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Alex Iskold / ReadWriteWeb:
iPhone: The New Personal Computer — When Apple first announced the launch of its iPhone platform, we wrote here that it is a game changer. Even the core of iPhone is a major advance in mobile computing, but with the platform iPhone becomes the new personal computer.
Wall Street Journal:
New Rejection from Yahoo Sets The Stage for Ugly Fight — A new joint offer from Microsoft Corp. and investor Carl Icahn to break up Yahoo Inc. — firmly rejected by Yahoo — sets the stage for an intensified proxy battle as fewer options for compromise among the combatants remain.
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New York Times:
In Bid for Yahoo, Microsoft Turns More Aggressive — By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED and ANDREW ROSS SORKIN — Shareholders searching for détente in the battle between Yahoo and Microsoft are unlikely to find it in Microsoft's new proposal to buy Yahoo's search business, one the Internet company swiftly rejected on Saturday.
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Gmail Superstars — One of the 13 features added to Gmail Labs in May is Superstars, an extension of Gmail's starring system. Instead of using a single star to flag all the messages, you can choose between 12 icons. — After enabling Superstars in Gmail Labs and clicking on “Save changes” …
Jeff Carlson / TidBITS:
Send SMS for Free via AIM on iPhone — I expected that iPhone 3G service from AT&T would be more expensive compared to the original iPhone - $30 per month for data on top of voice service, a $10 increase), but the telco slipped in a poison profit pill by removing SMS text messaging from the plan.
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Michael Mace / Mobile Opportunity:
Hypenotized by Apple — Watching the cloud of hype around last week's release of the new iPhone, I was struck by the way Apple's psychological influence over the tech industry continues to grow. I'm having trouble thinking of any recent technology product, let alone a smartphone …
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Buy.com Deal With EBay Angers Sellers — SAN FRANCISCO — The golden era of the small seller on eBay, hawking gewgaws and knickknacks from the basement or garage, is coming to a noisy and ignominious end. — Consumers appear to be tiring of online auctions, and rivals like Amazon.com …
Brooke Crothers / CNET News.com:
Nvidia cuts prices on GTX 260, 280 graphics boards — Nvidia has slashed the price of products with its newest GTX 260 and 280 graphics processors only a few weeks after it launched the chips, in response to stiffer competition from Advanced Micro Devices' ATI unit.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Guy Kawasaki's Alltop Launches Frienderati: The Top Friends From FriendFeed — If you want to know what the “top people on FriendFeed” are saying, you can now see their feeds on a new Alltop page called Frienderati. It is just a list of the top 100 or so names on FriendFeed (actually …
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Karl Bunyan / Inside Facebook:
Here's How Your App Will Look When the Facebook Redesign Launches — With potentially only a day before the beta launch of Facebook's redesign (it will go live sometime this week), many developers are starting to see how their applications will look and operate within the new system.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Trends Subverted Again. This Is Getting (ll) Embarrasing — Last week a Swastika appeared on Google trends as a top queried term (leading to an endless debate as to whether the symbol was offensive or not). Google removed the symbol and returned our email query saying that a link …
Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
What's Hurting Tech Stocks — Foreign revenues and other factors that once offered safety are now threats, and investors are doubting the growth prospects of Internet giants — So much for tech stocks providing shelter from the stormy market. The tech-heavy Nasdaq is down nearly 15% since Jan. 1 …
Jack Loftus / Gizmodo:
Pulling a Wozniak: Apple App Store Developers Furious Over Crafty “Line Jumping” Application Names — A few Apple App Store developers have apparently taken a page from the line cutting Steve Wozniak today, and are using a loop hole in the service's naming conventions to shoot their apps to the top of the list.
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