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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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Read/WriteWeb:
Google's Marissa Mayer on The Future of Search — Written by Nitin Karandikar; all photos by Jeremiah Owyang — The highlight of the Searchnomics 2007 conference today was a keynote, at the very end, by Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Search Products & User Experience at Google.
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DeWitt Clinton / Google Code:
Google Gadget Ventures — By Tom Stocky, Google Developer Programs — Good news for Google Gadget developers. We've just launched Google Gadget Ventures, a new pilot program for distributing grants and seed investments to gadget developers and gadget-related businesses.
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Search Engine Land, Rev2.org, InsideGoogle, Web Strategy, The Next Net, WebProNews, Business Week, Official Google Blog, Mark Evans, Search Engine Journal, Niall Kennedy's Weblog, Read/WriteWeb, Marketing Nirvana, Outside the Valley, Insider Chatter, Search Engine Roundtable, mathewingram.com/work, TechCrunch, Google Blogoscoped, Googling Google and paidContent.org
Donna Bogatin / Insider Chatter:Google Gets Rocket Scientists on the Cheap: Junk CPMs
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Rachel Boltz / The Story of Feedster:
Welcome to Feedster, Version 2.0! — We've just completed a site redesign here at Feedster that includes a few feature changes: — To start with the obvious, the site looks completely different. When comparing the old with the new, it's quite apparent that we decided to keep only the name from the old design.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Didn't Someone Tell Feedster They Were Dead?
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David Pogue / New York Times:
Often-Asked iPhone Questions — With its new iPhone, Apple pulled off two masterful feats: creating the machine and creating the buzz around it. — That machine, and that buzz, have inspired a lot of questions. Just how much of a phone, an iPod and an Internet machine is this thing?
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Compiler, Epicenter, TechBlog, iLounge, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, Oliver Thylmann's Thoughts, MacDailyNews, cgm, Vindu's View from the Valley, The iPhone Ranch, deal architect, theWHIR.com Blogs, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, down the avenue, ContentBlogger, Gizmodo, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, mTrends and Ars Technica
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Kan Liu / Inside Google Desktop:
Desktop for Linux — For most Linux users, looking for files, documents, or emails usually involves some combination of 'find' and 'locate,' but sometimes these tools don't quite do what you're looking for, like finding that single PDF containing the specific topic you're looking for.
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Official Google Blog, Googlified, Compiler, Lifehacker, Google Operating System, DesktopLinux.com, Jeremy's Blog and digg
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Zoho tweaks apps for iPhone — Zoho debuted iZoho today, which allows iPhone users to view Zoho Writer, Sheet and Show documents, and to edit Writer documents in the Safari browser. The user interface has been modified for the iPhone. For example the pages slide across the screen …
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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 …
John Oates / The Register:
Don't touch that Microsoft Security Bulletin email — Do not be tempted into opening an email with the subject line: "Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-0065" because it is no such thing. — The email is not from Microsoft and contains a link to a webpage containing a trojan (disguised malware).
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Hal R. Varian / New York Times:
An iPod Has Global Value. Ask the (Many) Countries That Make It. — Who makes the Apple iPod? Here's a hint: It is not Apple. The company outsources the entire manufacture of the device to a number of Asian enterprises, among them Asustek, Inventec Appliances and Foxconn.
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.
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Industry Moves: NBCU-NWS JV Gets CEO—Former Amazon Exec Jason Kilar — This just in ... NewCo finally has a CEO. Former Amazon exec Jason Kilar starts work July 9. Kilar was at Amazon for nearly a decade, writing the business plan (or says the release) for Amazon's entry in to video and DVD sales.
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Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
Sun debuts two-petaflop "Constellation" supercomputer — We've already covered the launch of IBM's Blue Gene /P supercomputer this week, but Big Blue isn't the only company with a computer design capable of breaking the petaflop record. Sun Microsystems also launched its Constellation System (PDF) this week.
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Walter S. Mossberg / Wall Street Journal:
Ask.com Takes Lead In Designing Display Of Search Results — Google and other search companies have made major, continual advances under the hood in recent years, improving the way they gather information. But less progress has been made in the way these search results are presented to users.
Guardian:
Hanging up on ringtones — With the market for downloadable over-the-air content flat, operators and music companies are looking to other ways of making money from mobiles, says Adam Webb — Although Apple's iPhone is only released in the US tomorrow, its ringtone has been available …
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James Hong:
Reinventing HOTorNOT, Part I — Ever since I came back to HOTorNOT in October 2006, people have been asking me what the company is up to. For the previous 6 years, HOTorNOT had pretty much been steady along the same course: A picture rating site with a dating-like application built on top …
Federal Trade Commission:
FTC Issues Staff Report on Broadband Connectivity Competition Policy — Report Urges Caution on Network Neutrality Regulation — The Federal Trade Commission's Internet Access Task Force today issued a report, "Broadband Connectivity Competition Policy," which summarizes the Task Force's findings …
