo, a $3 sack of paprika from Budapest, or $1 bottles of local lavender oil from Zagreb.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Ubuntu launches new "freedom-focused" Gobuntu derivative — Although Ubuntu is highly regarded by desktop Linux users, the popular Linux distribution has been the subject of perpetual criticism from a small but vocal minority of users who believe that it doesn't set a high enough standard for software freedom.
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Mark Shuttleworth
Sid Yadav / Rev2.org:
Bay Partners Kicks Off AppFactory for Facebook Apps — As we've seen happening in the last few months, things like Google Gadgets, the Facebook Platform, and the iPhone have emerged for developers to build on — and perhaps even start a company for. We wrote about Google Gadget Ventures last week …
