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David Pogue / New York Times:
The iPhone Matches Most of Its Hype — Talk about hype. In the last six months, Apple's iPhone has been the subject of 11,000 print articles, and it turns up about 69 million hits on Google. Cultists are camping out in front of Apple stores; bloggers call it the "Jesus phone."
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Critical Consensus: The iPhone scorecard — The iPhone scorecard — The first four hands-on reviews of Apple's new wonderphone came out yesterday. The critical consensus? Buy the amazing device, if you can afford it. We gave scores out of ten — in ten categories.
Microsoft:
Windows Live Moves Into Next Phase with Renewed Focus on Software + Services — Q&A: Chris Jones, corporate vice president, Windows Live Experience Program Management, discusses how a new Windows Live product suite planned for release in the coming months will help customers more easily and safely communicate and share online.
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N'Gai Croal / Level Up:
EXCLUSIVE: What is WiiWare? Level Up Gets the Scoop On Nintendo's Brand New Bag — Patience is a virtue, a wise man once said, and nowhere is this more true than the circumstances surrounding the story we're about to bring you right now. A month or so before the March Game Developers Conference …
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NINTENDO'S WIIWARE PAVES THE WAY FOR FRESH GAMES, COOL CONSUMER EXPERIENCES — Nintendo Sets a New Paradigm: One Game Can Still Make a Difference — The search for the next ingeniously ground-breaking video game has begun. At a private developers conference this week …
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:Nintendo's WiiWare to sell new, downloadable games
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BBC Press Office:
BBC iPlayer to launch on 27 July — The BBC's on-demand TV service, BBC iPlayer, is to launch on 27 July, it was announced today by Ashley Highfield, Director of Future Media & Technology. — "BBC iPlayer is a free catch-up service for UK licence fee payers," said Highfield.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:Controversial BBC iPlayer launching this fall; open beta on July 27
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T-Mobile Launches UMA Service - Save your minutes by using Wi-Fi.... T-Mobile Launches UMA Service — Save your minutes by using Wi-Fi.... Posted 2007-06-27 09:32:11 by Karl — As had been leaked, T-Mobile today nationally launched their Hotspot@Home UMA service …
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
MySpace, Chasing YouTube, Upgrades Its Offerings — Two years ago, millions of MySpace users began adding video clips to their profile pages, helping to give rise to YouTube, which Google bought last October for $1.65 billion. — This week, MySpace, a division of the News Corporation …
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Kennethn / Official Google Docs & Spreadsheets Blog:
An entirely new way to stay organized — Posted by: Ron Schneider, Technical Lead, Google Docs & Spreadsheets — Today we introduced some exciting changes to Google Docs & Spreadsheets. — Here's what's new: — Looking pretty - The entire document list has been given a complete visual overhaul …
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Robert Mullins / PC World:
IBM, HP Share Bragging Rights on Supercomputer List — IBM Corp. still operates the fastest supercomputer in the industry, but rival Hewlett-Packard Co. has more of them in operation, according to a closely-watched global survey released Wednesday. — HP has passed IBM in the number …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
When You've Got To Go, Go To Mizpee.com — MizPee is a new service focused on delivering pertinent information regarding the location of nearby restrooms. — Using MizPee is as simple as surfing to mizpee.com via a mobile device browser. Users simply enter their location and MizPee delivers …
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WindowsServer / Windows Server Division WebLog:
SUMMER'S HERE AND SO IS THE JUNE 2007 CTP — MSDN and TechNet subscribers - get your shorts on and your skateboards out!! Windows Server 2008 Technical Beta participants - slip into those bikinis and hit the pool!! That's right - the June 2007 Community Technology Preview of Windows Server 2008 is here!
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Jeremy Kirk / Computerworld:Windows Server 2008 makes hosting debut at Microsoft.com
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple's iPhone dock includes Bluetooth headset charger — but is it free? — See that dock? Yeah, it's the first official confirmation of a rumored Bluetooth Headset port which allows the dock to simultaneously charge both your iPhone and Apple headset. It was just posted to Apple's new iPhone Q&A page.
Chippy / UMPCPortal feed.:
Raon Digital Everun. Exclusive preview video. — I feel very privileged to be able to air this introduction video of the Raon Digital Everun that will be on sale next month. Thanks to Raon Digital and a meeting schedule that took them through my neck of the woods I was able to meet up with them …
Tim Ferguson / ZDNet:
Vodafone to be iPhone operator in Europe? — Vodafone is among the frontrunners to become the network operator for Apple's iPhone when it comes to Europe, according to investment bank Credit Suisse. — A recent Credit Suisse research note said the U.K.-based mobile operator could walk away …
Eric Lempel / PlayStation.Blog:
Firmware 1.82 Coming Soon... Hey everyone, you told us you wanted to hear about updates a few days in advance, so here's a quick heads up that we have a PS3 firmware update in the works. Scheduled for release in the next few days, firmware 1.82 is an update that enables the playback of AVC High Profile (H.264/MPEG-4) files.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
ISP as copyright cop: Aussie ISP kills all user multimedia files nightly — Envision a world where your ISP does the copyright policing at the behest of the movie studios, television networks, and music labels, where no copyrighted content stays up on a user's account for more than 24 hours.
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