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AddyDugdale / Gizmodo:
AT&T Memo to Retail Managers Shows iPhone 3G Policy — We knew it wouldn't be long before someone from AT&T leaked a policy memo vis-a-vis the iPhone 3G's July 11 launch. As well as all the mobile provider's pricing details from yesterday, the document contains a bit more info …
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Don Reisinger / The Digital Home:
Apple may have killed the BlackBerry — During the first hour of Steve Jobs' keynote at WWDC, I was wondering why I was wasting my afternoon listening to his stooges drone on about software. But then, in a moment of pure triumph, Steve walked onto the stage and unveiled the new 3G iPhone.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Inside the 3G iPhone Money Machine — A lot has been written about the new 3G iPhone, its price and its impact. Now it's time to shift attention to the most important question about this device: How much money will it make for Apple and its carrier partners?
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Business Technology:
Steve Jobs's Appearance Grabs Notice, Not Just the IPhone — Apple's iPhone 3G got most of the headlines on Monday after the product was announced at an Apple technical conference in San Francisco. But blogs and other Internet news sites also took note of a gaunt-looking Steve Jobs.
Dawn Chmielewski / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Disney puts movies online for free — “The Wonderful World of Disney,” the venerable prime-time TV show originally hosted by Walt Disney himself, is getting its geek on. — For the first time, Disney.com plans to stream full-length movies online. The films will air on TV …
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Business Wire:
Disney.com Breaks New Ground Streaming Full-Length Movies Online for the First Time Ever — ‘Wonderful World of Disney’ Films Will Hit the Web Following ABC Television Presentation — NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Disney.com announced today that for the first time ever the site …
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Yahoo: Severance Plan Not ‘Nuts’; Not Easily Revoked; And It Wouldn't Cost Microsoft $2.4 Billion — Following the latest twist in the shareholder lawsuit against Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), and Carl Icahn's continued jabs, Yahoo has filed an FAQ with the SEC, detailing everything you wanted …
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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:Yahoo facing possible trial before Icahn showdown
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John Markoff / Bits:
Apple in Parallel: Turning the PC World Upside Down? — At the outset of his presentation at the opening session of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, Steve Jobs showed a slide of a stool with three legs to describe the company's businesses: Macintosh, music and the iPhone.
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Result Offers You to “Skip Intro” — Oh, sweet. You know when you look for some company homepage to get their support email address or something, and then the page will start with a super great 3D animation that will take a minute to load... before you can actually find the info you wanted?
Declan McCullagh / The Iconoclast:
N.Y. attorney general forces ISPs to curb Usenet access — New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced on Tuesday that Verizon Communications, Time Warner Cable, and Sprint would “shut down major sources of online child pornography.” — What Cuomo didn't say is that his agreement …
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Jiajun Zhu / Google LatLong:
Street View turns 1, keeps on growing — To celebrate Street View's one year birthday, I am very happy to announce we are bringing Street View to 37 (you heard me - 37!) new areas and we have expanded coverage in 15 of our existing areas. All in all, this effectively doubles our coverage.
Heej Hwang / The Official Google Blog:
A new flavor of Google Trends — The latest version of Google Trends is now live! If you've used it in the past, you know that Google Trends can be used to see how popular certain search terms are across geographic regions, cities, and languages. With our latest update …
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Clint Ecker / Infinite Loop:
Ars at WWDC: Exclusive preview of mobile NetNewsWire — After yesterday's exhibition of iPhone third-party applications developed primarily by companies who had never programmed for the Mac before, we here at Ars were champing at the bit to get a peek at a few applications written by grizzled Mac veterans and see how they stacked up.
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Record Store Owner Calls People Who Pay To Download ‘Idiots’ — from the well,-that-might-be-a-bit-much dept — You would think that record store owners might be the folks most upset about the changing music landscape these days. And, indeed, we've seen the “big players” like Tower Records and Warehouse Music go out of business.
Duncan Riley / The Inquisitr:
Stealth Startup Glassdoor.com Launches: Employment Conditions — Sausalito, CA based stealth startup Glassdoor.com, the subject of months of speculation has launched and offers an employment conditions service. — Glassdoor.com has impeccable backing, with CEO and Founder Robert Hohman previously …
Leonard David / USA Today:
Virgin Galactic will roll out mega-mothership — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rollout of Scaled Composites' mega-mothership, WhiteKnightTwo, is anticipated late July in Mojave, California — the first phase of a project to create a private space travel business — SPACE.com has learned in an exclusive interview.
