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MacTalk Australia:
Rumour: 16GB iPhone Declared “End of Life” By Vodafone & Brightpoint — We usually don't report on rumours here at MacTalk , but a trusted source has brought this to our attention this evening: Vodafone has sent out an email to retail staff stating that the 16GB iPhone has been marked as …
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SlashGear, AppleInsider, Apple iPhone Apps, Unwired View, iLounge, Boy Genius Report, iPhone Buzz, p2pnet, The iPhone Blog and O'Grady's PowerPage
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
32GB iPhone placeholder appears at T-Mobile Austria — Take it for what it's worth (which may be nothing, quite honestly), but a bona fide “iPhone 32GB” placeholder has appeared in the ‘Coming Soon’ section on T-Mobile Austria's website. Generally speaking, we wouldn't give this kind of slip …
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Electronista, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, iLounge, The iPhone Blog, MobileCrunch, SlashGear, iPhone Buzz, Cellphone News … and Ubergizmo, Thanks:shankargan
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Next iPhone — In the summer of 1994, I landed a college internship as a programmer at a DOS/Windows development shop. There were maybe 20 full-time programmers on the team, and, when I joined, they were nearing the end of a two-year-long project to port their flagship DOS app to Windows.
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PC World, Ars Technica, Contentinople, Silicon Alley Insider, MacDailyNews, Gadget Lab, iLounge, Ubergizmo, Edible Apple, TechCrunch, www.pocketgamer.biz, 9 to 5 Mac, VentureBeat and The iPhone Blog, Thanks:atul
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Arn / MacRumors:
32GB 600Mhz Video-Capable Next Gen iPhone? MacBook Pro Rebranding? — John Gruber of Daring Fireball weighs in with his sources about what the upcoming iPhone revision will entail. His list of details corresponds closely with many of the circulating rumors.
James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
Not All Sprint Stores Carrying the Pre- Find Out Which Ones Near You Will — The frenzy is building for the Palm Pre launch and already future Pre customers are making plans for launch day. I have heard from those who plan on hitting Wal-Mart or Best Buy first, followed by a trip …
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:Best Buy stores only getting 4 Palm Pres for launch day?
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PC World, Electronista, PreCentral.net, Gizmodo, jkOnTheRun, SlashGear, MobileCrunch, My Pre, WebOS Arena, PalmAddicts, Engadget Mobile and MobileBurn.com
Kelly Hodgkins / Boy Genius Report:Low inventory is forcing Best Buy Mobile to launch the Palm Pre in two phases
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My Pre
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Pew Center illustrates how Craigslist is killing newspapers — It's tough to compete with free. — The use of online classifieds sites, such as Craigslist, has more than doubled in the past four years, according to a study published Friday by the Pew Research Center.
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Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: Inbox preview — Whenever I open up my inbox at work, I'm never surprised to find several new messages waiting to be read. The same thing can't always be said about my personal Gmail account. Sometimes I end up checking my mail only to find nothing new there. — No big deal, really.
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PC World, InformationWeek, Lifehacker, TechCrunch, Mashable! and AppScout, Thanks:sinkercat
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
First look: Google Chrome 2.0 - Fast but lacking features — Google has released Chrome 2.0. The speed-demon browser gets an additional kick of speed, a few more features, and a load of bug fixes. — First, let's look at the speed side of things. Google's Chrome browser was already fast …
The Official Google Blog:
New Logo Look — You may have noticed new logos at the top of some of Google's web pages, including Google Labs, Google Moderator, and Google Code. These are the result of a new logo design we are rolling out. We hope this design freshens up our look as well as improves consistency and ease of use across our sites.
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, AppScout, Technologizer, Webware.com, Gadgetell, Mashable! and TechCrunch, Thanks:atul
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Easily Create Your Own Feed Bundles Of Joy With Google Reader — Perhaps the biggest barrier to entry to using a feed reader for most people is building up a collection of good feeds. Sure, you can import someone else's OPML file, but most people have no idea what that means, let alone how to do it.
