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What's in the Box? The 3G iPhone Lands Down Under — What's in the Box? — The 3G iPhone Lands Down Under? — Late yesterday afternoon MacTalk received the above photo from a very reliable source who can not be named for obvious reasons (fear of assassination by the Apple Secret Police I presume).
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Forbes, Unwired View, Texas Startup Blog, VentureBeat, I4U News, InformationWeek Weblog, iLounge, Apple 2.0 and Apple Gazette
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Apple pushing iPhone developers to charge for would-be free apps — Developers wishing to release software applications for the iPhone and iPod touch for free are being encouraged by Apple to charge a fee instead, AppleInsider has learned. — People familiar with the iPhone Developer Program initiated …
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Yahoo! Inc. Statement on Carl Icahn's Letter of June 6, 2008 — SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jun 06, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today issued the following response to Carl Icahn in response to his letter dated June 6, 2008:
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Icahn Letter to Yahoo Chairman
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InfoWorld, CNET News.com, Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch, Deal Journal and Google Watch

Carl Icahn lays out 5-point game plan for Yahoo
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Coop's Corner, DealBook, WebProNews, The Register, Pulse 2.0, Between the Lines, paidContent.org, Forbes, Search Engine Watch Blog, Electronista, eWeek and Mashable!


Amazon suffers U.S. outage on Friday — Amazon.com has been inaccessible to many U.S. visitors since at least 10:30 a.m. PDT on Friday. — “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable” was the message that appeared when Amazon customers across the country attempted to log on.
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The Evolution of Pre-Launch Gmail In Screenshots — When visiting Google yesterday for the unveiling of Gmail Labs, product manager Keith Coleman took us on a tour of the Googleplex's Building 47. — Along the way, we saw Googlers hard at work on Gmail, Reader, Calendar, and other related projects.
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A proposal for Twitter: Shut it down — As I write this, Amazon.com, like Twitter, is offline. Amazon's outage is the big news Friday morning. But what of Twitter? — I used to love Twitter. But the site's pogo status—it's up! it's down! it's up again!—is driving me away.


R.I.P. SanDisk's TakeTV, Fanfare Shut Down — TakeTV, we hardly knew ye. Unveiled just last October, SanDisk's USB PC-to-TV video device along with Fanfare, its accompanying content portal, were both shut down on May 15th, a SanDisk spokesperson has confirmed.

Bits, Bands and Books — Do you remember what it was like back in the old days when we had a New Economy? In the 1990s, jobs were abundant, oil was cheap and information technology was about to change everything. — Then the technology bubble popped. Many highly touted New Economy companies …
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mathewingram.com/work, broadstuff, CNET News.com, RexBlog.com, TeleRead, TomsTechBlog.com, Techdirt and Silicon Alley Insider

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 arrives on time, available now (Updated) — As promised by Bill Gates earlier this week, Microsoft has now released Silverlight 2 Beta 2 as a 4.66MB download. The Silverlight homepage does not yet have the new download links, but as things change (like the Mac installer being posted), this post will be updated.
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1938 Media And c|net Announcement — Yeah, I know it's crazy. Live in a few weeks. — UPDATE: To reiterate what I say on the video for the apparent dopes out there. — We were not acquired by cnet. — I will be writing a column there and 1938 Media will produce 1 video a week for them.


Hey Firefox - Let Us Pick Our Own Search Engine! — So Firefox 3 has a new release candidate making news, suggesting that the browser is nearly done. May I suggest that the browser is nowhere near being done until the Mozilla Foundation drops its favoritism to Google and allow users to pick their own default search engine?

Ballmer Tells the Washington Post That Print is Toast — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sat down for lunch with editors and reporters at the Washington Post and told them print will be dead in ten years: … I just hope the Post's Website will still be around because it is a great distribution partner for TechCrunch.
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Incremental Blogger, GMSV, PSFK, MediaFlect, Washington Post, Engadget, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog and WebGuild
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Nvidia, AMD vie with Intel over USB 3.0 — AMD and Nvidia aim to wrest control of a crucial PC specification from Intel, arguing that the chip giant is trying to box them out as they move to a new era of faster peripherals. — In play is the USB 3.0 specification, a next-generation high-speed connection standard due in 2009.

In Turnabout, Antitrust Unit Looks at Intel — WASHINGTON — A global legal battle between the two largest makers of computer processors took an abrupt turn this week when the Federal Trade Commission opened a formal antitrust investigation of the Intel Corporation.


Windows Mobile's Good, Bad and Ugly — Linux-based mobile operating shipments declined 477,440 units during first quarter 2008 from the same time period a year earlier, according to Gartner. Additionally, mobile Linux OS market share receded a stunning 4.5 percent.