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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Palm's New Pre Takes On iPhone — In the new era of hand-held computers — super-smart touch-screen phones that run sleek, compelling software — Apple's iPhone has been king. A new, improved iPhone is expected to be announced on June 8. — But on June 6, Apple will get a powerful competitor in this category.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Palm Pre review — The Palm Pre. It's not just a phone, it's a myth, an idea, possibly a legacy... and a really, really long time coming. It's almost impossible to believe, but the crew at Engadget has been talking about a Linux-based Palm phone since way back in 2004.
David Pogue / New York Times:
State of the Art: Palm Pre, Elegant Contender — You've seen that movie, right? The one where a pair of lovable sad-sack losers team up to defeat the smug athletic golden boy? — If not, you're about to. It's called “Palm Pre vs. iPhone.” — The star of this summer blockbuster is Palm.
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Edible Apple, Reuters, MediaFile, Electronista, Tech Trader Daily, mocoNews, Gadget Lab, Daring Fireball, all things Pre, CrunchGear, Crave and PreCentral.net
Edward C. Baig / USA Today:
Pre could pilot Palm to smartphone glory again — The most-lusted-after pocket computer in months is about to go on sale — and it's not even an iPhone. On Saturday, Palm (PALM) and Sprint (S) start selling the Palm Pre, a smartphone that stacks up well against Apple's blockbuster device, and in some ways even surpasses it.
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Engadget, Associated Press, Edible Apple, MobileContentToday, Mobility Today and Business Week
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
CrunchPad: The Launch Prototype — We've been working hard behind the scenes on the CrunchPad since our last update in April, and have just about nailed down the final design for the device. We're showing the conceptual drawings here today. In another few weeks we'll have the first working prototypes in our office.
The Official Google Blog:
Square your search results with Google Squared — Some information is easy to find. If you want to learn the rules of golf, you can search Google for [golf rules] and we'll return a list of relevant web sites right at the top. But not all your information needs are that simple.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:Google Squared is Live: Who Knew Structured Data Could Be So Unhelpful?
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Intel buys Wind River; Targets software for embedded devices — Intel said Thursday that it would acquire Wind River, which makes software for embedded devices, in a deal valued at $884 million. With the move Intel is making a move to diversify into software and away from its dependence on the PC and server markets.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:Intel Buys Software-Maker For $884 Million Cash
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Mmaser / Digg the Blog:
Ads You Can Digg...or Bury — Today, we're announcing our plans to roll out a new advertising platform — Digg Ads. Digg Ads will give you more control over which advertisements are displayed on Digg. The more an ad is Dugg, the less the advertiser will have to pay.
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Download Squad, Web Strategy, TheNextWeb.com, Shooting at Bubbles, BuzzMachine, paidContent.org, CNET News, TechCrunch and VentureBeat, Thanks:wedocreative
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Martin Heller / Martin Heller's blog:
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 highlights — VS2010 Beta 1 promises a worthy upgrade to the premier IDE for .Net development, but some key pieces are still missing — The first thing you'll notice about Visual Studio 2010 is the revamped user interface, which is based on Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) instead of Windows Forms.
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Arn / MacRumors:
Mossberg Also Believes a Faster iPhone is Imminent — Engadget points to comments by technology reporter Walt Mossberg as evidence that the new iPhone is indeed imminent. Mossberg posted a new review for the Palm Pre in which he acknowledges that Apple is poised to announce a new iPhone at WWDC.
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple's next-gen iPhone may add radio tagging, Nike Sport Kit — A new version of Apple's iTunes software released Monday includes code strings that hint at a couple of new features likely to make their debut alongside new iPhone models this month, namely radio tagging capabilities and support for the Nike+ Sport Kit.
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T3.com News, Business Week, The iPhone Blog, Guardian, Electronista, The Apple Core, iLounge and MethodShop
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ron Conway To Focus On “Real Time Data” Startups: 40-50 New Investments In Next 18 Months — Heavy hitting angel investor Ron Conway, who's been called the “Godfather of Silicon Valley” by Gary Rivlin, is now focusing most of his investment attention on “real-time data,” …
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
RedGage: A blogger's road to riches on the Internet? — A new site called RedGage is opening up today to bloggers, photographers, and videomakers, saying it can help them make money from the content they create. The Hollywood, Fla.-based startups pulls in a user's activity from sites like Blogger …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Hulu Still Going Strong, But Growth Is Dropping Off Sharply — There's no question that Hulu has firmly established itself as one of the dominant video sites on the web. But its incredible growth seems to be dropping off, and quickly. Between January and February of this year …
Matt Martin / GamesIndustry.biz:
Molyneux promoted to creative director of Microsoft Game Studios — Microsoft has promoted Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux to creative director of Microsoft Game Studios in Europe. — Molyneux will oversee the creative output of all internal studios as well as Microsoft's third-party development partners …
Dan Goodin / The Register:
At long last, internet's root zone to be secured — VeriSign and ICANN to share DNSSEC duties — Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer - 30-day free trial — The US government said Wednesday it plans to digitally sign the internet's root zone by the end of the year, a move that would end years …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Differences in Google Image Results for Tiananmen Square Protests — The first page of the around 44,000 results for tiananmen massacre on the international Chinese version at Google.com: — The 11 results in China on Google.cn for the same query, along with a censorship notice at the bottom:
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Joe Wilcox:
First Bing Ad Bombs, Others Are The Bomb — Commentary. Microsoft's first Bing TV spot is scary. It's designed to scare the crap out of you. Every bad thing going on now is because of bad search. The doom and gloom reminds me of the TV commercial from Christmas comedy “Scrooged” (see first clip below).
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Twitter co-founder: We'll have made it when you shut up about us — NEW YORK—Twitter executive Jack Dorsey says he's looking forward to the day when the world stops talking so much about the company he co-founded. — “I think Twitter's a success for us when people stop talking about it …
DigiTimes:
HTC to unveil Android-powered HTC Hero on June 24, says paper — HTC (High Tech Computer) is scheduled to unveil its new Android-powered smartphone, the HTC Hero, in London on June 24, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report. — The HTC Hero will be available in two versions …
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SlashGear, Android Phone Fans, Gizmodo, Android Central, Engadget and Google Android News …
Roy Mark / eWeek:
Critics Rip Proposed Obama Pick from Google — As rumors swirl that President Obama plans to appoint Google Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs Andrew McLaughlin as White House deputy CTO, consumer watchdogs bay over possible ethics violations.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: Sarah Lacy's New Chapter On Twitter From Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good Paperback Version — Last year Sarah Lacy's (now a TechCrunch editor) book, Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good came out in hardcover. Here's an interview we did with Lacy about the book in May 2008.
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Chauncey Dupree / 9 to 5 Mac:
Updated White MacBooks outperform more expensive Unibody siblings across the board — Zoikes! Macworld labs just got done testing the new white MacBook and apparently it is a real screamer. So much, in fact, that it blew right past the $300 more costly Unibody MacBook.
Guardian:
US and UK prepare fightback against eastern hackers — Hackers are being targeted for attack by US and UK security authorities eager to launch a cyber counteroffensive to kick them off the net — Hackers who attack defence or commercial computers in the US and UK in future may be in for a surprise …
