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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
AT&T To Offer Some iPhone 3G Owners Cheaper Upgrade To 3G S  —  Buried in Walt Mossberg's iPhone 3G S review: AT&T (T) has changed its mind and will offer “eligible” subscribers a cheaper upgrade to Apple's (AAPL) new iPhone 3G S. That price will be $199 or $299, depending on capacity — erasing a $200 premium.
Discussion: Apple 2.0, Gizmodo, DSLreports, mocoNews and Mashable!, Thanks:atul
Leslie Cauley / USA Today:
AT&T network not ready yet for all Apple iPhone 3G S functions  —  NEW YORK — AT&T's wireless network is having a hard time keeping up with the Apple iPhone, a top wireless analyst says.  —  That's the reason AT&T (T) isn't offering multimedia messaging and “tethering” …
Discussion: Edible Apple and Macsimum News
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Your iPhone 3G S Is Here. But You Can't Get It Until Friday.
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
New iPhone Is Better Model — Or Just Get OS 3.0  —  Apple Inc.'s iPhone has been a smashing success, redefining the smart-phone market and creating a new hand-held computing platform that has attracted over 50,000 third-party apps, or software programs, in less than a year.
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Times of London:
First Review: iPhone 3G S
Thanks:muradahmed
David Pogue / New York Times:
Apple Fills In Some Gaps With Latest iPhone
Discussion: MacRumors and Wall Street Journal, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
iPhone Developers Roll Out New Apps To Leverage Cut/Paste, Alerts And More
Discussion: PC World and PE Hub Blog
comScore, Inc.:
Bing Continues to Show Growth in Search Activity, According to comScore  —  Microsoft Sees Gains in U.S. Searcher Penetration and Share of Search Result Pages During the Second Week of Bing's Debut  —  comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Bing: comScore sees Gains; Compete Sees Same Old, Same Old
Discussion: Mashable!
Kari Lee / Facebook Blog:
Look Who's Talking Now  —  Today, we're beginning to test new versions of Facebook Search with a small group — just a fraction of a percent of the people on Facebook.  Those of you in the test group will be able to find content from the people, organizations and public figures that matter to you as soon as they share it on Facebook.
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:   Facebook Starts Testing New Version Of Search, It's A Huge Upgrade
Arn / MacRumors:
First Videos and Photos Uploaded from iPhone 3G S?  —  The first YouTube videos claimed to have been recorded by the iPhone 3G S have started to appear.  The quality of the recording is, of course, also affected by YouTube's compression but should give a feel for what the device is capable of in casual usage:
Brad Stone / Bits:
MLB.com Streams Live Baseball Games to the iPhone  —  On Wednesday, Apple upgrades the iPhone with the 3.0 version of its operating system.  The new era could literally begin with a home run.  —  MLB.com, which sells the popular At Bat application for the iPhone and iPod Touch …
Apple:
iTunes: About unsupported third-party digital media players  —  Products Affected  —  Apple designs the hardware and software to provide seamless integration of the iPhone and iPod with iTunes, the iTunes Store, and tens of thousands of apps on the App Store.
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
“Unsupported Third-Party Digital Media Players.”  Hmm, Wonder Who That Could Pre...
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Phase 4 Of Facebook's Systematic Attack On Twitter: The Everyone Button  —  If you were to distill Facebook down to its core magic, you'd have Twitter's real time news stream with a really expensive-to-maintain photo site bolted on.  —  And while Twitter isn't exactly posing much of a current threat, Facebook isn't taking any chances.
Discussion: All Facebook
CBS News:
Iran Military Warns Online Media  —  (CBS/AP) Last Updated 4:29 a.m. Eastern.  —  Iran's most powerful military force has warned online media of a crackdown over their coverage of the country's election crisis.  —  The Revolutionary Guards, an elite body answering to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei …
Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog:
Google Apps Sync Disables Outlook Search  —  The Outlook team has recently been made aware of a serious bug / flaw with the recently announced Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook, and as a result we wanted to provide the Outlook user community with additional details around this problem as well as information on how to address it.
New York Times:
With a Hint to Twitter, Washington Taps Into a Potent New Force in Diplomacy  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration says it has tried to avoid words or deeds that could be portrayed as American meddling in Iran's presidential election and its tumultuous aftermath.
