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Don Reisinger / Mashable!:
How the iPhone App Store Will Kill iPhone Web Apps — Now that the App store is up and running and the millions across the globe that have waited for chat applications and games finally have a service available to them to get most of what they need on their iPhone and iPod touch …
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Official announcement regarding my retirement from blogging. — “It's with a heavy heart, and much consideration, that today I would like to announce my retirement from blogging.” — Jason McCabe Calacanis, July 11th 2008. — This was an extremely difficult decision, and I haven't made it lightly.
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Jason's long goodbye: Give me a break — I know that the goodbye post written by Mahalo supremo Jason Calacanis for his blog is supposedly heartfelt, and full of what he no doubt believes (or hopes we will believe) is authentic human emotion, but it still feels all wrong. Is it the fact that it reads like a bad script?
Sarah Lacy:
Blogging's Crossroads — I just finished reading the Jason Calacanis blogging resignation letter and can't help but be struck by the about face of one of the guys who— love him or hate him— did a lot to put professional blogging on the map. (I know, Paul Carr, don't hate me...) …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
It's worth the hell — Apple continues to amaze. I've never seen a company have a technical meltdown in front of the eyes of the world the way Apple did today. Yet when my son got out of the store after three hours of hell inside the store (we were snuck to the front of the line by someone …
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:iFail 3G: Inside the iPhone launch failure with videos
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Verizon:
V CAST Music With Rhapsody Gets Even Sweeter With LG Chocolate 3 From Verizon Wireless — New Flip Form Factor Turns up the Summer Heat with Enhanced Music Subscription Capabilities, Built-in FM transmitter, 2.0 Megapixel Camera and Camcorder — Customer Inquiries
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Can't Find a Parking Spot? Check Smartphone — SAN FRANCISCO — The secret to finding the perfect parking spot in congested cities is usually just a matter of luck. But drivers here will get some help from an innocuous tab of plastic that will soon be glued to the streets.
Royal Pingdom:
Microsoft's software update beats Apple and Ubuntu — Every OS out there can be updated over the Web. In fact, this functionality is a critical and important part of the OS, and updates are often done in an automated fashion. Windows has its Windows Update, Mac OS X has its Apple Software Update …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
PaidContent's Rafat Ali Speaks! So, Here's Who's Next... Earlier today, BoomTown broke the stunning-for-blogs news that ContentNext, owner of the popular online digital media news site paidContent, was being bought by the Guardian Media Group for about $30 million in an earn-out acquisition.
Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
iPhone 3G Review — There are simple reasons why the new iPhone 3G is better than the last. — Apple has eliminated so many annoying little hang ups that you might run into when using the old one. The GPS pinpoints to meters instead of blocks. The 3G connection slashes web loading times by minutes to seconds.
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Robert Verkaik / The Independent:
Mother sues over tale of ‘drunken party’ lifted from Bebo — It read like the teenage party from hell: a riot of sex and wanton damage fuelled by under-age drinking that only ended when the police arrived. According to media reports, the mother of the teenage hostess was so angry with her daughter that she punched her.
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
When the Phone Goes With You, Everyone Else Can Tag Along — John Arispe cruised slowly along in his car, one eye on the road, one eye on a glowing blue dot on a digital map of the Springfield Mall neighborhood in Northern Virginia, displayed on the screen of his sleek new Apple iPhone 3G.
Jennifer Chappell / TreoCentral:
Forum Members Hands-On with Treo 800w — That Was Fast! — Wow, that was fast! We just reported yesterday that folks had found out that they could order the Treo 800w. — A reader who wished to remain anonymous wrote in around 6:43pm and told me that he already had a Treo 800w in hand …
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
New Live Pics of the BlackBerry Javelin — We can see smoke rising up all over the country. Legions of BlackBerry addicts are none too happy as a result of the unending iPhone coverage that culminated today with the release of the Jobso's latest brainchild.
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Arn / MacRumors:
Upgrading from Unofficial iPhone 2.0 Firmware to Official 2.0 Firmware — Yesterday, we published a link to what appeared to be the release version of the iPhone 2.0 Firmware. This version of the firmware was successfully installed on a number of original iPhones and readers were able to start using Apps from the iTunes App Store.
CNN:
FCC Chairman Recommends No Fine for Comcast — WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin Friday said he would not seek to fine cable giant Comcast Corp. (CMCSA, CMCSK) for slowing some Internet traffic. — Instead, Martin said he wants the Comcast …
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