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Steve Jobs / Apple:
To all iPhone customers: — I have received hundreds of emails from iPhone customers who are upset about Apple dropping the price of iPhone by $200 two months after it went on sale. After reading every one of these emails, I have some observations and conclusions.
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Fight: Nokia & Apple Ads Trade Blows Over iPhone Price Cut — Bought that iPhone and now upset over the $200 price drop after it's been out only 60 days? Nokia's guessing plenty are and reaching out to them on Google via search ads. But Apple's not sitting back in the face of the Nokia ad campaign.
Terrence Russell / Epicenter:
Four Mistakes Apple Made With The IPhone Price Drop — Don't get us wrong—price cuts are a good thing. But yesterday's $200 iPhone price drop has left many current iPhone owners seething. Based on a lot of what we saw at the Moscone Center yesterday, it's clear that Apple made the following four mistakes:
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Nokia Marketing Team Reaches Out To Angry iPhone Users — Nokia's marketing department did some quick thinking yesterday. They're targeting iPhone users who are angry about the fact that they paid $200 more for their phone than they would have if they waited.
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Epicenter, Engadget, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Todd Watson, Pronet Advertising and CrunchGear
Scott McNulty / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Apple giving early iPhone buyers $100 credit — You were not happy, and Steve Jobs listened. Apple has posted an Open Letter from Steve (yet another blog post, Steve? When are you going to make it official? You know, we are looking for bloggers... I'm just saying) …
John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:At least the launch lines should be shorter now
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Associated Press:
Feds OK Fee for Priority Web Traffic — WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Thursday said Internet service providers should be allowed to charge a fee for priority Web traffic. — The agency told the Federal Communications Commission, which is reviewing high-speed Internet practices …
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US Department of Justice:
Department of Justice Comments on "Network Neutrality" in Federal Communications Commission Proceeding — Antitrust Division Says Regulatory Proposals Could Limit Consumer Choice and Deter Network Investment — WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice cautioned against imposing regulations …
Dan Nystedt / InfoWorld:
Apple may face lawsuit over iPod Touch moniker — (InfoWorld) - High Tech Computer (HTC) celebrated its 10th anniversary on Thursday with a rare compliment from Apple: the company adopted the same name HTC uses on one of its smartphones for the iPod Touch. — HTC, the Taiwanese handset and PDA …
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Wall Street Journal:
Download This: YouTube Phenom Has a Big Secret — Singer Marié Digby Isn't — Quite What She Appears; — 'Make People Like Me' — A 24-year-old singer and guitarist named Marié Digby has been hailed as proof that the Internet is transforming the world of entertainment.
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Listening Post, Lefsetz Letter, Daily Feed, WinExtra, the Wordpress of Lucas Gonze and BoomTown
Philip Fung / Facebook Blog:
Public Search Listings on Facebook … Starting today, we are making limited public search listings available to people who are not logged in to Facebook. We're expanding search so that people can see which of their friends are on Facebook more easily. The public search listing contains less information …
Inside Google Book Search:
My (own) library on Book Search — My apartment is kind of cluttered, and my book collection is no exception. Which means I sometimes have a hard time finding the book I'm looking for. Take last weekend, for example, when I found myself staring blindly at my shelves and wondering...
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Download Squad, Google Blogoscoped, Computerworld, Googling Google, TechCrunch and The Radioactive Yak
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EFFI:
Corrupt countries were more likely to support the OOXML document format — International Organization for Standardization (ISO) rejected the fast-track approval of the controversial Microsoft-supported OOXML document format as an ISO standard in a vote on 2 September 2007.
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Zoho's Business Suite Taking on Google Apps — Zoho has been a busy company. Over the past two years they've launched 12 applications along with 4 utilities, nearly all with APIs. Last October Zoho tied these programs together for individuals with a single sign-on feature.
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Mihai Parparita / Official Google Reader Blog:
"We found it!" — Here's a search box: — Search in Reader — Doesn't seem all that special, does it? Most Google sites have it. But let's look at where it is: — That's right, search is finally in Google Reader. Now you can find that that apricot recipe you came across a few months ago and now have a craving for.
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Digesting the 'Social Web Bill of Rights' — As we enter the digestion phase of the current wave of tech innovation, an important part of the reflection process is to figure out what we, as users, feel are our rights in the new tech economy. We need to lay down the ground rules the define …
