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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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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.
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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Apple:
Apple Introduces iLife '08 — Major New Versions of iPhoto & iMovie — Apple® today introduced iLife® '08, the most significant upgrade ever to Apple's award-winning suite of digital lifestyle applications, featuring a major new version of iPhoto® and a completely reinvented …
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Paul Miller / Engadget:Apple's new iMac — Who could've seen this one coming?
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Ryan Block / Engadget:Apple's new iMac and keyboard: first hands-on
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog
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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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 — The rapid growth of online advertising is expected to see the sector overtake US newspaper advertising in terms of size by 2011. — The forecast comes against a backdrop of declining advertising sales reported by newspaper groups this year in spite of continued strength in the US economy.
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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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Arneh / WinBeta:Windows XP SP3 Released To Small Group (Updated)
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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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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 …
Xbox.com:
Microsoft Lowers Price of Xbox 360 by $100 in Canada — Price drop coincides with release of "Madden NFL 08" on Xbox 360, one of many titles that make up the greatest holiday lineup in video game history. — Microsoft Corp. today kicked off the greatest holiday lineup in video game history …
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Chris DiBona / Official Google Blog:
Joining OIN — You'll often hear members of our open source team say, "Every time you use Google, you're using Linux." It's absolutely true. Check a Google engineer's workstation, and you'll probably find it's running Linux. Do a search on Google.com, and a Linux server will return your results.
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Leelefever / Common Craft:
Video: Social Bookmarking in Plain English — We made this video because we want others to feel the power of social bookmarking and how it works to make web pages easier to remember, organize and share. — This video is focused on Del.icio.us, but you could also try social bookmarking sites like Magnolia or Furl.
David DeJean / InformationWeek:
Smartphone Browser Shootout: Palm, BlackBerry, HTC Vs. iPhone — Has Apple succeeded in setting a new mobile Web-browsing paradigm? We examine how the Palm Treo, BlackBerry Curve, and HTC Wing stack up against the iPhone. — This spring has seen a flood of new smartphone models, many of them with larger, more Web-friendly screens.
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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.
Mike Sachoff / WebProNews:
Americans Support Ban On Texting While Driving — Eighty-nine percent of American adults believe that sending text messages or emails while driving is dangerous and should be banned according to a new survey commissioned by mobile messaging service Pinger and conducted by Harris Interactive.
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PC World, Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, Global Nerdy and Reuters
