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Cory Bohon / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Rumor: Mac OS X 10.6 to debut at WWDC 08? — TUAW has received some information that suggests Apple may be working to seed developers with an early build of Mac OS X 10.6 at this year's WWDC. 10.6 will not include any new significant features from 10.5; instead, Apple is focusing solely on “stability and security.”
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:Apple set to serve up first builds of Mac OS X 10.5.4
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Arn / MacRumors:Mac OS X 10.6 to Debut at WWDC 2008? Ship in January 2009?
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Wall Street Journal:
Icahn Steps Up Yahoo Attack, Seeks Yang's Ouster as CEO — Investor Carl Icahn is stepping up his rhetoric against Yahoo Inc., accusing the Internet company's chief executive officer, Jerry Yang, and its board of being disingenuous about their willingness to consider Microsoft Corp.'s acquisition offer …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
How Big Is The Potential Market For the Apple iPhone? — At the Apple (AAPL) Worldwide Developers Conference coming up next week, CEO Steve Jobs is widely expected to unveil a new 3G version of the iPhone. Meanwhile, in the last few weeks, a number of carriers have announced deals to sell the phone …
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Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Third-party iPhone applications to arrive Monday — Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the App Store in March, and third-party applications delivered through the store should arrive Monday. — (Credit: Corinne Schulze/CNET Networks) — The era of officially sanctioned iPhone applications should kick off on Monday.
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Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:All-encompassing iPhone patent filing hints at GPS, video chat
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Tom Conrad / Pandora:
From the lab: Pandora Desktop Beta — We've always wanted to find a simple way to deliver Pandora as a desktop application — it's probably been on our to do list longer than any single feature. Today we're dipping our toe into those waters for the first time with the release of a Beta version of Pandora Desktop.
Microsoft:
Bill Gates: Tech-Ed 2008 — Developers — Remarks by Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft — BILL GATES: Good morning and welcome to Tech-Ed. — This is the first year that we broke Tech-Ed into two sections, the section this week, which is just for developers, and a section next week, which is focused on IT.
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Leigh McMullen / Cult of Mac:
Tutorial: How to Sell your iPhone Online — It's iPhone upgrade season. With the deluge of iPhone 3G rumors convincing just about everyone that now might be a good time to dump the old phone, in anticipation of getting one of the new models, here's a tutorial to help you sell your iPhone safely, and get the best price.
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Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:Trouble at eBay — “I think [fixed prices] will disappear online …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
YouTube's Head of Monetization Quits, Joins Cooliris — Google's senior executive exodus continues. YouTube's head of monetization, Shashi Seth, has now left the company to become the chief revenue officer of Menlo Park, Calif.-based startup Cooliris. In his new job at the startup …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Start-Up Releases Smaller Version of Flip Camcorder — SAN FRANCISCO — In the last year, Pure Digital, a small San Francisco start-up, has shown the world's consumer electronics companies how to build a camcorder that regular people actually use. — It has sold nearly one million units …
Joseph Menn / latimesblogs.latimes.com:
Shawn Fanning sells third brainchild to EA — Shawn Fanning, best known as the founder of pioneering file-sharing service Napster, has finally earned some money. — Electronic Arts said tonight it had acquired his latest company, ThreeSF, and its video-game service Rupture.
Eric Auchard / Reuters:
U.S. Internet will shrink to 2 strong players: report — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An Internet analyst for a major Wall Street firm argues in a new report that Google Inc and Amazon.com Inc will be long-term winners, while Yahoo and IAC InterActiveCorp fall by the wayside and eBay Inc becomes a merger target.
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan private pics exposed by Yahoo hack — Want to see Paris Hilton's MySpace profile? How about Lindsay Lohan's? Don't worry about those pesky privacy settings. Thanks to “data portability,” a faddish technology movement that the Valley has been buzzing about for months …
Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley's blog:
Starbucks Wi-Fi: It's not completely free — I'm among the jillions of people who are glad that Starbucks is finally offering “free” wireless access in its stores. As I said before, it's about time. — But you may want to think carefully before rushing in to log on ...
Nicole Maestri / eWeek:
Wal-Mart Pushing Blu-ray Players — With the HD DVD format war settled, Wal-Mart Stores is now aggressively promoting sales of Blu-ray players. — NEW YORK (Reuters) - With the high definition DVD format war settled, Wal-Mart Stores Inc is now aggressively promoting sales of Blu-ray players.
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Arne Hess / the::unwired:
UTILITY: Microsoft releases Windows SideShow for Windows Mobile Development Beta [UPDATE] — Finally, after some 3rd party developers released some Windows Mobile compatible SideShow drivers, also Microsoft gives SideShow some love by releasing Windows SideShow for Windows Mobile.
Brian Bergstein / Associated Press:
Grandfather builds Web browser for autistic boy — John LeSieur is in the software business, so he took particular interest when computers seemed mostly useless to his 6-year-old grandson, Zackary. The boy has autism, and the whirlwind of options presented by PCs so confounded him that he threw the mouse in frustration.
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Adify exec: Social networks eating away at CPM value — NEW YORK—Some have said that because of the wealth of personal information they store, social networks are the future of online advertising. Russ Fradin, co-founder and president of Adify, disagrees.
