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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
iPhone vs. Pre: Satisfaction bakeoff — Palm Pre owners love their smartphones, but not as much as owners of Apple's new 3GS iPhone love theirs. — In a survey of 200 3GS users conducted Aug. 4-11 by RBC Capital and ChangeWave Research, 99% pronounced themselves satisfied, of which 82% were “very satisfied.”
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Gadget Lab, ReadWriteWeb, IntoMobile, all things Pre, Electronista, Tech Trader Daily, Gizmodo, ChannelWeb and Daring Fireball
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Andrew Nusca / Between the Lines:
Why I'm suspicious of the Facebook ‘RockMelt’ browser — In the 21st century, the main portal to your life besides the front door to your home is the window of your Web browser. — That's why the competition between Microsoft and Mozilla and Apple and Google (and Opera and...) is so intense and so important.
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Report: MicroHoo “Penetration” Near Google's, Google Users Most “Loyal” — This morning comScore released data and analysis that compares search share, searcher penetration and loyalty at the combined Microsoft-Yahoo property vs. Google. While Google has a much higher share of the number …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Points At WebFinger. Your Gmail Address Could Soon Be Your ID. — There's some excitement around the web today among a certain group of high profile techies. What are they so excited about? Something called WebFinger, and the fact that Google is apparently getting serious about supporting it.
Verizon:
Verizon Wireless Completes Successful LTE 4G Data Calls In Boston And Seattle — Trials Include First Field-Level Tests Integrating Network Vendors' 4G Technology Over 700 MHz Spectrum — BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Verizon Wireless today completed its first successful Long Term Evolution (LTE) …
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Engadget, mocoNews, PhoneNews.com, InformationWeek, IntoMobile, Sidecut Reports, DSLreports, Phone Scoop and Xconomy
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Images of Next-Generation iPod Touch Surface? [Updatedx3] — Earlier this week, MacRumors received a somewhat blurry image claimed to be the next-generation iPod touch. The image depicts a camera centered at the top of device's rear, corresponding with numerous third-party case designs appearing …
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Engadget, The Covino & Rich Show, Gizmodo, Silicon Alley Insider, The iPhone Blog, 9 to 5 Mac, Mobilewhack.com, AppleInsider and MacDailyNews
Matthew Parris / Times of London:
India launches Bhuvan, rival to Google Earth — India has launched a rival to Google Earth, the search engine's hugely popular satellite imagery service. — The online tool, dubbed Bhuvan (Sanskrit for Earth), has been developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro).
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Cocktail part of Apple's September event — Peter Kafka at All Things Digital reported Thursday that Apple is planning to make a major announcement the week of September 7, and that was a big scoop. — But much of the substance of Apple's announcement—at least as it relates to music …
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Engadget, NEWSFACTOR, Electronista, Webomatica, Fast Company, The Mac Observer and dot.life
Erica Ogg / CNET News:
Apple's Snow Leopard: A flurry of changes — According to rumors, the release of Mac OS X 10.6, Apple's operating system also known as Snow Leopard, might arrive a bit early. Though Apple announced at the Worldwide Developer Conference in June that Snow Leopard would hit stores in September …
Heather Dougherty / Hitwise Intelligence:
Bing Shopping takes off — Microsoft recently announced a promotion to receive Double Cashback when consumers use Bing Shopping for searches and online purchases. Back in October of last year, I wrote about the initial success of the Cashback program to capture visits, so this particular promotion …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Zune Apps — In my brief comments yesterday on the new touchscreen Zune HD that is set to debut September 15, I noted: … I mean, why not? The software platform has quickly become a major driving force behind the sales growth of the iPhone and iPod Touch. Microsoft is a software platform company.
