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Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Best Buy to offer Apple's iPhone 3G S with insurance — Those who want added protection for their new iPhone 3G S units on launch day will have the option of queuing up at Best Buy to purchase both Apple's device as well as a rare accident insurance plan, albeit one which may cost almost as much as the phone itself.
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Tech Trader Daily, Mac|Life all, jkOnTheRun, MobileCrunch, Gizmodo, The iPhone Blog and Macsimum News
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
New study shows iPhone users to be in a class by themselves — iPhone users are richer, younger, and perhaps even more productive at work than those who use competing smartphones, according to a new study released Friday. — The study ($750 fee) from independent market analysis company …
BBC:
No browser in Windows 7 in EU — European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web browser for themselves. — Bowing to European competition rules, Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer. — The company said it would make it easy for PC makers and users …
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TechCrunch, CNET News, Mac|Life all, CrunchGear, VentureBeat, Techgeist, Switched, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Mashable!
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EU Press Room:
Antitrust: Commission statement on Microsoft Internet Explorer announcement … The European Commission notes with interest Microsoft's announcement of its plans for Windows 7, and in particular of the apparent separation of Internet Explorer (IE) from Windows in the EEA.
Paul Meller / Computerworld:Microsoft trying to set own antitrust remedy, says Opera CEO
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iTnews Australia, BetaNews, Tech Beat, Robert X. Cringely's blog, ITworld.com, eWeek, Boy Genius Report and paidContent
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Moves Up The Twitpocalypse. All Hell May Break Loose Today. — Twitter users, the Twitpocalypse is upon us. — Twitpocalypse is the name given to a bug that's about to be exposed. Apparently, it's similar to the Y2K bug in its nature, and stems from the fact that every tweet sent out has a unique numeric identifier.
DELL-Stefanie N / Direct2Dell:
@DellOutlet Surpasses $2 Million on Twitter — There was some buzz back in December around Dell generating over $1 million in revenue by posting offers and responding to questions on Twitter.com/DellOutlet— there's still mention of it on Twitter even today.
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Between the Lines, Epicenter, InformationWeek, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable!, Digits, ChannelWeb, Technology Live, PR2.0, the Econsultancy blog and GigaOM
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Wall Street Journal:
Tax Man's Target: The Mobile Phone — The use of company-issued mobile phones could trigger new federal income taxes on millions of Americans as a “fringe benefit,” spurring efforts by the wireless industry and others to kill the idea. — The Internal Revenue Service proposed …
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Electronista, Washington Post, FierceWireless, MobileCrunch, Between the Lines, mocoNews, MobileBurn.com and DailyFinance
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:When the Cell Phone Is the Office Phone, Taxing It Is Wrong
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Mobile Messaging 2.0
Google Mobile Blog:
Snack time with the new iGoogle for Android and iPhone — We like iGoogle because it lets us “snack” on interesting information all day long. We can read a little bit of news here and there, glance at finance portfolios, take a look at the weather forecast, and then do a Google search.
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iTnews Australia, InformationWeek, CNET News, Local Mobile Search, Search Engine Land, ReadWriteWeb, Google Operating System, Search Engine Roundtable, Search Engine Journal, Softpedia News, IntoMobile, MobileContentToday, Android Central, geeksugar, FierceMobileContent and CellPassion, Thanks:atul
Todd Wilder / Apple:
Safari 4 Downloads Top 11 Million in Three Days — Apple® today announced that more than 11 million copies of Safari® 4 have been downloaded in the first three days of its release, including more than six million downloads of Safari for Windows. Safari 4 is the world's fastest …
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Zynga Could IPO In 18 Months — A source close to social games maker Zynga tells us that the widely-circulated estimate of its projected revenues for 2009, about $100 million, is “conservative.” — It wasn't the first time we heard it. So when a Silicon Valley executive who interviewed …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Starts Verifying Accounts Without Actually Verifying Them — It looks like Twitter has just rolled out its verified accounts. As you can seeing on Michael's personal account, there's a “Verified Account” logo right above his name. Twitter has previously announced that it was going to do this …
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Vanity URLs Will be Available to Pages With Under 1,000 Fans in 2 Weeks — The Facebook username landrush starts tonight at 12:01am EDT, and with it comes potentially the best one-time opportunity for businesses to improve their Facebook identity and SEO by getting a good Facebook vanity URL.
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Joe Mandese / MediaPost:
RSS Feeds Nielsen Online Ire, Glitch Inflated Times, USA Today, Fox Numbers — RSS is an acronym that stands for the online publishing term really simple syndication, but it recently proved to be anything but simple for online audience researcher Nielsen. In an especially embarrassing glitch …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Palm Pixie Is Real, But May Never Come To Market — Lots of excitement today over a second Palm WebOS device now that the Pre has launched. The only problem is that none of this is news. We broke the story about the device, code named Pixie, on April 29. A day later we had the Pixie name and additional details.
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VentureBeat, InformationWeek, IntoMobile, Electronista, Fast Company, Palm WebOS, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Edible Apple, Macsimum News and TheStreet.com
Marin Perez / InformationWeek:
HTC Snap Available For Sprint Users — The smartphone has an “Inner Circle” button designed to open a filtered in-box that only shows messages from predetermined contacts. — HTC's Snap smartphone is now available for Sprint Nextel customers, and it's designed to keep mobile professionals connected on the go.
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PhoneNews.com, Softpedia News, WMExperts, Phone Scoop, Engadget Mobile, Unwired View and Boy Genius Report
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
MySpace Is In Far Worse Shape Than Its New Executives Thought — Running MySpace, new CEO Owen Van Natta and News Corp. (NWS) digital head Jon Miller are beginning to realize they have taken on a much bigger challenge on than they initially thought, sources close to both executives tell us.
Chris Morris / CNBC.com:
PlayStation Prez On Leaks — You have to feel bad for Sony. By any normal standards, the company's press conference at E3 should have had jaws on the floor. — A new portable gaming system. A motion sensing game controller. A greatly increased focus on digital distribution.
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DigitalBattle.com, GameLife, VG247, Joystiq, Kotaku, Destructoid, TG Daily, GamesIndustry.biz and Edge Online
Tony Ruscoe / Google Blogoscoped:
How Facebook Uses Your “Skipped” Webmail Contacts — Yesterday, Facebook suggested two people to me through its “Suggestions” feature which usually includes friends of friends, co-workers and people I used to go to school with. The odd thing about these two suggestions was that although …
Guardian:
Hundreds of jobs on the line as MySpace considers cuts — Struggling social networking site considers closing offices in San Francisco and Europe - and could announce a decision as early as next week — MySpace is considering closing down a number of offices around the world as it attempts …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Sorry, There's No Way To Save The TV Business — The traditional TV industry—cable companies, networks, and broadcasters—is where the newspaper industry was about five years ago: — In denial. — There are murmurings on the edges about how longstanding business models will come under pressure …
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Scott Austin / Venture Capital Dispatch:
The Daily Start-Up: Biz Grads Keep Pouring Into Venture Capital — The venture capital world may be shrinking, but that's not scaring off business-school graduates. According to Financial News, the percentage of graduates from the world's top business schools taking private-equity jobs has more than doubled in the past six years.
