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BBC:
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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Elizabeth Judge / Times of London:O2 beats rivals in battle for the rights to Apple's iPhone
Discussion:
DailyTech, The Independent, Reuters, vnunet, iLounge, Infinite Loop, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, mocoNews.net and digg
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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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Universal confirms non-renewal of iTunes contract — Hot on the heels of the almost-ran reconciliation between Apple and the Universal Music Group, the music label has issued a statement saying definitively that it will not renew its long-term agreement with the Cupertino juggernaut.
Discussion:
PC World, rexduffdixon.com, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, point being and Life On the Wicked Stage
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Jonathan Richards / Times of London:
UK repairers can't cope with Xbox 360 failure — The failure rate on Microsoft's games console is now so great that UK service centres won't take the device, and Czech repairers are being drafted in to help — The failure rate on Microsoft's Xbox 360 games console is now so great …
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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.
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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 …
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.
Discussion:
Computerworld, Zero Day, The Microsoft Security …, Donna's SecurityFlash, InfoWorld and Bink.nu
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.
IFPI:
IFPI hails court ruling that ISPs must stop copyright piracy on their networks — A court in Belgium has confirmed that an Internet Service Provider must take responsibility for stopping illegal file-sharing on its network. The ruling is the first of its kind in Europe and …
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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.
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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 …
BBC:
Good vibes power tiny generator — A tiny generator powered by natural vibrations could soon be helping keep heart pacemakers working. — Created by scientists at the University of Southampton, the generator has been developed to power devices where replacing batteries is very difficult.
MacScoop:
Next iteration of iLife gone Golden Master, coming before Leopard? … Well great news, but I think — On July 4th, 2007 06:38:21 PM JayM says: — Well great news, but I think I'll wait until October anyway, then I'll get a new iMac with Leopard and iLife 0? pre-loaded. :)
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
Discussion:
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life
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.
Discussion:
Bits, Insider Chatter, Valleywag, Search Engine Land, Gadgetopia and John Battelle's Searchblog
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.
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 …
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.
