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Natalie Kerris / Apple:
iPhone Delivers Up to Eight Hours of Talk Time — Now Features Durable Glass Top Surface — Apple® today announced that iPhone™ will deliver significantly longer battery life when it ships on June 29 than was originally estimated when iPhone was unveiled in January. iPhone …
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Michael Gartenberg:
New Details on iPhone Screen and Battery - First Take — A few more details from Apple on the iPhone and they address two important issues, battery life and the touchscreen. Here's what it means. — First, battery life. When Apple first talked about the iPod, one of the potential issues …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV and Multimedia Platform Debuts at NXTcomm — Latest update to award-winning IPTV platform includes exciting connected entertainment features; new ingredient brand to support service provider marketing activities. — Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Microsoft Renames IPTV Platform 'Mediaroom'; Adds PC-TV Media Sharing; Opens Platform — Microsoft TV IPTV Edition makes way for Microsoft Mediaroom. With the name change comes a bigger emphasis on multimedia, including in-home sharing of music and photos between PCs and TVs.
Todd Spangler / Multichannel News:
Microsoft Cracks Open Mediaroom IPTV Code — Software Giant Renames Microsoft TV IPTV Edition — Microsoft renamed its Internet-protocol-TV software platform — now called Mediaroom — and with the new version, the software will allow service providers to create their own interactive-TV applications.
Michael Schneider / Variety:
Fox locks deal with Web TV service — Brightcove pacts with company — Internet TV service Brightcove has inked its first companywide deal with a major conglom, signing to become the online video platform for Fox Entertainment Group. — Under the pact, the Fox broadcast net …
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Television Syndication will Never Be the Same: Fox Video is Sharable with Brightcove Player — Fox Television and Brightcove will announce tomorrow (Monday) a major development in the distribution of online video by a mainstream television company: The integration of the Brightcove player …
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Adam / Google Public Policy Blog:
Taking the Wraps Off Google's Public Policy Blog — Posted by Andrew McLaughlin, Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs — At the beginning of 2005, I was Google's lone public policy guy. Today, there's a bigger - and growing - team of us scattered around the world …
John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
Steve Jobs in a Box — It's a stunning box, a wizard object with a passel of amazing features (It's a phone! An iPod! A Web browser!). But for all its marvels, the iPhone inaugurates a dangerous new era for Jobs. Has he peaked? — H — e saunters out onstage, and the first thing you think is, man, Steve Jobs looks old.
Associated Press:
Blockbuster to favor Blu-ray high-definition discs over rival HD DVD format — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Blockbuster Inc. will rent high-definition DVDs only in the Blu-ray format in 1,450 stores when it expands its high-def offerings next month, dealing a major blow to the rival HD DVD format.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Meizu's latest MiniOne (M8) incarnation — Here you have it, what looks to be a (re-touched) photograph of a real engineering sample of the Meizu MiniOne (M8). The picture was posted by CEO, Jack Wong, with the promise of more pictures to come in a "few days."
James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
jkOTR Mobile Media Edition 34: First look at Sprint HTC Mogul — Click here to get the MP4 or WMV version (21 minutes) — Time for another jkOTR Mobile Media Edition! In this show #34 we are happy to bring you a first look at the just released Sprint HTC Mogul Windows Mobile 6 smartphone.
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John Biggs / CrunchGear:
SlingLink Powerline Solutions: SlingBox Over Electrical Lines — SlingBox just launched the SlingLink TURBO 1 ($99.99) and SlingLink TURBO 4 ($149.99) for home users. These powerline routers allow you to connect to your SlingBox over your home's powerlines and not wirelessly or through a wireless or wired bridge.
Wall Street Journal:
GE and Pearson Discuss Joint Bid For Dow Jones — Talks Signal Alternative — To News Corp.'s Offer — Could Be Taking Shape — As Dow Jones & Co.'s controlling Bancroft family continues to fret about selling to Rupert Murdoch, General Electric Co. and Financial Times publisher Pearson PLC …
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
EBay Moves to Recharge Its Auctions — BOSTON — In 1998, eBay's chief executive, Meg Whitman, changed the background color of the site's home page from gray to white. Rather than simply switching colors overnight, though, Ms. Whitman directed eBay's engineers to bleach the gray over the course of 30 days.
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Zach Sims / Rev2.org:
Opinion/Analysis: Books? What Books? — "This is the funeral pyre for thought in America today," said Tom Wayne as he set fire to dozens of books outside of his Kansas City bookstore, Prospero's Books. Wayne, however, wasn't burning books to destroy the knowledge contained within them.
Ricky Cadden / Symbian-Guru.com:
New Nokia N73 Firmware - With TONS of Improvements! — Symbian-Freak got the scoop on this one first, but a quick read of the thread in his forums shows that there's more to this than simple bug fixes and little things users don't notice! The latest firmware for Nokia N73 (plain …
