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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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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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Opposable Thumbs, The Digital Home, Things That, DSLreports, VentureBeat, Destructoid, TechSpot and PS3 Fanboy
Paul Miller / Engadget:Microsoft details other 360 improvements, including hard drive game installs
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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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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Bits, Medialets, ReadWriteWeb, Guardian, Ars Technica, Tech Beat, techblog.dallasnews.com, InformationWeek, The Social, TidBITS, SMS Text News and MobHappy
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Piper Jaffray analyzes first weekend iPhone sales — UPDATE: Apple on Monday issued a press release announcing that it sold its 1 millionth iPhone 3G on Sunday. News from the company has apparently overtaken Gene Munster's analysis, below. — “iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend …
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AppleInsider, Valleywag, ClusterStock, Tech Check with Jim Goldman and Silicon Alley Insider
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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Bits, Search Engine Land, paidContent.org, BoomTown, Tech Trader Daily, TechCrunch, GMSV, DealBook, Tech Tracks and Furrier.org
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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.
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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InformationWeek, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, Boing Boing Gadgets, The Cut Scene, GoNintendo, CrunchGear and Gizmodo
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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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Zoomix:
Microsoft Signs Agreement to Purchase Data Quality Start-up Zoomix — The Zoomix development group will join Microsoft's R&D center in Israel — Microsoft announced today that it has signed an agreement to purchase Zoomix, an Israeli start-up focused on data quality software.
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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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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Bezos Gets His Game On — With an undisclosed investment in Social Gaming Network by his personal fund, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is proving Om right. Back in May, when Bezos invested in Kongregate, another casual gaming site, Om thought it might be the first of many.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:Social network creator SGN gets funding from Amazon's Bezos …
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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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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 …
Bonnie Cha / CNET News.com:
Palm Treo 800w debuts with Sprint — The world may still be all abuzz with iPhone 3G talk, but believe it or not, there are other smartphones out there and Sprint just happened to land a pretty good one. Today, the carrier and Palm unveiled the Palm Treo 800w, a Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone targeted at business users.
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SlashGear, Gizmodo, The Mobile Gadgeteer, Wi-Fi Networking News, Today @ PC World and DSLreports
Alex Iskold / ReadWriteWeb:
iPhone: The New Personal Computer — When Apple first announced the launch of its iPhone platform, we wrote here that it is a game changer. Even the core of iPhone is a major advance in mobile computing, but with the platform iPhone becomes the new personal computer.
