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Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac:
Enable tethering shortcut found - iPhone 3.0 is Live! — iPhone 3.0 is live! so we are going to repost our tethering tutorial with some big improvements. You now don't have to do any downgrading or torrenting. Seems you can just run a little command in terminal (Make sure you are on OS 3.0 on a 3G iPhone and iTunes 8.2):
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Phil Libin / Evernote Blogcast:
Big Update: Evernote for iPhone 3.0 is Here — Ever since Apple announced plans for the new iPhone 3.0 a couple of months ago, we've been hard at work rebuilding Evernote to take advantage of the platform's new features. Today is the big payoff: iPhone 3.0 officially launches and our new app is ready to go!
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:iPhone 3.0 Upgrade Process Deactivating Some Phones From AT&T (Update: Working Now)
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Rene Ritchie / The iPhone Blog:iPhone 3.0 Software Walkthrough
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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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David Pogue / New York Times:Apple Fills in Some Gaps With Latest iPhone
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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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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.
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Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
About that new BlackBerry Messenger... It's coming to all devices on OS 5.0, newer version revealed — You read the headline right, kids — the new and insanely hot BlackBerry Messenger that we exclusively showed off to the World looks to be headed to all BlackBerry devices that will receive the OS 5.0 treatment.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Is Now Resorting To Selling Killer Domain Names On The Cheap — No sooner do we finish writing up Yahoo deadpooling yet another project, Gallery, do we get a tip that Yahoo apparently has another money saving/making plan: Selling off domains it owns. That's exactly what it has done …
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Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
Sirius XM iPhone app offers free 7-day trial — Satellite radio seems to be something people either fall in love with, or can't understand why anyone would. I've been a loyal XM listener for years. To my surprise, XM's merger with Sirius didn't wipe out my favorite channels.
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Jeff Scott / 148AppsBlog Archives:Sirius XM App Tunes Into the App Store
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Animoto Is Already Cash-Flow Positive, Raises Another Round To Go To 11 — In a world where most startups choose gaining users over making money, Animoto is an odd exception: It's doing both. Since launching in August 2007, the company has signed up some 750,000 users, and some 10% of those are paying customers.
Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Facebook hit by privacy blow — European privacy regulators could be about to throw a spanner into the works of attempts by social networking sites such as Facebook to find new ways to increase profits as they try to restrict the way internet groups release personal data.
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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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Karl Bode / DSLreports:
Lawmaker Unveils Anti-Metered Billing Law — But will it survive a heavily-lobbied Congress? — · legal · competition · business · bandwidth · legislation · consumers · caps · AT&T · RoadRunner Cable · AT&T Midwest
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:Congressman Files Bill to Stop Tiered Broadband Pricing
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John Dowdell / jd/adobe:
Adobe on “HTML5” — The current WhatWG proposals called “HTML 5” have been stirring up a lot of polarizing speech lately... articles with Flash-killer headlines lead to street-level fracases. — It's hard for Adobe to have an official opinion on whatever this consortium …
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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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 …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Another Music Startup Sued: EMI Takes Grooveshark to Court — Digital music startups seem to come in two flavors these days: Those that are being sued by the major music labels, and those that have expensive licensing deals that they can't afford. — But for some reason, plucky Grooveshark …
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Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
$1 Million Netflix Prize So Close, They Can Taste It — Electrical engineer Martin Piotte and software engineer Martin Chabbert of Montreal decided to enter a million-dollar contest to improve Netflix's recommendation engine after they read about it in a 2008 Wired magazine article.
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld / Between the Lines:
‘Quality Scores’ For Web Content: How Numbers Will Create A ‘Beautiful Cycle of Greatness for Us All’ — Patrick Keane spent four years at Google, before becoming chief marketing officer at CBS Interactive (which owns CNet and ZDNet). — Now he's in his third month as chief executive officer …
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
US broadband report: more popular, more expensive — Broadband adoption in the US has grown this year, despite the fact that customers are paying more now than they were in 2008, according to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The report, released today …
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Richard / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF and Public Knowledge Reluctantly Drop Lawsuit for Information About ACTA — Washington, D.C. - The Obama Administration's decision to support Bush-era concealment policies has forced the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Public Knowledge (PK) to drop their lawsuit …
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