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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Site Lets Writers Sell Digital Copies — SAN FRANCISCO — Turning itself into a kind of electronic vanity publisher, Scribd, an Internet start-up here, will introduce on Monday a way for anyone to upload a document to the Web and charge for it. — The Scribd Web site is the most popular …
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PC World, O'Reilly Radar, ITworld.com, ChannelWeb, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Imaging Insider and PersonaNonData
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Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
Twitter Proves Its Worth as a Killer App for Local Businesses — New Orleans Pizza Joint, Chicago Yogurt Chain See Results From Promos on Microblogging Service — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — All those brands trying to figure the ROI of Twitter? They might do well to follow the lead of the local pizza joint.
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Mark Guim / The Nokia Blog:
Nokia N97 For North America Arriving June 2nd — I told you a couple days ago the Nokia N97 NAM was coming soon, but I wasn't sure of the exact date. Well, Nokia just notified one of their major North American distributors of the estimated shipping date: June 2nd, 2009! How accurate are we?
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InformationWeek, Unwired View, Gearlog, Newlaunches.com, jkOnTheRun, CrunchGear and Engadget Mobile
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Napster relaunching, again: $5 per month streaming plus five free downloads — Like subscription music services? You know, like Microsoft's Zune Pass where you pay $14.99 monthly and keep up to 10 tracks each month forever. Sure, renting music at $180 per year can be a drag for those stuck …
Dan Ackerman / Crave: The gadget blog:
Acer's next-gen Aspire One Netbooks available now — We've already seen them previewed with the rest of Acer's upcoming lineup back in April, but the official release of the next generation of Aspire One Netbooks is finally here. Most notable is the inclusion of a new, bigger 11.6-inch model …
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eWeek, Gizmodo, Liliputing, Electronista, The Toybox, Softpedia News, Engadget, jkOnTheRun and TECH.BLORGE.com
Steve O'Hear / last100:
Archos' Android powered MID set to debut on June 11th? — Although it hasn't been confirmed as such, Archos is hinting that it will unveil its first Android powered Mobile Internet Device (MID) at press event to be held in Paris on June the 11th. The company isn't actually using the MID moniker …
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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Repeat: AT&T may introduce $20 limited iPhone data plan — With next-generation iPhone hardware and software around the corner, a new report is adding to claims that AT&T is mulling changes to its iPhone monthly service and data plans that could reduce the cost of owning an iPhone and help Apple grow its share of the smartphone market.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Stand Firm Craig (and Jim) — South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster is giving even the normally sleazy Attorney General title a bad name. This is an office that has little to do with protecting the public and everything to do with making high profile attacks on targets that will generate a lot of positive press.
Eric Lai / Computerworld:
Buy an app via Windows Marketplace, share with four friends or family members — Microsoft readies challenge to rivals in mobile apps market — Computerworld - In a potentially market-changing move, Microsoft Corp. plans to let customers of its upcoming Windows Marketplace …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Eric Schmidt's Keynote Address At Carnegie Mellon (Video) — Here's Google CEO Eric Schmidt's keynote address at Carnegie Mellon's 112th commencement ceremony, held yesterday. (Via @CarnegieMellon) — Schmidt's talk to the audience, which he refers to as the ‘Facebook and Google generation’ …
Matt Holliday / Inside Facebook:
Newsweek Interviewing Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner Live on Facebook Today — Newsweek will host a live Q&A with Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner on Facebook this afternoon. Jon Meacham will be conducting the interview from the National Press Club in Washington …
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
San Jose Mercury News: No One Reads Us Any More, So Let's Start Charging — When I first moved to Silicon Valley, the newspaper of record was the San Jose Mercury News. Everyone read it. It did a great job covering the local startup scene, and had some fantastic columnists and writers.
CNET News:
HTC Magic vs. Samsung I7500 — Here're the HTC Magic (left) and the Samsung I7500 (right) side by side. The I7500 looks slightly larger than the Magic, but that's because my hand was slightly closer to the camera. Also, the screen on the I7500 appears dimmer due to an early firmware issue …
Amazon Web Services Blog:
New Features for Amazon EC2: Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and Amazon CloudWatch — We are working to make it even easier for you to build sophisticated, scalable, and robust web applications using AWS. As soon as you launch some EC2 instances, you want visibility into resource utilization and overall performance.
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
J Allard and Microsoft group try to get patent on a ‘magic wand’ — Attention Harry Potter, we'll be needing some prior art. — We've been hearing rumors and reading speculation lately about what Microsoft executive J Allard has been doing. Apart from reports about a possible Zune/Xbox linkup …
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Robert Lemos / Technology Review:
Are Your “Secret Questions” Too Easily Answered? — Research finds that the answers to secret questions used to retrieve forgotten passwords are easily guessed. — Brian Green's experience with not-so-secret questions began when he logged on to his World of Warcraft account in March …
AppleTweets:
Adium 1.4 beta with Twitter support — Adium is a popular free instant messaging client for Mac OS X that supports multiple protocols through diferent libraries. What Adium isn't, however, is a Twitter client. That's about to change, starting with Adium's version 1.4 …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
The coming wireline business implosion (and how you'll wind up paying for it) — Is the wired telecom business just as doomed as beleaguered automakers like GM and Chrysler and the newspaper industry? It's quite possible a few years down the line. And this wireline fallout will have ramifications …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
When Twitter met food trucks — NEW YORK—Goat cheese is the new black. Introducing goat cheese cheesecake, asserted the Twitter account for a Manhattan food outlet called the Dessert Truck one morning in April, a few hours before it opened up shop at its semi-regular haunt on the corner of St. Mark's Place and Third Avenue.
Dong Ngo / CNET News:
Iomega eGo external hard drives get colorful — If you're impressed by the previous generation of Iomega's eGo external hard drive, you'll probably like this one better. — Iomega announced Monday the worldwide availability of its new generation of eGo portable hard drives that feature a new look …
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent.org:
Inside Microsoft's M&A Strategy — Here's what the CFO of Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) says the company is looking for in an acquisition target: Companies that could bolster Microsoft's position in categories that it is already a player in but does not dominate. So don't look for Microsoft to buy …
