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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.
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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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Steve Jobs / Apple:
To all iPhone customers: — I have received hundreds of emails from iPhone customers who are upset about Apple dropping the price of iPhone by $200 two months after it went on sale. After reading every one of these emails, I have some observations and conclusions.
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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 …
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.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: Screen Shots And Feature Overview of Delicious 2.0 Preview — Social bookmarking site Delicious launched a limited, invite-only preview of version 2.0 of the service this afternoon. The new site can be accessed at preview.delicious.com, although only invited users can actually get in.
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:Delicious Preview - Next Gen Search For Yahoo?
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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 …
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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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 …
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.
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
Welcome back to TechCrunch UK & Ireland — Well, we're cranking up the blogging engine here again. My name is Mike Butcher and some readers may know me from a while back when I helped launch this site for the first time late last year. I'm delighted to say that - following a hiatus …
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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Business Week:
Amazon Does Downloads, Sort Of — Why its push into digital delivery of books, movies, and music seems halfhearted — Shoppers looking to buy Dean Koontz's alien invasion novel The Taking on Amazon.com (AMZN ) see it offered as a new or used paperback. But they're given no clue …
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US Department of Justice:
Department of Justice Comments on "Network Neutrality" in Federal Communications Commission Proceeding — Antitrust Division Says Regulatory Proposals Could Limit Consumer Choice and Deter Network Investment — WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice cautioned against imposing regulations …
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John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Cell phones can trigger medical equipment failure, problem could get worse — As people become increasingly comfortable with the use of cellphones, they're beginning to chafe at the remaining restrictions on their use (as anyone who has boarded an airplane recently can attest).
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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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