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Sony Ericsson:
Sony Ericsson brings out the photographer in us all unveiling its first ever 8.1megapixel camera phone and a stylish snapshot phone — 17 June 2008 The new C905 Cyber-shot™ and S302 Snapshot camera phones from Sony Ericsson allow consumers around the world to capture and share vivid photos whatever …
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Sony Ericsson makes its move with a brand new way to experience games on your mobile — 17 June 2008 The new Sony Ericsson F305 with Motion Gaming puts ‘fun and entertainment’ at the heart of the mobile phone. In addition to horizontal gameplay and dedicated gaming controls …
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 hands on
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Mobility Site, Tech Blog, IntoMobile, Engadget, CrunchGear and Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Sue Decker's Email To Yahoo Employees On Weiner's Departure — The news is now official - Yahoo's EVP Jeff Weiner has officially bailed. President Sue Decker addresses the troops in an all hands email, below. These types of emails leak regularly, of course (I actually think companies …
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Ethan / OnoTech:
Jeff Weiner, CEO of Facebook? — It's pretty common for accomplished executive talent to join VCs in EIR positions — with the ‘E’ being either ‘Entrepreneur’ or ‘Executive’ In Residence. But this may be the first time that I've seen someone join *two* VC firms in such a role simultaneously.
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden / Making Light:
The Associated Press wants to charge you $12.50 to quote five words from them — The Associated Press, having already announced its intention to harass bloggers who publish snippets as short as 39 words from AP stories, has now published a web form through which intimidated parties can give …
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Why Saul Hansell is wrong on AP — In most cases, I'm all for a dose of rationality and common sense amid the short-attention-span Drama 2.0 that makes up much of the blogosphere. That's exactly what New York Times blogger Saul Hansell is selling in his latest post at the Bits blog …
Mark Glaser / MediaShift:AP Badly Mistaken on Drudge Retort
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Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, MediaShift Idea Lab, Bits, L.A. Times Tech Blog, n.sputnik and CenterNetworks
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Technorati Launches Blog Ad Network, Technorati Media — Blog-focused advertising networks are all the rage right now, with both Federated Media and Glam pulling down big valuation financing rounds in the last few months based very early growth metrics. Other startups, like Six Apart …
Bernard Lunn / ReadWriteWeb:
11 Search Trends That May Disrupt Google — My first post for ReadWriteWeb (nearly a year ago) started with the premise that search was “game over”, that Google had won and the only opportunity left was (re)search - i.e. what one does after the basic search.
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Ineligible AT&T Customers Need to Pay Full Price For iPhone 3G — AT&T just gave us new details on how their upgrading plans will work for the iPhone 3G. The company is treating the iPhone 3G pretty much just like any other phone in that people who are ineligible for upgrades have to pay the full, unsubsidized price for the phone.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Google easily extending dominance to mobile search market — Google managed to spank the rest of the mobile search world during the first quarter of 2008, according to data from Nielsen Mobile. The search giant managed to capture 61 percent of the mobile search market in the first four months of the year …
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Bill Ray / The Register:
Microsoft chases satnav market — Just look out the Windows for heaven's sake — Microsoft has announced a new iteration of Windows Embedded, this time targeted at satellite navigation hardware, although it sneaks in a sideshow capability to keep the Windows Vista connection alive.
Lloyd Emelle / 2pointhome.com:
How 2.0: Twittering Teddy Bear — DIY — STEPS — TIME: 2 Weeks. — Share it: - Del.icio.us - Digg - Stumble — “Lloyd, is the text-to-speech implant ready?” — Guru Alison and I performed some, uh, innovative 2.0 surgery on an old childhood friend.
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
FAQ: XP deathwatch, T minus 2 weeks — Dell spells out ‘downgrade’ systems, XP Home's retail prices continue to fall — Computerworld) Windows XP is beginning that last long walk toward retirement on June 30, with its end-of-life due date staring it — and you — in the face.
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo's Hiring Freeze, Confirmed And Explained (YHOO) — For the past few days, we've been trying to recconcile reports that Yahoo has a hiring freeze in place with reports that the company is still hiring. Now a plugged-in tipster makes sense of it for us:
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louisgray.com:
Feedly Brings New Social Experience to Start Page, Leveraging RSS — In the last two years, there have been a number of attempts at taking what's been a solitary experience of reading one's RSS feeds in isolation, and adding new social elements, sharing feeds with friends, discovering new feeds, or adding comments and notes.
