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PR Newswire:
Apple Statement — CUPERTINO, Calif., April 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple today released the following statement: — iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can't wait until customers get their hands …
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David Chartier / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Apple announces Leopard delays due to the iPhone — Apple has just issued a [press release] statement announcing that Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard has been delayed until October. The reason? iPhone: "we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Apple delays Leopard; blame the iPhone — Apple said its operating system upgrade Leopard won't be released in June as planned. — Why? The iPhone has absorbed Apple's resources as it certifies it with AT&T/Cingular so it can ship in late June. — A Leopard delay wasn't totally unexpected.
David Heinemeier Hansson / Loud Thinking:
Twitter trouble — Twitter is an amazing success story in terms of rapid user uptake and flattering press. I had a chance to speak with the team a while back about the wild ride they've been on. At that time they were fielding spikes of up to 11,000 requests per second across some 16 cores …
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Rafe Colburn / rc3.org:
Twitter developer: Rails performance blows — Interesting interview with Alex Payne from the Twitter development team. He says that Twitter's scalability issues are in part due to the fact that Ruby and Rails are just slow. Here's a taste: … I think this is true and important …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
DRM, lock-ins, and piracy: all red herrings for a music industry in trouble — A British media research company has peered into the music industry's crystal ball, and the outlook for the next couple of years isn't so hot. Global music sales will drop to $23 billion in 2009 …
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TeleRead, The All New Ewan's Musings, WebProNews, Listening Post and Smalltalk Tidbits …
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Joshua Chaffin / Financial Times:
Music labels ask Apple to adopt subscription — The world's biggest music companies are expected to ask Apple to introduce a music subscription service to its iTunes digital media store as part of negotiations to renew their agreements with the computer company.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
First a lawsuit, now Vonage loses CEO — Michael Synder, chief executive officer of Vonage, came, saw and scurried away. Vonage chief executive resigned this morning, in what seems to be an un-ending string of bad news for the Holmdel, NJ-based VOIP service provider. Snyder was the CEO of Vonage for less than a year.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Now a Rolling Stone Social Network — New York-based media giants are suddenly getting jiggy with the new new Media. CBS announced its mega-digital media strategy, which means Quincy Smith, the CBS Interactive head-honcho is finally putting a PowerPoint presentation he showed me last year to good use.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Rolling Stone Says They'll Launch Social Network
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Bloomberg:
Google's Acquisitions Chief Looking for `Crazy' Ideas (Update1) — Google Inc. looks for ideas that are ``really crazy'' when sizing up potential purchases, the Internet company's top dealmaker said. — ``We look at everything very carefully,'' Salman Ullah, Google's director of corporate development …
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
CBS To Announce Deals With AOL, MSN, Joost; In Talks With NBC U-News Corp: Report — CBS could announce as early as today deals to distribute its TV shows and other video programming via MSN, AOL and Joost, WSJ reports. CBS would be the first major network to have such an arrangement with Joost.
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Valleywag:
KEVIN BURTON: A snooper snooped — A snooper snooped — Kevin Burton, founder of a Techmeme clone called Tailrank, has accused a Valleywag reporter of unethical behavior. At a Palo Alto networking event last night, Valleywag's Megan McCarthy was spotted scrolling through the doughy entrepreneur's cellphone contact list.
Andrew Yoon / Joystiq:
Major Nelson talks Guitar Hero downloads, Halo 3 — We had an opportunity to chat with Microsoft mascot-in-training Major Nelson, early yesterday morning as the internet began its incredible, violent reaction against the pricing of the Guitar Hero downloadable tracks on Xbox 360.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Yahoo Close To Acquiring Rivals.com; Price Could Reach Nine Figures — You're reading it here first: Yahoo is close to making its biggest sports acquisition after, well, the Broadcast.com deal: the college sports network Rivals.com, paidContent.org has learned.
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Interview, Part 1: Quincy Smith, President, CBS Interactive: 'Innertube Just Became OuterTube' — The CBC Interactive Audience Network moved from idea to execution—at least, announcements—in the span of 8 days or so, according to Quincy Smith, president of CBS Interactive and the guy at the center of the storm.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Can PhotoBucket Survive Without MySpace? — There was a lot of fingerpointing, denials, and "he said, she said" going on today as everyone digested the news that MySpace had blocked PhotoBucket's 40 million members from embedding videos into their MySpace pages.
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WindowsServer / Windows Server Division WebLog:
VIRIDIAN AND VIRTUAL SERVER TIMING UPDATES — As the person who oversees the development plans, teams and strategy for Microsoft's virtualization software on desktops and servers, I want to update everyone on the timing of our server virtualization offerings.
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Y Combinator's WriteWith Launches - Collaborative Blogging — We mentioned WriteWith in a roundup post last month on new Y Combinator startups. They've created a group writing platform that falls somewhere between a blogging platform, a wiki, and an online Word clone.
Kotaku:
Isle of Rhodes Site: Unlock GoW 2 HD Mode! New Countdown! — Leave it to those pokey little puppies at GameFAQs to figure out that IsleofRhodes.org wasn't the suckfest we first thought it to be. On the story page of the website, after hitting proceed to bypass the video, there are hidden Greek letters.
Business Wire:
Akamai Acquires Red Swoosh — CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) announced today that it has acquired Red Swoosh, Inc. in an all-stock merger transaction. The acquisition of Red Swoosh is valued at approximately $15 million, net of cash acquired.
