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O2 'to get UK iPhone contract' — Mobile phone operator O2 is reported to have won the sought-after deal to sell Apple's iPhone in the UK. — Press reports said that O2 is set to sign an exclusive contract shortly and should have the new phones on sale in time for Christmas.
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Financial Times:
O2 nears iPhone partnership — By Andrew Parker and Maija Palmer in London and Paul Taylor in New York — Telefónica's O2 mobile phone business was poised on Wednesday night to clinch a deal as Apple's exclusive network partner for iPhone in the UK, said people familiar with the matter.
John Oates / The Register:
O2 gets UK iPhone deal — Mobile network O2 is close to getting the exclusive right to sell Apple's ludicrously-hyped iPhone in the UK. — The handset has gone on sale in the US with one network partner, AT&T, and Apple is looking to set up similar exclusive deals across Europe.
Elizabeth Judge / Times of London:
O2 beats rivals in battle for the rights to Apple's iPhone — O2 has beaten its rivals to win the exclusive UK rights to offer Apple's iPhone. The tie-up, the mobile phone industry's most sought-after deal in years, marks a major coup for the 18 million-customer group.
Tony Hung / Deep Jive Interests:
A Deep And Flawed Misunderstanding of A-Lists, Blogs, And Social Networks — ... is being propagated by Hugh McLeod, who, once again, has decided to raise the egalitarian "Es Gibt Keine Einliste" (Or, "There is no A-list", for our non-German reading readers).
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USA Today:
The house that helped build Google — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Susan Wojcicki is reminiscing about her old home in Menlo Park, Calif. — "It's a very humble house, less than 2,000 square feet," she recalls fondly. A cozy, four-bedroom home — and incredibly historic.
Steorn:
Steorn demonstrates free energy technology in public forum — Demonstration at Kinetica Museum, London, UK is world's first outing for Steorn's Orbo technology and will be streamed live around the world — London, 4th July 2007. Steorn, an Irish technology development company …
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Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
South Koreans Connect Through Search Engine — Park Hye Ran, a 15-year-old high school student, wanted to know the shortest route from a bus terminal in the southern port city of Busan to a fish market to the east. — That is precisely the kind of question that Cho In Joon, 50, a seller of lottery tickets in Busan, loves to answer.
David Pogue / New York Times:
IPhone-Free Cellphone News — Man, oh man. How'd you like to have been a PR person making a cellphone announcement last week, just as the iPhone storm struck? You'd have had all the impact of a gnat in a hurricane. — But hard to believe though it may be, T-Mobile did make an announcement last week.
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Associated Press:
Digital Purchases Rise as Album Sales Fall — Album sales have continued their downward slide this year, but sales of digital tracks are up almost 50 percent over this time last year. — A total of 229.8 million albums were sold in the United States from Jan. 1 to July 1, according to Nielsen SoundScan figures released Wednesday.
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
eBay Brings Classifieds Site Kijiji To The U.S. — According to the Newspaper Association of America, U.S. print newspaper classified advertising was worth about $17 billion in 2006. The category has been under pressure for years from top online verticals, some of which are owned by newspapers …
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Gavin O'Malley / MediaPost Publications:
NBBC, We Hardly Knew Ye — THE NATIONAL BROADBAND COMPANY, THE unit created by NBC Universal last September to handle online video distribution, is being rolled into NewSite — the still-unnamed co-venture between NBC and News Corp. — Unfortunately, NBBC's partners …
Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear:
Samsung Blu-ray + HD DVD Player to Support Both Formats' Special Features — As we approach the release of Samsung's BDP-UP5000 combination Blu-ray/HD DVD player, more and more details are finding their way to the Intertubes, or whatever funny word we're using to describe the Internet these days.
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Mark / Product Reviews Net:
Apple Apply for Patent on awesome multi-touch mouse — Apple kind of stumbled upon a new idea which is well bloody awesome to tell you the truth, the new device is a multi-touch mouse with a stunning transparent top shell plus it will have a illumination source inside which will light up the mouse …
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Reuters:
Microsoft to launch Xbox 360 Elite in Japan in Oct — TOKYO, July 5 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday it would launch the advanced version of its Xbox 360 game console, Xbox 360 Elite, on Oct. 11 in Japan, a country where sales …
Chris Williams / The Register:
Spanish telco unapologetic on huge broadband anti-trust fine — Telefónica claims clear conscience — O2 parent company Telefónica has protested innocence after it was slammed by European anti-trust regulators for gaming the broadband market in its Spanish home territory.
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
At I.B.M., a Smarter Way to Outsource — Jeffrey Taft is a road warrior in the global high-technology services economy, and his work shows why there are limits to the number of skilled jobs that can be shipped abroad in the Internet age. — Each Monday, Mr. Taft awakes before dawn at his home …
