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John Naughton / Guardian:
The internet: Everything you ever need to know — In spite of all the answers the internet has given us, its full potential to transform our lives remains the great unknown. Here are the nine key steps to understanding the most powerful tool of our age - and where it's taking us
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Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Big Web Operations Turn to Tiny Chips — SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Is this Silicon Valley or Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry? — Over the last 18 months or so, this question has become tougher to answer as a flood of products with names like Voldemort, Hadoop and Cassandra have appeared on the scene.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple: FaceTime Video Calls Won't Use Your Carrier Minutes (AAPL, T) — Good news: Apple's new FaceTime video calls won't use up your allotment of carrier minutes, even if they're initiated from within a voice call, an Apple rep tells us. — “The voice call ends as soon as the FaceTime call connects,” Apple tells us.
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
What Valley Companies Should Know about Tencent — Quick quiz: Who are the three largest Internet companies in the world by market capitalization? — If you guessed Google and Amazon you got two right, but I'm betting few of our American readers guessed the third. I certainly wouldn't have a year ago.
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John Boudreau / Mercury News:
SFO to join San Jose and Oakland airports in offering free Wi-Fi — Soon all three major Bay Area airports will offer free Wi-Fi to always-connected travelers. — San Francisco International will join Mineta San Jose International and Oakland International airports in offering free Internet connections.
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
‘Power Eye’ Lets Consumers Know Why That Web Ad Was Sent to Them — First Trial of What Some Hope Will Become Online Ad Industry's Long-Promised Self-Policing System — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Starting this week, AT&T, American Express, Microsoft and dozens of other major marketers will pull …
Pui-Wing Tam / Digits:
Andreessen Horowitz Expands its Ranks — Andreessen Horowitz, the venture-capital firm launched a year ago by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen and former Opsware chief executive Ben Horowitz, is beefing up its ranks with a new general partner and two other partners.
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Royal Pingdom:
Exploring the software behind Facebook, the world's largest site — At the scale that Facebook operates, a lot of traditional approaches to serving web content break down or simply aren't practical. The challenge for Facebook's engineers has been to keep the site up and running smoothly …
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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Begins Shipping iPhone 4 to Customers — Several readers have notified us that they have started receiving shipment notifications and FedEx tracking numbers for their iPhone 4. Several of the shipment notifications indicate a “Delivers By” date of June 23rd — a day before the official launch day.
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Kyle VanHemert / Gizmodo:
AT&T Randomly Cancelling iPhone 4 Pre-Orders?
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K.T. Bradford / LAPTOP Mag:
Dell Introduces Back-to-School Friendly Inspiron 14R, 15R and 17R — Today Dell launched a new line of Inspiron notebooks geared toward mainstream consumers and the Back to School crowd. The Inspiron R series — 14R, 15R and 17R — come wrapped in attractive, metal chassis, pack Intel Core i CPUs …
Owen Good / Kotaku:
Microsoft Confirms Kinect Bundles, New $199 Xbox 360 — Ask the right questions, get the right answers. An internal marketing Q&A for Microsoft about confirm that Kinect will be bundled with consoles, and a $199 configuration of its new Xbox 360 will be available this fall.
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Microsoft sues spammers for abusing Hotmail anti-spam filters — Two anti-spam systems developed by Microsoft for Hotmail designed to help ISPs track down offending users were abused by spammers, a lawsuit brought last week by the software giant alleges. The spammers are accused …
