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Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
Best Buy becomes first independent iPhone retailer — NEW YORK - Best Buy Co. will start selling the iPhone on Sept. 7, becoming first U.S. chain to do so outside of Apple Inc.'s and AT&T Inc.'s own stores. — The announcement by Best Buy expands the availability of Apple's vaunted phone …
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Liam Tung / ZDNet.com.au:
HSBC could order 200,000 iPhones — Global banking giant HSBC is considering ditching the BlackBerry and adopting Apple's iPhone as its standard staff mobile device, a move that could result in an order for some 200,000 iPhones. — “We are actually reviewing iPhones from a HSBC Group perspective …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: Analyst: Apple will sell at least 4.47 million iPhones this quarter
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:Analyst: Apple will sell 4.47 million iPhones this quarter
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Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Three-alarm fire scorches key building on Apple campus — A three-alarm fire burned for more than three hours late Tuesday night at Apple's Cupertino headquarters before firefighters were able to fully extinguish the blaze. — The Santa Clara County Fire Department said it received reports …
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Associated Press:
Fire burns building at Apple HQ in California — Firefighters have put out a blaze that burned for more than three hours at the headquarters of computer maker Apple. — The Santa Clara County Fire Department says the three-alarm fire scorched the roof and the second level at one of the six buildings …
Sue McAllister / Mercury News:Firefighters battle three-alarm fire at Apple's Cupertino campus
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Yahoo!:
Yahoo! Launches Fire Eagle — New Platform Enables Users to Easily Update and Manage Their — Location Information Across the Web — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced the general availability of Fire Eagle (http://fireeagle.yahoo.net) …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Yahoo launches Fire Eagle: Gauging my personal ROI
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Does Good Tech Need PR? — Behind the scenes of many tech blogs these days, there's a rat race for attention, with PR agents struggling to overcome the noise of feeds, news sites and other agents in order to get coverage for their clients. Tiny web tech companies pay $5k …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:The PR Roadblock On The Road To Blissful Blogging
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Micro Persuasion, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, AttentionMax and Drew B's take on tech PR
Tom Espiner / CNET News.com:
VMware: Don't shut down that virtual machine — Update at 8:35 a.m. PT on Wednesday: Since ZDNet UK published this article, a patch for the flaw has been posted to VMware's Web site. — VMware virtual machines on all hosts with the company's latest hypervisor, ESX 3.5 Update 2 …
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Dave Barth / Google LatLong:
Where is Georgia on Google Maps? — The recent conflict in Georgia has raised some questions about how Google Maps has handled mapping in that part of the world. The most obvious question is, why doesn't Google Maps show any cities or roads for Georgia, or its neighbors Armenia and Azerbaijan?
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Sprint's '08-'09 roadmap: BlackBerry 8350i, Motorola i576, Motorola i950, and a lot more! — What would the world do without BGR? Well, you'd probably have a lot less broken AVAYA phones, less screaming, and just all around happier wireless executives. Oh well.
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Electronista, Gizmodo, The Mobile Gadgeteer, Gear Diary, CrackBerry.com blogs, PhoneNews.com, BlackBerry Cool and BB Geeks
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Internet Ad Spending Will Be Slower Than Expected — Aug. 12 (Bloomberg) — Internet advertising spending in the U.S. will be lower than expected this year and next, putting pressure on Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corp., according to EMarketer Inc.
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Richard Shears / Daily Mail:
Google's Street View captures the moment a drunken Aussie keeled over outside his home — A man who fell asleep in a drunken stupor on the grass outside his home was horrified to find his embarrassment posted on the internet. — He had been drowning his sorrows over the death of a friend and collapsed after climbing out of a taxi.
Kontra / counternotions:
Why Apple doesn't do “Concept Products” — Everyone has a favorite “concept car.” Whether it's the '54 Firebird, '64 Stiletto, '80 Epcot or '88 Sunraycer, these “flights of imagination” all have one thing in common: they weren't for real. — General Motors had no intention of selling these cars …
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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Spot Runner lays off 100 — Nick Grouf once told me he started his online-advertising agency, Spot Runner, in Los Angeles, not Silicon Valley, for one reason: The video-production talent he needed to customize television ads en masse was down south. Now, a laid-off employee tells us Spot Runner …
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
YouTube Not Getting Into Live Streaming, After All (GOOG) — UStream, Justin.TV, Stickam, Mogulus and everyone else trying to make a business out of live streaming can breath a little easier. YouTube, which had previously said it would start live streaming in 2008, won't be getting into the business this year.
Between the Lines:
Nvidia: We underestimated AMD — Nvidia had one ugly second quarter. It lost money. It took a charge for defective chips. And it's stuck with low-margin inventory it has to burn off. Amazing how a little price competition from AMD's ATI can magnify poor execution at Nvidia.
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable:
Google Shuts Down FeedBurner's Ad Network (FAN) — I have been a huge fan of FeedBurner, RSS feed management company, for a really long time. Yes, before Google bought them and even before they had most of their cool features. In any event, I noticed a Google Groups thread …
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The Next Web
Thomson IR:
NVIDIA Reports Results for Second Quarter of Fiscal 2009 and Announces Increase to Stock Repurchase Program — SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug 12, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ — NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) today reported financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2009 ended July 27, 2008.
