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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
New 16GB, 32GB iPhones appear in Carphone Warehouse systems — Carphone Warehouse, the largest independent European mobile phone retailer and an official iPhone reseller, added four placeholders to their inventory list for new iPhone models earlier today, sources tell AppleInsider.
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MacRumors, Pulse2, Edible Apple, iPhone Buzz, IntoMobile, Apple iPhone Apps, The iPhone Blog, CrunchGear and EverythingiCafe
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Michael Jones / TUAW:
Rumor: New iPhone to be called “iPhone Video?” — Further fueling the iPhone fire (try saying that one five times fast), TUAW has received an anonymous tip stating that AT&T's support website will be updated with “iPhone Video” as one of the model choices when choosing Apple as the phone manufacturer.
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Financial Times, 9 to 5 Mac, Gadget Lab, EverythingiCafe, The Raw Feed, TheNextWeb.com and Engadget, Thanks:wedocreative
Michael Jones / TUAW:
Rumor: New iPhone pictures leaked? — With the increasing evidence that a new iPhone may be just around the corner, we've seen our share of screenshots, speculations, and mock-ups. Now, the Italian iPhone blog iSpazio has posted pictures of what could possibly be the next iPhone (English Translations: here and here).
Steven Johnson / Time:
How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live — Evan Williams and Biz Stone of Twitter — The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your “followers,” and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly?
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Between the Lines, broadstuff, Deep Jive Interests, Under the Radar, VentureBeat and The SiliconANGLE, Thanks:atul
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Report: Steve Jobs “was one real sick guy” — Friday's Wall Street Journal carries a report on the state of Steve Jobs' health that makes his condition last January — before he went on a six month medical leave — sound more desperate than Apple (AAPL) let on at the time.
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Wall Street Journal, Between the Lines, The iPhone Blog, Gawker, MacDailyNews and BoomTown
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:Analyst: Apple's WWDC likely to ‘disappoint’
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Reuters, PC World, Tech Check with Jim Goldman, Gadget Lab, tinyComb, mocoNews, MacRumors, MacNN, Gearlog, Macsimum News, InformationWeek and Engadget, Thanks:johnboot185
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
FTC Sues, Shuts Down N. Calif. Web Hosting Firm — In an unprecedented move, the Federal Trade Commission has taken legal steps to shut down a Web hosting provider in Northern California that the agency says was directly involved in managing massive global spam operations.
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Federal Trade Commission:
FTC Shuts Down Notorious Rogue Internet Service Provider, 3FN Service Specializes in Hosting Spam-Spewing Botnets, Phishing Web sites, Child Pornography, and Other Illegal, Malicious Web Content — A rogue Internet Service Provider that recruits, knowingly hosts, and actively participates …
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CNET News, InformationWeek, Zero Day, Digital Daily, PC World, Digits and Security Watch
Google LatLong:
Introducing smart navigation in Street View: double-click to go (anywhere!) — Street View is a great way to see panoramas of streets from all over the world. We've launched some great improvements to this tool, including most recently overlaying user photos and the ability to view Street View in fullscreen.
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Google Operating System, Screenwerk, Google Blogoscoped, InformationWeek, TechCrunch, Understanding Google …, AppScout, ReadWriteWeb, Lifehacker and Mashable!, Thanks:atul
Mercury News:
Google recruiter: Company kept ‘do not touch’ in hiring list — A recruiter who left Google last year says that the company had maintained a “do not touch” list of companies including Genentech and Yahoo, whose employees were not to be wooed to the Internet search giant.
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Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
RIM quietly acquires Dash Navigation? — According to an article published yesterday by GPS Business News, RIM may have quietly acquired struggling nav/LBS firm Dash Navigation. The site's co-founder and Editor allegedly spoke to a trusted source who claims that the acquisition is a done deal.
Intel:
Intel to Acquire Wind River Systems for Approximately $884 Million — Intel Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Wind River Systems Inc, under which Intel will acquire all outstanding Wind River common stock for $11.50 per share in cash, or approximately $884 million in the aggregate.
