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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ooma Launches Free Consumer Phone Service — An ambitious and long awaited new consumer VOIP startup - Ooma - launches on Thursday morning. Much like Vonage and the ill-fated SunRocket, Ooma allows consumers to use their normal phones to make and receive telephone calls, but at drastically reduced prices.
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Walt Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Ooma Puts Out a Call to Ditch Landlines for Web-Based Service — It has been possible for several years now for Americans to dump their landline phone companies and pay much less with services that route calls over the Internet instead of over the regular phone network.
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Business Wire:
eBay Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2007 Financial Results — Reports Record Q2 Net Revenues of $1.83 Billion — Delivers Q2 GAAP Diluted EPS of $0.27 and Non-GAAP Diluted EPS of $0.34 — Company Repurchases $344 Million of Common Stock in Q2 — SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE) …
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Fake Steve Jobs lashes out against 'invasions of privacy' — The writer of The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs appeared to break character Wednesday in decrying "invasions of privacy" that have the anonymous author rattled. — Fake Steve Jobs, as he or she has come to be known …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Scholastic Loses It Over Harry Potter/BitTorent Story — It didn't take long for Scholastic, the U.S. publisher of the Harry Potter books, to send us a takedown notice for our post "The Latest Harry Potter Book Hits BitTorrent." — In an email yesterday, Mark S. Seidenfeld …
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Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
HP remains No. 1 in PCs — Hewlett-Packard continued its sprint ahead of the competition in the second quarter of 2007, remaining the No. 1 PC vendor in the world. While Dell continued to decline in units shipped, Lenovo, Acer and Toshiba each outpaced the worldwide PC market growth rate of 12.5 percent, according to IDC.
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Donna Bogatin / Insider Chatter:
Google: Newspaper Ads More Trustworthy Than AdWords — Google's big, bad coopetitiion problem is rearing its ugly head once again. — CEO Eric Schmidt rises to the defense of "planning and buying traditional newspaper media in both national and local newspapers":
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Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
iPhone + Disposable Cellphone + Prepaid Cards + New Activation Tool = Holy Cow — Holy cow. Those guys at fusion.osx86.hu/#iphone are geniuses. Late yesterday, I downloaded a copy of iASign, their new iPhone activation tool. Right now, at this second, my iPhone just made its first call using …
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Congress to Examine Google-DoubleClick Deal — Google executives are expected to be called to testify before House and Senate subcommittees about the company's planned $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick, a deal that is already facing close scrutiny from federal antitrust regulators.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Hey, Yahoo: Lloyd Braun Will Eat Lunch in This Town Again — Former Yahoo executive Lloyd Braun and his partner Gail Berman, a former Paramount executive, have struck an online deal with Pepsi, under which the entertainment and marketing arm of the beverage giant will be a "first-look" …
Microsoft:
Sit, Stay, Chat! Explore a Virtual World, Make New Friends and Play Games With GoPets on Windows Live Messenger — Microsoft Casual Games and GoPets bring people, pets and games together in a global social networking experience. — Whether they're having another day at the office …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
$298 Wal-Mart PC features OpenOffice.org, no crapware — Looking to get a jump on the lucrative back-to-school shopping season, Wal-Mart has begun selling a sub-$300 PC. The Everex IMPACT GC3502 comes with Windows Vista Home Basic and OpenOffice.org 2.2 installed on a system that includes …
Gina Trapani / Lifehacker:
Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Unofficial Gmail Apps and Add-ons — Gmail's huge success owes itself in large part to the wide range of applications, browser add-ons, styles, scripts and bookmarklets that work with it. From the get-go Google's stayed out of developers' way and turned a blind eye …
PlayStation 3 Game Reviews, Cheats …:
David Reeves hints at 120GB PlayStation 3 for Europe — Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president David Reeves has hinted at the possibility of a new SKU for PlayStation 3 in Europe, which may possibly accommodate a hard drive capacity of 120GB. — Reeves mentioned the 120GB model during …
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Plaxo Could Be the Open Facebook — Plaxo recently launched a new 3.0 version that was more than just an AJAX face lift. Plaxo, once a notorious spammer, has grown beyond their core service of being the web's address book. The new version not only synchronizes contact information …
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Ed Burnette / Ed Burnette's Dev Connection:
Apple iPhone KO's Cisco network at Duke — Earlier this year, Cisco and Apple ended a legal spat when Cisco allowed Apple to use its "iPhone" trademark (though there was some debate whether Cisco really owned it). In return, Apple agreed to "explore opportunities for interoperability …
