Top Items:
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 …
Discussion:
Engadget, Apple 2.0, Business Week, iLounge, Macworld, Gizmodo, Cult of Mac, Epicenter, TechBlog and digg
RELATED:
Scott McNulty / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:Apple employees to get free iPhones
Discussion:
Computerworld
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
NewCo Names Jason Kilar CEO — NewCo, the coming joint video venture between News Corp and NBC Universal, is keeping itself in the news, though it has yet to put out a product. The company said today in an emailed press release it will be led by Jason Kilar, an executive at Amazon.com until last year …
RELATED:
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:Industry Moves: NBCU-NWS JV Gets CEO—Former Amazon Exec Jason Kilar
Discussion:
CinemaTech
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.
Discussion:
Netly News, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Gadget Lab, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, MacUser, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, The Technology Chronicles, Gadgetell, Engadget, Apple 2.0, ifoAppleStore, Deep Jive Interests, Mobility Site, Internet Marketing Monitor, Macworld, Podcasting News, O'Grady's PowerPage, Today @ PC World, The Apple Core, Blackfriars' Marketing, MacRumors, Apple Gazette and AppleInsider
RELATED:
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!"
Discussion:
paidContent.org, Media Biz, Techdirt, The Next Net, Valleywag, mathewingram.com/work and Portfolio.com
RELATED:
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 …
RELATED:
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.
RELATED:
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
RELATED:
Kent German / CNET News.com:Verizon Wireless thumbs its nose at the iPhone
Discussion:
Computerworld Blogs blogs
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.
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.
Discussion:
Read/WriteWeb, Associated Press, The Technology Chronicles, Between the Lines, 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.
Discussion:
GigaOM, The Mobile Gadgeteer, CyberNet Technology News, Infinite Loop, CrunchGear, Engadget and Ars Technica
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!
Discussion:
Mobility Site, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, Darla Mack, Office Evolution, last100, Gadgetell, Gizmodo, LucaFiligheddu.com, Roland Tanglao's Weblog and VoIP Watch
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.
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.
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 ) …
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.
ZDNet:
Malware finds a new home — Commentary—Conventional wisdom says e-mail systems are the pipeline of choice for malware distribution. But times have changed, and so too have Internet attack patterns. — In many cases, mass-mailing malware is now inefficient due to the noise it generates as it traverses the Internet.
Discussion:
Vitalsecurity.org
