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MobileMe: 30-day Extension Eligibility and Details — Note: This FAQ will be updated when your 30-day extension has been made available. Please bookmark this page and check again in a few weeks. Please note that Apple's MobileMe Support team will be unable to provide any additional information regarding …
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Apple apologizes for MobileMe launch, extends subscriptions — Apple's launch of MobileMe last Friday was bumpy with many users not being to login at all, while others had difficulty getting anything to sync properly. Apple on Wednesday recognized those problems and is offering an olive branch to all MobileMe subscribers.
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Kit Eaton / Gizmodo:
Apple Admits MobileMe Snags, Gives Free 30 Days Membership Extension — Apple Admits MobileMe Snags, Gives Free 30-Day Extension — Apple's MobileMe service hit so many snags during its launch period that Apple have just issued an email apology to members.
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.
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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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 …
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Report: AOL Merger Or Sale Likely In The Next Two Weeks — Reuters is reporting that TimeWarner is seeking to strike a deal with either Yahoo or Microsoft for AOL. It says that talks between the companies “have taken on new urgency ahead of Yahoo's Aug 1 shareholders meeting.”
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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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Jemima Kiss / PDA:
Twitter buys Summize, and a business model — The Guardian asked Twitter co-founder Evan Williams to speak at an event recently and he turned us down. And now we know why. — On top of all having to deal with Twitter constantly falling over under the weight of its own popularity …
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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.
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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Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
Martin be damned, cable ISPs want network management freedom — “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,” cried William Shakespeare's Henry V in the play so titled. “Or close the wall up with our English dead!” Perhaps in said spirit did the National Cable and Television Association …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
What Getting Buzzed Says About Yahoo — The battle over Yahoo's search business as witnessed over the last few days seems both ridiculous and petty. And it takes the attention away from what is Yahoo's true value: a media aggregation platform. Yahoo is the place a lot of people …
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 …
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
A look at who's making iPhone 3G purchases thus far — A study of customers queued outside of Apple's retail stores over the weekend reveals that early iPhone 3G adopters are predominantly Mac users, and that Motorola and Samsung are amongst the rival handset vendors that will be hit hardest …
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Joss Whedon's Wacky Web Experiment Kicks Off — Sometimes, a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. In Joss Whedon's case, what he felt he had to do was make an online musical about a super villain who keeps getting foiled by a hero as he pines after the girl from the laundromat.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Why it matters what Chad Hurley watches — What will it mean for YouTube if founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have, like many of us, entertained themselves by watching pirated videos found on their site? — Viacom will likely argue that YouTube is guilty of contributory copyright infringement …
