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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Newer, Faster, Cheaper iPhone 3G — Apple Inc.'s iPhone has been the world's most influential smart phone since its debut a year ago, widely hailed for its beauty and functionality. It was a true hand-held computer that raised the bar for all its competitors.
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David Pogue / New York Times:
For iPhone, the ‘New’ Is Relative — One year and 11 days ago, our nation was swept by iPhone Mania. TV news coverage was relentless. Hard-core fans camped out to be the first in line. Bloggers referred to Apple's new product as the “Jesus phone.” — It was a stunning black slab of glass …
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USA Today:
Apple's new iPhone 3G: Still not perfect, but really close — Extra, extra: iPhone 3G: The Sequel, is worth the wait. — It's cheaper, faster and a lot friendlier for business. Apple's blockbuster smartphone already had nifty features such as visual voicemail, a splendid built-in video iPod …
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
iPhone 3G unboxing, bitches! — Have you heard of the new iPhone 3G? One of our Apple ninjas came through for us, and we've got some unboxing goodness for you to enjoy. Yes sir — iPhone 3G is in the BGR offices! First impressions? It's black and shiny.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
They're out! The first iPhone 3G reviews — First the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg jumped the gun, publishing his online review of Apple's new iPhone 3G on Tuesday night, more than a day before his usual Thursday column appears. — Then, about an hour later, the New York Times responded in kind …
Niniane Wang / The Official Google Blog:
Be who you want on the web pages you visit — A while ago, I looked around the social web and wished that it could be less static. Sure, you can leave a comment on a blog or write a text blurb on your social networking profile. But what if you want to express yourself in a more fun way …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Launches Virtual World Called Lively — Well, this sucks for Second Life. Google is launching a new service today called Lively, a browser based virtual world add-on that lets users create and customize avatars and worlds, interact with other users, and generally have a richer social interaction than is offered by GTalk today.
Brad Stone / New York Times:Google Introduces a Cartoonlike Method for Talking in Chat Rooms
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J. Nicholas Hoover / InformationWeek:
Microsoft Admits Windows Vista Mistakes, Criticizes Apple Ads — The company will work to reverse the widely held belief, informed by early troubles upon the operating system's launch, that Vista isn't compatible with many applications and devices. — Microsoft is now acknowledging …
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Kevin J. Delaney / Wall Street Journal:
Google Push to Sell Ads On YouTube Hits Snags — Video Site Is Key To Diversification; The Lawsuit Factor — Wringing ad revenue from YouTube is proving to be a challenge for Google Inc. — Although users of the popular video-sharing site view clips more than one billion times on most days …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:Report: YouTube ready to run preroll and postroll ads
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Multiple DNS implementations vulnerable to cache poisoning — Overview — Deficiencies in the DNS protocol and common DNS implementations facilitate DNS cache poisoning attacks. — I. Description — The Domain Name System (DNS) is responsible for translating host names to IP addresses …
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Miguel Helft / Bits:
Great Photo on Flickr? Getty Images Might Pay You For It — If you are a photographer with high-quality images posted on Yahoo's Flickr service, you may soon get an e-mail inviting you to become a paid contributor to Getty Images, the world's largest distributor of pictures and video.
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Josh Lowensohn / CNET News.com:Select Flickr photos to sell via Getty license
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Source: Ribbit, “Silicon Valley's first phone company,” bought by BT [Updated: Confirmed] — Ribbit, a company that has styled itself “Silicon Valley's first phone company,” has been purchased by BT, the dominant British telecommunications company, we're hearing.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Bit.ly: Please Use This TinyURL of the Future — URL shorteners like TinyURL are a wildly popular way to share long links over email, IM, microblogging and other contexts. The millions of shortcuts that have been created through such services represent a huge opportunity to capture interesting data …
Emil Protalinski / One Microsoft Way:
Midori: a non-Windows OS in the works, not just experimental — Every once in a while, an article gets posted somewhere in the blogosphere about how Microsoft needs to release a complete Windows rewrite, something along the lines of what Apple did with Mac OS X. Most people realize that Microsoft …
