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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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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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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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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.
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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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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Valleywag:
Data Junkie: The world map of social networks — 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.
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
IBM Study: Online multiplayer games build business leaders — Hmmm, which would you choose? — Sitting in a dreary classroom to bone up on an MBA, or stretched out in an easy chair honing your business leadership skills while engaged in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMPORG)?
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Blu-ray's new attack on HD DVD: 5 movie freebies — The Blu-ray Disc Association is going for HD DVD's throat with a new promotion announced this week that will give purchasers of new Blu-ray players five free Blu-ray movies. Any Blu-ray player is eligible, including the Sony PS3.
