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Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
Nintendo and Sony Underwhelm at E3 — LOS ANGELES — The Japanese video game titans, Nintendo and Sony, announced wide-ranging, if not entirely breathtaking, constellations of new games and services at the E3 convention here on Tuesday, but did not appear to significantly alter …
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Troy Wolverton / Mercury News:
Sony cutting price of PS3, adding video downloads — LOS ANGELES - In a bid to regain lost ground in the fiercely competitive gaming business, Sony announced Tuesday that it will cut the price of its high-end PlayStation 3 console by $100. It also will introduce downloads of movies …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Interview With Evan Williams: Summize Acquisition, API Issues And Their Revenue Model — I had a chance to sit down with Twitter cofounder Evan Williams at Foo Camp last weekend and talk about the overall state of the company. The first part of the conversation focused on their acquisition of Summize …
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Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunchIT:
The New Apple Walled Garden — Geeks and enthusiasts wearing Wordpress t-shirts, using laptops covered in Data Portability, Microformats and RSS stickers lined up enthusiastically on Friday to purchase a device that is completely proprietary, controlled and wrapped in DRM.
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ZDNet:
Intel faces new antitrust charges in Europe: report — European regulators are preparing to file new antitrust charges against Intel, expanding a probe into the chipmaker's marketing and sales practices, The Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:Intel posts record-breaking Q2 earnings
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John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Kindle 2.0 Coming Around October 2008 — An insider let slip that two new Amazon Kindle models will hit stores this holiday season, with the first coming as early as October. — The first is an updated version with the same sized screen, a smaller form factor, and an improved interface.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Pandora Usage Stats Prove It's iPhone's Killer App — Pandora's internet radio has always been one of those sites that was really cool in concept, but too inconvenient to ever go mainstream. The service was long tied to computers only, and while it eventually expanded to special internet radios …
Ijustine / Tasty Blog Snack:
THE LOOPT DEBACLE — With the launch of the app store this past week in conjunction with the new iPhone, a little application called loopt has been causing a bit of conflict with the community. Loopt is a location based social networking site that uses GPS to determine your exact location …
Aviram / SecuriTeam Blogs:
Finding the name behind the gmail address — Ever wondered what name is behind some obscure gmail address? Maybe your preferred gmail address was taken and you're wondering who took it? — Here's a cute vulnerability in the gmail system that comes from the strong tie-ins between gmail …
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Bold / BlackBerry Thunder release information — First things first... how did you like our BlackBerry Bold review? If that just made you crave the device more, you might not be too pleased with the latest info we got. We've been told that the Bold might have been pushed back yet again.
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:BlackBerry Bold review: we've been rockin' it for a month
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Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Set Up Push Email, Contacts, and Calendar on Your iPhone for Free — One of the coolest features available in the new iPhone 2.0 software update is the ability to get new email messages, contacts, and calendar events pushed to your device automatically. The catch: If you don't want to shell …
Jonathan Cassell / iSuppli:
Seeking Mass Market Acceptance, Apple Stresses Cost Reduction for iPhone 3G — The new iPhone 3G sports an evolutionary design that favors cost reduction instead of cutting-edge features, supporting Apple Inc.'s goal of expanding its market share and achieving a worldwide presence for the product …
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Sunshine / LiveSide:
Live Mesh Is Indeed Now Open — Where we were wondering before, we can now confirm that Live Mesh is indeed open to anyone with a valid Windows Live ID. Open to anyone in the US without having to adjust a thing, and open to anybody elsewhere in the world willing/able to adjust their OS'es region and language setting to EN-US.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Blinkx ‘Red Label’ opens video search interface — Blinkx, whose technology lets people search for videos hosted elsewhere on the Internet, is making it possible for other Web sites to incorporate its search results and share any resulting revenue. — Through a program called Red Label …
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:Seeking Ad Revenue, Blinkx Syndicates Video Search
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Reuters:
NY man gets 30 months in prison for spamming AOL — NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Tuesday for sending spam e-mails to more than 1.2 million subscribers of America Online in a scheme that foiled the Internet company's spam-filtering system.
Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:
Google Sued For Selling Ads On Parked Domains — A class-action lawsuit alleges that Google committed fraud, business code violations, and unjust enrichment by selling ads that were unlikely to generate conversions. — Google on Friday was sued for fraud, business code violations …
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Steven Frank / stevenf.com:
This is going to sound a little weird at first considering what I do for a living, but I want you to stop using FTP. — There are too many aspects of it which have not kept up with modern computing environments. In particular: — Unless tunneled over a secure socket, FTP is 100% insecure.
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Dameon Welch-Abernathy / GigaOM:
Is There Money in Voice APIs? — I've been covering the VoIP space since 2004, and lately it seems like every other press release sent my way is from a company announcing the addition of an application programming interface (API) to its telephony platform. The promise of APIs …
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