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AT&T to Deliver 3G Mobile Broadband Speed Boost — Initiatives will Deliver Faster Speeds, Enhancements to Mobile Broadband Performance, Availability
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John Paczkowski / D7 Highlights:
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson: “Wireless Is the Priority of This Business” — Randall Stephenson is just two years into his tenure as CEO of AT&T but faces challenges that have been decades in the making. Among them: remaking AT&T amid the steady decline of its landline business …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Live From Google I/O 2009 — We're here at Google I/O, the search giant's annual developer event in San Francisco. The first day's keynote address is happening right now, and we'll be covering it live. Find my notes below. — Live notes: — They're showing off some Chrome JavaScript goodness set to some odd tribal music.
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Google Bets Big on HTML 5: News from Google I/O — “Never underestimate the web,” says Google VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra in his keynote at Google I/O this morning. He goes on to tell the story of a meeting he remembers when he was VP of Platform Evangelism at Microsoft five years ago.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google's “Oprah Moment”: An Android Phone For Everyone At Google I/O — Today at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco, Vic Gundotra, the VP Engineering for Google has a special surprise saved for the end of the show: A free Android G1 for everyone in the audience.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple quietly updates $999 MacBook, again — goes back to school with free iPod touch — Shh, don't tell the press but Apple just bumped the specs on its entry-level white MacBook again. The bump measures in at just 0.13GHz on the processor, 133MHz more oomph from the DDR2 SDRAM, and an extra 40GB of disk space.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
The iPhone casts a giant shadow on the Web — Here's a pie chart that should warm Steve Jobs' heart. — That big blue slice covering 59% of the pie represents Apple's (AAPL) share of the U.S. smartphone traffic in April as measured by AdMob, the world's largest purveyor of ads on mobile apps and websites.
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Jordan Golson / GigaOM:
Android, iPhone Dominate Mobile Browsing in April 2009 — Google's Android and Apple's iPhone together accounted for almost three-quarters of web browsing on mobile devices in April, yet not even 10 percent of device sales, according to the most recent Mobile Metrics Report from AdMob.
John Paczkowski / D7 Highlights:
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz: We're a Different Company Than Google — Yahoo, “frankly, could use a little management.” Uttering those words during a conference call to discuss her appointment as CEO, Carol Bartz ushered in a new era at the Internet's perennial underachiever.
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft confirms Zune HD coming this fall — Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed its plans to take on the iPod Touch with a new, touch-screen Zune that will be able to surf the Web, play high-definition movies, and tune in to digital radio. — The Zune HD, which will be available in the U.S …
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:Seven Questions About the Zune HD
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Alexandros Roussos / SiliconRumors:
New Apple MacBook Air family with 3G and cheaper model - sources — Apple could be readying a new very attractive MacBook Air family of notebooks recent sources indicated SiliconRumors. — The most notable feature our sources expect to be added to the new MacBook Air is a built …
Peter Kafka / D7 Highlights:
Twitter Guys: We'll Still Be Running This Company in 5 Years — Meet the Internet's It Boys: Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone. A year ago their “micromessaging” platform was unknown outside of a small circle of digerati. Now the service has broken through to the mainstream …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Topsy Search Launches: ReTweets Are The New Currency Of The Web — New search engine Topsy, which has been in stealth development for three years, launches, well, now. — Before Google, search engines like AltaVista determined relevance based on how well a web page matched the query.
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Inside Sprint Now:
Sprint Palm Pre Activation — Since there are quite a few in the wild already, and we're just over a week away from launch, I figured it'd be as good a time as any to give a preview of what activation/first use will look like on the Pre, and field any questions that may come up in the process.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Rich mobile browser Skyfire launches faster version 1.0 — Skyfire, a mobile browser that wants to bring the full desktop web experience to mobile phones, is taking its product out of beta testing today and launching version 1.0. Sometimes, that's a signal that a service is ready for mass usage …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
PeopleBrowsr Tosses Its Hat In The Twitter/Facebook Desktop Client Ring — There is a heated competition taking place for which Twitter/Facebook desktop client is the fairest of them all. We've written about about TweetDeck, Twhirl / Seesmic Desktop, AlertThingy, Sobees …
Kim Tong-hyung / The Korea Times:
Google Bans Music Uploads From Blogs — Google has banned subscribers to its Korean blogging platform, Textcube (www.textcube.org), from uploading songs onto their blogs, citing the country's new anti-file sharing provisions aimed at thwarting online piracy.
Peter Kafka / D7 Highlights:
Irving Azoff, CEO of Ticketmaster Entertainment — As a longtime music executive and talent manager, Irving Azoff has had to find a way to work with everyone from inebriated rock stars to David Geffen. But he's never had to placate Washington, D.C., before.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
‘Cashmere’: Another (possible) destination on Microsoft's embedded roadmap — Microsoft is considering releasing this year a new version of the core embedded operating system that powers Windows Mobile phones and other devices. That new Windows Embedded Compact release, codenamed “Cashmere …
Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Google creates Web Elements for easy news feeds — Google has made it easier for novice Web publishers to spruce up their sites with feeds of Google's products. — Google Web Elements, set to be unveiled Wednesday at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco …
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple: Will It Cut 8GB iPhone Price To $99? — Is Apple (AAPL) going to attack the low end of the smartphone market with a big price cut in the 8 GB version of the iPhone? — RBC Capital analyst Mike Abramsky thinks they might. In a research note this morning, he notes that the company …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Ditch The Generic: Weebly Launches Free WYSIWYG Virtual Storefronts — Weebly, a popular WYSIWYG webpage maker, is launching a new feature today that will allow users to quickly make fully customized web stores using the Weebly interface they're already familiar with. — Using the new feature is simple.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Holodeck: StreetView In 360 Degrees — Google StreetView images are pretty cool, in how you can virtually spin around and see what's on a street in all directions. But far cooler is a Google StreetView “Holodeck” simulator that Google has at its Mountain View campus.
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Reuters:
Intel sees netbook cannibalisation at about 20 pct — * Netbook cannibalisation of notebook market at 20 pct — * Inventories now seen in balance with demand — Cannibalisation of laptop computer sales by lower-priced netbooks is currently about 20 percent, “less than speculation” …
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft's Ballmer whoops it up as Ford CEO delivers his new car — Too bad Ford doesn't have more customers as loyal and enthusiastic as Steve Ballmer. Then again, the Microsoft CEO is an easy sell, as a Detroit native whose father worked for the automaker.
