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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Verizon's FiOS: A Smart Bet or a Big Mistake? — Four years ago, Verizon Communications embarked on an ambitious and expensive plan to run fiber optic cables, which can deliver ultra-fast Internet service and dozens of high-definition video channels along with old-fashioned telephone service …
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
A Bear Speaks: Why Verizon's Pricey FiOS Bet Won't Pay Off — As I discuss in an article published Tuesday, FiOS is a monumental bet by Verizon on the future. It will cost $23 billion to run fiber past 18 million homes, roughly half of those served by Verizon.
Foresee Results:
Google's Satisfaction Soars Propelling E-Business to an All-Time High in Latest American Customer Satisfaction Index — Yahoo! and MSN fall farther behind, says report from ACSI partner ForeSee Results — Customer satisfaction with e-business websites reaches a new high …
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Apple customer satisfaction scores gain at rivals' expense — Apple blew away its PC industry peers in this year's American Customer Satisfaction Index, perhaps because it was the only company that didn't release a Windows Vista PC. — The University of Michigan released its annual ACSI scores Tuesday …
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Jeff Smykil / Infinite Loop:Apple's customer satisfaction up despite struggling industry
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Apple Is Flailing Badly At The Edges — My first computer, purchased by my parents after nearly a year of begging, was an Apple II+. That was 1982. I was a Windows user for the next 20 years, but went back to Mac when they switched to Intel chips a couple of years ago.
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Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
LEAKED: First Shots of iPhone Nike+ Interface — We've known that Nike+ has long been in development for the iPhone. Now we're finally getting a peek at the first shots of the interface. From what we can skim, Nike+ users will get all of the nifty performance graphs right on the phone …
Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal:
Google Will Offer Services for Bloggers at the Conventions — WASHINGTON — Google Inc. will help set up a two-story, 8,000 square-foot headquarters for hundreds of bloggers descending on the Democratic convention in Denver next week, and it will offer similar services at the Republican convention …
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Pew Research Center:
Key News Audiences Now Blend Online and Traditional Sources — Audience Segments in a Changing News Environment — For more than a decade, the audiences for most traditional news sources have steadily declined, as the number of people getting news online has surged.
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
A third of Vista PCs downgraded to XP — Vista's death march picked up some pace yesterday, after a metrics researcher revealed that nearly 35 per cent of PCs built to run the Windows operating system have been downgraded to XP. — In a survey of more than 3,000 computers …
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Emil Protalinski / One Microsoft Way:
2500 Windows 7 employees broken up into 25 feature teams — When the Engineering Windows 7 blog (E7) launched last week, many were happy that Microsoft had finally opened up an official channel of communication between the Windows 7 team and the public. Still, few expected …
Vincent Nguyen / SlashGear:
Palm Quietly Unveils the Treo Pro Smartphone — Early this morning, Palm released two official press photos of the Treo Pro along with a short video of the handset in action. The company didn't reveal a whole lot of information other than the following: the Treo Pro smartphone features …
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Thomas Lee / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
YouTube co-founder looks for his next success — St. Paul Central grad Jawed Karim talks about launching start-ups, being an entrepreneur and Silicon Valley. — Many university students spend summer break painting houses, backpacking through Europe or spending some quality time with Madden 08.
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:Missing YouTube Founder Flees Facebook Froth In Valley, Seeks …
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft relaxes virtual-machine rules — Microsoft on Tuesday announced a change in its licensing policy to make it easier for businesses that want the ability to shift server software that is running in a virtual machine from one physical machine to another.
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Don Reisinger / Mashable!:
Lotame Grabs $13 Million in Funding for New Advertising Idea — Online advertising is the key to the future for companies that want to be successful, but a small firm called Lotame has just raised $13 million in Series B funding to take aim at advertisers and provide a unique way of getting in front of the target audience.
Kiyoshi Takenaka / Reuters:
Overheated iPod nano caused fires — TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's trade ministry said on Tuesday that three fires had been caused by overheating Apple iPod nanos, which it said could be due to a battery defect. — No one was injured in the three fires involving the music players made by Apple Inc …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Mobile handset sales down in 2Q: Market share race has three horses — NPD Group on Tuesday announced its second quarter handset sales tally and 28 million units were shipped to consumers, down 13 percent from a year ago. — According to NPD, second quarter handset revenue was $2.4 billion, down 2 percent from a year ago.
Royal Pingdom:
New SSL policy in Firefox hurting tens of thousands of sites — With Firefox 3, Mozilla has changed the way Firefox handles SSL certificates. This change could scare away visitors from tens of thousands of websites that have expired or self-signed SSL certificates.
Muxtape:
No artists or labels have complained. The site is not closed indefinitely. Stay tuned. — Beta users of Muxtape For Bands: you are unaffected by this outage.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Our Newest Report: Online Advertising VC and M&A Deals In The Last Year — Following our analysis of Social Media Deals, we've pleased to announce our first Online Advertising Deals Report, charting activity in venture capital and mergers & acquisitions from Q107 to Q208.
