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Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Third-party iPhone applications to arrive Monday — Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the App Store in March, and third-party applications delivered through the store should arrive Monday. — (Credit: Corinne Schulze/CNET Networks) — The era of officially sanctioned iPhone applications should kick off on Monday.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
How Big Is The Potential Market For the Apple iPhone? — At the Apple (AAPL) Worldwide Developers Conference coming up next week, CEO Steve Jobs is widely expected to unveil a new 3G version of the iPhone. Meanwhile, in the last few weeks, a number of carriers have announced deals to sell the phone …
Cory Bohon / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Rumor: Mac OS X 10.6 to debut at WWDC 08? — TUAW has received some information that suggests Apple may be working to seed developers with an early build of Mac OS X 10.6 at this year's WWDC. 10.6 will not include any new significant features from 10.5; instead, Apple is focusing solely on “stability and security.”
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The Apple Blog, Boy Genius Report, Gizmodo, MacRumors, VentureBeat, I4U News, WinBeta, AppleInsider, Insanely Great Mac and Digg
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Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:Mac OS X 10.6 to show at Apple developer event, drop PowerPC
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Business Wire:
As the Exclusive Portal Reseller of Walmart.com Display Advertising, Yahoo! Enables Walmart.com to Bring New Value to Online Customers and Marketing Opportunities to Advertisers — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News), a leading global Internet company …
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Yahoo Ads: Partnership With Havas Digital; Video And Display On Walmart.com — Day-to-day life goes on at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), as the company comes out with a couple of ad announcements this morning timed to coincide with Sue Decker's appearance at Advertising 2.0.
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
YouTube Annotations — YouTube added a new feature for video creators: annotations. “Video Annotations are a new way for you to add interactive commentary to your videos. Use them to add background information about the video, create stories with multiple possibilities …
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Celebrity MySpace Hacking - Paris Hilton & Lindsay Lohan's Private Pics (GALLERY) — Some Canadian hackers were so curious about the private lives of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan that they managed to hack into their MySpace profiles. After obtaining very personal images …
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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan private pics exposed by Yahoo hack
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Zero Day, Brier Dudley's blog, Business Technology, Unit Structures, Alec Saunders SquawkBox and Switched
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
The HTC Touch Pro — Call it Raphael no longer! HTC has officially thrown the cover off its Touch Pro today — the QWERTY slider sibling of the recently-unveiled Touch Diamond — which should cover the bases for those who loved the Diamond's keen looks but decided they'd go our of their gourds without …
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Boing Boing Gadgets, the::unwired, Phones Review, Boy Genius Report, Electronista, Phone Scoop, Gizmodo, UMPCPortal and Tech Blog
Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Sony's PS3 to Get In-Game Ads — Sony Corp. reached an agreement that will allow advertisements distributed over the Internet to be inserted into PlayStation 3 videogames, a boost for what could become a significant new revenue source for games companies. — Sony's games division is expected …
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Tom Conrad / Pandora:
From the lab: Pandora Desktop Beta — We've always wanted to find a simple way to deliver Pandora as a desktop application — it's probably been on our to do list longer than any single feature. Today we're dipping our toe into those waters for the first time with the release of a Beta version of Pandora Desktop.
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Lori Grunin / Webware.com:
Flip Video's mighty Mino — Although it was recently outed by B&H, Wednesday marks the official unveiling of Pure Digital's Flip Video Mino, the latest camcorder from one of the leaders of the low-res, straight-to-Web capture pack. Thinner and smaller than its popular sibling …
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Adam Howorth / Apple:
Apple Premieres Movies on the iTunes Store in the UK — Apple® today announced that movies from major film studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Sony Pictures Television International …
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Vanity Fair:
How the Web Was Won — Fifty years ago, in response to the surprise Soviet launch of Sputnik, the U.S. military set up the Advanced Research Projects Agency. It would become the cradle of connectivity, spawning the era of Google and YouTube, of Amazon and Facebook, of the Drudge Report and the Obama campaign.
Joanna Stern / LAPTOP Magazine:
Hands-On with the ECS G10IL Mini-Notebook — Finding a specific mini-notebook on the Computex show floor is like searching for buried treasure—it takes a bit of digging. Elitegroup Computer System's (ECS) G10IL was one of those treasures I went in search of this morning.
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Arn / MacRumors:
SoftBank Announces iPhone for Japan — SoftBank Mobile Corp announced today that they have signed an agreement with Apple for the iPhone “later this year”: — SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple® to bring the iPhone to Japan later this year.
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Apple 2.0, Tech Trader Daily, VentureBeat, Reuters, Gadget Lab, iLounge, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and IntoMobile
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Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Trouble at eBay — “I think [fixed prices] will disappear online, simply because it is possible - cheap and easy - to vary prices online.” That was MIT Media Lab's Patti Maes in 1999, at a time when eBay's business was booming and auctions were seen as the future of ecommerce.
NeoSmart Technologies / The NeoSmart Files:
Firefox 3 is Still a Memory Hog — One of the biggest “improvements” that Mozilla claims has made its way into Firefox 3 is improved memory usage, in particular, the vanquishing of memory leaks: … We're sorry to have to break it to you, but if you thought it was too good to be true you were right.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
WhitePages.com To Buy Snapvine for Around $20 Million — Seattle based WhitePages.com, a people search and background information site founded in 1997 by Alex Algard, will announce their pending acquisition of VoIP and widget startup Snapvine later today. The acquisition price is not being disclosed …
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