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Om Malik / GigaOM:
AT&T Moves Up Its LTE Rollout, Admits To Network Issues — Nothing quite works like the threat of the possibility of losing a money-making asset. With rumors that Apple is flirting with Verizon over a future partnership, AT&T has abruptly changed its future wireless broadband plans to include …
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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 …
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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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Android 2.0 “Donut” features demoed at Google I/O — We're still trying to get used to the overwhelming joy of having Cupcake installed on our G1s, but it's full steam ahead over at Google where engineers are already slaving away on the Donut branch that'll eventually come to be known as Android 2.0.
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:Google Web Elements: Easier Widgets for Your Blog
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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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Ben Charny / Digits:
The Woz Says Jobs Sounds ‘Healthy, Energetic’ — Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said Steve Jobs sounds “healthy, energetic” a month before the CEO is expected to return to the company. — Getty Images — Steve Wozniak — On the sidelines of the All Things D conference …
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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Introducing the Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 — At Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital conference about a year ago today, Julie Larson-Green first introduced Walt Mossberg to Windows 7 and its multi-touch capabilities, which we call Windows Touch.
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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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Peter Kafka / D7 Highlights:
D7 Tech DEMO: Plastic Logic — Amazon (AMZN) isn't the only company that wants you to read books and newspapers on a handheld device. The Kindle has a bevy of competitors, some of which already exist-like Sony's (SNE) Reader-and those that have yet to hit the market. Plastic Logic falls in the second category.
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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 …
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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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Connie Guglielmo / Bloomberg:
IBM Sues to Stop Acquisitions Chief David Johnson From Taking Job at Dell — International Business Machines Corp. is suing its former mergers-and-acquisitions chief David Johnson to prevent him from working for Dell Inc., saying his new job violates an agreement restricting his employment with rivals.
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Cuban: Internet video progress ‘disappointing’ — CARLSBAD, Calif.—Mark Cuban says that despite the growth of YouTube, the Internet video market over the last decade has actually been a disappointment. — The problem, he said, is that when Google bought YouTube it focused on ubiquity rather than making money.
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Google and Salesforce.com Join Clouds — Google and Salesforce.com said today at the Google I/O Developer Conference that their platforms as a service will talk with one another. Using the libraries provided by Force.com for Google App Engine, developers can now access the data stored …
Erica Ogg / CNET News:
MSI notebook first with Intel's ultra-low voltage processor — The battle over ultrathin, low-voltage laptops has begun in earnest. — MSI announced Wednesday the availability of the X340, the first notebook to hit the market sporting Intel's new CULV (consumer ultra-low voltage) processor.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Pics: Google Latitude On The iPhone — But It's Not A Native App — Today during its keynote address during Google I/O, Google showed off its Latitude location-based service running on the iPhone. This is notable because so far, Latitude hasn't been available on the huge popular smartphone.
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Sergey Brin: Newspapers can still prosper but need time to “figure it out” — Google co-founder Sergey Brin was cornered with a hot-topic question at the tail end of a press conference at the Google I/O Developer's Conference. A “mainstream media” reporter from Australia wanted …
Peter Kafka / D7 Highlights:
D7 Interview: Jon Miller and Owen Van Natta Says MySpace Needs to Innovate — A couple of years ago, MySpace was the hottest thing on the Web. But that was a couple of years ago. Now the social network has gone cold: It is losing audience to Facebook and other sites and may well lose a very lucrative search deal from Google (GOOG).
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 …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Sirius XM Posts Screenshot Of iPhone App — Today is Sirius XM's shareholder summit, and the SEC just published Mel Karmazin's PowerPoint presentation. One of the slides includes a screenshot of its forthcoming iPhone app, which the company hopes will be a growth driver/subscriber retainer.
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
OraBrush Wins Bidding War With Hershey Over Facebook “Kisses” Page — How much would you pay for a Facebook fan? That's a question that many are determining as they look at potential Facebook fan page acquisition opportunities. Today Orabrush, a tongue cleaning product …
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PC World:
Intel's New Core I7 Chips Surface on Retail Sites — New Core i7 processors from Intel have surfaced on retail sites, giving early details of the new Nehalem-based processors ahead of the company's official launch of the chips. — Multiple retail sites on Wednesday were taking orders …
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Mickey Kataria / Google Geo Developers Blog:
Announcing Google Maps API v3 — Since our last major release of the JavaScript Maps API three years ago we've been delivering feature requests that all of you have been asking for month over month. With over 150,000 active websites implementing it, the Maps API has become one of the most popular …
Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:
WTIA: Draper says best time ever to start business — Venture capitalist Tim Draper gave entrepreneurs a pep talk, mixed with some politics, at the WTIA Fast Pitch Forum today. — Draper, founder and managing director of Silicon Valley venture firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Music Labels Cut Friendlier Deals With Start-Ups — SAN FRANCISCO — With CD sales dropping fast, it is not hard to imagine how the major music labels could benefit from the growth of Web start-ups like Imeem. The company's service lets people listen to songs, discover new artists and share their favorites with friends.
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
New Version of Skype Adds Screen Sharing — In addition, Skype now also allows users to import their contacts from Gmail, Windows Live, Hotmail, AOL, LinkedIn, and Yahoo. — Thanks to this update, Mac users (who use the latest beta version) can now also finally share their screens with PC users, which wasn't possible until now.
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
FCC develops strategy for rural broadband — Acting FCC Chairman Michael Copps released a report on broadband strategy for rural America on Wednesday. — The report was mandated as part of the 2008 Farm Bill. In that bill Congress asked the Federal Communications Commission to work …
