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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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New York Times:
Apple's Latest Opens a Developers' Playground — PALO ALTO, Calif. — When Apple opens its online App Store for iPhone software on Thursday, Steven P. Jobs will be making an attempt to dominate the next generation of computing as it moves toward Internet-connected mobile devices.
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Jefferson Graham / USA Today:App Store for iPhone already a hit with developers
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Apple Notifies Developers: iPhone App Store To Launch Thursday Morning
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Yahoo seeks ad revenue by fueling others' search innovation — In an attempt to boost its search-ad business, Yahoo has begun a project that lets anyone build a customized search engine atop the Internet company's technology. — The service, which enters public beta testing Wednesday night …
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TechCrunch, Silicon Alley Insider, GigaOM, Search Engine Watch Blog, New York Times, Forbes, VentureBeat and Mashable!
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Yahoo! Search Blog:
BOSS — The Next Step in our Open Search Ecosystem — Today, Yahoo! Search is taking another step in extending the Yahoo! Open Strategy with the launch of Yahoo! Search BOSS, a web services platform that allows developers and companies to create and launch web-scale search products by utilizing …
Vanessa Fox / Search Engine Land:Yahoo! Lets You “Build Your Own Search Service”
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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.
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Charles Jade / Infinite Loop:
iPhone 3G to crush Blackberry: redux — A couple of months ago, ChangeWave released a survey that showed people found a lot to like about the iPhone, and that the BlackBerry did e-mail. Respondents also produced a wish list of features back then that pretty much is the iPhone 3G now; meanwhile, the BlackBerry does e-mail.
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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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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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Webware.com, Mashable!, Last.fm, ReadWriteWeb, WinExtra, Contentinople, Listening Post and Smalltalk Tidbits …
Jcoyne / John Coyne's Embedded Blog:
It's the End for 3.11!! — for those that were not aware, we recently announced that effective November 1st, 2008, OEM's will no longer be able to license Windows for Workgroups 3.11 in the embedded channel. Now we all know that it's been long gone in the standard (retail/OEM) channel …
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download.zonealarm.com:
Workaround to Sudden Loss of Internet Access Problem — Date Last Revised : 9 July 2008 — Overview : Microsoft Update KB951748 is known to cause loss of internet access for ZoneAlarm users on Windows XP/2000. Windows Vista users are not affected. Impact : Sudden loss of internet access
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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 …
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
The Pirate Bay Wants to Encrypt the Entire Internet — The team behind the popular torrent site The Pirate Bay has started to work on a new encryption technology that could potentially protect all Internet traffic from prying eyes. The project, which is still in its initial stages …
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.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo (YHOO) Shareholders Will Now Take $31.50. They Won't Get It — Andrew Ross Sorkin reports from Sun Valley that Yahoo shareholders will now accept, gasp, less than $33 for the company. Some are even willing to sell for $31.50! Carl Icahn, meanwhile, will reportedly take anything …
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget Mobile:
Leaked Sprint roadmap reveals slew of releases through September? — Though the document doesn't exactly look magazine-quality, this is a case where we'd argue that it doesn't have to be to be real; it's clearly for internal use only, for one thing, and secondly, we don't know where else …
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.
