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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 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?
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Frank Caron / Ars Technica:
Microsoft mounts Eastern offensive with Xbox 360 price cuts — If the game industry were a game of Risk, Microsoft would be moving its pieces towards Asia. The company has announced today a bevy of Xbox 360 price cuts in Asian regions in the hopes of securing more ground on the global gaming front.
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:For Gamers, the Craving Won't Quit
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Forbes, Geek Gestalt, Tech Trader Daily, CNET News.com, 24/7 Wall St., TG Daily, michael parekh on IT, AppScout, CrunchGear, Techland, Crave, New York Times and Digg
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
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Futuristic Play, Washington Post, Internet Marketing …, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Valleywag, RyanSpoon.com, Mashable! and Beet.TV
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.
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Yelp to businesses: Deal with our users yourselves! — Yelp, the business reviews site famed for a vociferous user base willing to be brutally honest about the quality of their local restaurants, bars, bookstores, dog groomers, adult gift shops, and what-have-you, has launched a new service …
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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.
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Hans Reiser is fscked: jury delivers guilty verdict — Hans Reiser, the software developer credited with the creating the ReiserFS filesystem, has been found guilty of first-degree murder. Jurors concluded that Reiser killed his estranged wife, who vanished suddenly in 2006.
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
New way to save energy: Disappearing ink — Think of it as the future of today's paper. — The Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and parent company Xerox are experimenting with a type of paper and a complimentary printer that would produce documents that fade away after 16 to 24 hours.
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.
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Search Engine Roundtable, Valleywag, Silicon Alley Insider, Disruptive Telephony and TECH.BLORGE.com
Merissa Marr / Wall Street Journal:
Blockbuster Is in Talks on Taking Stake in Viacom-Led TV Channel — Blockbuster Inc. is in talks about taking a stake in the new Viacom Inc.-led premium television channel that plans to compete with HBO, Showtime and Starz, according to people familiar with the situation.
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last100, Silicon Alley Insider, NewTeeVee, 24/7 Wall St., BloggingStocks, paidContent.org and MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer
The Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry 9000: Internal Spec Sheet Answers Your Questions — Enough with the speculation, the rumors, the spokespersons commenting on our blogging abilities — we're setting it all straight right here with this internal RIM doc we just got a hold of. You might be thinking that cover page above …
Chris Winfield / Search Engine Land:
Twitter Wrote This Column For Me — By now you have probably seen a bunch of talk about Twitter. And after all of this talk you might be still thinking: OK, so what the heck is Twitter really and why should I care? How is it going to help my business at the end of the day?
Steve Guttenberg / Crave: The gadget blog:
HDtracks: Why settle for iTunes now that you can get CD quality music downloads? — Even hardcore audiophiles have to face the music—brick and mortar record stores are fading fast—and it's starting to look like the CD is on its way out. Sure, no card carrying audiophile …
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Could Apple be preparing the way for Mac gaming? — Yesterday's refresh of the iMac line is interesting, not because of the bump in speed that the refresh itself offers but because of the direction that Apple is going in. Is Apple preparing the way for gaming on the Mac?
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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VoIP Watch, Mashable!, Disruptive Telephony, Pat Phelan, GigaOM, TechCrunch, The PhoneBoy Blog, Susan Mernit's Blog and WebGuild
Ken Belson / NYT:
Verizon Takes a Step Into City's TV Market — For years, New Yorkers frustrated with their cable television have dreamed of unplugging Cablevision and Time Warner Cable. The problem has always been where else to go. The two companies have been the only options in most of Manhattan …
