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CNET News.com:
iPhone supply lives to sell another day — Long lines for Apple's iPhone moved quickly Friday evening on both coasts, as the general public finally got its hands on what is perhaps the most hyped gadget in tech history. — In both New York and San Francisco, lines that had stretched …
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Nik Cubrilovic / New Web Order:
Liveblogging iPhone Launch — Lots of people who haven't showered in a while hanging out the front of the Apple store here. Lots of built up excitement as the doors are about to open. — 6.00pm: Ok the doors are open. Around 200 people lining up, another 500 looking on
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Long-Awaited iPhone Goes on Sale — Apple wanted a spectacle when the iPhone went on sale this evening, and it got just that. — Customers eager to be among the first to buy the long-awaited cellphone waited in long lines in front of Apple stores in New York and other cities.
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David Chartier / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
iPhone First Impressions — It was difficult, but I finally tore myself away from playing with my 8GB iPhone to put together a First Impressions post. I tried touching on a few things that we might not have discussed before, or at least things that I particularly appreciate that might …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
It lives up to every bit of hype — Amazing device. Amazing line. Steve Jobs showed up, unfortunately that was after we had left the store but we saw him arrive and walk into the store (he walked to the store from his home). — Also joining us in line was Andy Hertzfeld in addition to Bill Atkinson, who I talked about earlier.
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
iPhone teardown reveals better-than-iPod construction (photos) — A disassembly of the iPhone immediately after its public launch has revealed small, but useful, information about the Apple handset's assembly. — Technicians at iFixit have dissected the device from front to back …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
iPhone first hands-on and unboxing — Say hello to iPhone. — (Don't go far, we're uploading more pictures every minute.)
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Will the iPhone violate GPL 3? — You have to feel a little sorry for the Free Software Foundation, which launched the first overhaul of its General Public License (GPL) in 16 years on the same day that Apple's iPhone launch hogged the spotlight. — But the foundation, like everybody and his brother …
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TED / uncov:
Kevin Rose: YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG — There's no way I could sleep tonight without ripping the s**t out of Pownce. The only thing that really irritates me about Pownce is that it has to exist on the same internet that I use. — Pownce is a web service that lets you "share stuff with your friends".
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Rise of the Rose Bashers? — A curious thing has happened with Kevin Rose's new startup Pownce: the Digg users really hate it. For a service whose success will rely on the founder's credentials and referring traffic over from the popular news site, that's a little worrying.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Eventstreaming: The Seed Of A Revolution — An interesting thing happened during yesterdays iPhone launch and it wasn't just observing Robert Scoble's mastery of self promotion (in a good way of course). Thousands of people* who were not lining up for an iPhone, be that because they simply …
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
iPhone activations hosed until morning? — We've been hearing scattered reports some that newly-christened iPhone owners are having a heck of a time finalizing the activation process in iTunes. That sucks for a couple reasons: first, these puppies are darned near useless without being activated …
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Paul Kedrosky / Wall Street Journal:
The Jesus Phone — The Apple iPhone is set to be released today at 6 p.m., and I feel like I already have one. Apple's new "Jesus phone" — it combines Internet access, an iPod music player, and, oh yes, a phone — has been accompanied by a loud, relentless, and unavoidable drumbeat of hype.
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Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
GOOGLE SUED BY ANOTHER IDIOT WHO DOESN'T UNDERSTAND INTERNET LAW — Brian Retkin, a 48-year old British man, is suing Google, claiming the search engine is somehow responsible for the accuracy and defamatory nature of everything written on the internet. Retkin is accused of profiting …
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
CNN.com To Launch Web 2.0 Re-design This Weekend — Over the past year or so we've seen many mainstream publications 'web 2.0-ize' their web presence. BBC has been a leading force, while in March USA Today announced a re-design. Also we covered the Martha Stewart re-design in April.
Associated Press:
AT&T Is Buying Oklahoma-Based Carrier — AT&T, the wireless carrier, agreed on Friday to acquire the rural wireless provider Dobson Communications Corporation for $2.8 billion in cash. — The offer of $13 a share adds about 1.7 million customers to AT&T's nearly 62 million …