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VentureBeat, TECH.BLORGE.com, IntoMobile, AppleInsider, Electronista, Softpedia News, WMExperts, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, TechFlash, GottaBeMobile.com, PC World, TweakTown News, Silicon Alley Insider, I4U News, Ubergizmo, The iPhone Blog, FierceMobileContent, Pocket-lint.com, MacDailyNews, Engadget, Electricpig, GMSV, Obsessable, iLounge, WMPoweruser.com, Edible Apple and AppScout, Thanks:atul
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Rene Ritchie / The iPhone Blog:
iPhone 3GS Camera Pre-Caches Images Before You Take Them? — Does the iPhone 3GS camera constantly buffer live video data, in effect pre-caching the images you want before you take them? Birdhouse developer Adam Lisagore thinks so, and says so via his Lonely Sandwich blog:
PC World:
Lenovo to Replace Defective ThinkPad Batteries — Lenovo is offering to replace certain batteries sold with its ThinkPad line of laptops, warning users that they may be permanently damaged due to errors. — The company is offering free replacements for batteries that do not recharge or suffer from …
Psystar:
A taste of their own medicine — We are pleased to announce that an agreement with Apple's counsel was reached earlier this month and we now have the final list of their deponents for our proposed topics with respect to this litigation. For the past week and for the following ten days …
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AppleInsider, OSNews, Between the Lines, Macworld, The Mac Observer, CNET News, BetaNews and MacMagazine
David Pogue / Pogue's Posts:
‘Take Back the Beep’ Campaign: An Update — It's been two weeks since I started “Take Back the Beep,” a campaign to flood the four big wireless companies with complaints. I want them to eliminate (or make optional) those time-wasting, redundant, airtime-eating, 15-second recorded instructions …
Daniel Cotting / Google LatLong:
Picasa photos in Street View — Earlier this year, we launched a new Google Maps feature embedding user-contributed photos into Street View. The new way of browsing photos has recently been enhanced with photo-to-photo zooming, which lets you explore some of the world's most interesting landmarks …
Rafe Needleman / CNET News:
Get it while it's cheap: Pinboard's revenue model — Pinboard is Maciej Ceglowski's Delicious competitor. Sort of. It's a one-man show, a feature-light but fast site for saving bookmarks and seeing what other people are saving too, if you wish. It's easy to use, thanks to a collection …
WCTX-TV:
MTA blogger defends iPhone app — New Haven (WTNH) - A blogger that created an application for the iPhone has been asked to cease and desist by the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) because they say he is distributing their train schedules without their consent.
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Dan Friedman / Inside AdWords:
Create New High Quality Display Ads with Display Ad Builder — Creating display ads that look truly professional is hard work. Last year, we launched Display Ad Builder to help you easily design display ad campaigns. Since then, we've provided advertisers in over 40 countries …
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Search Engine Journal, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, WebProNews and Search Engine Watch
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Digits:
Format War Clouds E-Book Horizon — Thinking about making the leap to digital books? First, you'll need to add a jumble of new lingo to your dictionary: .epub, pdb, BeBB, and Adobe Content Server 4, just to name a few. — Sony — Sony's PRS-600 Reader Touch Edition
Don Clark / Digits:
Apple's Cash Hoard: It Just Keeps on Growing — Remember when Wall Street was obsessed with Microsoft's bulging bank account? Now it's Apple that is awash in cash, the latest symbol of the company's stunning ascendance over the past decade. — Apple — As of June 27, Apple …
Msav / ai.rs blog:
HTC Leo picures surface — ai.rs Blog exclusive — As we announced in our previous post, HTC Leo will be a new high end model from HTC and it will feature Snapdragon 1GHz processor and capacitive 4.3" screen. We expect it in our hands in september and it may hit the stores (or mobile operators) as soon as october.
Nicki Dugan / Yodel Anecdotal:
What's your social mojo? — As Twitter becomes more mainstream, everyone and their mother (and grandmother... and mayor... and daytime TV host) is trying their hand at the tweet. But what they might not realize is that how you use Twitter can say a lot about you.
Anil Dash:
The Most Interesting New Tech Startup of 2009 — I love seeing people start new companies, especially in the tech world. But I've probably gotten a little bit jaded about new startups, especially when the story seems to be more about who's funding the effort than about the product itself.
Thanks:mrinaldesai
AWS Evangelist / Amazon Web Services Blog:
Adding the Export to AWS Import/Export — I blogged about the new AWS Import/Export feature this past spring and told you how it allows you to load any amount of data into Amazon S3 by simply shipping the data to us on a compatible storage device. The response to that announcement …
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
King of Broken Promises Wants You to Trust Him — Media entrepreneur Steven Brill has been failing pretty much constantly for the past 11 years, and repeatedly broken his word in the process. But he's turned the corner with his new startup, he swears! Just don't ask for specifics!
