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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
‘Unprecedented Pent-Up Demand’ For Apple iPhone 3G, RBC Says — More good news for Apple (AAPL) ahead of the 3G iPhone launch, scheduled for next Friday, July 11. Consumers have “unprecedented” demand for Apple's phone, according to new data from RBC's Technology Adoption Panel.
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Jan Libbenga / The Register:
iPhone will ship in green packaging — Apple's new iPhone 3G will be shipped on July 11 in a potato starch paper tray. Apple placed an order with Dutch company PaperFoam, which also makes packages for Motorola. — The company confirmed this today to Dutch blog Bright.
RealNetworks.com:
RHAPSODY LAUNCHES “MUSIC WITHOUT LIMITS” INITIATIVE ACROSS WEB, SOCIAL NETWORKS AND MOBILE — New Rhapsody MP3 Store Opens Virtual Doors with 100,000 Album Giveaway — Rhapsody to Power Full-Song Playback and MP3 Sales for iLike, MTV Networks' Music Group Sites and Yahoo!
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Google and Creator of ‘Family Guy’ Strike a Deal — LOS ANGELES — Google is experimenting with a new method of distributing original material on the Web, and some Hollywood film financiers are betting millions that the company will succeed. — In September, Seth MacFarlane, creator of …
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:The “Family Guy” Strikes A Side Deal With Google, Keeps His $100M Day Job With Fox
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Associated Press:
Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP on Monday — REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers Monday, despite protests from a slice of PC users who don't want to be forced into using XP's successor, Vista.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Goodbye, XP. Hello, Midori — June 30 is the day that Microsoft begins phasing out Windows XP by no longer providing copies of the operating system to PC makers and retailers for preloading on new machines. It's also a good day (thanks to a recent New York Times opinion piece) …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Marc Andreessen Joins Facebook's Board Of Directors — Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape, Opsware and Ning and the former CTO of AOL, is adding a new notch in his belt: he has joined the board of directors of Facebook, two sources close to the company confirmed to us …
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Silicon Alley Insider, TomsTechBlog.com, WebProNews, All Facebook, Coop's Corner, Wikinomics, Startup Meme and Valleywag
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Sony to bring the social to PlayStation 3 with firmware 2.40 — While the PlayStation 3 has gone through an impressive metamorphosis since release, the social aspects of the system still leave much to be desired: there is no good way to communicate to people on your friends list across different games …
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Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
Lenovo announces its first desktop, IdeaCentre K210 — Today marks a new day for Lenovo with the announcement of its first desktop, the IdeaCentre K210. For all intents and purposes, it's just a desktop but it pulls a couple things from the laptop line that are unique and cool, like Veriface facial recognition technology.
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Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Asustek to launch new Eee PCs with bigger keyboards — Asustek Computer is planning to launch new Eee PC models, the 904 and 905, which have an 8.9-inch panel but use a similar chassis and keyboard as the company's 10.2-inch models, according to sources at channel vendors.
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jkOnTheRun, Engadget, GottaBeMobile, Liliputing, Mobility Site, UMPC Buzz, Ubergizmo, I4U News and VoIP Watch
Charles Arthur / Guardian Unlimited:
No, Mr Kelly, I'm afraid the internet is not as clever as a single (human) brain — Kevin Kelly, one of the people behind Wired magazine, has come up with a stonking idea to follow up from Chris Anderson's (to be honest rather wonky) suggestion that “science is dead because search engines can do it for us” last week.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
AOL's Platform A: We'll pay Bebo, Facebook developers top pennies — AOL's Platform A said Monday that it will offer Bebo and Facebook application developers “a guaranteed CPM” for U.S. traffic and says the ad rate is one of the highest in the industry. — However, there are a few caveats …
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Search Engine Watch Blog, Business Wire, Mashable!, The Social Times and paidContent.org
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Online Encyclopedia Gets New Push From Discovery — On the Internet, there's an answer to every question — even “how are marshmallows made?” and “how do toilets work?” The Web site HowStuffWorks wants to remind television viewers and Web visitors that it knows how.
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Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Tech Giants Join Together To Head Off Patent Suits — Several tech-industry heavyweights are banding together to defend themselves against patent-infringement lawsuits. Their plan: to buy up key intellectual property before it falls into the hands of parties that could use it against them, say people familiar with the matter.
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CNET News.com, The Open Road, Between the Lines, Law Blog, Telecosm, Communications …, SmoothSpan Blog and Slashdot
Roy Mark / eWeek:
Google Maps Deal With Tele Atlas — Search giant moves to offset Nokia's acquisition of NavTeq. — Let the digital map wars commence. — With NavTeq already in global handset leader Nokia's fold, Google and NavTeq competitor Tele Atlas announced June 30 a five-year licensing agreement …
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