Top Items:
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 …
Discussion:
Michael Gartenberg, Computerworld, The Apple Core, Engadget, Epicenter, Between the Lines, CrunchGear, Apple 2.0, last100, Hardware 2.0, MAC.BLORGE.com, Slashdot, Digital Trends, Digital Inspiration, LucaFiligheddu.com, Texas Startup Blog, Gizmodo, MacUser, CyberNet Technology News, Macenstein, Gadgetell, iLounge, Podcasting News, The Tech Report, So sue me and The Apple Blog
RELATED:
Business Week:
How Big Will The iPhone Be? — It may be a $10 billion business-and further propel Apple shares — Few stocks trade on emotion the way Apple Inc. (AAPL ) does. Its rip-roaring initial public offering in 1980 created the template for modern tech mania, while making Steve Jobs a gazillionaire.
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 …
RELATED:
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 …
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 …
RELATED:
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 …
Gary Gentile / Associated Press:
AP: Blockbuster to Favor Blu-Ray HD Disc … 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. — The move, being announced Monday …
RELATED:
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Social networks as "friend" Nazi (design flaws in Facebook, Jaiku, Twitter) — Oh, how I hate when social networking software tries to be my parent. — Jon Udell touches on this in his post about Facebook: "how do I know this person?" — See, the developers who make this software …
Discussion:
The Doc Searls Weblog, Tom Raftery's Social Media, Smalltalk Tidbits …, Jon Udell and Snipperoo
Craig Rubens / NewTeeVee:
YouTube's Disappointing New Editing Tools — Late Friday evening YouTube rolled out its new on-site editing service, YouTube Remixer. Powered by Adobe Premiere Express, the software allows YouTubers to remix their existing videos adding new music, borders, clip art graphics, and transitions …
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.
Discussion:
A VC, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, GigaOM, Valleywag, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, Apple Gazette and paidContent.org
eMediaWire:
Network Solutions Earns Authorized Google AdWords Reseller Status — Network Solutions is one of several select Google AdWords resellers in the United States. — Network Solutions® has recently been named an Authorized Google® AdWords™ Reseller, placing them in a select group …
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 …
Samsung:
SAMSUNG Unveils the U3; Your Direct Source to Music on the Go — Seoul, Korea, June 18, 2007 - Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. a market leader in consumer electronics, today announced its newest digital creation; the U3, a USB direct music player with 5 fun colors.
Aldamiz / MyStrands Blog:
MyStrands raises $25 Million to lead the social recommendation industry … We are very excited to announce that MyStrands has raised $25 million in Series B funding. The main investor is 25 year-old Spanish media mogul Antonio Asensio, owner and CEO of the third largest media group in Spain …
Bill Ray / The Register:
T-Mobile terminates Truphone — Mobile operator, or not? — T-Mobile has stopped connecting its customers when they call someone using Truphone, saying the VoIP operator is overcharging for interconnection. — Instead, T-Mobile customers get a recorded announcement saying they must have misdialed.
Cutkillavince / Akihabaranews.com:
iRiver feeds your envy! — A couple photos had been seen here and there the last couple days, it is now official, here comes iRiver's latest jewel: the NV! This DMB-Navi co...
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Firefox Add-ons: All You Need To Know — Firefox is a browser that can be extended and enhanced in many ways - chief among those being Add-ons, which give you more functionality or perhaps just a new theme. In fact sometimes they give you a full-blown web app, like Yoono, BlogRovr or Trailfire.
Discussion:
digg
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 …
Joshua Karp / The Boy Genius Report:
Sidekick to get MySpace application — We've uncovered T-Mobile's MySpace plans for its Sidekick devices. The Sidekick MySpace application will allow users to edit their profiles, upload pictures from their device, read/send messages, post comments, and much more.
