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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.
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Michael Jones / TUAW:
Rumor: New iPhone to be called “iPhone Video?” — Further fueling the iPhone fire (try saying that one five times fast), TUAW has received an anonymous tip stating that AT&T's support website will be updated with “iPhone Video” as one of the model choices when choosing Apple as the phone manufacturer.
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Financial Times, The iPhone Blog, Gadget Lab, Edible Apple, EverythingiCafe, 9 to 5 Mac, TheNextWeb.com, Engadget and The Raw Feed, Thanks:wedocreative
Michael Jones / TUAW:
Rumor: New iPhone pictures leaked? — With the increasing evidence that a new iPhone may be just around the corner, we've seen our share of screenshots, speculations, and mock-ups. Now, the Italian iPhone blog iSpazio has posted pictures of what could possibly be the next iPhone (English Translations: here and here).
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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Between the Lines, TECH.BLORGE.com, broadstuff, Deep Jive Interests, Under the Radar, Tom Foremski: IMHO, VentureBeat and The SiliconANGLE, Thanks:atul
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:Time Puts Twitter on Cover, at Vanguard of American Economy
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Steve Jobs Returning to Apple After Nearly ‘Starving to Death,’ Says WSJ — Steve Jobs is set to return to Apple on schedule at the end of June, “people familiar with Apple” tell the Wall Street Journal. He might also end up at the company's developer's conference next week, the paper said.
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
FTC Sues, Shuts Down N. Calif. Web Hosting Firm — In an unprecedented move, the Federal Trade Commission has taken legal steps to shut down a Web hosting provider in Northern California that the agency says was directly involved in managing massive global spam operations.
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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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Google Blogoscoped, TechCrunch, Google Operating System, InformationWeek, Understanding Google …, ReadWriteWeb, Screenwerk, AppScout, Lifehacker and Mashable!, Thanks:atul
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 …
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Engadget Mobile, The iPhone Blog, all things Pre, Hack a Day, 9 to 5 Mac, iTWire, Daring Fireball, Edible Apple, Slashdot and P2P Blog
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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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Ray Ozzie's cloud hangs over the Valley — Palo Alto, Calif.—Ray Ozzie tends to see things much like a Seattle meteorologist—always cloudy. — Making a trip to sunny Silicon Valley, Ozzie addressed Silicon Valley's Churchill Club, outlining the transformational role that cloud computing will play.
Bing Community:
Smart Motion Preview and SafeSearch — One of the things we noticed in looking at how customers use search is the number of times people clicked the Back button in their browser soon after clicking on a search result. When we dug into this, we found that people who clicked …
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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.
Ben Worthen / Wall Street Journal:
Adobe Strives to Crack the Smart-Phone Market — Shifting Strategies, Opposition From Apple Have Slowed Effort to Push Flash Video Software Beyond Computers — Adobe Systems Inc., which makes the Flash software widely used on computers to play Internet videos, is trying to crack a new market: smart phones.
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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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AndroidGuys, CNET News, InformationWeek, LinuxInsider, Mark Sigal's Blog, Fast Company, GigaOM, SlashGear, Tech Trader Daily, TechCrunch, Android Phone Fans, TechSpot, VentureBeat, Neowin.net, dailywireless.org, The Register, Between the Lines, GottaBeMobile.com, Silicon Alley Insider, Maximum PC all, Pulse2, Jeremy's Blog and Engadget
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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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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:Analyst: Apple's WWDC likely to ‘disappoint’
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Reuters, Tech Check with Jim Goldman, tinyComb, Gadget Lab, mocoNews, MacNN, PC World, Macsimum News, Gearlog, MacRumors, InformationWeek and Engadget, Thanks:johnboot185
Andy Ihnatko / Chicago Sun Times:
Google's Wave of the future is genius, but will it work? — Five days is an eon in Internet time. Given the huge amounts of discussion that Google Wave has earned online since the company unveiled it in an 80-minute live demo last week (as I write this, it's the top of the 15th inning …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Short Lifespan Of The iPhone — For the past several weeks, I've been noticing something about my iPhone: Severe slowness. I put it sleep and wake it back up, clear its memory (with an app), restart it and even sometimes manually reboot it — some of these methods alleviate the symptoms, sometimes.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Sony joins YouTube and Universal on Vevo video site — Universal Music Group and YouTube have answered the question of whether any of the major labels will be interested in joining the new all music video Web site, Vevo. — Sony Music Entertainment has joined the venture, the companies said Thursday in a statement.
Grant Robertson / Download Squad:
We're going to Blame Drew's Cancer for everything — Longtime Download Squad lovers and fans may be shocked to hear that our occasional blogger and always friend Drew Olanoff has been diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Anyone who knows Drew knows full well his incredible personality is immutable …
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Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:
Palm Pre Review Matrix: What Everybody's Saying — When a bunch of reviews hit, it's useful—and sometimes funny—to see how they echo each other, and how they differ. — In the Palm Pre reviews, nobody used the word “iPhone” as much as WSJ's Walt Mossberg—he was a third more likely …
Reuters:
Russia launches antitrust probe of Microsoft — * Agency says cutting Windows XP deliveries was violation — * Says demand for XP continues during switch to Vista — * Government continues to order Windows XP — Russia's state anti-monopoly service launched a probe of Microsoft Corp …
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Technologizer, CNET News, Electronista, All about Microsoft, TechSpot, Ars Technica, The Microsoft Blog and GigaLaw.com Daily News
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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iPhone Buzz, The Apple Core, Technologizer, Electricpig.co.uk, The iPhone Blog, SlashGear and Gizmodo
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Could social gaming run afoul of gambling laws? — A variety of social network gaming applications are making lots of money from virtual goods. But could these services soon find themselves in trouble for allowing gambling — and get slapped with large fines or other punishment?
