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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Photos of Snow Leopard Disc and Retail Packaging? — MacRumors has received a set of images claimed to be the retail packaging and disc for Apple's forthcoming Mac OS X Snow Leopard. If the images, which appear to depict the Portuguese version of Snow Leopard, are in fact authentic …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook 3.0 For iPhone Submitted. Now Let's Count The Days Until It's Available — Facebook has submitted v. 3.0 of their iPhone application to Apple, Joe Hewitt says via Twitter: “Just uploaded Facebook for iPhone 3.0 to the App Store for review. :)” — Hewitt also says he'll post screen shots …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Our Mac Chromium Updater: Stay Up To Date On The Best Versions Of Chrome For Mac — We've been gushing for weeks now about the latest Chromium builds for Mac. Every day, they seem to get better. The problem is that every day, several updates are released and you have to manually …
Fred / A VC:
Scanning Headlines — We all scan headlines, whether it's the printed newspaper, Techmeme, Huffington Post, Hacker News, Seeking Alpha, Google Reader, Google search results, or Twitter. That's the way we consume information. For any given set of headlines, we might click on one link and read a full story.
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
TomTom for iPhone Appears in New Zealand App Store [Updated] — iPhoneclub.nl reports [Google translation] that four regional versions of TomTom's much-anticipated iPhone GPS application have appeared in Apple's New Zealand App Store: U.S. & Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
Laura Fitzpatrick / Time:
Building a Media Empire Around I Can Has Cheezburger — Ben Huh is the first to admit his company could easily have wound up on FAIL Blog. For the uninitiated, that's his wildly popular website to which users submit photos and videos documenting such colossally stupid moves as writing …
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Steve Lohr / Bits:
To Microsoft, Basic Research Is Good Insurance — In an Unboxed column in Sunday's newspaper, I look at the continuing role and competitive advantage, if any, of large corporate research labs, given the new models of open innovation in the Internet era. The column focuses on labs with one foot …
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Jack Loftus / Gizmodo:
Reno Redbox Kiosk Begins Spitting Out $2 Video Game Rentals — The first of the long-rumored Redbox video games kiosks has gone live in Reno. Rentals are $2 per night for an at-the-moment limited selection of 13 Xbox 360 titles. — Eventually, the selection will grow to encompass Wii …
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Britain Mulls Turning 7 Million Into Download Criminals — The debate on how Britain should tackle illicit file-sharing is heating up. The government has already set an utterly unrealistic target of reducing online piracy by 70% within a year. If that isn't achieved …
internetnews.com:
iPhone 3G Owners Griping About 3.0 Wi-Fi Glitch — Owners of the iPhone 3G who upgraded to OS 3.0 say their Wi-Fi connections aren't working properly — and are still waiting for Apple to address the issue. — Online forums have lit up with complaints from owners of the iPhone 3G …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Video: An Apple Store trifecta — “Yes, I am a nerd!” — JaxBearsFan — Despite the recession, Apple (AAPL) opened three new retail outlets on Saturday — in Mississauga, Ont., Naperville, Ill., and Reston, Va. — and its fan base obliged by forming long snaking queues …
Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:
Connection Fees Next in Battle to Lower Mobile Rates in Europe — BERLIN — The next frontier for lower mobile calling rates in Europe is cracking a 20-year-old system of connection fees that has rewarded bigger operators and has artificially raised rates to consumers.
