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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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Engadget, Apple 2.0, Business Week, iLounge, Macworld, Gizmodo, Cult of Mac, Epicenter, TechBlog and digg
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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, Gadget Lab, MacUser, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, The Technology Chronicles, Gadgetell, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Apple 2.0, Engadget, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, ifoAppleStore, Mobility Site, Deep Jive Interests, Internet Marketing Monitor, Macworld, Podcasting News, O'Grady's PowerPage, Today @ PC World, MacRumors, The Apple Core, Blackfriars' Marketing, Apple Gazette and AppleInsider
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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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paidContent.org, Media Biz, The Next Net, Techdirt, Valleywag, mathewingram.com/work and Portfolio.com
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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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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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loose wire blog, Steve Sloan …, Ryan Stewart, Smalltalk Tidbits … and Michael Gartenberg
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Valleywag:
Hypebusting: Facebook has 'thrown the entire startup world for a loop' — FROM A FACEBOOK PLATFORM DEVELOPER — I work for a startup in the Valley and have nothing natural against Facebook at all - in fact my team and I have spent every hour of every day for the past four weeks developing …
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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.
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!
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
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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Read/WriteWeb, The Technology Chronicles, Between the Lines, Webware.com, Zoli's Blog and Pimp Your Work
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, The Mobile Gadgeteer, Infinite Loop, CyberNet Technology News, CrunchGear, Engadget and Ars Technica
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 ) …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Jaman, now playing on AppleTV — Given YouTube's control of the snack-video market, it is no surprise that attention is shifting to long form, professionally produced content. Joost, Babelgum and scores of others are chasing this market, betting that MTV Summer Break might make compelling viewing on your PC.
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 …
