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Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Apple files for universal iPhone instant messaging patent — Apple has set the groundwork for instant messaging on the iPhone and other touchscreen devices with an application for a patent on a universal interface for real-time text chat services. — Published in March …
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SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT joins Nokia Comes With Music — Music bundle on Nokia devices to include SONY BMG content — London, United Kingdom / Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced that SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT has officially joined Nokia Comes With Music, a revolutionary …
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Music Almighty: Nokia unveils two new XpressMusic devices — Nokia, Espoo - Nokia today introduced two new music-enabled devices as additions to its XpressMusic range. The new Nokia 5320 XpressMusic and Nokia 5220 XpressMusic offer a range of affordable music and entertainment experiences …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Twitter May Not Have To Care About Uptime Any Longer — We used to speculate that Twitter's persistent downtime and overall poor service quality could result in a Friendster-type nose dive. But after a three day weekend outage I realized that in the last two months a subtle shift occured …
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Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:
Eee! A New Cellphone! — These are topsy-turvy times for electronics makers. — Since the Eee PC burst onto the world's electronics scene last fall, the $400 nearly palm-sized laptop has been a phenomenon. Its Taiwan-based manufacturer, ASUS, says it has shipped 1 million units worldwide through …
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Business Wire:
AT&T Ramps Revenue Growth, Delivers Strong First-Quarter Results — $0.57 reported earnings per diluted share, up 26.7 percent versus $0.45 in the year-earlier first quarter — $0.74 adjusted earnings per diluted share, up 13.8 percent from $0.65 in the first quarter of 2007
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
AT&T first quarter on target; Wireless data access revenue strong — AT&T said Tuesday that it ended the first quarter with 71.4 million wireless subscribers and a retail churn of 1.2 percent. — The telecommunications giant detailed its wireless stats on its first quarter earnings report (statement).
Rob Crumpler / BuzzBlog:
BuzzLogic Aquires ActiveWeave — Today is another big day at BuzzLogic. We officially announced the exciting news that we have acquired the assets of Activeweave - the customers, technology, and incredible minds of Marc Meyer, now BuzzLogic's SVP of Products, and Jean Sini, BuzzLogic's new CTO.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:BlogRovr Acquisition by BuzzLogic Calls Data Portability Into Question
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft finally takes the beta tag off its Salesforce competitor — For the past couple of years, Microsoft has been crowing about its hosted CRM service that competes head-to-head with services from Salesforce.com. It wasn't until today, April 22, however, that Microsoft's offering in this space became generally available.
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Daniel Terdiman / Webware.com:
Dilbert.com relaunches with Web 2.0 flavor — Dilbert.com has relaunched and now allows readers to write their own punch lines for strips, as well as a series of other new features. — (Credit: United Media/Scott Adams) — Update: I've added some comments from Scott Adams that came in by email after this posted.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Upcoming.org Founder Creates Fireball (Fire Eagle + DodgeBall + Twitter) — Remember DodgeBall, the early social mobile network that languished after Google bought it? So does Leonard Lin, a founding member of Upcoming.org who recently left Yahoo, where he organized Hack Days.
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Paul J. Gough / Reuters:
NBC has news for MySpace — NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC News and MSNBC.com will provide political news and other content to social networking site MySpace. — Terms of the deal weren't announced Monday. But NBC, MSNBC and MSNBC.com's text and video will populate the “Decision '08” …
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The Technium:
The Reality of Depending on True Fans — I have been researching new business models for artists working in the low end of the long tail. How can one make a living in a micro-niche? Is it even possible, particularly in this realm of no-cost copies? I proposed the idea …
Betsy Schiffman / Epicenter:
Web 2.0 Expo Preview: Torture by Information Overload — Now that the first burst of enthusiasm for social networking has died, people are realizing that web 2.0 is actually a huge time sink. — Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Plaxo may have helped foster community and communication …
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Oosah: A Hub for Your Personal Online Media — Oosah is a self-described “media management system” with a simple-sounding intention: to serve as a one-stop shop for managing all of your online video, image, and audio files. This idea doesn't make a whole lot of sense in isolation …
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Stephen Shankland / Underexposed:
Photobucket shares interface, matches Flickr — Photobucket, is making a significant change aimed to weave the widely used photo-sharing site more tightly into the Web 2.0 fabric. — The company is releasing an application programming interface (API) for its site, said Chief Executive Alex Welch.