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Fast Company, CNET News, AndroidGuys, InformationWeek, SlashGear, GigaOM, LinuxInsider, Mark Sigal's Blog, Silicon Alley Insider, Android Phone Fans, Tech Trader Daily, VentureBeat, The Register, TechCrunch, TechSpot, GottaBeMobile.com, dailywireless.org, Pulse2, Neowin.net, Maximum PC all, Engadget and Jeremy's Blog
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Bing Community:
Smart Motion Preview and SafeSearch — One of the things we noticed in looking at how customers use search is the number of times people clicked the Back button in their browser soon after clicking on a search result. When we dug into this, we found that people who clicked …
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Jon Lech / nanocr.eu:
Palm Pre USB hack confirmed — A little birdie provided me with the following: — As I speculated in my previous blog post on Palm Pre Sync and now confirmed by the image above, when the Pre is in “Media Sync” mode it identifies itself as an Apple iPod. However, it's only the Mass Storage interface …
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Engadget Mobile, 9 to 5 Mac, all things Pre, Hack a Day, iTWire, Daring Fireball, P2P Blog, Edible Apple and Slashdot
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple working on adding multi-touch to iPod click-wheels — Having pioneered multi-touch for its iPhone and iPod touch handhelds, Apple later extended the technology to trackpads on its Mac notebook line and now appears ripe to introduce the first iPod click-wheels with similar capabilities.
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple looks towards digital media sharing during iPhone calls — Apple has spent some time outlining technology that would add a new level of interaction between iPhone users, such as the ability to share and control playback of digital media files like music tracks and video during a telephone call.
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iPhone Buzz, The Apple Core, The iPhone Blog, Technologizer, SlashGear, Gizmodo and Electricpig.co.uk
Andy Ihnatko / Chicago Sun Times:
Google's Wave of the future is genius, but will it work? — Five days is an eon in Internet time. Given the huge amounts of discussion that Google Wave has earned online since the company unveiled it in an 80-minute live demo last week (as I write this, it's the top of the 15th inning …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Short Lifespan Of The iPhone — For the past several weeks, I've been noticing something about my iPhone: Severe slowness. I put it sleep and wake it back up, clear its memory (with an app), restart it and even sometimes manually reboot it — some of these methods alleviate the symptoms, sometimes.
Ben Worthen / Wall Street Journal:
Adobe Strives to Crack the Smart-Phone Market — Shifting Strategies, Opposition From Apple Have Slowed Effort to Push Flash Video Software Beyond Computers — Adobe Systems Inc., which makes the Flash software widely used on computers to play Internet videos, is trying to crack a new market: smart phones.
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Could social gaming run afoul of gambling laws? — A variety of social network gaming applications are making lots of money from virtual goods. But could these services soon find themselves in trouble for allowing gambling — and get slapped with large fines or other punishment?
Rebecca / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF and ACLU Planning to Appeal Dismissal of Dozens of Spying Cases — San Francisco - A federal judge today dismissed dozens of lawsuits over illegal domestic surveillance of American citizens, ruling that telecommunications companies had immunity from liability under the controversial FISA Amendments Act (FISAAA).
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Sony joins YouTube and Universal on Vevo video site — Universal Music Group and YouTube have answered the question of whether any of the major labels will be interested in joining the new all music video Web site, Vevo. — Sony Music Entertainment has joined the venture, the companies said Thursday in a statement.
Reuters:
Russia launches antitrust probe of Microsoft — * Agency says cutting Windows XP deliveries was violation — * Says demand for XP continues during switch to Vista — * Government continues to order Windows XP — Russia's state anti-monopoly service launched a probe of Microsoft Corp …
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Technologizer, CNET News, Electronista, All about Microsoft, TechSpot, Ars Technica, The Microsoft Blog and GigaLaw.com Daily News
Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
The coolest way to buy creme brulee in San Fran: the Twitter food cart — Follow @cremebruleecart (2,725 followers for Creme Brulee, I mean seriously) and you can get Creme Brulee. — The foodcart movement was started by Korean BBQ @kogibbq and suddenly 100 people can show up where the cart appears.
Thanks:loic
Tommy Craggs / Deadspin:
Tony La Russa Is Not Laughing At Your Satire — Dugout genius Tony La Russa is suing Twitter, claiming he “suffered significant emotional distress” and “damage to his reputation” because of a fake La Russa account. Sheesh, can't the man take a few jokes about dead pitchers and drunk driving?
