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Microsoft:
Microsoft Expands Xbox 360 Warranty Coverage — Microsoft Expands Xbox 360 Warranty Coverage. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that it will expand its global Xbox 360™ warranty coverage. Any Xbox 360 customer who experiences a general hardware failure indicated by three flashing red lights …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
$50,000 Prize For Top Company At TechCrunch20 — If you aren't one of the 200 companies who've submitted their application to launch at our upcoming TechCrunch20 conference, now's the time to do it. The deadline is tomorrow, July 6. We will begin to announce some of the selected companies next week.
comScore:
Facebook Sees Flood Of New Traffic From Teenagers And Adults Open Registration at Facebook.com Spurs 89 Percent Visitor Growth versus Last Year — comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the results of a study on the visitation to Facebook.com …
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HipMojo.com, Between the Lines, New York Times, The Technology Chronicles, All Facebook and Tech Trader Daily
DigiTimes:
OLPC ASP to ultimately shrink to US$50 — Notebooks under the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) advocated "One Laptop Per Child" (OLPC) program are in a strong position to be the hottest PC for emerging markets and prices will shrink to US$50 in 2009, said Mary Lou Jepsen …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for July 2007 — Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: July 5, 2007 — Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: July 10, 2007 — This is an advance notification of six security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on July 10, 2007.
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The Microsoft Security …, The Register, InfoWorld, One Microsoft Way, Bink.nu, Computerworld, Donna's SecurityFlash, Zero Day and Neowin.net
Valleywag:
Google: Susan Wojcicki's big lie — Susan Wojcicki's big lie — Susan Wojcicki, an early Google employee and sister-in-law to founder Sergey Brin, is a liar. In a puff-piece profile of Wojcicki and her Menlo Park house, whose garage served as Google's first office …
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Greg Linden / Geeking with Greg:
Google cuts Founders' Awards — Interesting tidbit in a July 2007 Fortune article, "Close to the Vest", about retention at Google: … It is not surprising that the Founders' Awards would piss people off. No matter how it was done, I am sure the decision of who received the award seemed arbitrary …
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Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:The Pmarca Guide to Big Companies, part 2: Retaining great people
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Local Community Network Backfence Closing Down All Sites — Backfence, the once-hyped citizen journalism startup, is closing all its 13 local sites, after a series of management troubles over the last year, and inability to get any local traction editorially.
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Sprint breaks up with high-maintenance customers — The squeaky wheel doesn't always get the grease. — At least not if the squeaky wheel is a Sprint Nextel customer. On June 29, 2007, Sprint sent letters notifying some customers that their service would be canceled by the end of July due to excessive calls to customer service.
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Business Week, Gizmodo, PalmAddicts, Life On the Wicked Stage and Alice Hill's Real Tech News
Jack / Waiting for iPhone:
ATT Activates over 1 Million iPhones — According to reports leaked to waitingforiphone.com, ATT Mobility has fulfilled over 1 million iPhone activations since the device was launched in the US on June 29th. This news comes from a full-time staffer in ATT Mobilty's Commerce Group who chose to remain anonymous.
Microsoft:
Microsoft Expanding Canadian Operations in Greater Vancouver Area — New software development center to be opened in fall 2007. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that it intends to expand its presence in Canada by opening a new software development center in the greater Vancouver, British Columbia, area.
Oliver Luft / Journalism.co.uk:
The BBC should do less online video, says interactivity head — The head of BBC News Interactive wants the corporation to carry less online video and instead concentrate on improving the quality of its offering. — Speaking at the Future of News Conference in London today …
Walt Mossberg / Mossberg's Mailbox:
Questions About Apple's iPhone — There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers. Everybody has questions about them, and we aim to help. — This week, I was swamped with questions about Apple's hot new iPhone …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Apple's little problem with ripping off artists — We can appreciate the fact that Apple seems to draw a lot of inspiration from art — we really can. But we're noticing a pretty disconcerting trend taking shape: Cupertino's getting all Picasso on us with the "Good artists copy …
Verizon:
Chocolate Gets Even Sweeter The Second Time Around, Exclusively At Verizon Wireless — Slimmer and Lighter Than Ever, the Mouth-Watering Chocolate by LG Comes with New Features and Hot New Colors — BASKING RIDGE, NJ, and SAN DIEGO — The Chocolate by LG is back and sweeter than ever.
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Engadget, Gizmodo, CNET News.com, IntoMobile, MobileWhack, JD on EP, Valleywag and Digital Trends
