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Andy Space / 9 to 5 Mac:
Rogers Telecom confirms it will offer iPhone in Canada — Apple will introduce the iPhone in Canada later this year, working with Rogers Telecom to bring the device to the country. — This news has been confirmed this morning in a short statement from the Canadian network operator.
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Chris Sorensen / Toronto Star:
Apple's popular iPhone coming to Canada — Rogers Communications offers no details about launch date, or pricing — The wait appears to finally be over for Canadians eager to get their hands on the popular iPhone. — Nearly 10 months after the gadget was first unveiled to U.S. consumers …
Canada NewsWire Group:
Rogers Issues Statement on the Apple iPhone — TORONTO, April 29 /CNW/ - Ted Rogers, President and Chief Executive Officer of Rogers Communications Inc. today issued the following statement: — We're thrilled to announce that we have a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to Canada later this year.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
iPhone coming to Canada; 7.4 million subscribers available — Updated: Rogers Communications said Tuesday that it has a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to Canada. — In a terse announcement, Rogers, the largest wireless provider in Canada, made the announcement and said little else.
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Alec Saunders SquawkBox:
Interview with JAJAH's Daniel Mattes on the eve of their deal with Yahoo! — Thought JAJAH was old news? Think again. Having attracted a whopping 10 million users in the last two years, up from 2 million just last year, they're now expanding their business in dramatically new directions with the launch of JAJAH Managed Services.
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Mashable!, VoIP Watch, Pat Phelan, Disruptive Telephony, GigaOM, TechCrunch, The PhoneBoy Blog, Susan Mernit's Blog and WebGuild
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Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
Yahoo to outsource Messenger phone calls to Jajah — NEW YORK - Yahoo Inc. is outsourcing the Internet telephone functions of its instant messaging program to the startup Jajah. — Jajah will connect the calls to and from users of Yahoo Messenger and handle billing and customer care, the startup said Tuesday.
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Online Ad Network Adify Sold To Cox For $300 Million Plus Earnout — Adify, the white-label online ad network, has been sold to an unlikely buyer, Cox [Communications] Enterprises, for about $300 million and earn out, we have learned and confirmed from sources.
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Cox Buys Ad Network Adify For $300M — Heard through the electronic grapevine and haven't been able to confirm: Cox Enterprises, the privately-held parent of Cox Newspapers and Cox Communications, is buying Adify, one of few remaining online ad networks of significant scale. Supposed Purchase price: $300 million.
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VentureBeat, Washington Post, ContextWeb Internet …, Valleywag, TechCrunch, Mashable!, RyanSpoon.com and Beet.TV
Anick Jesdanun / Associated Press:Media co. Cox eyes online ad growth, buys startup for $300M
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John Leyden / The Register:
Spyware targets frustrated GTA IV gamers — Drive-by spam attacks blight carjack game launch — Gamers desperate to get their mitts on Grand Theft Auto IV are being targeted in an opportunistic spyware scam. Spam emails offer prospective marks free entry to a draw offering a PlayStation 3 loaded …
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:For Gamers, the Craving Won't Quit
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Tech Trader Daily, Techland, Geek Gestalt, AppScout, CrunchGear, Crave, New York Times and Digg
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Video: OQO hacked to run Leopard, now world's smallest Mac — While greeted with heaps of initial skepticism, forum jockeys over at OQO Talk now seem convinced that a junior member by the name of TRF has successfully hacked the OQO to run OS X Leopard. Adding a video filmed by Mr. Blurry Cam didn't hurt the cause.
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9 to 5 Mac, Gizmodo, Boing Boing Gadgets, CrunchGear, Gadget Lab, Electronista, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, PalmAddicts and TG Daily
Chris Morrison / VentureBeat:
Wigix wants to kill eBay — Ever gone to eBay in search of something — an iPod, say — and had to comb through an endless array of half-literate, confusing and possibly inaccurate listings? — Or perhaps you're a seller on eBay, and angry at its policies?
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Blackberry 9000 Already for Sale, Sorta Kinda — The Blackberry 9000 isn't due out till July or August, but a pair of distributor pre-release models have already hit eBay and been purchased by two anonymous buyers. Remarkable not only for the legit-looking set of new pics confirming HSDPA and the 4.X OS …
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Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Silicon Alley Insider creates start-up valuation index — How much is Facebook, Wikipedia, or Twitter worth? Silicon Alley Insider is attempting to crack the mysterious code on the valuations of the major Web start-ups with its SAI 25 Live! It tracks the valuation of the private companies …
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Michelle Labrosse / New York Times:
When Your Laptop's Flight Is More Interesting Than Yours — I RUN my global project management business virtually. So my backpack contains everything I need for work: my iPhone, G.P.S. locator, emergency snacks and, of course, my laptop, my link to the world and my business.
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BBC:
Drowning in data — There is no doubt that video is big on the net. But is it getting too big? — Ask AT&T and it will answer - yes. — Speaking in London in late April, Jim Cicconi, AT&T's vide president of legal affairs, said the burgeoning amount of video would consume all the net's bandwidth in two years.
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Pixar Backdating Scandal Reverberates At Google (GOOG) — Remember the big backdating scandal of, um, 2005 and 2006? It hasn't gone away. And it's touching companies that have so far remained unscathed: Today Google disclosed that board member Ann Mather is about to face civil charges …
Brandon Hill / DailyTech:
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Now Available — SP3 is finally available for download. — Last week, DailyTech reported that Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Windows XP was released to manufacturing (RTM). At the time, Microsoft's Chris Keroack noted that consumers should expect to get their hands on the update April 29.
