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Apple:
Apple Unveils New iMac — All New Line Features Sleek Aluminum 20- and 24-inch Designs — Apple® today unveiled an all new all-in-one iMac® line featuring gorgeous 20- and 24-inch widescreen displays encased in elegant and professional aluminum and glass enclosures.
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Peter Rojas / Engadget:
Live from Apple's summer Mac product press conference — 8:51AM (all times in PST): Well, we're here... And we're a bit early. Not too many folks waiting around; we'll let you know as they start admitting. — 9:27AM: Plenty of people here now, the usual suspects — gadgetrati VIPs and, well, little old us.
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Gizmodo Live, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, GigaOM, Between the Lines, eWEEK.com, Tech Trader Daily, Epicenter, Channel 9, Apple 2.0, The Mac Observer, The Utility Belt, Gadget Lab, MacUser, Things That, rexblog.com, jkOnTheRun, Slashdot, PaulStamatiou.com, geeksugar, The personal website …, Incremental Blogger, Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi, Scobleizer and Todd Watson
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Apple unveils new iMacs, updated apps — Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced two new iMacs at the start of an event held Tuesday at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. — The 20-inch and 24-inch iMacs are the latest editions of Apple's all-in-one iMac design.
Peter Cohen / Macworld:
Apple Mac Event - Live Update — Macworld's live coverage of Tuesday's event in Cupertino has concluded. — Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. this morning to present to a select group of journalists and other VIPs.
Apple:Apple Introduces iLife '08
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Infinite Loop, DailyTech, Compiler, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Macworld, Engadget and Podcasting News
Paul Miller / Engadget:Apple's new iMac — Who could've seen this one coming?
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Ars Technica, Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi, The Boy Genius Report, Tech Blog, Joystiq, iLounge and DigitalBattle
Microsoft Help and Support:
An update is available that improves the performance and reliability of Windows Vista … INTRODUCTION — This update resolves issues that may affect some Windows Vista-based computers. These issues have been reported by customers who are using the Error Reporting service or Microsoft Customer Support Services.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Shhhh! Pre-beta Vista SP1 is out there — Over the past couple of days, there have been new reports of sightings of the pre-beta of Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1. The reported build number: 6001.16549 (longhorn_sp1beta1.070628-1825). — I've been getting tips over the past couple …
Robert McLaws / Windows-Now.com:Windows Vista Pre-SP1 Performance and Reliability Updates Released
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Ed Bott's Windows Expertise
Microsoft Help and Support:An update is available that improves the compatibility and reliability …
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Geek Speaker
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Microsoft posts two major Vista fix packs for download
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Windows Connected
Holly M. Sanders / New York Post:
TIMESSELECT CONTENT FREED — The New York Times is poised to stop charging readers for online access to its Op-Ed columnists and other content, The Post has learned. — After much internal debate, Times executives - including publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. - made the decision to end …
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Publishing 2.0, CNET News.com, Yahoo! News, paidContent.org, Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog, Mashable!, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Google Blogoscoped, Rev2.org, Brad Linder's digital home, Reuters, Conversion Rate Marketing Blog, Threat Level, yelvington.com, Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab and Insider Chatter
Stephen Chau / Google LatLong:
More Street View Cities — Since the launch of Street View we've been working hard on extending the service to more cities. — We're excited to announce that Street View is now available in San Diego, Los Angeles, Houston and Orlando. Like the San Francisco Bay Area, San Diego features high-resolution imagery.
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Download Squad, Webware.com, TechCrunch, CNET News.com, FP Trading Desk, dailywireless.org, TechBlog and WebProNews
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Los Angeles Times:
Google Maps redraw the realm of privacy — As street-level photos are added to the site, fears of intrusion arise. — Google Inc. has been watching you, Southern California. — A caravan of cars and trucks mounted with cameras has been driving city streets for months …
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
VSS:
New VSS Forecast Released — Shift to Alternative Media Strategies Will Drive U.S. Communications Spending Growth in 2007-2011 Period; Consumer Media Usage Expected to Level Off Going Forward … While communications spending growth accelerated in 2006, outpacing nominal GDP for the fourth …
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Aline van Duyn / Financial Times:Online ads to overtake US newspapers
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HipMojo.com, New York Post, Search Engine Land, Internet Marketing Monitor, Mark Evans and Liberate Media
Villu Arak / About Skype:
Skype takes video one step further — LUXEMBOURG, August 7, 2007 - Skype has announced its users can now make conversations even more fun-packed by sharing video content with their friends and family across the world. Following new partnerships with leading independent video sharing sites Dailymotion …
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Forbes buys social bookmarking site Clipmarks — Clipmarks, one of the many startups that helps users collect and organize information from around the web, is being bought by Forbes Magazine, an inside source tells us. — The New York-based startup lets you select text, photos or videos on web pages …
Glen Allsopp / Clickalite:
Technorati 100: Digg Homepaged 8000 Times — Glen Allsopp ~ Web General ~ August 7th, 2007 ~ 38 Comments ~ Join the Discussion! — If you enjoy the article Please Digg it Here — Research is the key to setting yourself apart from the competition online and so is having quality content; hopefully this post displays both.
america.htc.com:
HTC Advantage Brings New Level of Mobile Connectivity — Now available at CompUSA and Amazon.com — HTC Corp. (TAIEX: 2498; "HTC"), the world's leading provider of Microsoft® Windows Mobile®-based smart devices, today announced the U.S. retail availability of the HTC Advantage.
Brad Linder / TV Squad:
Hackers discover how to download streaming movies from Netflix — Earlier this year Netflix announced a new service that would allow you to watch a limited number of videos online instead of waiting for the DVDs to come in the mail. The service is free with your regular subscription.
