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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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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Apple: You can gab on that iPhone for eight hours — According to Apple, you can ditch your fears over the rumor that the iPhone has 45 minutes of talk time. The company announced Monday that the much-anticipated handset will ship with much better battery life than was expected when it was first announced in January.
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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Marguerite Reardon / ZDNet:
IPTV chugs along — The promise behind Internet Protocol television, or IPTV, is enormous, but fulfillment of that promise sometimes seems a long way off. — A year into major IPTV deployments around the world, progress on new features is slow, although a new version of Microsoft's IPTV software takes …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:Microsoft Renames IPTV Platform 'Mediaroom'; Adds PC-TV Media …
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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 …
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Fox Entertainment Signs Internet TV Distribution Deal With Brightcove — Fox Entertainment Group has tapped online TV distributor Brightcove to provide its networks and studio with ad-supported internet video channels. The pact will also give Fox the ability to target its broadband video directly to specific demos.
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.
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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 …
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
No Microsoft-Ubuntu deal in the works, Canonical CEO says — Anyone expecting a technical and legal partnership between Microsoft and Ubuntu distributor Canonical to follow existing Microsoft-Linux deals will be disappointed. — Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth in a blog posting on Saturday …
John Oates / The Register:
YouTube offers online editing — Happy slapping with subtitles? — YouTube users can now edit and improve their clips using an online tool from Adobe. — The tool, called Remixer, is based on Adobe's Premiere product. It allows users to upload video, add clips together, add subtitles, captions and music, and include clip-art.
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Jo Best / CNET News.com:
Mozilla exec calls Apple's Safari plan 'duopolistic' — Mozilla's chief operating officer, John Lilly, is calling Steve Jobs' plans for building Safari's market share "out of date" and "duopolistic." — Lilly made his comments following the Apple CEO's keynote speech last week …
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."
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 …
Gear Diary:
Unboxing the HTC Mogul, Sprint's New WM6 Phone — I got a sweet surprise from HTC on Friday: the brand new Sprint HTC Mogul, which is a major upgrade to the HTC Apache / Sprint PPC-6700 and which incidentally does not appear to be called the PPC-6800 anywhere but on its battery.
