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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:
Oh. My. God. Marvel Moves To Shut Down Our Iron Man Screening — Marvel has sent us a cease and desist letter demanding that we cancel the Iron Man event tomorrow at the AMC Metreon in San Francisco. We are not canceling the event yet - stay tuned as our lawyers work this out.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 …
Electronic Arts / EA-Land Blog:
EA-Land Drawing To A Close — It is with mixed emotions that today we are announcing the EA-Land experiment will soon draw to a close. Since 2002, EA-Land / TSO has attracted a very special group of players (of which you are one) and we certainly appreciate your participation in the EA-Land community.
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Hugh D'Andrade / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
MSN Music Pulls the Plug on Customers — Last week, Microsoft announced that it was leaving the paying customers of its MSN Music store out in the cold. Rob Bennett, the head of MSN Entertainment and Video Services, told customers in an email that “[a]s of August 31, 2008 …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Relaunching Measure Map — Those of you who remember MeasureMap are long time readers of this blog. It was a blog-centered analytics service that first surfaced in August 2005. The service was created by San Francisco based Adaptive Path. The first details emerged in October 2005.
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.
Darren Waters / BBC:
Web in infancy, says Berners-Lee — The world wide web is “still in its infancy”, the web's inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has told BBC News. — He was speaking ahead of the 15th anniversary of the day the web's code was put into the public domain by Cern, the lab where the web was developed.
