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MacTalk Australia:
Rumour: 16GB iPhone Declared “End of Life” By Vodafone & Brightpoint — We usually don't report on rumours here at MacTalk , but a trusted source has brought this to our attention this evening: Vodafone has sent out an email to retail staff stating that the 16GB iPhone has been marked as …
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SlashGear, AppleInsider, iLounge, Apple iPhone Apps, Unwired View, Boy Genius Report, Gadget Lab, The iPhone Blog, iPhone Buzz, p2pnet, tinyComb and O'Grady's PowerPage
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
32GB iPhone placeholder appears at T-Mobile Austria — Take it for what it's worth (which may be nothing, quite honestly), but a bona fide “iPhone 32GB” placeholder has appeared in the ‘Coming Soon’ section on T-Mobile Austria's website. Generally speaking, we wouldn't give this kind of slip …
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iLounge, The iPhone Blog, MobileCrunch, SlashGear, Electronista, iPhone Buzz, TUAW, Cellphone News … and 9 to 5 Mac, Thanks:shankargan
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Pew Center illustrates how Craigslist is killing newspapers — It's tough to compete with free. — The use of online classifieds sites, such as Craigslist, has more than doubled in the past four years, according to a study published Friday by the Pew Research Center.
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Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
Craigslist Gets Restraining Order Against A.G. — After weeks of bluster about Craigslist, South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster agreed today to a temporary order preventing him from bringing criminal charges against company executives. — “Until the court rules on the merits …
Louis Gray:
Twitter's Search Engine Is Very, Very, Broken — Given all the rumors about Google possibly talking to Twitter about search, or the Mountain View giant taking on the world of real-time, you would think that Twitter's dramatic growth and user adoption would see the microblogging company sitting …
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Kelly Hodgkins / Boy Genius Report:
Low inventory is forcing Best Buy Mobile to launch the Palm Pre in two phases — Contrary to the naysayers, looks like those rumors about Best Buy Mobile having low Palm Pre inventory are indeed true. In fact, thanks to one of our ninjas we now know that Best Buy Mobile's own Pre launch guide lays …
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Technologizer, PreCentral.net, Electronista, PhoneDog.com, Edible Apple, Pre News, My Pre, MobileCrunch, Gizmodo, SlashGear and WebOS Arena
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James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:Not All Sprint Stores Carrying the Pre- Find Out Which Ones Near You Will
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Engadget Mobile, Boy Genius Report, PC World, E-Commerce Times, CrunchGear, GMSV, PreCentral.net and Gizmodo
Lee Mathews / Download Squad:
Microsoft dumps 3-app limit from Windows 7 Starter — See that little alert above? Take a good look, because if Paul Thurrott's exclusive is on target you won't be seeing it in Windows 7 Starter Edition. Believe it or not, Microsoft has done an about-face on the three simultaneous application limit.
Mike Musgrove / Washington Post:
It's Made of 100% Cotton; Its Sales Are 99% Ironic — Something strange happened this week in Amazon.com's apparel section. — For a day or two, a black T-shirt featuring an image of three wolves baying at a full moon claimed the top slot at the online store's clothing bestseller list …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Lawyer: RIAA must pay back all $100M it has collected — Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson is branching out. — For years he watched with horror as the RIAA demanded money from tens of thousands of Americans, finally getting into the ring himself when federal judge Nancy Gertner connected …
Bambi Francisco / VatorNews:
Ron Conway: I'm not on Twitter or Facebook — ...and Conway's thoughts on mobile investing, Apple, Digg, AdMob, IPOs and M&A — Mobile advertising is as one Advertising Age writer put it: This great white whale that is forever on the horizon but perpetually out of reach.
KwameJones's Open Salon Blog:
iPhone to get iTunes TV and Movies! — In a long awaited move (at least by me), it appears that Apple will begin to allow downloads of movies and tv shows through the iPhone. This revelation, (again at least to me) comes by way of an advertisement in the new ad supported version of the app Twitterfon released on 5/15/09.
Carlo Longino / Techdirt:
MPAA Points Out That Real Once Argued Against Fair Use Exceptions To The DMCA — The MPAA's suit to block Real Networks' RealDVD software rolls on, with some twists and turns. The latest is that the MPAA says that about 10 years ago, Real made the same argument that the MPAA is making in this case …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:At RealDVD hearing, MPAA says copying DVDs never legal
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TechFlash, Ars Technica, PC World, BetaNews, CrunchGear, p2pnet, PlagiarismToday, Reuters and GigaLaw.com Daily News
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Seesmic Adds Facebook Comments, Now I'm Looking For A Raft (Or A Boat) — A few minutes ago Seesmic rolled out the latest version of their desktop application which now includes Facebook comments, spell check, and Twitter spam reporting. I've downloaded it and tested it out and while it's …
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Mashable!
Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: Inbox preview — Whenever I open up my inbox at work, I'm never surprised to find several new messages waiting to be read. The same thing can't always be said about my personal Gmail account. Sometimes I end up checking my mail only to find nothing new there. — No big deal, really.
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Download Squad, PC World, Lifehacker, CloudAve, InformationWeek, Enterprise Irregulars, TechCrunch, geeksugar, AppScout and Mashable!, Thanks:sinkercat
Orlando Sentinel:
Are astronaut's space ‘tweets’ cheats? — NASA astronaut Mike Massimino uses a laptop aboard shuttle Atlantis this week. NASA says he is the first to tweet from space. He typed his tweets as e-mails from this laptop, and once sent to the ground, a NASA employee in Houston posted them to his Twitter account.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Report: Microsoft readies new maximum specs for Windows 7 netbooks — Microsoft is readying a set of maximum specs for Windows 7 netbooks -or, as Microsoft prefers to call them, “small notebooks” — that will likely dictate which PCs will qualify for lower per-copy Windows 7 pricing.
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Technologizer, Fast Company, Softpedia News, Electronista, Enterprise Irregulars, blogs.chron.com, Gizmodo, Engadget, Ubergizmo and CloudAve
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Counting Down to the End of Moore's Law — “We're looking at a brick wall five years down the road,” Eli Harari, the chief executive of SanDisk, said to me earlier this week. — In 1990, when SanDisk, which he founded, shipped its first generation of flash memory — the sort …
David Chartier / Macworld:
More senseless iPhone app rejections tarnish the App Store — The App Store is becoming almost as famous for rejecting applications as it is for selling one billion of them. The iPhone app body count has recently grown by two, including a high-profile e-book reader and a compatibility update …
Daisy Whitney / Hollywood Reporter:
Google invades upfront marketplace — Deutsch, Saatchi among agencies using Google TV Ads — SAN FRANCISCO — Google TV Ads has begun booking upfront deals with major agencies and advertisers for the first time. — Marketers are committing upwards of seven figures to buy ads through …
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CNET News, MediaMemo, NewTeeVee, paidContent.org, Silicon Alley Insider, Beet.TV and Company Town
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
First look: Google Chrome 2.0 - Fast but lacking features — Google has released Chrome 2.0. The speed-demon browser gets an additional kick of speed, a few more features, and a load of bug fixes. — First, let's look at the speed side of things. Google's Chrome browser was already fast …
Andrew LaVallee / Digits:
OpenTable Shares Slip in Second Day — After a 59% jump in its first day of trading, OpenTable saw its shares lose some ground Friday. — Bloomberg News — Magnus Bocker, president of Nasdaq OMX Group, left; Jeff Jordan, CEO of OpenTable, center; and Bob McCooey, senior vice president of Nasdaq OMX, on May 22 in New York.
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Facebook tell-all ‘Accidental Billionaires’ on sale in July — This one sure snuck up on us: “The Accidental Billionaires,” author Ben Mezrich's presumably tawdry take on Facebook's origins, is hitting bookshelves on July 14. — Last we'd heard, it was getting released this fall.
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The Daily Beast
Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:
Sony Ericsson prepping Android 2.0 smartphones — Sony Ericsson is preparing to launch Google phones running on Android 2.0 operating system (OS), according to Peter Ang, vice president of marketing, Asia Pacific at Sony Ericsson. — The Android 2.0 will have more multimedia support that the previous Android OS, Ang explained.
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
AT&T also running dry of iPhones, offering refurbs [U] — With a little over three weeks to go before Apple's annual developers conference — the same forum used to introduce the iPhone 3G last year — AT&T is reportedly running out of current models and won't be restocking. (Updated with AT&T's official stance)
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Facebook simplifies currency ahead of wider roll-out — Credits, Facebook's nascent virtual currency of sorts, is getting a simple change tonight. The company is marking down items in its gift store from 100 credits to 10 credits, and reducing users' corresponding number of credits.
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CNET News
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
No Recovery This Year: Cowen Says Online Ad Spend Will Fall 6 Percent — While some might hold out hope that the economy could stabilize in the second half of the year, Cowen & Co. have lowered their revenue forecast for U.S. online ads to a 6 percent decline in 2009 to $22 billion.
