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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 …
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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Vonage Holdings Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steps Down — HOLMDEL, N.J., April 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Vonage Holdings Corp. (NYSE: VG - News), a leading provider of broadband telephone services, today announced that Michael Snyder stepped down from his position as Chief Executive Officer …
Charles Jade / Infinite Loop:
Why Apple can't sell movies — While Apple's announcement of MGM adding content to the iTunes Store is undeniably good news, the announcement that more than 2 million movies have been sold since September 2006 is not. Variety has come to an interesting conclusion for sales so far this year.
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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 …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Google's acquisition strategy should think small (and mobile) — When it comes to Google's acquisition strategy the search giant may be better off playing small ball. — Sure Google's purchase of dMarc and YouTube are significant deals that get a lot of attention-lately as potential busts in the making.
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Frank Taylor / Google Earth Blog:New Google Maps Feature - 2.5D Buildings
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Angus Kidman / APC:
Windows XP to be phased out by year's end despite customer demand — Computer makers have been told they'll no longer be able to get Windows XP OEM by the end of this year, despite consumer resistance to Vista and its compatibility problems. — By early 2008, Microsoft's contracts …
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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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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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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.
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.
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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Victor Keegan / Guardian:
To the average Joe, blogs aren't cutting it — This month's state of the blogosphere survey by Technorati, the monitoring service, was greeted as if it were the online equivalent of the President's State of the Union address. It undoubtedly reveals a fascinating array of statistics …
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.
Joyce Wadler / New York Times:
The Drive-In Without the Drive — FOR video razzle-dazzle, it's hard to beat the $5 million mansion of the Florida concrete multimillionaire Bill Williams, in Naples. The slickest piece of engineering in the home is most likely the 32-inch Samsung LCD screen in the master bath, which …
Kate Holton / Reuters:
EMI and Beatles settle royalty dispute — The company representing The Beatles has settled a 30 million-pound ($59 million) royalty dispute with EMI Group (EMI.L: Quote, Profile , Research), in a deal that could finally pave the way for the Liverpool band's music to go online.
Rustybrick / Search Engine Roundtable:
Ask.com To Launch New Search Algorithm Code Named Edison — Ask.com is set to launch a new search algorithm code named Edison. The new algorithm will combine Teoma and Direct Hit, two search engine technologies that Ask.com purchased a few years back, to bring about a new algorithm, Edison.
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Federal Trade Commission:
FTC Issues Report on Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children — The Federal Trade Commission gave a mixed review of the movie, music, and video-game industries' self-regulatory programs and their marketing of violent entertainment products to children in its latest report to Congress.
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.
