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Apple's App Store Downloads Top 1.5 Billion in First Year — More Than 65,000 Apps; Over 100,000 Developers — Apple® today announced that customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications in just one year from its revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world.
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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Ian Paul / PC World:Verizon's App Store Plans Likely to Irk Phone Makers
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:RIM Launching A BlackBerry Social Network For Venting Tomorrow
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Ross Miller / Engadget:Verizon to its smartphones: thou shalt have no other app store before mine
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Survey Confirms: Bing Will Bomb — Analysts are positively gushing about Microsoft's Bing. Initial Comscore numbers showed a pop in Bing traffic! Some observers (the New York Times, for example) have gone so far as to suggest that Bing will usher in a whole new era in the search war between Google and Microsoft.
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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.
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eWeek, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Softpedia News, TechCrunchIT and virtualization.info, Thanks:atul
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Microsoft announces Azure pricing, details — Microsoft's Bob Muglia announces Microsoft's Windows Azure plans at last year's professional developer conference. On Tuesday, Microsoft announced how it will charge for the service and what level of guarantees it will provide.
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Martyn Williams / Computerworld:
U.K., not North Korea, source of DDOS attacks, researcher says — Security analysts had been skeptical of the claims about North Korea — IDG News Service - The U.K. was the likely source of a series of attacks last week that took down popular Web sites in the U.S. and South Korea …
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Todd Brix / The Windows Blog:
Get Ready; Windows Marketplace for Mobile Offers Millions of Potential New Customers — My name is Todd Brix and I am the Senior Director for Mobile Platform Services Product Management at Microsoft. I am on site at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans to talk …
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PC World, LiveSide, WMExperts, Gizmodo, Channel 9, FierceMobileContent, Neowin.net and Seattle Times
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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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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Amazon Buys Netflix? Microsoft Is a Much 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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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Pandora now pushing radio to pay for music, too — The campaign to get radio stations to pay up for the music they play marches on. With revenues from recorded music sales declining, rightsholders have turned their eyes in recent years to commercial US radio, which currently pays songwriters …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Samsung HMX-U10 Full HD camcorder with 1-button YouTube uploads out-Ultras the Flip — Step aside Flip, Samsung's aiming its massive consumer-electronics guns directly at your point-shoot-n-upload to YouTube base. Samsung's new HMX-U10 fixed-focus, ultra-compact camcorder takes 10 megapixel stills …
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 …
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Sun Microsystems: Ye Gads, That Was An Ugly Quarter — Hey, Oracle (ORCL) CEO Larry Ellison! Are you totally sure you want to buy Sun Microsystems (JAVA)? — Sun today pre-announced extremely ugly results for its fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30. The company said revenue for the quarter …
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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IntoMobile, Engadget, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Gearlog, Switched, Redmond Pie, The iPhone Blog, Gear Live, Pocket-lint.com and CrunchGear
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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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Now Things Get Interesting: CBS Joins Comcast's Web TV Trial — Yet another addition to the growing list of programmers signing on to Comcast's “On Demand Online”: CBS will join the cable providers trial program, which will allow subscribers to get Web access to shows they get on TV.
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 …
Rafat Ali / paidContent:
TMZ Brings Ad Sales In-House With Telepictures; Future After AOL Spinoff Under Spotlight — TMZ, the in-news online celeb site that is part owned by Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) siblings AOL and Telepictures, brought its ad sales in house this month, paidContent has learned and confirmed from the companies.
Jenn K. Lee / Pocketables:
Rumor: Raon Digital gone bankrupt? — Grab your salt shakers and gather 'round, folks. It's time to share a rumor that's beginning to seem a little less like fiction and a bit more like fact as the days go by. I received an email tip early last week about Raon Digital - makers of the Vega …
