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Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
IPhone Software Sales Take Off: Apple's Jobs — CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple Inc.'s bet on cellphone software appears to be paying off. — In the month since Apple opened an online software clearinghouse called the App Store, users have downloaded more than 60 million programs for the iPhone …
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Eric A. Taub / New York Times:
Many Fail to See the Humor in ‘I Am Rich’ for the iPhone — When Apple announced in March that it would open up the iPhone to outside software developers, it promised that the resulting applications would help create “amazing” and “innovative” applications that would transform the concept of a smartphone.
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Is Google a Media Company? — SAN FRANCISCO — Type “buttermilk pancakes” into Google, and among the top three or four search results you will find a link to a detailed recipe complete with a photo of a scrumptious stack from a site called Knol, which is owned by Google.
Joshua Karp / Boy Genius Report:
Live video of HTC's “Dream” Android phone? — Yeah, it's not the highest quality video we've ever seen, but if you can look past the blurriness and Darth Vader breathing noises you might be pleasantly surprised. Thanks to an eagle-eyed tipster, we've some video footage of what might be the HTC Dream.
Brooke Crothers / CNET News.com:
Intel's Nehalem chips to get ‘Core’ branding — Intel's next-generation desktop processors will be branded “Intel Core” with an “i7” identifier for the first wave of products. — The i7 identifier will apply to the first crop of high-end desktop processors, according to George Alfs, an Intel spokesperson.
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Wolfgang Gruener / TG Daily:Nehalem = i7: Intel unveils new Core processor brand
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Don Reisinger / Ars Technica:
Opinion: Why laptops will kick desktop PCs to the curb — Years ago, the desktop dominated the PC market. It not only provided users with unequaled power, it proved to be a far more suitable machine than its notebook counterpart, which suffered from a short battery life and a prohibitive price tag.
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Salon builds it — but will anyone come? — For a number of months now, the online magazine Salon has been building a hosted blog network/media hub called open.salon.com, which is expected to launch officially this morning. According to a blog post by Open Salon director Kerry Lauerman a few weeks ago …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Judge: RIAA damages too high in innocent infringement case — A judge has ruled that a teenage girl who admitted to downloading music over KaZaA will only have to pay damages of $200 per song, instead of the $750-30,000 normally allowed under the Copyright Act (and the $750 per song sought by the RIAA).
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Who Will Be First to Sue Alexa? — Alexa, oh Alexa, how you kill thee. I've written and spoken about Alexa since they began operations nearly a decade ago. I've watched agencies pitch advertising based on Alexa charts. There are still ad networks that use Alexa rankings as a baseline for pricing Web site advertising.
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Andy Beard / Collective Thoughts:Why Are Alexa Double-Dipping Social Media Penalties?
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Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
The Long Term Impacts of Online Critics on Personal Brands — This post is not about Thomas vs Simon B, but instead about the long term online impacts to personal and corporate brands. — A focus on online reputation and brands — I'm hesitant to publish this post …
Todd Bishop / San Francisco Chronicle:
Cash-rich Microsoft may buy back shares — The failure Microsoft Corp.'s Yahoo acquisition bid has put the Redmond, Wash., company in a familiar predicament: What should it do with all its cash? — A potential answer surfaced last week, with the news that a top Wall Street analyst believes Microsoft …
Tim Arango / New York Times:
Holy Cash Cow, Batman! Content Is Back — ON an early Saturday morning about three weeks ago, Barry M. Meyer pulled a sheet of paper from the fax machine in his home office, inhaled deeply and held it up to the light of a nearby window. — The number on the fax was eye-popping: $66 million, plus change.
Wall Street Journal:
NBC's Olympic Ratings Get A Web-Based Boost — The Beijing Olympic Games are beginning to answer a pressing question for the world's biggest media companies: Will the rise of Internet video and piracy erode even television's most valuable franchises? — So far, the answer is no. More viewers tuned …
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