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4:55 PM ET, June 7, 2010

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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
iPhone 4: The Definitive Guide  —  We already showed you the new iPhone from every angle, inside and out.  Today, Steve Jobs re-revealed it, telling us about the remaining details.  Here's the exhaustive guide to all the features of the new iPhone 4.  [Updating live]  —  Hardware technical features
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
iPhone 4 announced, launching June 24 for $199 with new FaceTime video chat  —  Apple has unveiled its new iPhone 4 after a couple wild, unprecedented months of leaks.  Sure, it looks exactly like we expected it to (Steve compares it to an old Leica camera), with a glass front and back, but it's what's on the inside that counts, kids.
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
iPhone 4 first hands-on! (update: FaceTime video demo)  —  We've just gotten some face time (ha ha!) with the new iPhone 4, and let's just say this: it's incredibly sexy.  We'll hand it to Apple, the phone is so thin it's kind of mind-boggling.  The 3GS by comparison looks bloated.
John Biggs / MobileCrunch:
iPhone OS 4.0 - now iOS - is here  —  The second biggest news out of San Fran today?  The announcement of iPhone OS 4.0, Apple's biggest improvement to the iPhone OS since, well, 3.0.  This new version includes multi-tasking (although backgrounding would be the proper term), app folders …
AppleInsider:
Apple unveils iPhone 4 with 326ppi display, A4 chip, gyroscope  —  Calling it the biggest leap since the original iPhone, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs introduced the new iPhone on Monday, complete with an all-new, thinner design, camera flash, front-facing camera, a second noise-canceling microphone …
Apple:
Apple Presents iPhone 4  —  All-New Design with FaceTime Video Calling, Retina Display, 5 Megapixel Camera & HD Video Recording  —  Thinnest Smartphone Ever  —  Apple® today presented the new iPhone® 4 featuring FaceTime, which makes the dream of video calling a reality …
Discussion: ZDNet and Erictric
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Netflix app headed for the iPhone  —  After two months of burning up the iPad, Netflix is ready to devour its latest platform: the iPhone.  Just like the iPad app — where it reigns as the number one downloaded entertainment app, Netflix will have you know — it's free …
Darren Murph / Engadget:
AT&T: upgrade to iPhone 4 up to six months early
Discussion: App Advice, MacRumors and Phones Review
Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Adds Bing To The iPhone (MSFT, AAPL, GOOG)
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
FaceTime video calling added to iPhone 4... and it's WiFi-only
Discussion: VentureBeat and Joystiq
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Apple Avoids iPhone-Like Trademark Battle Thanks To Cisco, FaceTime Deals
Discussion: CrunchGear
Ryan Block / gdgt live:
Live WWDC 2010 keynote coverage  —  Manual updating, hit F5!  —  9:42AM - Louis Armstrong setting the mood while thousands of developers funnel in.  Just a little more than 15 minutes to go!  —  9:27AM - Alright, we're in!  This is actually the earliest I've ever seen Apple seat the press …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Steve Jobs live from WWDC 2010  —  11:55AM And that's all she wrote!  Thanks for reading, and thanks to Justin Glow, Dan Chilton, and the Blogsmith and Netops teams for keeping us afloat!  — 11:55AM “And all the rest of the family that just supports us in a thousand ways... awesome job.
Gizmodo:
Watch the Steve Jobs Keynote Meltdown  —  WWDC keynotes are usually carefully orchestrated affairs.  This one?  Not so much.  You've read in our live blog how Steve Jobs had to bail on a demo because of network trouble.  Now you can watch how uncomfortable it all was.
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Did Apple's iPhone 4 Just Kill the Flip?  —  Apple CEO Steve Jobs just announced the highly anticipated fourth-generation iPhone at WWDC, and the device is bound to make some people at Cisco pretty nervous: The iPhone 4 features 720p HD video recording at 30fps, an LED flash that doubles …
Discussion: GigaOM, GottaBeMobile and TUAW
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Andrew Nusca / ZDNet:   Why Apple's new iPhone 4 is not a Flip mini camcorder killer
Gizmodo:
iMovie for iPhone is Coming
Discussion: CNET News, App Advice and AppleInsider
Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
Jobs predicts iAds will steal 48% of mobile advertising market  —  Move over, AdMob and Millennial.  Apple CEO Steve Jobs presented a slide at this morning's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco that claims that 48% of spending on mobile advertising in the United States …
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Apple: We Have iAd Commitments For 2010 Totaling Over $60 Million
Discussion: PR Newswire
Tom Neumayr / Apple:   Apple to Debut iAds on July 1
Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
iPad corners 22 percent of ebook market, gets PDF viewer  —  Apple has just announced the iPad has collected 22 percent of ebook sales since its launch and is getting new features.  A PDF viewer is going to be thrown into the iBooks app later this month, and will be accompanied by new bookmarking and note-taking functionality.
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Brad Stone / Bits:
Why Apple's iBook Numbers Are Meaningless
Discussion: Macworld and Allen Weiner
Jim Louderback / AdAge:
From Apple to Zuckerberg: What I Learned at the D8 Conference  —  Insight From Steve Jobs, James Cameron, Microsoft, ‘Modern Family’ and More  —  It was the best of interviews, it was the worst of interviews.  It was something old, something new, something borrowed and something very blue.
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Full D8 Video: Apple CEO Steve Jobs
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Hewlett-Packard Wants to Print for Smartphones  —  SAN DIEGO — Vyomesh I. Joshi, the head of Hewlett-Packard's $24 billion printing empire, relaxes by taking long walks on the beaches near his home here.  And, for a while, it seemed as if he might end up spending more time strolling the sand than moving ink and toner.
Seth Weintraub / Fortune:
HTC EVO 4G sets new sales records for Sprint  —  The EVO eclipsed the sales of the Palm Pre and Samsung Instinct, Sprint's previous record holders, by a huge margin.  —  A Sprint press release this morning tried to quantify the amount of EVOs sold: … So, take the two previous record holders …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Yahoo's New Features Are an Admission That Facebook Has Won the Social Race  —  Yahoo is doubling down on its bets on social networking, but is doing so by effectively outsourcing its social efforts to Facebook.  The web portal this week is launching enhanced Facebook integration …
Discussion: eWeek and ReadWriteWeb
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Yahoo / Yodel Anecdotal:
New Ways to Increase Your Social IQ on Yahoo!
Felix Salmon:
How Sequoia forced Tony Hsieh to sell Zappos  —  I just found Tony Hsieh's astonishing book excerpt in Inc, entitled “Why I Sold Zappos”.  It makes for very sad reading.  Hsieh starts by explaining that he never wanted to sell to Amazon: … But then Amazon came calling again:
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Samara Lynn / PC Magazine:
Microsoft TechEd 2010 Reveals Windows 7 SP1 Beta, Azure Updates, and More
David Barboza / New York Times:
Changes in China Could Raise Prices Worldwide
Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
Barnes & Noble offers free coffee to promote in-store e-reading
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Greystripe And Adobe Partner To Bring Flash Ads To The iPhone And iPad.
Stefan Constantinescu / IntoMobile:
HTC spends $13 million to buy French software firm Abaxia …
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Motorola Milestone XT720 announced: 8 megapixel cam, 720p video …
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