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John Herrman / Gizmodo:
iTunes Concept Shows How iPhone App Management Should Have Worked From the Start — Add, delete, rate, and move—these are your app options on the iPhone. This interface concept, though, puts full app management within iTunes, and makes us wonder why it wasn't there in the first place.
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Electronic Pulp
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
The day iTunes died? Spotify is working on a killer iPhone app — Ever since hot streaming music startup Spotify hired a director of “portable solutions” you just knew they were going to do something cool in mobile. And frankly there is no cooler place to do it right now than on the iPhone.
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Surprise: America is No. 1 in Broadband — There is a constant refrain that the United States is falling behind in broadband, as if the speed of Internet service in Seoul represents a new Sputnik that is a challenge to national security. — It's certainly true that in some countries …
Alex Wright / New York Times:
Exploring a ‘Deep Web’ That Google Can't Grasp — One day last summer, Google's search engine trundled quietly past a milestone. It added the one trillionth address to the list of Web pages it knows about. But as impossibly big as that number may seem, it represents only a fraction of the entire Web.
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
iPhone apps for Lady Gaga, Pussycat Dolls and other UMG artists — Interscope Geffen A&M is launching iPhone applications for five of its key artists, through a partnership with mobile firm Kyte. The five are Lady Gaga, the Pussycat Dolls, Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, the All American Rejects, and Keri Hilson.
Rac / ubiq_uitous communication …:
Apple wireless keyboard used with an iPhone — Here is a short video showing the interacting devices (Apple wireless keyboard, iPhone, communicating over Bluetooth) in operation. — Feels like getting closer to the “mainstreaming” goal - it uses hardware that comes of the shelf …
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The iPhone Blog, GottaBeMobile.com, TUAW, Electronic Pulp, Engadget Mobile, MobileDevicesToday and techeblog.com
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Huawei Android devices hitting T-Mobile in Q3 2009? — Huawei's “look but don't touch” Android handset at Mobile World Congress last week was quite the disappointment: if it wasn't for the display around it, you'd not know what OS the device was meant to be running.
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Rejected! 10 iPhone Apps That Didn't Make Apple's App Store — A ‘throw shoes at Bush’ app, a breast-jiggler, a naughty entry from the South Park guys—these are some of the iPhone apps that Apple unceremoniously denied shelf space — JR Raphael, PC World
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo CEO Plans Overhaul — Not yet six weeks into the job, Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Carol Bartz is preparing a company-wide reorganization that underscores the new CEO's belief in a more top-down managerial approach. — The plan aims to speed-up decision-making and give Yahoo products …
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Greg Sterling / Screenwerk:
AOL + Oodle = AOL Classifieds — Oodle as become the vendor/partner of choice it would appear for third parties seeking to add or beef up classifieds — a missed opportunity for eBay/Kijij. Today AOL launched a new classifieds site: Classifieds.AOL.com. There's also a Canadian specific site at Classifieds.AOL.ca.
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Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Friedman Misses the Point and Economic Reality of Silicon Valley — Thomas Friedman is a very smart man and a very good writer. He's certainly sold more books than I ever will. But in reading his latest column arguing $20 billion in bailout money should go to VCs not auto companies …
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Doug Goldring / Gear Diary:
Review: Clarion Mind - Media, Internet, and Directions All-In-One? Not Quite. — For some time now, there has been a gap between PDA/phones and notebook computers, various form factors have been introduced to fill this void, but until the ASUS eeepc, none have been particularly successful.
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GottaBeMobile.com
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Why Web radio faces another crisis — Few people know this but for a little while last year, the music-royalty rates that Web radio stations have complained about for years appeared to be behind them. — In a midtown Manhattan law office last November 6, representatives from Webcasting companies …
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Ryan Kim / San Francisco Chronicle:
Internet taking piece of cable TV business — (02-22) 16:17 PST — Hyun Gu Lee, a 26-year-old software engineer from Belmont, discontinued his cable TV service after doing a little math and exploring his options. — He kept his $60 a month cable service to follow his favorite show, “Heroes …
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The Business Of Online Video
