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Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
A New iPhone Is Already Old News — Some are now betting Apple's biggest announcement in June won't be a phone at all. — BURLINGAME, Calif.—The new iPhone is now one of three things: — A: The worst-kept secret in the tech industry. — B: An incipient public relations disaster of biblical proportions.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple: Barclays Expects New iPhones; Ups Target, Ests — Barclays Capital analyst Ben Reitzes this morning pounded the table on Apple (AAPL), repeating his Overweight rating, upping his price target to $143, from $113, and increasing his estimates. For the September 2009 fiscal year he now sees $5, up from $4.85.
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
A.P. to Take On Web Aggregators — Taking aim at the way news is spread across the Internet, The Associated Press said on Monday that it will demand that Web sites obtain permission to use the work of The A.P. or its member newspapers, and share revenue with the news organizations, and that it will take legal action those that do not.
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Why baseball benched Microsoft Silverlight — The thwacking sounds of bats striking balls will once again fill stadiums, as Monday is opening day for Major League Baseball. This year, Microsoft will watch from the sidelines. — MLB.com no longer uses Microsoft's Silverlight to stream games to its 500,000 subscribers.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:MLB's Web Video Puts Everyone Else To Shame
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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple listing implies iPod touch to eventually gain digital camera [Updated] — Apple holds aspirations of extending digital camera functions found on its popular iPhone handset to its iPod touch digital media players, according a listing posted on the company's website last month.
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The Official Google Blog:
Google becomes more local — If you're like us, you're constantly looking for things in your neighborhood, whether it's [restaurants in zurich] or a new [dentist in houston]. If you specify your location in your query, we often show your results on a map.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
New iPhone To Have FM Radio Transmitter, Video Editing — In addition to faster wi-fi networking via a new wireless chip, Apple's (AAPL) next iPhone — which we expect the company to announce on June 8 — will have a built-in FM transmitter, 9 to 5 Mac reports.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
X-Men Leak Downloaded Over a Million Times — Less than a week after 20th Century Fox's ‘upcoming’ blockbuster first appeared online, and three long weeks before the official premiere in the movie theaters, over a million people have already downloaded X-Men Origins: Wolverine via BitTorrent.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Closing the loop: Howard Stern picks BlackBerry Bold over Pre — Howard Stern got his Palm Pre demo and picked the BlackBerry Bold instead. — As noted last week, Palm worked the word of mouth marketing for the Pre and received a lot of air time from Stern. That word of mouth turned into a commercial for RIM, however.
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Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
How I Came to Get a PC and Not a Mac — I don't buy new computers very often, and for a long time I slightly favored Macs over Windows PCs. So no one perhaps is more surprised than me that my now four-month old laptop is a Sony and not an Apple. I found my decision process to be similar …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
YouTube, Sony Pictures in talks over feature films — “YouTube is in negotiations with Sony Pictures to get licensing rights to some of the studio's movies. The Professional” is from Sony Pictures and is available at Crackle.com. — YouTube is in talks to acquire licensing rights …
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Bret Taylor / FriendFeed Blog:
A new design for FriendFeed at http://beta.friendfeed.com/ — We've been spending a lot of time thinking about how to improve FriendFeed. And we've been tinkering with those ideas at http://beta.friendfeed.com. — Today, we're opening up that site for you to try it for yourself.
Information Architects:
Web Trend Map 4 - Final Beta — Here it is, posted in a panic: Web Trend Map 4. We'll give you a week for final feedback before we send it to the printer. Download: For the final feedback round, we only offer a PNG (2.6MB). There are more formats to come. Feedback: Use the comment section below for feedback. ...
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
OpenMoko hits a snag, hangs up on its next-gen phone — OpenMoko CEO Sean Moss-Pultz says that the company will have to delay—and possibly cancel—the launch of its next-generation handset. The company is refocusing its efforts on its current product, the FreeRunner, and a new secret initiative that is referred to only as Project B.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Sun following the IBM deal collapse: Customer confusion en route — Sun Microsystems won't be acquired by IBM after all. Now the explaining—mostly to customers and shareholders—really begins. — Sun will tell its customers that the IBM deal was just a slight detour and that the company's plan …
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Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Time Warner laying ground for possible AOL spin — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc said on Monday it is asking some bondholders to change credit terms, a move expected to pave the way for a spin-off of its beleaguered Internet unit AOL. — The media conglomerate …
Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
Should AT&T be obliged to enable Skype for the iPhone? — What may already have become the iPhone's most popular app is sending bad vibes to its US-based carrier, which last Friday signaled that enough is enough. — With the P2P voice communication service Skype now available for Apple's iPhone …
Ben Kunz / Business Week:
A Pricing Revolution Looms in Online Advertising — Demographic profiling and behavioral targeting by such companies as Google, Quantcast, and ValueClick is slashing ad costs and threatening Web publishers — Look just to the right of this article. There, on your computer screen …
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Steven Grady / SlashGear:
Blackberry Storm 2 due in September, has WiFi — According to a source very close to the issue, Verizon has given the go for RIM to release the BlackBerry Storm 2 in September of this year. The followup to the groundbreaking Storm that was released last year as the first touchscreen Blackberry …
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Will the iPhone 3.0 Fuel a Second Gold Rush? — As I reported in Sunday's Times, the iPhone has been a golden ticket for some developers who have cashed in on the platform with popular applications. — But the chances of hitting the iLotto have grown increasingly slim.
Maneesh Arora / The Official Google Blog:
CVS joins Google Health Rx network: millions can access medication records online — When I first started working on Google Health, I was shocked by how hard it is for people to access their own medical records. I wondered why that's the case when it's so easy to access other types …
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Ty McMahan / Digits:
Payment Processor Revolution Money Pumped With $42M — At a time when both consumers and merchants are looking for ways to cut costs, several major financial firms and individual investors have pumped $42 million into Revolution Money, the payment-processing company backed by AOL co-founder Steve Case.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft will allow Windows 7 users to downgrade to XP — Microsoft and its PC partners are going to allow Windows 7 users to downgrade not just to Windows Vista, but also to Windows XP, Microsoft officials are confirming. — Some company watchers have been wondering about the downgrade rights …
benheck.com:
Commodore 64 Original Hardware Laptop — This project somehow has the distinction of being both the longest and fastest portable electronics project I have ever done. I originally started making a C64 laptop in the fall of 2006, and kept pecking away at it every so often.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Cooliris Keeps On Growing, Adds Desktop Support — Cooliris, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based startup that makes a browser plug-in for sifting through large amounts of videos and photos on the web using a 3-D interface, is set to release a major new version of its software later this week.
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Digits:
Anti-Monopoly Law Inspires Consumer Suit Against China Mobile — From China Journal's Juliet Ye: — China's anti-monopoly law can be more than just a tool to block foreign takeovers of domestic companies (see Coke-Huiyuan). It's also being used by ordinary consumers to challenge big state firms.
