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USA Today:
Q&A with Jobs: 'That's what happens in technology' — It's not every day you slice the price of a popular product by one-third. — But Apple CEO Steve Jobs did just that Wednesday with the iPhone. By the end of the day, the combination cellphone, iPod and Internet device was available for $399, down from $599.
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Steve Jobs live — Apple's "The beat goes on" special event — 9:20AM PDT - They kept everyone outside a little longer than we would have liked, but they're finally admitting. This is the Moscone West — we're assuming the huge hall Steve launched the iPhone in back in January.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
How To Get $200 Back If You Just Got An iPhone — Did you just buy an 8GB iPhone and paid full price? And are you feeling upset over the $200 dollar price drop that Apple (AAPL) just announced? Well there is a way you can help yourself and get $200 back. Apple's store return policy states:
Michael Gartenberg:
Apple Introduces New iPods - Second Take — No doubt this was a huge launch for Apple this morning and leaves them with a product line that's going to be hard for Apple's competitors to match. Let's break it down quickly. There's a lot here and I'll have more to say later on.
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Apple cuts 8GB iPhone price to $399 — With the new heat the iPhone will be getting from the iPod Touch, Apple decided to lower the barrier of entry to a much more palatable $399, and that's for the 8GB model, which just yesterday was rocking at $599 pricepoint.
Darren Murph / Engadget:Apple's iPod touch gets official
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:Apple unveils new iPod touch, "fat" iPod nano at special event
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Macenstein:Apple announces new gear; Screws early adopters
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:Will 2007 be like 1984? — I followed the Apple event …
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Apple:Apple Sets iPhone Price at $399 for this Holiday Season
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
10 Future Web Trends — We're well into the current era of the Web, commonly referred to as Web 2.0. Features of this phase of the Web include search, social networks, online media (music, video, etc), content aggregation and syndication (RSS), mashups (APIs), and much more.
David Pogue / New York Times:
High-Speed Video Store in the Living Room — If you had to make a master list of all the world's problems, "limited access to movies" probably wouldn't appear until page 273,996. — Truth is, life is teeming with opportunities to see movies: movie theaters, video stores, DVD-by-mail services …
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Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Apple screwed you: So now what? — The $200 price drop isn't going over well with readers. So here are a few TUAW tips for how to handle this situation: — Returns. If you're within the first 14 days of purchase, you're golden. Go back to the store and raise hell.
Windows Live Wire:
Test drive the new Windows Live suite — You've probably already read about some changes we're making to Windows Live, and have seen some of your services change over the past few weeks. Starting now, you can test out the new suite of Windows Live software at http://get.live.com/wl/all.
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Spreadsheets Lets You Import Online Data — Google Spreadsheets wins the prize for the coolest new features launched this summer in Google's web applications. — The magical autofill lets you type the first elements from a series, select them, drag the fill handle (a small blue square) …
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Are Books Passé? Web Giants Envision the Next Chapter — Technology evangelists have predicted the emergence of electronic books for as long as they have envisioned flying cars and video phones. It is an idea that has never caught on with mainstream book buyers.
Todd Haselton / Ars Technica:
Microsoft's LucidTouch: a multi-touch display with pseudo-transparency — From Apple's iPhone to Microsoft's Surface, multi-touch user interfaces are becoming all the rage. The only trouble is that our fingers are both a tool and a hindrance; whatever we're interacting with on the display …
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Mihai Parparita / Official Google Reader Blog:
"We found it!" — Here's a search box: — Search in Reader — Doesn't seem all that special, does it? Most Google sites have it. But let's look at where it is: — That's right, search is finally in Google Reader. Now you can find that that apricot recipe you came across a few months ago and now have a craving for.
Michael Larabel / Phoronix:
ATI Radeon HD 2900XT Linux Performance — Scan Computer for Driver Updates. — Back when the Radeon X1000 "R500" series support finally arrived for Linux, it came six months after the hardware was actually launched and the Linux performance was down the drain.
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Bonnie Cha / CNET News.com:
HP introduces big-and-brawny iPaq 610 and iPaq 910 smart phones — In addition to several other mobile product announcements today, HP showed off two new smart phones, and they're not for the faint of heart. — First, there's the HP iPaq 610 Business Navigator, a quad-band mobile with support …
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
HP announces the Blackbird 002 gaming machine — We'd heard it was coming Monday, but HP apparently decided to wait until today (because nothing else was going on, obviously) to launch its Blackbird 002 gaming rig. While HP still hasn't told us exactly what you'll be getting for that $2500 …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
FEC Determines That Blogs Count As Media — In two determinations handed down yesterday, the US Federal Election Commission (FEC) found that political blogs and bloggers are media for the purposes of US Electoral Law. — The first case was a complaint against the well known left wing blog The Daily Kos.
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