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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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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
iPhone 3G S review — If it ain't broke, don't fix it — right? We know countless reviews of the iPhone 3G S may begin with that cliché, but there's little chance you'd find a better way to describe the strategy that Apple has just put into play with its latest smartphone.
David Pogue / New York Times:
Apple Fills In Some Gaps With Latest iPhone — Assessing the 2007 and 2008 iPhone models was an excruciating experience. You were torn right in half — between your heart and your head. — Your emotions were swept away by everything Apple does so well: beauty, polish, elegance, simplicity and the thrill of interaction.
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Kit Eaton / Fast Company:
iPhone 3G S Is Slick, Here's the First Hands-on Vid to Prove It — It's undoubtedly Apple's week—the new iPhone firmware is due out today, and the new iPhone 3G S is in shops come Friday. That limiting date hasn't stopped a Brazilian blog from getting hold of one and demoing it on video, though.
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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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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
iPhone 3.0 Upgrade Process Deactivating Some Phones From AT&T — We just got a load of tips from readers that the iPhone 3.0 update is sending their iPhone 3Gs into an unrecoverable mode where the activation process won't complete. — The message above is the one iTunes spits out if you're …
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Rene Ritchie / The iPhone Blog:iPhone 3.0 Software Walkthrough
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
AT&T Offers Its Favorite Subscribers A Cheaper Upgrade To iPhone 3G S — Apple's iPhone carrier AT&T (T) has changed its mind and will offer more “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.
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Erica Ogg / CNET News:Change of plans: Apple stores to open at 7 a.m. Friday
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Business Week:
Iran's Twitter Revolution? Maybe Not Yet — Some Iranian election protesters used Twitter to get people on the streets, but most of the organizing happened the old-fashioned way — Media across the globe have been focusing on a “Twitter Revolution” in Iran as hundreds of thousands …
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Dan Primack / PE Hub Blog:
Private Equity and Venture Capital To Be Regulated — President Obama today will propose an overhaul of the financial regulatory system, and the WaPo has obtained an 85-page white paper that lays out the specifics. The net result will be three new federal bureaucracies (four created, one erased).
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
MySpace: After the Layoffs, Here's What's What and What's Next — Now what? — The party-all-night social-networking site that has been MySpace so far got a massive morning-after shock yesterday when 30 percent of its workforce-or 420 employees-was laid off.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider: News Corp May Dissolve Fox Interactive, Fire 300 More (NWS)
Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
Secrets of a nimble giant — Technology companies usually get slower as they get bigger - so why is Google as fast as ever? Co-founder Sergey Brin tells Jemima Kiss how size can make for innovation — It was Rupert Murdoch who summed up success in the digital age when he said …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Fires Back At Bing, Launches “Explore Google Search” — I wrote earlier that it was probably driving Google crazy to see people “amazed” that Bing is doing stuff that Google itself has long offered. Now Google's fighting back. The first shot? A new Explore Google Search page.
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Congressman Files Bill to Stop Tiered Broadband Pricing — Updated: Rep. Eric Massa (D-Corning) today introduced legislation that would force Internet Service Providers that want to implement usage-based pricing plans to go through several regulatory hurdles, including public hearings, to determine if such pricing is anti-competitive.
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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 …
Paul Carr / Guardian:
And we'll tweet at the end of the tour — Episode 32: In which I attend Jeff Pulver's 140 Characters conference and pay tribute to the brilliance of his no-connectivity plan — I'm trying to imagine how it happened. The point at which, perhaps three weeks ago, Jeff Pulver convened …
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.
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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.
John Cook / Gawker:
Is the Associated Press Aiding Iranian Censorship? — Trying to report from a country like Iran under state-mandated censorship is hard. The Associated Press is making it harder by caving to the demands of the Iranian regime and refusing to allow its Iranian subscribers to use this photo.
Bill Calder / Technology@Intel:
Intel's New Brand Structure Explained — Over the last year or so, Intel has been quietly working behind the scenes taking a hard look at our brand structure and exploring ways to make it more rational and easier to understand. The fact of the matter is, we have a complex structure …
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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.
John Horrigan / Pew Internet:
Home Broadband Adoption 2009 — An April 2009 survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project shows 63% of adult Americans now have broadband internet connections at home, a 15% increases from a year earlier. April's level of high-speed adoption represents a significant jump …
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
MobileMe pushes out new Find My iPhone, Remote Wipe service — Announced at WWDC, Apple's new Find My iPhone and Remote Wipe services went online today with the warning that high traffic to the site might slow or prevent access for users trying it out on launch day.
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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 …
