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Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
LEAKED: First Shots of iPhone Nike+ Interface — We've long known that Nike+ has 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 …
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RIAA Says Muxtape Hosting “Illegal Content” — Sam Gustin has learned that Muxtape, the music sharing site that went down yesterday citing “a problem” with the RIAA, has received numerous requests to take down content the industry group deems “illegal.” — Those requests apparently went unheeded — until yesterday.
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Muxtape:No artists or labels have complained. The site is not closed indefinitely.
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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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DSLreports, NewTeeVee, paidContent.org, Telecompetitor, Between the Lines, Know It All, GigaOM and Beet.TV
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PC World:
Watching the Olympics on Your Mac — Christopher Breen, Macworld.com — As you may have heard, there's a smallish sporting event going on in China. Despite its humbleness, people seem to be interested in the thing. Some of them use Macs. And some of those Mac users are more that a little peeved …
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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.
Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Apple willing to replace any smoking first-gen iPod Nanos — If you're still hanging on to your first-generation iPod Nano, and you've noticed it has a tendency to smoke too much, Apple is willing to replace the unit. — The company issued a statement Tuesday after reports out of Japan …
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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.
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Mapping Facebook's Growth Over Time — Using Google's new Insights for Search tool, Inside Facebook has mapped Facebook's US and international search growth over time from its launch in February 2004 to the present. Note that while these are not visits, searches and visits do generally correlate.
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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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Google Blogoscoped, Ars Technica, Epicenter, GMSV, ZDNet Government, Blog World Expo Blog, Gawker, dailywireless.org and WebProNews
Matt Peckham / Game On:
Emily is Not Real: The End of “Real” Actors? — I have seen the future of computer-generated video game animation, her name is Emily, and Emily is not real — or is she? See for yourself in the following clip just released from 3D facial animation company Image Metrics, and which I read about in The Times Online this morning.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
IDF: Intel thumps its chest on everything from Atom to Nehalem — Now the commercial starts. If the morning keynote here at the Intel Development Forum conference by Intel Chairman Craig Barrett was light on the Intel hard sell, the afternoon is full of it.
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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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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Mac OS X 10.5.5 build 9F17 now in developers' hands — Alongside the public release of iPhone Software v2.0.2 on Monday, Apple also provided its Mac OS X developers with a new private build of the upcoming Mac OS X 10.5.5 Update, AppleInsider has been told.
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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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CNET News.com, VentureBeat, GMSV, TechCrunch, Kelsey Group Blogs, Blog World Expo Blog, WebProNews and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
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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BetaNews, Microsoft Subnet's blog, TG Daily, Computerworld, The Open Road, AppScout and Gizmodo
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.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
IE 8 to get ‘porn mode’? — The countdown to Internet Explorer (IE) 8 Beta 2 is on. Microsoft said the consumer-focused IE 8 test release would be available in August. There are just 11 days left.... No doubt, Microsoft has been holding back some features that will be added to the new test build.
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InfoWorld:
Judge dissolves gag order against MIT students — A U.S. District Court judge on Tuesday dissolved a gag order against a trio of MIT students who said they found flaws in the Massachusetts transit authority's ticketing system. — Zack Anderson, Russell “RJ” Ryan, and Alessandro Chiesa …
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.
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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CNET News.com, Engadget, Unwired View, Electronista, Gadget Lab, Gadgetell, Gizmodo, PalmInfocenter, I4U News, The Mobile Gadgeteer, The Register and PalmAddicts
Mark Potts / Recovering Journalist:
What Will Happen When the Presses Go Silent? — The Boston Globe had a story the other about the travails of the Portland Press Herald last week, and it included a plaintive and intriguing question from a reader of the struggling, up-for-sale Maine paper: — “Can you even be a major city without a daily paper?”
