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Microsoft:
Microsoft Sets the Record Straight — On July 12, Yahoo! Inc. released a statement relating to recent discussions involving Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Carl Icahn. Microsoft believes the statement contains inaccuracies that need to be corrected. — On the evening of July 12, Yahoo! …
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Tech Beat, Portfolio.com, Bits, paidContent.org, BoomTown, Tech Trader Daily, TechCrunch, Microsoft Subnet's blog, Search Engine Land, GMSV and DealBook
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Microhoo mudslinging: Icahn says Yahoo distorts facts of offer; Microsoft agrees — The Microhoo saga gets messier by the minute and will probably get worse as we near the Aug. 1 shareholder meeting where Carl Icahn tries to boot Yahoo's board and CEO Jerry Yang.
PR Newswire:
Icahn Issues Open Letter to Shareholders of Yahoo! — Carl Icahn today issued the following open letter to Yahoo! shareholders. — ICAHN PARTNERS LP ICAHN PARTNERS MASTER FUND LP — ICAHN PARTNERS MASTER FUND II LP — ICAHN PARTNERS MASTER FUND III LP — HIGH RIVER LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
Apple:
Apple Sells One Million iPhone 3Gs in First Weekend — Apple® today announced it sold its one millionth iPhone™ 3G on Sunday, just three days after its launch on Friday, July 11. iPhone 3G is now available in 21 countries—Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland …
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Apple:
iPhone App Store Downloads Top 10 Million in First Weekend — Apple® today announced that iPhone™ and iPod® touch users have already downloaded more than 10 million applications from its groundbreaking new App Store since its launch late last week.
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ReadWriteWeb, Bits, Guardian, Ars Technica, The iPhone Blog, InformationWeek and TidBITS
PR Newswire:
Microsoft and Netflix Unveil Partnership to Instantly Stream Movies and TV Episodes to the TV via Xbox LIVE — Exclusive agreement creates game-changing home entertainment experience; more than 10,000 movies and TV episodes will be available to watch instantly at no additional cost to paying subscribers.
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:Microsoft brings Netflix streaming to the Xbox 360 for Live Gold members
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Associated Press, Gizmodo, Epicenter, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, Tech Tracks and CrunchGear
Xbox Press:
MARC WHITTEN LETTER ON THE NEW XBOX EXPERIENCE — When we launched Xbox 360 in November 2005, Xbox LIVE was integrated directly into the console. Back then, Xbox 360 was the first system to deliver access to experiences beyond just the disc in the tray. With the Xbox guide and dashboard …
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Paul Miller / Engadget:Microsoft details other 360 improvements, including hard drive game installs
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Nintendo.com:
Introducing Wii MotionPlus, Nintendo's upcoming accessory for the revolutionary Wii Remote — Nintendo's upcoming Wii MotionPlus accessory for the revolutionary Wii Remote controller again redefines game control, by more quickly and accurately reflecting motions in a 3-D space.
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Forbes, InformationWeek, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, Boing Boing Gadgets, The Cut Scene and CrunchGear
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Nintendo's Wii MotionPlus add-on makes the Wii Remote a true 1:1 motion controller — While we saw it hinted at in patents, Nintendo is springing quite the doozy on us at E3 in the form of its new Wii MotionPlus add-on. Perhaps in a preemptive strike against supposed Wiimote competition …
InfoWorld:
Enterprises become the battleground for social networking — The battle to provide social networking in the enterprise is under way between solutions from established software vendors and readily available offerings such as Facebook and LinkedIn, with these sites possessing a lot of momentum …
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Michael White / Bloomberg:
Sony's PlayStation 3 Gaining Ground on Xbox With Games, Blu-Ray — Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3, the 2007 loser in the fight for second place in video-game console sales, is gaining ground on Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360. — The PlayStation 3 outsold the Xbox 360 in the U.S. in the first five months …
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The Digital Home, DSLreports, VentureBeat, Opposable Thumbs, Things That, Destructoid and TechSpot
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Ola Rosling / The Official Google Blog:
No cameras. No lights. Just data. — A few weeks ago we heard about a project Radiohead was working on. The band was making a new video, but they weren't using any cameras, just lasers and data. As you might imagine, we were intrigued. — The song is called “House of Cards,” from Radiohead's recent “In Rainbows” album.
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comScore:
Americans Viewed 12 Billion Videos Online in May 2008 — Fox Interactive Media Gains Market Share on Increase in Videos Viewed at MySpace.com — comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released May 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix service …
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Search Engine Watch Blog, Podcasting News, CenterNetworks, HipMojo.com, Beet.TV, Contentinople, WebProNews and SitePoint Blogs
Thomas Frank / USA Today:
Printer dots raise privacy concerns — WASHINGTON — The affordability and growing popularity of color laser printers is raising concerns among civil liberties advocates that your privacy may not be worth the paper you're printing on. — More manufacturers are outfitting greater numbers …
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Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
See Your Future Facebook Profile Now at new.facebook.com — It appears that the beta for Facebook's new user profiles is now live. To check out what your re-designed profile will look like, just head to www.new.facebook.com once logged into your account. This will not change your actual profile yet …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
eBay wins counterfeit-sales suit filed by Tiffany — eBay cannot be forced to police its auction listings to identify counterfeit Tiffany & Co. products, a federal judge ruled on Monday in a lawsuit brought by the iconic 171-year-old jewelry company. — In what could become a landmark case …
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Brett Terpstra / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Did Apple set developers up for failure? — As I'm sure many of you have noticed, many of the applications from the App Store are crashing frequently. Basically, an app I want to launch opens a blank screen, pauses for a moment, and then drops me back to my home screen without so much as an apology.
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Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Helping yourself to Webmaster Tools — Since not every webmaster can come to us, we are coming to you. Last November, we announced a pilot program whereby all Go Daddy users got free and easy access to all Webmaster Tools has to offer, right from their account management panels in Go Daddy.
PC World:
3G iPhone's Mediocre Battery Life Still Beats Rivals — The 3G iPhone's sub-6-hour battery life gets a word score of fair from the PC World Test Center, but it still beats out other 3G handsets. — Yardena Arar, PC World — Recommends — The battery life on Apple's new 3G iPhone isn't great …
