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Kit Eaton / Gizmodo:
Leaked Document Shows Verizon's Psyops Anti-iPhone Propaganda — Oh, deary deary me... Verizon's tactics to combat the JesusPhone 3G now include briefing its employees about the iPhone's failings, so they can answer customer questions about why it doesn't carry the device.
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Digital Daily, Portfolio.com, iPhone Buzz, 9 to 5 Mac, MobileCrunch, Valleywag and Boy Genius Report
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Wired.com's iPhone 3G Survey Reveals Network Weaknesses — Wired.com's survey of iPhone 3G users suggests that widespread data speed problems have more to do with carriers' networks than with Apple's handsets. — Recently Wired.com asked iPhone 3G users all around the world to participate in a study …
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GP/Göteborg:
Iphone 3G antenna test — Is there a problem with Iphone's antenna? Is the coverage worse than for other mobiles? There are many rumors on the internet. In the USA someone is going to sue Apple. We took our iphone to a test chamber for fact-finding.
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Apple's iPhone 3G connection problems don't appear to be Apple's problems — For those still thinking Apple is going to have to recall the iPhone 3G over faulty chip issues hampering its connections, there are two reports today suggesting that will not happen.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
No Matter How NBC Spins It, Olympics Web Strategy Comes Up A Loser — Despite its special Silverlight-powered Website and more than 2,000 hours of online video, it looks like NBC flubbed its opportunity to make its Olympics Web revenues more than a rounding error.
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Portfolio.com, Business Technology, HipMojo.com, Contentinople, NewTeeVee, Ars Technica, BloggingStocks, DailyTech, dailywireless.org, Know It All and Beet.TV
IEBlog:
IE8 and Privacy — As others have written here before, users should be in control of their information. That's at the core of privacy. Privacy has two aspects: disclosure and choice. Disclosure means informing users in plain language about the data collected about them and how it's used.
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Amazon may enter college textbook market with new Kindle — The student textbook market will soon welcome another newcomer to the market in the form of a revamped Amazon Kindle, according to McAdams Wright Ragen analyst Tim Bueneman. If true, it will have to compete with a number …
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Digital Daily, Portfolio.com, TeleRead, Andrea on Amazon.com …, GMSV, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, BloggingStocks, Epicenter, PalmAddicts, Valleywag and WebProNews
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:Kindle Sales To Get A Boost? Chase, Amazon Push $100-Off Deal
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Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC NEWS:
Scrabulous users - stunned, bemused,baffled. — My inbox is filling up with the grief-stricken, the angry, the lost and the desperate. Who are they? Sad obsessives who played Scrabulous on Facebook. They had been through a spasm of anxiety a few weeks back when the word game …
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Disqus Lets You Profit From Comments on Other Blogs and Grabs Some SEO For Themselves — Have you ever been stuck wondering what to post on your blog? Can't seem to find a topic that suits the current situation? Well a new feature called “Reblogging” launched today by comment replacement service Disqus …
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Open Tech Mac Clone Company Wants To Sell Itself For $50,000 — It's only been three weeks since the Mac “clone” company Open Tech made its debut, but it's already putting itself up for sale for $50,000. In an email on July 20, their Vice President Elijah Samaroo said that they were going to …
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Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:
Introducing Digg Dialogg — Hey Everyone - — We want to give the Digg community an opportunity to pose questions to some of the individuals and leaders of the moment (sans editors), who are taking action to change the world in cool ways. To do this, we're launching a new program called “Digg Dialogg.”
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ReadWriteWeb, TECH.BLORGE.com, TechCrunch, Homotron.net, muhammad saleem, Mashable!, WebProNews, webmonkey and inside-ireport
Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Tells CNBC That Dinner's Still On — Apparently Google isn't discontinuing free dinner at the Googleplex after all: The company told CNBC's Jim Goldman this afternoon that the rumors, started yesterday by Valleywag, are completely untrue and that they don't know where they came from.
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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:Dinner saved for Google's geeks
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VentureBeat, Epicenter, Scott Gatz's Blog, WebProNews, Tech Trader Daily, Beyond Search and Silicon Alley Insider
Electronista:
Nokia unveils N79, N85 smartphones [U] — (Update: official release due tomorrow) Nokia today fulfilled a promise from earlier this month with two new Nseries devices both aimed at driving down the cost of getting into full smartphones. The N85 as flagship appears set to replace the N81 …
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Pocket-lint.co.uk, Engadget, IntoMobile, Unwired View, MobileCrunch, CrunchGear, Gizmodo, Tech Blog, Phone Scoop and Crave
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Microsoft invests in Net video company Move Networks — Microsoft has invested in Internet TV company Move Networks for an undisclosed sum, in a move to broaden the reach of its video streaming technology. — The investment comes roughly five months after the two companies struck a strategic partnership.
Don Reisinger / The Digital Home:
Why Apple should release a touch-screen Mac — Apple is one of the major leaders in the multitouch space and yet, the company's desire to bring a full-fledged touch-screen device to store shelves has stopped with the iPhone. In fact, the most it has done in bringing multitouch to its computers …
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
OpenClip, she is dead — For those of you who do not remember - or do not care to remember - OpenClip was supposed to be an open framework for implementing the Cocoa NSPasteboard functionality to the iPhone. While I'm thinking that if Apple wanted to implement copy/paste into the iPhone …
Mahalis / Two Finger Play:
Over, for now — Well — I've received notice from Apple that they've been contacted by The Tetris® Company about Tris. That, I'm afraid, is essentially game over. Do they have a case? No. Not really. I am convinced that if it went to court, the “copyright” claim would get thrown out completely.
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Gizmodo, Macworld, MacRumors iPhone Blog, Unwired View, Touch Arcade and The iPhone Blog