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Google Operating System, Official Google Reader Blog, TECH.BLORGE.com and TheNextWeb.com
David Chartier / Macworld:
More senseless iPhone app rejections tarnish the App Store — The App Store is becoming almost as famous for rejecting applications as it is for selling one billion of them. The iPhone app body count has recently grown by two, including a high-profile e-book reader and a compatibility update …
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Ars Technica, MacRumors iPhone Blog, The Register, CNET News, TechCrunch, Gadget Lab, InformationWeek, TeleRead, Boing Boing, iPhone Buzz, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, Electricpig.co.uk, Daring Fireball, Technologizer, FierceMobileContent, MacNN, Mashable!, TUAW, Edible Apple, iLounge, The iPhone Blog and Slashdot
DigiTimes:
Wintek to supply panel modules for upcoming Apple e-book form factor netbook — Wintek has been selected as the panel module supplier for Apple's upcoming e-book form factor netbook product, according to Taiwan notebook related IC designers.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Lawyer: RIAA must pay back all $100M it has collected — Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson is branching out. — For years he watched with horror as the RIAA demanded money from tens of thousands of Americans, finally getting into the ring himself when federal judge Nancy Gertner connected …
John Biggs / TechCrunch:
Goodbye, OQO — OQO has ceased operations, turned off its phones, and is no longer accepting repairs. Quoth OQOTalk: … OQO was one of the original Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), a precursor to today's netbook. Sadly, they could never get the price below $1000 even though these little beasties could run XP like a champ.
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Xavier Lanier / GottaBeMobile.com:OQO is Done, But Tech/Team May Live On
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The Mobile Gadgeteer, Liliputing, Engadget, UMPCPortal, T3.com News, SlashGear, CrunchGear and PalmAddicts
Daisy Whitney / Hollywood Reporter:
Google invades upfront marketplace — Deutsch, Saatchi among agencies using Google TV Ads — SAN FRANCISCO — Google TV Ads has begun booking upfront deals with major agencies and advertisers for the first time. — Marketers are committing upwards of seven figures to buy ads through …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Counting Down to the End of Moore's Law — “We're looking at a brick wall five years down the road,” Eli Harari, the chief executive of SanDisk, said to me earlier this week. — In 1990, when SanDisk, which he founded, shipped its first generation of flash memory — the sort …
Louis Gray:
Twitter's Search Engine Is Very, Very, Broken — Given all the rumors about Google possibly talking to Twitter about search, or the Mountain View giant taking on the world of real-time, you would think that Twitter's dramatic growth and user adoption would see the microblogging company sitting …
Simon / Bloggasm:
Anti-Starbucks filmmakers hijack the coffee company's own Twitter marketing campaign — On Monday, the New York Times published a story detailing a multi-million dollar ad campaign launched by Starbucks in which the company put up advertising posters in six major cities and attempted to …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Report: Microsoft readies new maximum specs for Windows 7 netbooks — Microsoft is readying a set of maximum specs for Windows 7 netbooks -or, as Microsoft prefers to call them, “small notebooks” — that will likely dictate which PCs will qualify for lower per-copy Windows 7 pricing.
Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:
Computer virus strikes US Marshals, FBI affected — WASHINGTON - — Law enforcement computers were struck by a Mystery computer virus Thursday, forcing the FBI and the U.S. Marshals to shut down part of their networks as a precaution. — The U.S. Marshals confirmed it disconnected …
Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:
Microsoft Antitrust Hearing in Europe Canceled — BERLIN — Microsoft and the European Commission have canceled the only hearing planned in an antitrust investigation into the company's Internet browser because of a dispute over the attendance of European regulators serving as advisers.
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Facebook tell-all ‘Accidental Billionaires’ on sale in July — This one sure snuck up on us: “The Accidental Billionaires,” author Ben Mezrich's presumably tawdry take on Facebook's origins, is hitting bookshelves on July 14. — Last we'd heard, it was getting released this fall.
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The Daily Beast
Reuters:
Tech firms balance cost cuts and innovation — PARIS/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Technology executives say they are prepared to cut more costs if the downturn proves more prolonged than expected, but finding places to get further savings won't be easy. — The obvious place to look is research …
Anil Dash:
Flags, Windows, Lucky Numbers and Hidden Mickeys — Another new version of Windows is nearly upon us, as Microsoft will release Windows 7 later this year. Vista was greeted with probably a few too many jeers, which in the tech industry means Windows 7 will probably be greeted with a few too many cheers as compensation.
