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Rafe Needleman / CNET News:
Twitter Search to dive deeper, rank results — Twitter Search will become a lot more useful soon, the microblogging site's new vice president of operations said Wednesday night. — Santosh Jayaram, who until recently was vice president of search quality for Google, was on a panel I was moderating in the evening.
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Scott Moritz / TheStreet.com:
Tech Rumor of the Day: Apple — AT&T (T Quote) is considering a $10 price cut for the iPhone's monthly service plan when Apple (AAPL Quote) introduces the newest version of the phone next month. — There is a “strong possibility” that AT&T will drop the entry-level price to $59 from $69 …
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John Herrman / Gizmodo:
iPhone Beta 5 Odds and Ends: No More MMS, Better YouTube? — The official script may have minimized it as a maintenance release, but some users are finding out that iPhone Beta 5 contains more than bugfixes. So far: YouTube's improved, and hacked MMS is no more.
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Ian Paul / PC World:
Latest iPhone 3.0 Beta Reveals Parental Controls — Developers got an unexpected surprise yesterday after Apple released a new beta of the iPhone OS 3.0 and a second version of iTunes 8.2. This release comes just eight days after Apple released 3.0 beta 4 and the first public version of iTunes 8.2.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Revisiting the ROI of the Kindle DX: Why is Amazon blind to Wi-Fi? — Amazon unveiled its much hyped Kindle DX, an e-book with a 9.7-inch screen designed to raise a ruckus in the textbook market, but delivered a $489 curve ball that seriously alters the return on investment calculation for academia.
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Saul Hansell / Bits:The Kindle Lets Amazon Make a Lot From the Few
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Canada NewsWire Group:
Canadians to Get Android-Powered Smartphones: Rogers Wireless prepares for the Mobile Revolution with the exclusive Canadian launch of the HTC Dream and HTC Magic — Rogers Wireless today announced the exclusive Canadian launch in June 2009 of the HTC Dream(TM) and HTC Magic(TM) smartphones …
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*Shacknews* Games:
Duke Nukem Developer 3D Realms Shuts Down (Update 3) — Update 3: 3D Realms webmaster Joe Siegler has commented on the shut down, stating: “It's not a marketing thing. It's true. I have nothing further to say at this time.” — Siegler's post also reflects the unexpected nature of the situation …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Intel, Novell stump for Moblin netbook OS — Intel and Novell on Thursday announced a deal to push Moblin, the open source Linux platform designed to work with the chip giant's Atom chip. Intel cooked up Moblin and then handed it off to the open source community. — Among the details of the plan:
Andrew Clark / Guardian:
Free web news era over, says Rupert Murdoch — Current days of free internet will soon be over, says media mogul — Rupert Murdoch expects to start charging for access to News Corporation's newspaper websites within a year as he strives to fix a "malfunctioning" business model.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Sirius XM Ups Full Year Outlook; But Subs Are Shrinking — Sirius XM (SIRI) this morning raised its full year outlook - but its subscriber base is shrinking. — For the first quarter, the satellite radio company posted pro forma revenue of $605.5 million, up 5% from a year ago, but below the Street consensus of $578.8 million.
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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Microsoft tweaks antipiracy tech for Windows 7 — With Windows 7, Microsoft is making some subtle changes to the ways it tries to thwart piracy. — As has been the case for some time, Microsoft's strategy hinges on requiring a user to electronically verify their copy of the software …
The Official Google Blog:
Tuning in to TV data — This post is the latest in an ongoing series on The Power of Measurement. Previous topics have covered ways to make your website as successful as possible through tools such as Analytics and Website Optimizer. -Ed. — What if the ads we saw when watching TV were always just what we wanted to see?
Genevieve Carbery / The Irish Times:
Student's Wikipedia hoax quote used worldwide in newspaper obituaries — A WIKIPEDIA hoax by a 22-year-old Dublin student resulted in a fake quote being published in newspaper obituaries around the world. — The quote was attributed to French composer Maurice Jarre who died at the end of March.
Will Head / The Register:
Asus Eee Box B206 … Review On the outside, there's little to distinguish the Asus Eee Box B206 from its predecessor - put the two side by side and you'd be hard pressed to spot the difference. The only real external clue is the DVI connector on the back of the original Eee Box has been replaced by an HDMI port instead.
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Garmin launches Oregon 550 and Oregon 550t outdoor navigators — Did you seriously shell out to have ARGONAUT plastered on your license plate? Oh, yeah? Listen up. Garmin has just pushed out a new duo of navigators aimed squarely at you, the Oregon 550 and Oregon 550t.
PR Newswire:
Vonage Holdings Corp. Reports First Quarter 2009 Results — Sixth Consecutive Quarter of Growth in Adjusted EBITDA(1) - — Second Consecutive Quarter of Positive Income from Operations - — GAAP Net Income of $5 Million or $0.03 per Share - — Vonage Holdings Corp. (NYSE …
Bill Bulkeley / Digits:
Xerox Launches Revolutionary Color Printer — Many companies restrict the use of color printers because of high costs — up to eight cents a page, compared to a penny a page for black and white. Xerox hopes to loosen up the color pursestrings with a new $20,000 printer that is says will sharply cut those costs.
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Adds New Feed And Friend Filters — Want to view which of your friends recently updated their profile? It is a feature that was lost with the new Facebook redesign, but as of last night, there are new filters which give you greater access to your friends' latest activities.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Historical Perspective: At Least This Time Around We Don't Have Incubators For Incubators — Silicon Valley and the Internet community in general gets a lot of criticism and jeering over some of the absurd ideas that turn into venture funded startups. People make fun of the business plans …
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Arn / MacRumors:
Psystar Working on Mac OS X Netbook? — Unauthorized Mac clone manufacturer Psystar remains embroiled in legal battle with Apple after initiating sales of their first Mac clone back in April 2008. ZDNet Asia summarizes the case today which remains in the discovery process:
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple proposes iTunes kiosks for movie downloads on the go — Apple has put some effort into conceptualizing a family of next-generation wireless iTunes kiosks that can be placed just about anywhere, allowing users of its portable products to load their devices with a new full-length movie …
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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Ballmer: We need to be more disruptive in search — PALO ALTO, Calif.—While trailing Google badly in search has lots of disadvantages, it also opens some doors, says Steve Ballmer. And, he said, it's time Microsoft starts walking through more of those doors.
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