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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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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
VoIP goes Hollywood — What do Ashton Kutcher and voice over IP technology have in common? — Kutcher, best known for his role on That '70s Show and MTV's reality show Punk'd, is "creative director" for a Silicon Valley start-up called Ooma, which has developed a device that will allow users …
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Walt Mossberg / Personal Technology:Ooma Puts Out a Call to Ditch Landlines for Web-Based Service
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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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Tony Hung / Deep Jive Interests:
When You Play With Fake, Expect To Be Found — Let's put aside for a second that Fake Steve Jobs is neither funny nor witty, and ask ourselves why we should believe the shrill outrage of the author of a blog that is *purported* to be funny and witty.
Brandon McCormick / Google:
Google Expands Print Advertising Program — Program makes newspaper print advertising available to hundreds of thousands of Google advertisers creating new revenue opportunities for publishers — Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the expansion of the size and the scope of its Google Print Ads™ advertising initiative.
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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 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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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 …
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" …
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 …
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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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.
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 …
