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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.
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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 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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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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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
iPhone 3.0 Upgrade Process Deactivating Some Phones From AT&T (Update: Working Now) — 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 …
Rene Ritchie / The iPhone Blog:iPhone 3.0 Software Walkthrough
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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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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:
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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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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 …
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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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.
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Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
Google's Sergey Brin spills on the 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 …
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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
AT&T using 802.21 for iPhone 3G-Wifi handoffs? — It looks like AT&T might be using the 802.21 protocol to relax the pressure put on their 3G network by the iPhone. The new iPhone 3.0 OS software contains the ability for iPhones to autoswitch from 3G to Wifi when an AT&T Wifi network is in range, without user intervention.
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
News Corp May Dissolve Fox Interactive, Fire 300 More (NWS) — By Fall, there will be no such thing as the brand Fox Interactive, a source close to News Corp (NWS) digital execs tells us. — Reached, a FIM spokesperson confirmed News Corp is “examining Fox Interactive Media and its role …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Web standards group scrutinizing Apple patent — The World Wide Web Consortium is opening the possibility of pushing back against an Apple patent on software updates that Apple had refused to license royalty-free for use in a proposed Web standard. — The W3C announced June 12 …
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 …
Leslie Cauley / USA Today:
Carriers' exclusivity deals create digital divide, senators told — The success of the Apple (AAPL) iPhone has translated into millions of new customers for exclusive U.S. carrier AT&T. (T) But a Senate panel on Wednesday explored what impact such exclusive agreements have on wireless prices, innovation and competition.
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Interview: Part II: Jeff Zucker: Live Streaming Top Events Devalues Olympics — In the two years since Jeff Zucker became president and CEO of NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), he's shifted the digital strategy more than once; played an important role in creating the joint venture dubbed “ClownCo” …
