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Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
Microsoft Aims Big Guns at Google, Asks Consumers to Rethink Search — Here's Why an $80M Ad Effort for a Search Engine, Bing, Makes Some Sense — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Microsoft has used attack ads to go after Apple, and now it has Google in its sights.
Arn / MacRumors:
Unreleased iPhone2,1 Icon Reveals No Major Physical Changes? — A MacTalk.com.au forum thread reveals that the unreleased “iPhone2,1” model that has been previously referenced actually includes its own icon within the iPhone 3.0 SDK. The icon, however, appears identical to the iPhone1,2 model which represents the current iPhone 3G.
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Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Exclusive: Everything There Is To Know About Nokia's Next Tablet — Move over, Nokia N97. Your bigger, badder, unannounced brother is on the way - and one of our sources at Nokia has just clued us in on all of the details, from worldwide launch targets to hardware specs.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Sprint's Pre business launch guide leaked in its entirety — Sprint has published a real page turner here — some 22 pages of the most telling Pre details we've seen to date. It's a very business-centric document, but a lot of the stuff revealed in here applies to each and every user that's buying …
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Ross Miller / Engadget:
Palm Eos on track for AT&T release second half of 2009 — The Palm news just keeps coming today. Looks like Centro successor Eos might be coming sooner than expected, with this purported AT&T powerpoint slide listing a second half 2009 ship date, along with a “new Palm OS experience” …
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Payoff Over a Web Sensation Is Elusive — Susan Boyle, the frumpy Scotswoman who became a worldwide singing sensation last month, may wind up as the winner this week of “Britain's Got Talent,” the hit ITV show. — After a six-week absence, she returned on Sunday night to sing “Memory” …
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The Thrica Network:
Safari 4's Messy Trail — Those of you who've been trying out the new Safari 4 beta - at least on the Mac, though I imagine you could find similar data trails on the Windows version too - have no doubt been impressed at its shiny new features. But if you're a stickler for disk space like I am …
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
HTC Lancaster is a QWERTY slider with Android for AT&T — AT&T's been extraordinarily coy about its Android plans, right up through our interview with Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega back in February — but rest assured, the carrier does plan to get in the game, and it might just beat a number of T-Mobile's planned launches to market.
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent.org:
The Man Who Owns LiveSearch.com (No, He Doesn't Work For Microsoft) — One thing that has likely hampered Microsoft's efforts to boost Live Search's market share—and perhaps contributed to its decision to consider renaming the search engine—is that it does not own the LiveSearch.com domain name.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Lenovo gets budget-friendly with IdeaPad U350, G550 and IdeaCentre C300 — The IdeaPad S12 isn't the only new kit flowing from RTP today, as Lenovo is also choosing to celebrate Memorial Day with two new lappies and an all-in-one desktop. Starting things off is the IdeaPad U350 (shown above) …
John Herrman / Gizmodo:
June 1st New Yorker Cover Drawn Entirely on the iPhone — Artist Jorge Colombo took about an hour to fingerpaint an intricate Times Square scene on his iPhone using Brushes, a $4.99 iPhone drawing app. Now, it's the June 1st cover for The New Yorker. — I'm guessing the editors …
Don Clark / Digits:
Hints of a New Market for Cheap, Power-Sipping Servers — Netbooks are hot. Intel estimates that the laptops-which can cost less than $300-sold faster in their first 12 months on the market than Apple's iPhone or Nintendo's Wii game console did. Could a similar low-end niche emerge in server systems?