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2:45 PM ET, March 17, 2009

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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Live from Apple's iPhone OS 3.0 preview event  —  9:30AM We're currently at the doors, and we probably don't have to tell you that people are champing at the bit to get inside.  We'll be knocking down old ladies and tripping unsuspecting humans soon enough, so stay tuned!
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
MMS finally comes to Apple's iPhone via OS 3.0  —  Apple's done a decent job of implementing features that we've all been clamoring for into its forthcoming OS 3.0, and aside from copy and paste, there's probably no one single feature add bigger than this.  You heard right — multimedia messaging …
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
iPhone finally gets copy and paste!  —  No surprises here: Apple just announced that iPhone OS 3.0 will support copy and paste.  A double-tap auto-selects the text you want with movable “grab points,” and a pop-up edit bar display buttons for cut, copy, and paste.  Finally!
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
iPhone 3.0 to include peer-to-peer support, push notification  —  In offering a preview look at the new iPhone OS 3. platform, senior vice president of iPhone software Scott Forstall announced that Apple has added over a thousand new Application Programming Interfaces to allow developers greater access …
Discussion: Engadget and The iPhone Blog
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
App Store: 25,000 apps, 800 million downloads
Discussion: TechCrunch, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
The iPhone OS 3.0 Announcement Scorecard
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Wall Street Journal:
HTC to Launch Extra Versions of Google Phone  —  TAIPEI — Taiwanese smartphone producer HTC Corp. said it plans to launch more than three versions of the Google phone in 2009, including the introduction of a second-generation of the smartphone in the second quarter.
Andrew Nusca / Between the Lines:
CD sales drop, digital downloads on the rise  —  The number of Internet users paying for digital music increased by just over 8 million in 2008 to 36 million Internet users, and purchases of online digital music downloads increased by 29 percent since last year, accounting for 33 percent …
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Why Total Music Purchases By Web Users Are Still Falling
Discussion: CNET News
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:   Not News: CD Buyers Disappearing Daily. …
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
It begins: The Dell Adamo spotted at SXSW, coming tomorrow, $1,999  —  Brian Solis, the “next-gen” PR dude, just got some hot shots of the Dell Adamo.  Color us impressed.  His photos show a laptop with the sex of a MacBook Air with a little more of the hard edged aesthetic familiar …
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Gemini 8325 live picture  —  Sorry it's not the greatest picture in the world, but at least we can put a face to the specs and info.  We dropped word of the BlackBerry Gemini a while back, and it looks to be cross between an 8300 and an 8900.  Ugh, the madness never stops.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Twine Could Soon Surpass Delicious, Prepares Ontology Authoring Tool  —  Nova Spivack's semantic web company Twine is developing a free service to write and host semantic ontologies; the classification trees that enable machines to put concepts in topical context.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Discovery To Amazon: Hands Off Our Kindle!  —  Here's an odd one I didn't see coming: Discovery Communications (DSICA), the cable network best known for bringing you fare like “Shark Week”, says that Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle e-book reader violates one of its patents.
Discussion: CNET News and paidContent.org, Thanks:mrinaldesai
John Markoff / New York Times:
Computer Science Programs Make a Comeback in Enrollment  —  For the first time in six years, enrollment in computer science programs in the United States increased last year, according to an annual report that tracks trends in the academic discipline.  —  The revival is significant …
Discussion: Microsoft Pri0
store.steampowered.com:
Steam offers gamers in-game downloadable content  —  Valve, creators of best-selling entertainment products and advanced technologies, today announced the arrival of in-game downloadable content to Steam, their massively popular PC gaming platform.  In-game DLC allows developers and publishers …
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
'I'm a PC' Marketing Pays Off for Microsoft, OEMs  —  [Editor's Note: Please read the companion post at Apple Watch.  Together, the two posts offer full analysis of February Windows PC and Mac sales data and six charts (three per post).]  —  That's my conclusion after reviewing February U …
Don Reisinger / CNET News:
Webware Radar: Alltop launches personalized pages  —  RSS repository, Alltop, announced that it has launched a new feature called MyAlltop, which allows users to create a custom page where they can add the feeds they care about on their personal page.  The widgets can be viewed on that single page and shared with others.
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Won't AT&T Admit to Its Wireless Network Problems?  —  Last summer, when Apple introduced its 3G iPhone device, I brought up the issue of AT&T not being ready for the data usage brought on by the data-centric touchscreen phone.  Company officials of course denied having such problems, assuring me that they were ready.
Sydney Morning Herald:
Banned hyperlinks could cost you $11,000 a day  —  The Australian communications regulator says it will fine people who hyperlink to sites on its blacklist, which has been further expanded to include several pages on the anonymous whistleblower site Wikileaks.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Apture raises $4.1M for richer news browsing  —  Apture, a company that helps publishers integrate multimedia content into their browsing experience, has only been getting better since I last covered it in June, having added new features addressing many of my reservations.
Jessica Dolcourt / CNET News:
PBwiki goes mobile on iPhone, BlackBerry  —  PBwiki on Tuesday announced the mobile optimization of its hosted wiki service for its Professional and Professional Plus Edition subscription clients.  —  PBwiki, which hosts, among other wiki services, Twitter's API docs, FedEx's marketing extranet …
Todd Hoff / High Scalability:
Are Cloud Based Memory Architectures the Next Big Thing?  —  We are on the edge of two potent technological changes: Clouds and Memory Based Architectures.  This evolution will rip open a chasm where new players can enter and prosper.  Google is the master of disk.  You can't beat them at a game they perfected.
Discussion: Data Center Knowledge and GigaOM, Thanks:atul
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Live Folders Bring the Real-Time Web to Android  —  An upcoming feature for Android smartphones called “Live Folders” will deliver real-time web updates to the phone's homescreen.  Recently, this feature was revealed in a video of “Cupcake,” a development branch of Google's mobile OS …
Discussion: eWeek, Gizmodo and Android Phone Fans
 
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Camille Ricketts / VentureBeat:
Jajah holds strong, dials up $2.8M to expand VoIP services
Discussion: FierceVoIP and Communications …
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple issues Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter Firmware Update
Discussion: Softpedia News
Taylor Buley / Forbes:
Hi5's Glittering Gold
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
“Sizable” Layoffs Coming To MySpace, Says Analyst
Discussion: Tech Trader Daily
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
AT&T offering refurbished 16GB iPhone 3Gs for $149?
GamesIndustry.biz:
Massive Entertainment founder leaves studio
 Earlier Items: 
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Yahoo to streamline redesigned home page
BBC:
‘Super-fast’ game download launch
Discussion: Kotaku and Neowin.net
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
At SXSWi, Twitter is the new Twitter is the new Twitter
Discussion: Beet.TV and The Social
Don Clark / Digits:
Fabs, in Berkeley? Yes, With Help From Marvell Founders
Discussion: SiliconBeat
Tony Wong / Toronto Star:
Satellite piracy costing TV industry billions
Discussion: digg.com
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