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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Report from the line — So, it's been non-stop in line here. I haven't had my hands on a keyboard until 3 a.m. — Why did I wait in line in Palo Alto and not the more sexy San Francisco? Easy, I knew there'd be more geeks in line here. And the line did not disappoint.
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
iPhone multi-city lineblog — This is it, iDay. Nerds from coast to coast will be lining up at their local Apple and AT&T stores to snag what's essentially the most anticipated consumer electronics launch ever. So what else is there to do but live blog those lines in whichever cities we can?
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Valleywag:
IPhone: Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht in iPhone line on CNBC — Does what it says on the tin. We've got video of the Digg founder and his Diggnation co-host Alex Albrecht sitting outside a store in San Francisco waiting for an iPhone. "I'm gonna get two," says Alex, before the guys launch into their usual carny-like patter.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Video: interview with Steve Wozniak! — We caught up with the one and only Steve Wozniak waiting in line to take an iPhone (or six) home. He even gave a bunch of people in line shirts and signed line badges. Aw, how nice! — [MP4] Download in wide VGA — [AVI] Download in wide VGA
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Guy J Kewney / Newswireless.net headlines:
Ignore US launch: European Tri-iPhone launch will reveal 3G iPhone for Voda, T-Mobile and Carphone Warehouse — A new 3G (European) version of the iPhone will be launched Monday in the UK by Apple - in a join promotion with Vodafone, T-Mobile of Germany, and Carphone Warehouse.
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Joshua Gay / FSF:
iPhone restricts users, GPLv3 frees them — On Friday, June 29, not everyone in the continental U.S. will be waiting in line to purchase a $500 iPhone. In fact, hundreds of thousands of digital aficionados around the globe won't be standing in line at all, for June 29 marks the release …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:Free Software Foundation releases GPL 3
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Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
Verizon COO: 'iWhatever' — What do you do when your main competitor is about to unleash the most hyped gadget ever to the cell phone-toting masses? Give said gadget a mocking nickname in a memo to employees. — The Thursday letter to Verizon Wireless employees from Chief Operating Officer Jack Plating …
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AMD:
AMD to Ship Industry's First Native x86 Quad-Core Processors In August —AMD's Stable Infrastructure Strategy Enables Availability of Systems from Platform Partners in September— Continuing to lead the shift of mainstream enterprise computing to energy-efficient processors, AMD …
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PC World, Ars Technica, Computerworld, Good Morning Silicon Valley, TechSpot News, Engadget, The Tech Report and InfoWorld
Tom / Project Red Stripe:
And the idea is... After four and a half months of sweat and toil we are pleased to announce our idea: — We are developing a web service that harnesses the collective intelligence of The Economist Group's community, enabling them to contribute their skills and knowledge to international and local development organisations.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Sunset at Sunrocket? Layoffs rumored — BREAKING: Sunrocket, one of the many VoIP service providers that has been suffering as a result of an all-out voice assault by the cable companies is rumored to have hit a major airpocket today. Our sources say that the company laid off nearly …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Powerset: Is There More Than Buzzwords And Patent Threats? — from the do-we-have-anything-useful? dept — There's been so much hype around search startup Powerset that it seems like it's going to be quite difficult to live up to it. The company kicked off by raising a lot of money …
Ray Rivera / New York Times:
City May Seek Permit and Insurance for Many Kinds of Public Photography — Some tourists, amateur photographers, even would-be filmmakers hoping to make it big on YouTube could soon be forced to obtain a city permit and $1 million in liability insurance before taking pictures or filming on city property, including sidewalks.
kottke.org:
Facebook is the new AOL — Earlier in the week, I made a comment in passing in a post about Vimeo: … A few people picked up on it and speculated what I might have meant by it. In reading those posts and poking around a bit, I found a post that Scott Heiferman made just after Facebook Platform launched in May:
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
An AIR of Invisibility — Al Mandel, who helped market the original LaserWriter at Apple and later had several high-level positions at AOL, used to say, "The step after ubiquity is invisibility," by which he meant that once a technology had reached the point where everyone had it …