Discussion: InformationWeek, GMSV and Twitter Blog
Chris Anderson / TED Blog:
Q&A with Clay Shirky on Twitter and Iran  —  NYU professor Clay Shirky gave a fantastic talk on new media during our TED@State event earlier this month.  He revealed how cellphones, the web, Facebook and Twitter had changed the rules of the game, allowing ordinary citizens extraordinary new powers to impact real-world events.
Discussion: Podcasting News and NPR Blogs
Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
Thoughts on Opera Unite  —  I met today's news about Opera's new initiative — called Unite — with a mix of shock and awe.  —  On the one hand, I was sickened by the lack of analysis from the echolalic blogger news corps.  It appeared that Opera PR had successfully reached out to all of them …
Matt Richtel / Bits:
IBM To Invest $100 Million In Cell Phone Research  —  IBM, long synonymous with the personal computer, hopes to become equally influential in the world of mobile computing.  —  The company plans to announce Wednesday a $100 million investment pool to develop new services for mobile phones.
Discussion: PR Newswire, CNET News, GigaOM and I4U News
Michael Hirschorn / The Atlantic Online:
The Newsweekly's Last Stand  —  NEWSWEEK'S RECENT DECISION to get out of the news-digesting business and reposition itself as a high-end magazine selling in-depth commentary and reportage follows Time magazine's emergency retrenchment along similar lines.  It accelerates a process …
Rob Hof / Tech Beat:
Maybe Google Isn't Losing Big Bucks on YouTube After All  —  Ever since Credit Suisse came out with a report in early April estimating that Google's YouTube will lose as much as $470 million this year, many people have been predicting the video sharing site is doomed and calling Google stupid for continuing to run it as is.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Jammie Thomas takes the stand, admits to major misstep  —  After the morning's excitement, Jammie Thomas-Rasset took the stand this afternoon during her retrial.  She was clad in a black shirt and black pants, the sort of garb appropriate to a hanging.  Her testimony wasn't quite a hanging …
Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
Amazon warns North Carolina over sales tax legislation  —  Amazon.com fired a warning shot at North Carolina over a sales tax bill under consideration in that state.  The online retail giant warned it will end its relationship with affiliates in North Carolina if the state legislature follows through on an …
Discussion: News-Record.com
Rafe Needleman / CNET News:
New versions of Tweetdeck, Seesmic square off  —  There's a new version of the Tweetdeck Twitter client, 0.26, launching tonight, following the earlier release today of a preview of Seesmic Desktop 0.3.  Both updated Twitter clients look like significant improvements from their previous versions.
Joanna Stern / LaptopMag.com:
Toshiba mini NB205  —  Toshiba's entry into the U.S. netbook market soars past the competition with a stunning design, stellar keyboard, and the longest battery life of any netbook to date.  —  Price as Reviewed: $399.00  —  Review Contents:  —  At first glance, it would seem that there's …
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Microsoft gives up YouTube chase  —  SAN FRANCISCO—In the coming months, Microsoft plans to significantly scale back Soapbox, the video site it once hoped might take on YouTube in the user-generated content arena.  —  In an interview on Tuesday, Microsoft Vice President Erik Jorgensen …
Gmail Blog:
New fields for Gmail contacts and better importing too  —  Up until now, Gmail only supported some contact fields.  Whenever someone imported their contacts from apps like Outlook and OS X Address Book, we used to put fields Gmail didn't recognize into the contact's notes section.
 
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Congressman Files Bill to Stop Tiered Broadband Pricing
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Michael Geist Blog:
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 Earlier Items: 
Maggie Shiels / BBC:
Twitter responds on Iranian role
Discussion: Washington Post and OnSoftware
PR Newswire:
Ask.com Announces Database of 300 Million High-Quality Question-and-Answer Pairs
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Another Twitter Business That Doesn't Make Money for Twitter: Pay Per Twitterer
Discussion: The Noisy Channel
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
MySpace: After the Layoffs, Here's What's What and What's Next
Discussion: TechCrunch and VentureBeat
Eric Lai / Computerworld:
Nvidia: Ion will outperform next-gen Intel Pineview Atoms
Discussion: Softpedia News
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
AdWhirl Scores $1 Million For Dynamic Ad Platform For The iPhone
Discussion: VentureBeat and IntoMobile
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
AP eyeing better deals with Internet heavyweights
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