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Eric Pooley / Time:
Exclusive: Rupert Murdoch Speaks — "They're taking five billion dollars out of me and want to keep control," Rupert Murdoch was saying into the phone, "in an industry in crisis! They can't sell their company and still control it — that's not how it works. I'm sorry!"
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
NewCo Update: September Launch Maybe Yes, Maybe No — On a call now with News Corp. COO Peter Chernin, NBCU CEO Jeff Zucker and just-announced NewCo CEO Jason Kilar and the JV partners are being more cautious about launch promises. Earlier this month, NBCU's Beth Comstock told analysts the service would launch in September.
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:Industry Moves: NBCU-NWS JV Gets CEO—Former Amazon Exec Jason Kilar
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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Internal Apple Stevenote: iPhone, iPods with OS X, and "off the charts" Macs in the pipeline — Apple held a somewhat rare, company-wide virtual meeting with Steve Jobs this morning (11am Pacific Time), wherein Steve Jobs discussed the gravity of the iPhone on Apple's business …
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Scott McNulty / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:Apple employees to get free iPhones
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Steve Dowling / Apple:
iPhone Premieres This Friday Night at Apple Retail Stores — Free Workshops, Genius Bar Support and One to One Personal Training — Apple's revolutionary iPhone™ will go on sale this Friday, June 29 at 6:00 p.m. local time at Apple® retail stores nationwide.
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Netly News, Good Morning Silicon Valley, AppleInsider, Gadget Lab, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Gadgetell, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, Engadget, MacUser, ifoAppleStore, Apple 2.0, The Technology Chronicles, Deep Jive Interests, Internet Marketing Monitor, Mobility Site, Macworld, Listening Post, Podcasting News, The Apple Core, Today @ PC World, Blackfriars' Marketing, MacRumors, O'Grady's PowerPage and Apple Gazette
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Kent German / CNET News.com:
Apple says two iPhones per person — Attention iPhone line sitters: you can forget about hording devices for later sale on eBay. Apple announced this morning that iPhone sales will be limited to two per person, max. Interestingly, that's one more than the AT&T stores will allow you to buy.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Get on ScobleShow, get fired — Last night one of the people who've been on the ScobleShow (my video show) wrote me and told me he was fired for appearing on my show without PR permission. I won't tell you who that was since he's interviewing for a new position now, but it made me realize …
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FierceWireless:
Press Release: Verizon Wireless Stores Open All Day June 29 for Customers to Test Network, Buy Music Devices — Verizon Wireless Stores Open All Day June 29 for Customers to Test Drive the Nation's Most Reliable Wireless Network, Purchase Any of 18 Multi-Media Music Devices
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Kent German / CNET News.com:Verizon Wireless thumbs its nose at the iPhone
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Kate / Google LatLong:
It's a click & drag situation — Posted by Ryan Sturgell and Barry Brumitt, Software Engineers, Google Maps — Can you imagine going back to clicking arrows and waiting for the screen to refresh just to move the map left/right/up/down? It'd be as big a bummer as going back to 8-track tapes.
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Valleywag:
Data Junkie: The world map of social networks — Click for the full-size version, and the map notes. — Let's play global domination. Here's a map of the world, showing the dominant social networks by country, according to Alexa. There are way more players than anybody, from a vantage point in Silicon Valley, would expect.
Gamasutra:
H&G: LucasArts' Ward Talks Wii Lightsaber Game — As part of the final Hollywood & Games Summit panel in Los Angeles, LucasArts' Jim Ward has been discussing the oft-raised question of a lightsaber game for Nintendo's Wii, saying that the company has internal prototypes running using the Wiimote.
The Boy Genius Report:
AT&T Internal Apple iPhone document leaked. Prepaid iPhones, unboxing, credit checks, and more! — For anyone that thought we'd actually stop running iPhone coverage, you're crazy! Now, on to the good stuff. Thanks to an exclusively obtained leaked document, we're prepared to take you on a journey to iLand.
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GigaOM, Infinite Loop, CrunchGear, The Mobile Gadgeteer, WinExtra, CyberNet Technology News, Engadget and Ars Technica
Raju Vegesna / Zoho Blogs:
iZoho - Zoho for iPhone — ...or should I say 'Office for your iPhone'. This is fun project going live in record time (thanks to our APIs and of course our team). — iZoho (no, its not an online desktop ) is an easier way to access your Zoho Apps on your Mobile...atleast, iPhone for now.
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The Technology Chronicles, Between the Lines, Read/WriteWeb, Associated Press, Pimp Your Work and Zoli's Blog
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:
Skype on the Nokia N800: it's alive, it's ALIVE! — I'm getting ready to leave NYC and the Digital Experience show, but had to share one tidbit before leaving. Among the many booths I stopped at was the Nokia booth. The big news there wasn't a new device, it was a service, and that service is Skype!
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Mobility Site, last100, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, Office Evolution, Darla Mack, Gizmodo, LucaFiligheddu.com, Roland Tanglao's Weblog and VoIP Watch
live.psu.edu:
Branding matters — even when searching — University Park, Pa. — Web searchers who evaluated identical search-engine results overwhelmingly favored Yahoo! and Google, providing evidence that branding matters as much on the Internet as off, according to a Penn State study.
Kevin J. Delaney / Wall Street Journal:
Start-Ups Make Inroads With Google's Work Force — As Google Inc. exploded into a company of more than 12,000 employees, attracting a million resumes a year, the Internet giant rarely lost staff to start-ups or had prospective workers turn down job offers. Now, though, Google's magnetic pull …
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
The Saboteurs Of Search — If your online business, like thousands of others on the Web, relies on Google searches for traffic, then Brendon Scott is a good person to have on your side. — For a price, he can boost a site to the top of Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) …
Let's Kill Dave!:
Penny Arcade's Jerry "Tycho" Holkins gripes about Microsoft blogging, I respond... In today's Penny Arcade, you put the screws to us Microsoft bloggers (in the gaming business), by saying, "Microsoft's marketing isn't slimy, it's just bad. … As one of those bloggers …
