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Scott Moritz / Techland:
AT&T to cut the price of Apple's new iPhone — AT&T (T) is planning to put some extra shine on the even sleeker new Apple (AAPL) iPhone. — When the 3G iPhone is introduced this summer, AT&T, the exclusive U.S. iPhone sales partner with Apple, will cut the price by as much as $200, according to a person familiar with the strategy.
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
The $199 iPhone? Something's Missing from the Picture — Fortune reports that AT&T is preparing to offer a $200 subsidy for buyers of the next-generation iPhone, widely expected to be introduced this summer. It writes that since the new, presumably faster models will start …
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Boom! 3G iPhone. One more thing: $199 — Apple chief executive Steve Jobs likes to wow the crowd during his keynote addresses with his “boom!” moments and then saves the best for the end with: “One more thing...” This summer, potentially at the WWDC conference, he may have two perfect candidates.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
End Of Speculation: The Real Twitter Usage Numbers — Speculation about Twitter's new round of financing is leading everyone to speculate on Twitter's actual penetration into the “mainstream,” or lack thereof. — Hitwise says web visits have increased 8x in the last year, albeit from a minuscule base.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:Hitwise: Twitter traffic is, in fact, going up (but still not big) [Updated]
Ashley Phillips / ABCNEWS:The Revolution Will Be Twittered — From Bloggers to Corporations, Everyone Is ‘Tweeting’
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
XP SP3 not generally available yet, after all — Microsoft has decided not to release Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3 to Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center as planned on April 29. The reason? A last-minute compatibility issue with a Microsoft application — Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS).
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Ready To Rumble: Here's Who Microsoft Will Bring To a Hostile Fight Over Yahoo — Microsoft does not like to be rushed. Everyone is waiting for its next move, now that the deadline it set for Yahoo to accept its takeover bid expired last Saturday. And everyone can keep waiting.
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Benjamin J. Romano / The Seattle Times:
Microsoft device helps police pluck evidence from cyberscene of crime — Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that may have been used in crimes. — The COFEE, which stands for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor …
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Ars Technica, Ed Bott's Microsoft Report, CrunchGear, Engadget, Tech Tracks, Valleywag, Gizmodo, gHacks technology news, TomsTechBlog.com and Slashdot
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The Jeff Pulver Blog:
What I look for in Startups — During the past ten years, what I look for in a startup has changed. — These days I no longer actively look for an opportunity to participate in the “A” round or “B” round of a startup, although I still do that from time to time.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Judge deals another blow to RIAA's making available theory — One of the pillars of the RIAA's legal campaign has been its assertion that making a file available for download equates to copyright infringement under the copyright act. There have only been a couple of decisions addressing the question so far.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Oh. My. God. Marvel Moves To Shut Down Our Iron Man Screening — We're not canceling the Iron Man event yet, stay posted until we hear more. — Just to be clear, we paid the full ticket price for every seat and are fully authorized to do this. This is unbelievable and stupid in so many ways …
Apple:
Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 adds support for Java SE 6 — This update provides Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_05. — This release does not change the default version of Java. This release is only for Mac OS X v10.5.2 and later, and should not be installed on earlier versions of Mac OS X …
Daniel Terdiman / Geek Gestalt:
‘EA Land’ closing just weeks after debut — Earlier this month, I wrote that Electronic Arts had made an announcement to members of its long-running but poorly received virtual world, The Sims Online, that it was re-branding the service as EA Land. — On Tuesday, however …
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Record labels fund music discovery site MOG [Updated] — Some of the early music discovery startups, like Imeem, Pandora, Last.fm and iLike, now have many millions of people using their services every month. MOG, a standalone desktop music player and music fan site perhaps most similar …
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Lenovo Parodies MacBook Air Ad For X300 — Most parody videos are lame in the sense that they take one joke and stretch it to 60 seconds, but Lenovo's one joke actually works when properly executed. Not to spoil anything, but it's a send-up of the MacBook Air in favor of Lenovo's own X300.
Daniel Terdiman / Geek Gestalt:
‘GTA IV’ poised to break entertainment sales record — ‘Grand Theft Auto IV’ could break the all-time entertainment industry record for first-day sales. That record is currently held by ‘Halo 3,’ which earned $170 million in its first day last September. — If you're an executive …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
As Broadband Growth Slows, Expect Speed Boosts — The demand for broadband in the U.S., after growing at an explosive rate for almost two years, has started to slow, largely due to high market penetration rates and a struggling economy. UBS Research forecasts that the number …
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Yep It's Coming... AdSense in RSS Feeds — Late last week, Steve from FeedBurner (owned by Google) posted an entry explaining that you will soon be able to login to your FeedBurner account using your Google account. This isn't really that exciting but it does mean that Google can now tie even more together.
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Mashable!, Google Operating System, The Last Podcast, Changing Way, The Blog Herald and Digital Inspiration
Thomas J. Bray / Wall Street Journal:
Special Committee's Statement — The Special Committee, established to oversee and enforce compliance with the terms of an agreement between News Corp. and Dow Jones & Co., has had numerous queries in the wake of the resignation of Marcus Brauchli as managing editor of The Wall Street Journal.
