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Apple:
About the Mac OS X 10.5.4 update — The Mac OS X 10.5.4 Update is recommended for Mac OS X 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, and 10.5.3 Leopard. It includes general operating system improvements that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac. — For information about security updates, please see this article.
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Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Report: half of prospective smartphone buyers eying iPhone 3G — In a sign of “unprecedented pent-up demand” for the upcoming iPhone 3G, investment bank RBC Capital Markets says its own proprietary study has revealed that more than half of consumers who are in the market for a smartphone intend …
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
AT&T memos detail iPhone 3G unbricking tool, crowd planning, more... A recent series of internal memos from AT&T to its Mobility staffers reveal a variety of preparatory measures ahead of next month's iPhone launch, including the deployment of an iPhone 3G unbricking tool, ongoing 3G network optimizations …
Tom Krazit / One More Thing:iPhone 3G will need ‘unbricking’ when purchased?
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo Board and Investors Burn, While Everyone Else Fiddles — Could Ross Levinsohn and Jon Miller reinvent Yahoo (YHOO)? What about OpenTable's Jeff Jordan? Or various and sundry Google (GOOG) or Microsoft (MSFT) execs? — It could happen. — That specific scenario of putting someone …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:Yahoo (YHOO): Yes, We Blew Microsoft Deal, But Please Don't Fire Us
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WebProNews, Valleywag, E-Commerce Times, Tech Trader Daily, Yahoo! Finance and Deal Journal
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
New deal makes “invisible” Flash content visible to search — Adobe, Google and Yahoo are about to make it easier to build rich multimedia websites in the Flash file format (SWF) without sacrificing any “Google juice” (and, um, whatever the Yahoo equivalent is).
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Once Nearly Invisible To Search Engines, Flash Files Can Now Be Found And Indexed — For most people on the Web, if Google or Yahoo cannot find something, it doesn't exist. That has been one of the biggest drawbacks to creating a Website or application that displays itself as a Flash (SWF) file.
Nate Westheimer / Silicon Alley Insider:
How Twitter Could Be Worth A Billion In A Year — Twitter's not going to make their money with advertising. So how can they be a Billion Dollar Company in a year? — Twitter should take full advantage of their messaging platform, user base and user disposition to lead in the P2P mobile payments space …
Bret Taylor / FriendFeed Blog:
FriendFeed iPhone interface — We just launched a specialized iPhone interface for FriendFeed. When you visit friendfeed.com in your iPhone browser, you will get the new interface automatically: — For all of you without iPhones, you can check out the site at http://friendfeed.com/i.
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The Inquisitr, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, bub.blicio.us, Stay N\' Alive, Furrier.org and Mashable!
Todd / Netflix Community Blog:
Profiles feature NOT going away — For users of Profiles, I have good news to report: we will keep the feature with no plans to discontinue it. — We were persuaded by the well-reasoned, sincere responses of loyal members who very much value this feature.
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Webware.com, Ars Technica, NewTeeVee, Gear Diary, Epicenter, Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally, GMSV, AppScout and Slashdot
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Launches Affiliate Advertising Network, Courtesy of DoubleClick — Amazon, watch out. Earlier today, Google launched an affiliate ad network. Or, rather, it rebranded Performics, the affiliate ad network that came along with its purchase of DoubleClick, as the “Google Affiliate Network.”
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Miguel Helft / Bits:
Google and the Anti-Obama Bloggers — Added comment from one of the bloggers who was shut down by Google.) — Did Google use its network of online services to silence critics of Barack Obama? That was the question buzzing on a corner of the blogosphere over the last few days …
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Search Engine Land, Security Watch, Blue Lyon, Industry Standard, Bloggasm, NewsBusters.org and Come A Long Way
Joshua Fruhlinger / Engadget:
Nikon D700 presentation video revealed early, it's very nice — We've been teased with the inevitable launch of the Nikon D700 DSLR, but it looks like our introduction is pretty much here with the nascent of a product presentation video that's supposed to hit the internets tomorrow.
The Register:
An iPhone with a keyboard? — It is an article of faith, of course, that whatever Steve Jobs does is right. And so, since the iPhone currently has no keyboard on it, it must logically follow that it is wrong to have a keyboard, and therefore that Steve Jobs will never produce a version that does have a keyboard.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Slide And Vh1 Team Up To Annoy The Hell Out Of You — Slide and Vh1 excel at making products geared towards America's lowest common denominator. The first makes SuperPoke, a popular social network app that lets you send text messages saying you've done “stuff” to your friends.
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
eBay Has To Pay $63m Because A French Court Doesn't Know A Platform From A User — A few weeks ago, we pointed out that a French court had made a very bad ruling, blaming eBay for actions of its users. The case involved the sale of counterfeit goods from LVMH.
Microsoft:
More Than 1 Million Entrepreneurs Have Made Microsoft Office Live Small Business One of the Fastest Growing Web Services — More small-business owners are recognizing the need for a Web presence in today's digital world. — Microsoft Office Live Small Business (http://www.smallbusiness.officelive.co m) …
