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Josef Adalian / Variety:
Apple seeks TV price cut — Download costs could be chopped in half — Apple is mulling a plan to cut the price of TV show downloads in half — an idea that's not going over too well in Hollywood. — According to three people familiar with the proposal, Apple has told networks and studios …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple: The iPhone-Price-Cut Slide Continues; Cumulative Mkt Cap Hit Tops $11 Billion — Apple's (AAPL) decision to cut the price of the of the 8 GB iPhone by $200 is proving to be a costly one - at least to the stock's market cap. — Apple shares are down again today, extending the slide into a third day.
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Tom Drapeau / The Netscape Blog:
Upcoming Netscape changes — › tags: Community, Netscape, Portal, Social News, SocialNews — To the Netscape Community... There are some upcoming changes to the Netscape.com site that we hope will improve your experience. We'll be providing two different news options for you based …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Netscape Digg Clone Is Kaput — We've known about it for weeks (despite Netscape's claims that our post was innacurate), but now it's confirmed: AOL has announced the end of Netscape as a social news portal. — In a statement, Tom Drapeau spun the decision as being AOL listening …
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
The Puppet Master — I have never before quoted myself at length in a column, but this week's Apple iPhone pricing fiasco calls for it, so here is the beginning of a column I wrote back in January 2002: — In 1999, I was commissioned by Vanity Fair magazine to write a story about the relationship between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
Brian Steinberg / AdAge:
'The Long Tail Is Just Not That Long' — Q&A: Starcom's Emerging Video Guru Tracey Scheppach — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Tracey Scheppach's job is, simply, to help advertisers find new methods to hawk their wares on TV. But deciding on those methods is far from simple.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Delicious Preview - Next Gen Search For Yahoo? — A new version of Delicious (sans dots) was released as a private preview today. I got an invite and have been poking around. Techcrunch got the exclusive on the story, so they have a full review up. But in my initial quick tests, a couple of features immediately stood out for me.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Exclusive: Screen Shots And Feature Overview of Delicious 2.0 Preview
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Ben Hardwidge / Custom PC:
HP Blackbird 'kicks the living crap out of Dell XPS' - read the HP interview — We talk to Rahul Sood and Mark Budgell from HP about the company's new water-cooled gaming PC — The first piece of design to come out of HP's acquisition of Voodoo has finally been unveiled …
Jnack / John Nack on Adobe:
"Photoshop Express" RIA sneak-peeked today — Today the crowd at Photoshop World got a quick preview of Photoshop Express, a new application currently in development at Adobe. First hinted at by Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen some six months ago, Photoshop Express isn't meant to duplicate/replace Photoshop CS3 or Photoshop Elements.
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New York Times:
IPhone Owners Crying Foul Over Price Cut — In June, they were calling it the God Phone. Yesterday, it was the Chump Phone. — People who had rushed to buy the Apple iPhone over the last two months suddenly and embarrassingly found that they had overpaid by $200 for the year's most coveted gadget.
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Reuters:
Microsoft, Siemens to develop in-car infotainment — Microsoft and Siemens will join forces to develop in-car entertainment and navigation products that should make it easier for consumers to connect devices such mobile phones and music players. — The two companies said on Friday …
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee / InformationWeek:
Web Sites Sued Over Patents On Configuring Products — The suit against several large automotive and apparel companies says they are infringing on patents with the functions they provide customers on their Web sites. — A Wisconsin based limited liability corporation has filed a suit …
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Multiply, social networking for 30-somethings, raises $16.6M — Multiply, a social network aimed at 30-somethings, has just announced additional venture funding of $16.6 million — The Boca Raton, Florida-based Multiply struggled after launching in late 2003.
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Matt Richtel / International Herald Tribune:Social networking sites take notice of seniors
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Kim Hart / Washington Post:
Shutting Down Big Downloaders — Comcast Cuts Internet Service to Bandwidth Hogs — The rapid growth of online videos, music and games has created a new Internet sin: using it too much. — Comcast has punished some transgressors by cutting off their Internet service arguing …
Ben Kuchera / Opposable Thumbs:
Sony launches backwards compatibility tool for 80GB PlayStation 3 hardware — Sony has just released a tool to let you know what you can expect from the backwards capability of your PlayStation 3, whether you have the 60Gb system, or the Emotion Engine-less 80GB version.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Danah is confused by Facebook's fans — Danah Boyd writes that she's she is "utterly confused by the ways in which the tech industry fetishizes Facebook". — She asks some good questions and makes some good points. Lets go through them. My answers in italics.
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Self-Referential Google Docs Chessboard — In above chessboard, which is actually a Google Spreadsheet embedded using the advanced publishing options, the king and rook automatically switch their places around every hour (not necessarily in compliance with chess rules!).
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