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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Verizon to Mobile Developers: Can You Hear Me Now? — Verizon wants to build its own app store, and is planning a July 28 event to entice developers to its platform. Like everyone else wooing programmers, the company hopes to get the equivalent of the in-crowd building the hottest apps …
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Ross Miller / Engadget:Verizon to its smartphones: thou shalt have no other app store before mine
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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Update on Windows 7 RTM — I'd like to offer up a little insight into the “Release to Manufacturing” (RTM) for Windows 7. — Over the past week, there have been many rumors surrounding RTM. — We are close, but have not yet signed off on Windows 7. When we RTM you will most certainly hear it here.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Loses Engineering Director Who Once Caused Steve Ballmer To Melt Down — After nearly 5 years with the company, Engineering Director Mark Lucovsky is leaving Google for a role with VMware, we've learned. Lucovsky has been an integral part of Google's APIs, including the all-important Search APIs.
Bloomberg:
Netflix Advances on Speculation of Buyout Offer From Amazon.com — Netflix Inc. shares gained and bullish options trading jumped to the highest in 11 weeks on speculation that Amazon.com Inc. may acquire the largest U.S. mail-order movie service, according to WhatsTrading.com.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Financial Times Tweets That It Now Has An iPhone App. Yup, It's Pink. — International business newspaper and website Financial Times, founded in 1888, is now part of the iPhone app club with the release of a free application on the iTunes App Store (iTunes link).
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Emma Barnett / Telegraph:
Microsoft is launching a music streaming service this month — Microsoft is gearing up to launch a music streaming service similar to Spotify by the end of this month. — The service, which Microsoft aims to have ready by the end of July, will offer users the chance to stream music for free and also download to own.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Amazon Buys Netflix? Microsoft Is Much a Better Guess as a Potential Acquirer — Yesterday, shares of Netflix got their semi-regular rocket boost-with its stock up more than five percent to close at just over $42-from rumors that Amazon was interested in buying Netflix.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
RIM Launching A BlackBerry Social Network For Venting Tomorrow — Perhaps you've noticed that apps aren't exactly flying off the virtual shelves in BlackBerry's App World store, like they are in Apple's App Store. The store is hard to navigate and there's confusion about several of the apps …
Bing / Search Blog:
Bing at Month One — After just over one month in market, we wanted to take the opportunity to THANK YOU for all your feedback and support of Bing and provide an update on our early results. We've been really pleased to hear so much positive feedback, and we appreciate all you who've taken …
Richard Corliss / Time:
‘Bruno’: Did Twitter Reviews Hurt Movie at Box Office? — In the old days — like, until yesterday — movie studios judged the success of their big pictures by how much they grossed on the opening weekend. But in the age of Twitter, electronic word-of-mouth is immediate …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Look for PA Semi's chip designs in upcoming Apple tablet — Reports surfaced today that Apple will launch an $800 tablet computer in October. But we've dug out something interesting ourselves: the processor chip for the tablet is being designed by Apple's own internal chip team.
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GooDiPhone:
Windows 95 on iPhone 3G (video) — Developers of iSoft team ran windows 95 on iPhone, its done with help of Bochs emulator and original win 95 image. — Main trouble is a perfomance of the iPhone and, mainly, of emulator... only windows was booting for 5-10 minutes. And you can see perfomance at work.
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Brad Stone / Bits:
Facebook Employees and Investors Can Finally Unload Stock — 10:28 a.m. Clarifying that company executives do not qualify for the stock purchase program. — Facebook investors are finally getting a chance to sell some of their stock. — Digital Sky Technologies, the Russian investment firm …
Bkis Blog:
Korea and US DDoS attacks: The attacking source located in United Kingdom — On 12 July, 2009, Bkis, as a member of APCERT, received a proposal from KrCERT (Korean Computer Emergency Response Team) to cooperate in analyzing the malware that was performing DDoS attacks on websites of South Korea and the US.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Bing Delivers Credibility to Microsoft — SAN FRANCISCO — In late May, Microsoft unveiled Bing, its new Internet search engine, in front of an audience of skeptics: technology executives and other digerati who had gathered near San Diego for an industry conference.
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Daniel Brusilovsky / TechCrunch:
Why Teens Aren't Using Twitter: It Doesn't Feel Safe — Twitter seems to be the hottest thing in tech recently — if you look at TechCrunch, it averages at least 3 posts a week about Twitter. But the bigger question is, who is really using Twitter? Many of you might think that …
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Gordon Borrell / Borrell Associates:
Local Ads Moving to Social Networks — We just did an assessment of advertising placed on social networking sites and were surprised to find that nearly 20% of all ad spending is by local businesses. Our assumption going into this research was that commercials on social networks were almost purely national.
Andrew LaVallee / Digits:
Facebook Stickier Than Google, eBay — The average Internet user in the U.S. spent more than 4.5 hours on Facebook in June, more time than he whiled away on Google, eBay, Yahoo and other online hubs, according to new data from Nielsen. — Getty Images — Google's family of Web sites retained …
Ryan Rea / Neowin.net:
Sobees, 1st WPF, Silverlight & Azure powered Twitter client — What happens when you mash up Twitter, Silverlight 3.0, WPF and the Windows Azure platform? One sweet Twitter client that's what. — Sobees is actually comprised of three different components .
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
HBO and Cinemax Going Online With Comcast — HBO and Cinemax will join Comcast's OnDemand Online trial this summer, giving the cable company's authentication scheme a high-profile partner. As part of the agreement, 750 hours of content from the two networks will be made available through Comcast.net and Fancast.com.
Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
Nexage Raises $4 Million From BlackBerry Fund, Others For Mobile Ad Platform — Nexage has raised $4 million in a first round of capital to build a mobile advertising platform, which promises to fix one of the biggest sticking points in mobile: bringing together the various ad types …
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Chris Matyszczyk / Technically Incorrect:
Microsoft vomit ad more than half of campaign's views — Vomit throws up viral views. — At least that is the conclusion of the strangely anal examiners of viral video at Visible Measures. — Perhaps some of you may have avoided the splashback from the Internet Explorer 8 vomit ad …
