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6:15 PM ET, July 21, 2008

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Apple:
Apple Reports Record Third Quarter Results  —  Revenue Up 38 Percent Year-Over-Year Mac Sales Reach All-Time High  —  Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2008 third quarter ended June 28, 2008.  The Company posted revenue of $7.46 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.07 billion, or $1.19 per diluted share.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:   Apple's Mac shipments surge; Lowballs on outlook again
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Live! From the Apple Q3 earnings call
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Mac shipments set an Apple record
Discussion: Byte of the Apple
Business Wire:
Yahoo! Announces Settlement with Carl Icahn  —  SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News), a leading global Internet company, announced today that it has reached an agreement with Carl Icahn to settle their pending proxy contest related to the Company's 2008 annual meeting of stockholders.
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Paul R. La Monica / CNNMoney.com:
‘Microhoo’ saga isn't over yet
Discussion: paidContent.org
New York Post:
APPLE-A-DAY TALK  —  INVESTORS AWAIT EARNINGS & JOBS' HEALTH REPORT  —  Industry concerns about Steve Jobs' health have not gone away more than a month after the Apple CEO appeared dramatically thinner at the firm's annual developers' conference, fighting what insiders at the time were calling a “bug.”
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Steve Jobs' Health Worries Won't Go Away.  Time For A Succession Plan (AAPL)  —  Concerns about Steve Jobs' health aren't going away.  Today's NY Post quotes a “Wall Street source” who says hedge fund managers are still freaked out after seeing Jobs' rail-thin appearance at the iPhone launch event last month.
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Analysis: Facebook's redesign aimed at Silicon Valley, not everywhere else  —  Is Facebook's redesign aimed at Silicon Valley, not everywhere else?  —  Facebook has finally started integrating its new redesign into its main site.  The company is betting that what users want to do is to publish …
Discussion: Profy.Com and Lonely CEO Media
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Ben Lorica / O'Reilly Radar:
Facebook Growth By Country and the Slowdown in App Usage
Qblogger / Windows Home Server Team Blog:
Power Pack 1 - come and get it!  —  The team is pleased to announce that Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 has been released to manufacturing (RTM) and is now available on the Microsoft Download Center!  —  The English version is available now and German, Spanish and French versions will be available on the Download Center soon.
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PC Magazine / eWeek:   Microsoft Windows Home Server Update Arrives
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet For $200.  Help Us Build It.  —  I'm tired of waiting - I want a dead simple and dirt cheap touch screen web tablet to surf the web.  Nothing fancy like the Dell latitude XT, which costs $2,500.  Just a Macbook Air-thin touch screen machine that runs Firefox …
Discussion: GottaBeMobile
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Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunchIT:
The Techcrunch Web Tablet Project  —  Today at Techcrunch we announced that we are building our own web tablet hardware device.  This all stems back from a conversation a few weeks ago when we were discussing the ultimate web browsing/cloud computing client hardware.
Discussion: Webreakstuff and Scripting News
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Is iPhone The New Gaming Platform?  —  Last July, at the time of the launch of the new iPhone, we asked the question, where are the iPhone games?  Looks like we have an answer: they are coming, and in a big way.  Of course, you can already buy Tetris and grab Tap Tap Revenge, the No. 1 free app …
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Smaller PCs Cause Worry for Industry  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The personal computer industry is poised to sell tens of millions of small, energy-efficient Internet-centric devices.  Curiously, some of the biggest companies in the business consider this bad news.
Andrew Chen / Futuristic Play:
Are Web 2.0 startups wasting their time with Web 2.0 early adopters?  —  Cookie cutter go-to-market strategies  —  I run into a lot of startups that have identical strategies for getting to market.  When you talk to them, a lot of them will talk about the same questions:  — When are you launching?
Discussion: WinExtra and Furrier.org
Nate True's Weblog:
How to tether your iPhone 3G and browse the web using your 3G connection  —  Thanks to the excellent work of the iPhone Dev Team and the porting work of Jay Freeman as well as the authors of 3Proxy, it is now possible to “tether” your iPhone 3G and use its Internet connection on your laptop.
Journalism.org:
THE CHANGING NEWSROOM  —  Meet the American daily newspaper of 2008.  —  It has fewer pages than three years ago, the paper stock is thinner, and the stories are shorter.  There is less foreign and national news, less space devoted to science, the arts, features and a range of specialized subjects.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Why Is Google Punishing Sites That Publish Full RSS Feeds?  —  Last year, we explained why full text RSS feeds make sense.  You can read the whole thing, but the short version is that it makes it easier to read, and that means more people actually read the full stories and are willing to discuss them …
Raanan Bar-Cohen / WordPress for iPhone:
Getting Close  —  Just a quick update that we've successfully uploaded the app to the iTunes Store, and the status message “In Review” indicates that the Apple team is conducting their testing procedures.  We have not been provided with an ETA - so it could get approved at any time.
 
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Verizon:
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Texas Instruments: Q2 Results, Q3 View Come In Short
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Exclusive: Inside the Lego Factory
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
Sony's amazing crapware-free PC
Discussion: Between the Lines
InfoWorld:
SAP will shut TomorrowNow at the end of October
Discussion: Computerworld
Albert Wenger / Union Square Ventures:
10gen  —  My love for computers and software started as a teenager growing up in Germany.
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and 10gen Blog
Hank Williams / Why does everything suck?:
S3 Failure Raises Questions About Cloud Design
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Dieter Bohn / WMExperts:
BlackJack III: Sneaky Pre-Release Hands-On, Coming in October
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable:
Google Continues to Test Green Top Bar
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Pre-Beta Mac client for Live Mesh - Review and download
Giles Turnbull / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Are you affected by MobileMe mail outage?
Jefferson Graham / USA Today:
Twitter took off from simple to ‘tweet’ success
MacNN:
Apple sells out of iPhones in all but 3 locations
Tim Arango / New York Times:
News Flash From the Cover of Esquire: Paper Magazines Can Be High Tech, Too
Discussion: DailyTech and Geek.com
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Universal: “Fair use” is still infringing
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
To Prevent Upskirts, Japanese iPhone 3G Always Alerts When Taking Photos
 

 
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Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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