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Mary Jane Irwin / Forbes:
IPhone Apps Likely To Launch Thursday — Apple may launch its iPhone App Store Thursday, according to three people who have been briefed on the matter. — The online store will open at noon Eastern time, Thursday, to coincide with when the iPhone goes on sale in New Zealand, according to one source.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Apple Notifies Developers: iPhone App Store To Launch Thursday Morning — Apple finally let developers know when their iPhone apps will be live on the App Store for users to download and use: around 9 am PST Thursday morning. That, at least, is when the embargo lifts and press can start writing about the specific applications.
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Touch Arcade
Canada NewsWire Group:
Calling all iPhone 3G fans! — Select Rogers Plus stores to open early coast-to-coast on July 11 — Launch promotions to include limited time 6GB data offer — In anticipation of iPhone 3G launch on July 11, Rogers Wireless today announced plans to open the doors of select Rogers Plus …
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CBC News:
Rogers caves on iPhone pricing, sort of — Rogers Communications Inc. has bowed to public pressure and temporarily lowered the price of internet usage on Apple Inc.'s hotly awaited iPhone, which is being released in Canada on Friday. — The company will now offer a $30-a-month plan …
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:
I'm sailing away — My goodness I am so high it's not funny. Apologies for all the confusion lately and much love to the many folks who have written in asking, Dude, what the hell is going on with the blog? There's no big scandal or anything. It's just I tried to add a new permission for …
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple's next-gen MacBook Pro casing design revealed — Photos that reveal the industrial design of Apple Inc.'s next-generation MacBook Pro notebooks have been making the rounds on the Internet since late last week, AppleInsider has learned. — People familiar with the ongoing development …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Who Needs Music Labels? Last.fm Starts Paying Royalties To Unsigned Artists — Music-streaming service Last.fm is now paying unsigned artists royalties for every song played on its service. Since the company announced the program last January, 70,000 artists and small music labels have signed up for it and uploaded 450,000 tracks.
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Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
How Youtube Can Fix Their Revenue Problem — It appears that Youtube can only monetize about 4pct of its content. Which leads to the question of “how can Youtube monetize the other 96pct of its content ?” — The answer, believe it or not lives within Youtube and begins with another question …
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Thunder not quite ready for primetime? — That's what one of our RIM ninjas are telling us! We've got the scoop on the BlackBerry Thunder, and contrary to most reports, we've been told that the unit is nowhere near being able to enter production, let alone being released.
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Robert McLaws / Windows-Now.com:
Windows 3.11 Reaches End-Of-Life (Seriously) — Nope, I'm not kidding on this one. Apparently Microsoft has still been selling this OS in the embedded systems market for quite some time. That must be why the simulators at Star Trek: The Experience are using the OS to run their systems …
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Amit Singhal / The Official Google Blog:
Introduction to Google Ranking — In May, Udi Manber introduced our search quality group, the group responsible for the ranking of search results. He introduced various teams within “Quality” (as we like to call the group) including Core Ranking, International Search, User Interfaces, Evaluation, Webspam, and other teams.
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Webware.com, Search Engine Land, WebProNews, Joe Duck, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, The Inquisitr and Blogging Pro
Microsoft:
Steve Ballmer: Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 — Remarks by Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft — SCOTT STANFIELD: I'm Scott Stanfield, CEO of Vertigo. I bet our business years ago on .NET. It turns out that was a pretty good idea, because with .NET we now have the ultimate skeleton key.
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Paul Carton / ChangeWave HotWire Blog:
Apple Ups The Ante With 3G iPhone — But RIM's almost ready to counter — It's been just over a year since the iPhone was released, and Apple (AAPL) is upping the ante in the smart phone wars. — We're talking about the release of the new 3G version of the iPhone.
Bernard Lunn / ReadWriteWeb:
It's Official: There Is No Bubble — Yesterday we analyzed the financials of the 7 publicly traded Internet Big Cos. There was nothing bubbly there, with an average PEG of 1.4. — So the next stop is the “middle 20”. These are publicly traded web technology stocks with a market cap over $1 billion.
Joshua Karp / Boy Genius Report:
Sprint launching HTC Touch Diamond on September 2nd? — If there's one handset out there that's almost as highly anticipated as the iPhone, it's the HTC Touch Diamond. Announced in May, we've been waiting for an official carrier announcement here in the United States.
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Vista Compatibility Center still MIA — Apparently 20 months wasn't quite long enough to wait to introduce an online “Vista Compatibility Center.” — The Web site, which was due to launch on Tuesday morning, still hasn't launched as of 2 p.m. PDT Wednesday.
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
First Look: OpenMoko's Linux-based open smartphone platform — Penguin calls — Last Friday, OpenMoko launched its highly anticipated FreeRunner smartphone, a Linux-based handset that's completely open in both hardware and software, and is designed to encourage third-party modification and customization.
Official Google Docs Blog:
Live blogging with Docs — Posted by: Amit Agarwal, a professional technology blogger at Digital Inspiration and an exceptionally creative Docs user … This tutorial will show you how to use Google Docs word processor for blogging a live event - it could be a keynote address or a conference call …
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
OTOY Developing Server-Side 3D Rendering Technology — Imagine you could play video games - and immerse yourself in virtual worlds - with 3D graphics comparable to those found in blockbuster films like Transformers or WALL •E. And then imagine you could experience and control …
