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Vodafone:
Vodafone to Offer Apple's iPhone in Ten Markets — Vodafone today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten of its markets around the globe. Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal …
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Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:
August Said to Be Target for New iPhone in Europe — BERLIN — Apple plans to begin selling the long-awaited, faster 3G version of its best-selling iPhone by the August summer holidays in some European countries, a person close to the situation said, as part of an expanded rollout of the device …
Jonathan Richards / Times of London:
Apple forced into iPhone contracts U-turn — Italy has become the first country to sell the iPhone on a non-exclusive basis, suggesting that Apple's strategy of tying its device to one network in each territory may be unravelling. — This morning Vodafone and Telecom Italia announced …
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Robert Hof / Business Week:
Why Yahoo Shares Lost Only 15% — The bottom didn't fall out of the stock after Microsoft yanked its bid. One reason, says CEO Yang: “We have more alternatives” than before the offer — Justin Sullivan/Getty Images — When Microsoft (MSFT) pulled its sweetened, $33-a-share offer …
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
The Declining Value Of Redundant News Content On The Web — Microsoft withdrawing its offer to buy Yahoo is a sufficiently large story to demonstrate the problem of redundant news content on the web. Google News is currently tracking about 2,000 versions of this story.
New York Times:Yahoo Chief Says Microsoft Was the Stubborn One
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:How Not to Make a Deal
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Silicon Alley Insider, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, HipMojo.com, DealBook, Guardian and Ars Technica
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
We Lost A Blogging Giant Today: Duncan Riley Leaves TechCrunch — Today was Duncan Riley's last day at TechCrunch, and he will be greatly missed. — Duncan joined us exactly one year ago and was our most prolific writer, covering tech and startup news seven days a week.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Signing Off, And What Does A TechCrunch Writer Actually Use? — This is my last post at TechCrunch as a full time writer (I may yet do the occasional guest post). It's exactly 12 months to the day since I started writing here and the date seemed like a good time to go.
Microsoft:
Zune Expands Beyond Music to Deliver Integrated All-in-One Entertainment Experience — New software updates bring popular television shows to online store, enhancements to online music community and subscription service. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that Zune, the company's …
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Jenna Bilotta / Official Google Reader Blog:
Share anything. Anytime. Anywhere. — Have you ever wanted to share something that you were reading, but you didn't want to go through the hassle of subscribing to a whole feed for a single interesting article? And what about sharing content from sites with no feeds?
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Yahoo! Search Blog:
A Safer Way to Search — Today, we're announcing the beta release of SearchScan, a new feature from Yahoo! Search that helps protect users from viruses, spyware and spam. We've heard from users that security and privacy continue to be major concerns when they are online.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Google's PR Head Elliot Schrage Heads to Facebook — The Googlefication of Facebook continues, as Elliot Schrage, the search giant's vice president of global communications and public affairs, takes the title of vice president of communications and public policy at the popular social networking site.
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Doug Aamoth / CrunchGear:
Live in London: ‘HTC Touch Diamond’ announcement — Doug Aamoth here in London at the HTC announcement. Hit the jump for more. — VIDEOS TOO! — 12:00 - Peter Chow takes the stage. Introduces a guy from Orange and a guy from Microsoft. Talks about the HTC Touch and the TouchFLO interface.
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Joshua Fruhlinger / Engadget:HTC unveils new HTC Touch Diamond, “not too big, not too small”
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Pete Kazanjy / Team Fusion:
More Displays. More 3D. More to Love: VMware Fusion 2.0 Public Beta 1 Now Available — The VMware Fusion team is proud to announce VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1. — This public beta, a free download, boasts a handful of industry firsts for Mac virtualization, including true multi-display support …
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The Apple Core, MacMegasite, Compiler, Virtualization.com, Macworld, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Cult of Mac, MacUser and MacDailyNews
Susan Stellin / New York Times:
Free Wi-Fi, but Not for All — The battle between free and paid wireless Internet access is starting to look like a draw. Or more accurately, a third variation is winning — a combination of the two. — Travelers want to log on everywhere at no charge, while hotels …
BBC:
Free satellite TV service begins — A free satellite television and radio service from the BBC and ITV is being launched across the UK. — Freesat is available to 98% of homes, including those that are unable to receive Freeview through a TV aerial. — It will carry 80 digital TV …
