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Google Mobile Blog:
Searching on an iPhone can be fun — You probably agree that nothing can be made too easy. We've been dreaming of ways to make searching on phones easier and more fun. — Today, we're showing off our first native app for the iPhone and iPod touch — Google Mobile App.
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
iPhone App Store first impression: Sublime beyond belief — If you don't have an iPhone, you're going to want one real soon. I say this not because of peer pressure or because of the Apple marketing machine. Or even because of the iPhone 3G. I say it because the App Store …
Dan Kimerling / TechCrunch:
Before the App Store “Opens”, it has already made Apple $55,000 — Tucked away on the iPhone 2.0 version of Apple's Application Store is a counter for the number of times that each application has been purchased . When this information is combined with an application's price …
The Iconfactory:
Twitterrific for the Apple App Store — We're very pleased to announce the immediate release of Twitterrific for the iPhone and iPod touch from Apple's newly launched App Store. This revolutionary online store offers limitless software choices for users of Apple's mobile hardware and we're proud to be a part of the grand opening.
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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:A walk through the App Store, iPhone style
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Everything TypePad, Gizmodo, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, 9 to 5 Mac, Ars Technica and Daring Fireball
Raanan Bar-Cohen / WordPress for iPhone:WordPress For iPhone — The WordPress for iPhone App is nearly ready to go.
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TechCrunch
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:iPhone apps: Bad for Facebook, OpenSocial?
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CNET News.com, Beyond Binary, The Social Times, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and Mashable!
Ben Wilson / CNET News.com:iPhone app hands-on: Super Monkey Ball (with screenshots)
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Gizmodo
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Another key early Facebook employee, Jeff Hammerbacher, is leaving the company — Facebook may now be the largest social network in the world, and it may be continually innovating with nice new products like its Twitter-like iPhone application, but more and more beloved early employees are heading out the door.
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
iPhone OS 2.0 Unlocked (YES!) — The new iPhone OS 2.0 software has been unlocked and jailbroken. It was released just hours ago and it has already been cracked by the iPhone Dev Team. The first one took a couple of months, but this one was actually unlocked before Apple released it to the public.
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Daniel Langendorf / last100:
Amid the App Store fanfare, Apple releases significant update for AppleTV — While we're waiting for MobileMe to become available for longer than five minutes, it's worth noting among the App Store fanfare that Apple has also updated its AppleTV. — Early Thursday Apple released iTunes 7.7, making the App Store possible.
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Associated Press:
Outage hobbles new Apple Web service — Users have trouble accessing new Apple's $99-per-year MobileMe service, which launches Friday. — SEATTLE (AP) — Apple's new data-synching service got off to a rocky start Thursday, as some users were denied access to their accounts just hours …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
I Can't Find MobileMe — At $99 a year, I expect my online service to function all the time. So perhaps that is why I am a little upset that Apple hasn't been able to launch their MobileMe service properly and are experiencing outages. The fact that the service was supposed to launch …
Vindu Goel / Bits:
An Imminent Victory for ‘Net Neutrality’ Advocates — When Comcast admitted last fall that it was blocking — or slowing down, as the company preferred to call it — certain file transfers by customers, a lot of people complained that the company was unfairly discriminating against heavy Internet users.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Jerry Yang's Pledge: Not on My Watch — If BoomTown had any doubt that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang was going to knuckle under to the public kneecapping given to him by the activist investor Carl “Shark” Icahn and Microsoft CEO Steve “My Way or the Highway” Ballmer earlier this week …
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
New York Magazine Buys Restaurants Menu Site Menupages — Menupages, the New York City based online restaurant menu guides site, is being bought out by New York Magazine, we have learned. This is the first such online buy for NYM, which is owned by Wasserstein & Co., the PE firm founded by Bruce Wasserstein???
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Priming the Pump: New Users, Meet the Old Winners — Social media, it's all about the democratization of communication and empowering new voices - right? A few years into the new media revolution, reality is looking a little more complicated than that theory would suggest.
Calley Nye / TechCrunch:
Browse Del.icio.us Bookmarks Visually With FavThumbs — While we've waited with bated breath for the release of Delicious 2.0 (Yahoo's been teasing us for months), Ryan Sit, the creator of Swurl, a recently launched startup that offers a lifecasting aggregator for web activity …
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
When Everything On The Internet Is Encrypted... For years, we've been pointing out that as the entertainment industry, telcos and the government increase efforts to spy on the activities of users (for various reasons, good or bad), all it's going to do is speed the adoption of encryption technologies.
Eric Krangel / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google: No Sex in Second Life-Killer Lively (GOOG) — What's the difference between Linden Lab's (SAI 25 #11) Second Life and Lively, the new virtual world announced by Google? — How much time do you have? Second Life requires its own software and needs a PC equipped with a high-end graphics card; Lively runs in a Web browser.
