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John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Microsoft TouchWall can inexpensively turn any flat surface into a multi-touch display — Bill Gates will demo a new multi-touch computer and interface today called TouchWall at the Microsoft CEO Summit in Redmond. — TouchWall refers to the touch screen hardware setup itself …
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Guardian Unlimited, Full of I.T., Gizmodo, Tech Blog, News at About Projectors and GottaBeMobile
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Microsoft:
Microsoft CEO Summit 2008 Virtual Pressroom — Welcome to the virtual pressroom for Microsoft Corp.'s 12th annual CEO Summit. Established in 1997, the forum allows business leaders to discuss the most pressing issues affecting global business today. From May 13 to May 15 …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:115 CEOs Converge At Microsoft For CEO Summit
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Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, Beyond Binary, Microsoft Watch, Apple Watch, WinExtra and GottaBeMobile
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
AT&T to boost 3G speeds more than fivefold by 2009 — AT&T said Wednesday it plans to boost the speed of its 3G wireless network to speeds of 20 megabits per second in 2009, paving the way for over-the-air downloads that are more than five times faster than what customers can achieve today.
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Apple 2.0, DSLreports, Unwired View, TECH.BLORGE.com, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, dailywireless.org, Sidecut Reports, MuniWireless and Macsimum News
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Arn / MacRumors:
Intel Confirms Atom-based Larger iPhone (Mini-Tablet)? — According to ZDNet.de, Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer confirmed that Apple would be using the Intel Atom processor in a future version of the iPhone. The new model will reportedly be a larger model with a larger display …
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The Boy Genius Report:
AT&T limits iPhone purchases to one per customer — A “breaking news” bulletin was just sent out to all AT&T Retail employees today stating that they have started limiting iPhone purchases to one per customer. The email isn't exciting, but the inventory is definitely starting to dry up.
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CrunchGear, Unwired View, Tech Trader Daily, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and Just Another iPhone Blog
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Reuters:
Financier Icahn to run board slate for Yahoo: sources — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has elected to move ahead with plans to run a dissident board slate at Yahoo Inc (NasdaqGS:YHOO - News), sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Richard Wray / Guardian:
O2 hints at 3G iPhone launch date — The 3G version of the iPhone will be unveiled “in the coming weeks”, the boss of Apple's exclusive mobile phone partner in the UK and Ireland hinted today. — Speculation is rife that Apple will reveal the 3G version of the phone at its Worldwide Developers' Conference …
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Macworld:Apple's developer conference sold out
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CNET News.com, MacUser, Macsimum News, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, The Apple Blog and The Mac Observer
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:Apple's WWDC sold out for the first time in history
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AppleInsider
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
Beating Google ? — Is there anything more fun than sitting around, growing your hair, drinking a Bud while listening to Jethro Tull and pondering how to change the balance of power in the search world and unseat Google ? — Better search ? Too subjective. Better monetization ? After the fact.
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The Gong Show
Catherine Rampell / Chronicle of Higher Education:
How It Does It: The RIAA Explains How It Catches Alleged Music Pirates — To catch college students trading copyrighted songs online, the Recording Industry Association of America uses the same file-sharing software that online pirates love, an RIAA representative told The Chronicle …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Hitwise: Google Again Hits New High; Microsoft & Yahoo Again New Lows — Hitwise released the latest statistics for search engine share in the United States for April 2008. Google has again hit a new high, jumping up 0.65% from the prior month's high, to 68% of the US search market.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Confirmed: Comcast Bought Plaxo, Deal Closed Today — The rumors were accurate: Comcast will announce their acquisition of social contact list Plaxo today. Financial terms are not being disclosed, but the rumored purchase price is in the $175 million range.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Stealth Search Engine Blekko Gets Money From Marc Andreessen, SoftTech — 2008 is the year of the search engine startup. Hot on the heels of Powerset's partial launch earlier this week, stealth search engine Blekko (no logo, no website, just this and, apparently, some technology) raised a second round of financing.
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VentureBeat
Karl / DSLreports:
Canadian Regulators Deny Relief For Bell Canada Traffic Shaping - Independent ISPs and consumers out of luck for the time being... Canadian regulators have denied the request from independent Canadian ISPs for relief from Bell Canada's new traffic shaping practices.
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Susan Crawford blog
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eMarketer:
Social Networking Ad Spending Update — eMarketer has revised its US social network ad spending projections, estimating that advertisers will spend $1.4 billion to place ads on online social networks this year, down from the previous projection of $1.6 billion.
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google about to launch Flash API for Maps — Google just published a page detailing how Flash developers can now use the Google Maps ActionScript API. Unfortunately, as of right now all the samples still don't work, but based on the documentation from a guy who has never made anything in Flash, it looks pretty easy to use.
Daniel Terdiman / Geek Gestalt:
Xbox 360 hits 10 million sold in U.S. — Microsoft said on Wednesday that its Xbox 360 has become the first next-generation video game console to hit 10 million units sold in the United States. — Further, said Aaron Greenberg, director of product management for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live …
