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Jobs Had Liver Transplant — Apple Chief on Track to Return to Work at End of June; No. 2 May Expand Role — Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave from Apple Inc. since January to treat an undisclosed medical condition, received a liver transplant in Tennessee about two months ago.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Report: Steve Jobs Is Recovering From Liver Transplant, Still Coming Back to Apple — The Steve Jobs health story takes yet another twist, this time a happier one: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Apple CEO underwent a liver transplant earlier this spring and is recovering from the operation.
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Technologizer, Bloomberg, Mercury News, The SiliconANGLE, Boy Genius Report, BetaNews and 9 to 5 Mac
Alexander Haislip / PE Hub Blog:
Steve Jobs May be in Memphis — Apple CEO Steve Jobs lives at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac in a swank part of downtown Memphis in a yellow house with white trim and a pool in the backyard. Or maybe he doesn't. — One thing is now for certain, he was in Tennessee for a liver transplant.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Not Only Was Steve Jobs Sick, He Had A Liver Transplant. — There really isn't much to say here beyond what are being reported as the facts. Apparently, Apple CEO Steve Jobs had a liver transplant two months ago, the Wall Street Journal reports tonight. When you read that, it's pretty shocking — but not that surprising.
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Rex Hammock / Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com:
Tennessee media apparently don't believe Steve Jobs' liver transplant is a story, much less a local story — About 11 p.m., Friday, WSJ.com broke a story about — Steve Jobs having a liver transplant in Tennessee. — 12 hours later, no Tennessee media outlet has
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:Jobs recovering from liver transplant; re-ignites debate over privacy rights
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Jailbreak Now Available for iPhone OS 3.0, But Not for iPhone 3GS — We knew this was coming, but it's good to know that hackers can still get into the iPhone OS so easily: PwnageTool for Mac OS X is now available for iPhone OS 3.0. Here are the details. [Updated]
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Boy Genius Report, Stay N' Alive, Engadget, IntoMobile, iSmashPhone, Lifehacker and TUAW
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
How Twitter is Changing the World of Professional Poker — Doyle Brunson is seventy six years old and he says he was up late last night in Vegas. He's in a $10k game on the 24th day of the World Series of Poker and he just sent out a Tweet. “Still in 10k split,” he said.
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Fred / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
ASCAP Wants To Be Paid When Your Phone Rings — ASCAP (the same folks who went after Girl Scouts for singing around a campfire) appears to believe that every time your musical ringtone rings in public, you're violating copyright law by “publicly performing” it without a license.
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David Brooks / Nashuatelegraph.com:
Woman wins fight against music biz — dbrooks@nashuatelegraph.com — A Hudson woman won her fight with the recording industry over alleged illegal music downloads, thanks partly to a report from a Dartmouth professor that cast doubt on whether her computer was involved.
Michael Calore / Webmonkey:
Taking Microsoft to Task Over IE8 ‘Myths’ — Microsoft recently launched a campaign promoting its Internet Explorer 8 browser, making some bold claims about IE8's capabilities. — The campaign, called “Windows Internet Explorer 8: Get the Facts,” trumpets IE's speed, stability, ease of use, safety and customizability.
Arn / Touch Arcade:
Full Commodore 64 Emulator Rejected from App Store — iPhone developer Manomio has been secretly working on a major App Store project for the past year that has just been completed, but may never see the light of day in its current form. Readers may remember Manomio as the developer behind …
Fernando Delgado / Google LatLong:
How to find out “What's here” — On Google Maps, we try to label important places directly on the map tiles. But sometimes, it seems more helpful to just click on a point and ask “What's here?”. Now you can do exactly that with an option we've added under the right-click menu.
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TechCrunch, Google Maps Mania, ReadWriteWeb, Ramesh Jain's Blog and GPS Obsessed, Thanks:sinkercat
