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Eric A. Taub / New York Times:
Sony Cuts PlayStation 3 Prices as Many Xboxes Fail — Facing slower-than-expected sales of its PlayStation 3 video game system, Sony said it would announce Monday that it planned to lower the price of its console in the United States by $100, to $500, effective Thursday.
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New Version Of PlayStation 3 To Go On Sale In August; Sony Cuts Price On Older Model — Sony Corp. announced a revised PlayStation 3 console Monday with a bigger hard drive for storing downloaded content such as video games and high-definition movies. — The new $599 PS3 increases …
Tor Thorsen / GameSpot:
E3 07: 60GB PS3 $499, 80GB due in August — Sony confirms price drop, says new $599 model bundled with MotorStorm coming next month. — [UPDATE] Today, Sony confirmed to GameSpot that a fusillade of reports from US retailers had augured last week. As of July 9, the PlayStation 3's North American price point is going south.
Conrad Quilty-Harper / Engadget:Sony cuts PS3 price to $499, new $599 80GB model to hit North America in August
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Google:
Google to Acquire Postini — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Postini, a global leader in on-demand communications security and compliance solutions serving more than 35,000 businesses and 10 million users worldwide.
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Dave Girouard / Official Google Blog:
Welcome, Postini team — We launched Google Apps so that it would be easier for employees to communicate and share information while reducing the hassles and costs associated with enterprise software. Companies are responding: every day, more than 1,000 small businesses sign up for Google Apps.
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Improving Google's Social Network — Google already has a social network (orkut), but it's only popular in Brazil and India, doesn't have a Googlish interface and had a lot of security problems in the past. That's why last year Google sponsored a project at the Carnegie Mellon University's …
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PR Newswire:
Lexmark revises financial outlook — LEXINGTON, Ky., July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE: LXK - News) today announced that financial results for its second quarter of 2007 will be lower than expected. — Although based on partial data for the quarter …
Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
EA Chief Cites Need For More Innovative Games — Electronic Arts Inc. became the world's biggest maker of videogames by relying on a formula now widespread in the industry: pumping out sequels of familiar game franchises, like Madden football, that consumers bought almost on cue.
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VMware and Intel Capital Announce Investment — PALO ALTO, Calif. and SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — VMware, Inc., the global leader in software for virtualization solutions today announced that Intel Corporation, through its global investment arm, Intel Capital has agreed to become an investor in VMware.
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Sarah Ellison / Wall Street Journal:
Dow Jones Makes Late Push To Find Other Buyers — As negotiations with News Corp. continue, Dow Jones & Co. is making one last push to find other possible buyers for itself, according to people familiar with the matter. — The long-shot efforts by the publisher of The Wall Street Journal …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Vista SP1 beta 1 to launch in mid-July — It's official: We are now in the under-promise and over-deliver era at Microsoft. — Just when Microsoft had customers, partners and competitors all believing that it was going to delay the first service pack for Vista — not releasing a first beta …
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Ed Burnette / Ed Burnette's Dev Connection:
Apple sneaks Java support onto the iPhone — Despite public comments by Steve Jobs that "Java's not worth building in [to the iPhone]", it turns out that Apple did just that by using an ARM-based CPU that supports Java natively. Programmers cannot (yet) take advantage of this, but Apple could …
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Reuben Schwarz / Stuff.co.nz:
Hobby leads to career for tech blogger — Wellington is home to a rising star in the highly competitive and global blogging industry. — Richard MacManus runs the world's 28th most popular blog, Read/WriteWeb, from his home office in Lower Hutt. — It's every blogger's fantasy.
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Richard Wray / Guardian:
Blyk's free mobile launch delayed — The planned launch of Britain's first mobile phone service that offers free calls and texts in return for users accepting adverts on their handsets has been delayed for several months. — Blyk, a start-up run by the former president of the Finnish mobile firm Nokia …
John Markoff / New York Times:
Fixing Typos by Web Users, Without Raising Hackles — David Ulevitch is trying to turn two numbers into a multimillion-dollar business. — The numbers — each composed of a quartet of digits — are just two of the more than four billion unique identifiers, the street addresses of cyberspace …
Associated Press:
US telecommunications company Verizon's copper cutoff traps customers, hampers rivals — PHILADELPHIA: When Henry Powderly II ordered Verizon Communications Inc.'s FiOS fiber-optic service, he knew he was about to be connected to the future of telecommunications. — He also got unplugged from its past.
