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Decryption / MacTalk News:
What's in the Box? The 3G iPhone Lands Down Under — What's in the Box? — The 3G iPhone Lands Down Under? — Late yesterday afternoon MacTalk received the above photo from a very reliable source who can not be named for obvious reasons (fear of assassination by the Apple Secret Police I presume).
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Forbes, Unwired View, Texas Startup Blog, VentureBeat, I4U News, InformationWeek Weblog, iLounge and Apple 2.0
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Yahoo!:
Yahoo! Inc. Statement on Carl Icahn's Letter of June 6, 2008 — SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jun 06, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today issued the following response to Carl Icahn in response to his letter dated June 6, 2008:
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Carl C. Icahn / Wall Street Journal:Icahn Letter to Yahoo Chairman
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CNET News.com, InfoWorld, Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch, Deal Journal and Google Watch
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:Carl Icahn lays out 5-point game plan for Yahoo
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The Register, Coop's Corner, DealBook, Between the Lines, paidContent.org, WebProNews, Pulse 2.0, eWeek, Search Engine Watch Blog, Electronista, Forbes and Mashable!
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Amazon suffers U.S. outage on Friday — Amazon.com has been inaccessible to many U.S. visitors since at least 10:30 a.m. PDT on Friday. — “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable” was the message that appeared when Amazon customers across the country attempted to log on.
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple pushing iPhone developers to charge for would-be free apps — Developers wishing to release software applications for the iPhone and iPod touch for free are being encouraged by Apple to charge a fee instead, AppleInsider has learned. — People familiar with the iPhone Developer Program initiated …
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
The Evolution of Pre-Launch Gmail In Screenshots — When visiting Google yesterday for the unveiling of Gmail Labs, product manager Keith Coleman took us on a tour of the Googleplex's Building 47. — Along the way, we saw Googlers hard at work on Gmail, Reader, Calendar, and other related projects.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Bits, Bands and Books — Do you remember what it was like back in the old days when we had a New Economy? In the 1990s, jobs were abundant, oil was cheap and information technology was about to change everything. — Then the technology bubble popped. Many highly touted New Economy companies …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Ballmer Tells the Washington Post That Print is Toast — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sat down for lunch with editors and reporters at the Washington Post and told them print will be dead in ten years: … I just hope the Post's Website will still be around because it is a great distribution partner for TechCrunch.
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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
A proposal for Twitter: Shut it down — As I write this, Amazon.com, like Twitter, is offline. Amazon's outage is the big news Friday morning. But what of Twitter? — I used to love Twitter. But the site's pogo status—it's up! it's down! it's up again!—is driving me away.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Hey Firefox - Let Us Pick Our Own Search Engine! — So Firefox 3 has a new release candidate making news, suggesting that the browser is nearly done. May I suggest that the browser is nowhere near being done until the Mozilla Foundation drops its favoritism to Google and allow users to pick their own default search engine?
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
Windows Mobile's Good, Bad and Ugly — Linux-based mobile operating shipments declined 477,440 units during first quarter 2008 from the same time period a year earlier, according to Gartner. Additionally, mobile Linux OS market share receded a stunning 4.5 percent.
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Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
R.I.P. SanDisk's TakeTV, Fanfare Shut Down — TakeTV, we hardly knew ye. Unveiled just last October, SanDisk's USB PC-to-TV video device along with Fanfare, its accompanying content portal, were both shut down on May 15th, a SanDisk spokesperson has confirmed.
Emil Protalinski / One Microsoft Way:
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 arrives on time, available now (Updated) — As promised by Bill Gates earlier this week, Microsoft has now released Silverlight 2 Beta 2 as a 4.66MB download. The Silverlight homepage does not yet have the new download links, but as things change (like the Mac installer being posted), this post will be updated.
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Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Intel Facing Antitrust Investigation — WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation of Intel, the world's largest maker of computer microprocessors, for anticompetitive conduct, government officials and lawyers involved in the proceeding said Friday.
1938 Media:
1938 Media And c|net Announcement — Yeah, I know it's crazy. Live in a few weeks. — UPDATE: To reiterate what I say on the video for the apparent dopes out there. — We were not acquired by cnet. — I will be writing a column there and 1938 Media will produce 1 video a week for them.
Brooke Crothers / CNET News.com:
Nvidia, AMD vie with Intel over USB 3.0 — AMD and Nvidia aim to wrest control of a crucial PC specification from Intel, arguing that the chip giant is trying to box them out as they move to a new era of faster peripherals. — In play is the USB 3.0 specification, a next-generation high-speed connection standard due in 2009.
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
YouTube Set to Dominate the Boob Tube — Dominance perpetuates itself, and that adage looks like it will hold true for YouTube as the company positions itself to be the 800-pound gorilla of short-form video on your TV as well. — YouTube is spreading itself all over the set-top world …
Danieleran / Roughly Drafted:
WWDC 2008: Moscone West Spy Shots! — Daniel Eran Dilger — We sent spies to Moscone West to capture the secret banners being erected for WWDC. Here's what they brought back after being chased down the block by security. Yes we're exaggerating slightly, but only for dramatic effect.
