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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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Michael Gartenberg / JupiterResearch:The importance of AAPL's event on Monday isn't a new iPhone
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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, Apple Gazette and Apple 2.0
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
3G iPhone firmware leaked: tri-band HSDPA and GPS are go — It's easy to take for granted the 3G iPhone's launch at this point. After all, Steve said it was “coming later this year,” as did a number of prominent mobile executives. And then there's been the barrage of carrier announcements …
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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InfoWorld, CNET News.com, Silicon Alley Insider, Deal Journal, TechCrunch, Google Watch and Techland
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:Carl Icahn lays out 5-point game plan for Yahoo
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Coop's Corner, DealBook, WebProNews, The Register, Pulse 2.0, Forbes, Between the Lines, paidContent.org, Search Engine Watch Blog, Electronista, eWeek, Mashable!, Valleywag and TG Daily
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.
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Warner Music (WMG) Pulls Out Of Last.fm (CBS) — Warner Music Group (WMG) has pulled its catalog out of Last.fm's “on demand” free streaming service, which the CBS-owned service launched to great fanfare in January. Users can still hear Warner artists via the site's “radio” option, which doesn't allow you to select individual songs.
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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.
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Internet Week New York: Men in expensive suits and women in, um, very little — NEW YORK—Thus far, my experience with the Internet Week New York party scene has one of dichotomies. On Wednesday I went from a lively dance floor to a room full of awkward male Kevin Rose groupies.
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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HipMojo.com, Incremental Blogger, GMSV, PSFK, Engadget, WebGuild, Paul McNamara's blog, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog and GottaBeMobile
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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.
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.
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 …
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.
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?
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.
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.
