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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.
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David Pogue / New York Times:State of the Art: Palm Pre, Elegant Contender
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Analyst: Apple's WWDC likely to ‘disappoint’ — Given the rumors and high expectations, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster fears the World Wide Developers Conference that Apple (AAPL) is hosting next week in San Francisco could be a “slight disappointment” to investors.
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Tech Check with Jim Goldman, Macworld, tinyComb, mocoNews, Macsimum News, MacNN and InformationWeek, Thanks:johnboot185
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
App TV? — Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster may not have high expectations for Apple's WWDC gathering in San Francisco Monday, but he does for the company's Apple TV device. Big expectations. Munster believes Apple (AAPL) is working an update to the Apple TV — and an App Store to go along with it.
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Steven Johnson / Time:
How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live — Evan Williams and Biz Stone of Twitter — The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your “followers,” and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly?
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Mercury News:
Google recruiter: Company kept ‘do not touch’ in hiring list — A recruiter who left Google last year says that the company had maintained a “do not touch” list of companies including Genentech and Yahoo, whose employees were not to be wooed to the Internet search giant.
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Intel:
Intel to Acquire Wind River Systems for Approximately $884 Million — Intel Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Wind River Systems Inc, under which Intel will acquire all outstanding Wind River common stock for $11.50 per share in cash, or approximately $884 million in the aggregate.
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
New 16GB, 32GB iPhones appear in Carphone Warehouse systems — Carphone Warehouse, the largest independent European mobile phone retailer and an official iPhone reseller, added four placeholders to their inventory list for new iPhone models earlier today, sources tell AppleInsider.
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple looks towards digital media sharing during iPhone calls — Apple has spent some time outlining technology that would add a new level of interaction between iPhone users, such as the ability to share and control playback of digital media files like music tracks and video during a telephone call.
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Technologizer, The Apple Core, Gizmodo, SlashGear, The iPhone Blog and Electricpig.co.uk
Federal Trade Commission:
FTC Shuts Down Notorious Rogue Internet Service Provider, 3FN Service Specializes in Hosting Spam-Spewing Botnets, Phishing Web sites, Child Pornography, and Other Illegal, Malicious Web Content — A rogue Internet Service Provider that recruits, knowingly hosts, and actively participates …
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Google LatLong:
Introducing smart navigation in Street View: double-click to go (anywhere!) — Street View is a great way to see panoramas of streets from all over the world. We've launched some great improvements to this tool, including most recently overlaying user photos and the ability to view Street View in fullscreen.
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Screenwerk, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, Google Blogoscoped, Mashable! and AppScout, Thanks:atul
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple working on adding multi-touch to iPod click-wheels — Having pioneered multi-touch for its iPhone and iPod touch handhelds, Apple later extended the technology to trackpads on its Mac notebook line and now appears ripe to introduce the first iPod click-wheels with similar capabilities.
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
RIM quietly acquires Dash Navigation? — According to an article published yesterday by GPS Business News, RIM may have quietly acquired struggling nav/LBS firm Dash Navigation. The site's co-founder and Editor allegedly spoke to a trusted source who claims that the acquisition is a done deal.
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InformationWeek, techblog.dallasnews.com, Tech Trader Daily, BerryReview.com, Electronista and Engadget
Jon Lech / nanocr.eu:
Palm Pre USB hack confirmed — A little birdie provided me with the following: — As I speculated in my previous blog post on Palm Pre Sync and now confirmed by the image above, when the Pre is in “Media Sync” mode it identifies itself as an Apple iPod. However, it's only the Mass Storage interface …
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Removes Regional Network Privacy and Visibility Settings — Yesterday afternoon Facebook posted about how the site is growing beyond regional networks and how networks will no longer be part of the privacy settings. The rationale is that the company has grown beyond it's previous boundaries …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Six months later, no ISPs joining RIAA piracy fight — Last December, the music industry's message to song writers, publishers, and musicians was that antipiracy help was on the way. Hopes soared after the major labels announced that they had convinced a group of telecoms to work with them.
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Techdirt, p2pnet, PlagiarismToday, DSLreports, Music Ally, TweakTown News and Recording Industry vs …
Tommy Craggs / Deadspin:
Tony La Russa Is Not Laughing At Your Satire — Dugout genius Tony La Russa is suing Twitter, claiming he “suffered significant emotional distress” and “damage to his reputation” because of a fake La Russa account. Sheesh, can't the man take a few jokes about dead pitchers and drunk driving?
James Galbraith / Macworld:
Lab test: $999 MacBook outpaces pricier models — Updated $999 MacBook outpaces pricier models — The latest entry-level MacBook rolled out by Apple a week ago offers more than just an improvement on the white laptop it replaces in Apple's notebook line.
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Softpedia News, Gadget Lab, CrunchGear, Daring Fireball, 9 to 5 Mac, Gizmodo Australia and Gizmodo
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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Gizmodo, Engadget, Android Phone Fans, SlashGear, Android Central, The Toybox, Google Android News … and Obsessable
Zachary M. Seward / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Alan Mutter's plan for newspapers is an industry-owned ad venture — When newspaper executives met in Chicago last week to discuss new business models for the industry, they expected to hear from Steve Brill about his well-publicized venture to charge for online content.
