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David Pogue / Bits:
Q&A: Steve Jobs Snipes at Amazon, Praises Ice Cream — Q&A: Steve Jobs Snipes at Amazon, Praises Ice Cream — Steve Jobs at an Apple music event on Wednesday. … Q. — Will there be a break in new products as a result of your absence? — A. — There were a lot of things …
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Erica Ogg / CNET News:
Jobs makes it clear he's back in charge at Apple — SAN FRANCISCO—Though technically he returned to work two months ago, it was as the host of Wednesday's Apple music event that Steve Jobs publicly retook the reins of the company he founded. — Jobs was the first person to emerge on stage …
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Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
The New iPod Nano Shoots Video, Plays Radio — As well-documented by the “word on the street,” the fifth generation iPod nano is also a video camera...and radio and a pedometer and a voice recorder too...and it's available today. Details: — • Video camera (640x480) — • NO STILL CAMERA
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
iPod nano 5G with camera first hands-on! — We came and we saw... but there's not much to say. It's exactly the same save for that new coating, bigger screen (which does help), and tiny little camera around back. Video quality looked decent, but you really can't tell on the small screen.
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Photography Bay, PC World, VentureBeat, Redmond Pie, Technologizer, Gearlog and 9 to 5 Mac
Zachary M. Seward / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Google developing a micropayment platform and pitching newspapers: “'Open' need not mean free” — Google is developing a micropayment platform that will be “available to both Google and non-Google properties within the next year,” according to a document the company submitted to the Newspaper Association of America.
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
iTunes 9 bringing iTunes LP functionality, ‘beautiful new look’ — Ready to pay more for the same music? Good! We've just spotted some new “Deluxe Version” albums in iTunes, which apparently are part of the “iTunes LP” experience in the upcoming iTunes 9, if the album blurbs are to be believed.
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Gizmodo, CNET News, Digital Daily, AppleInsider, Ars Technica, Guardian, 9 to 5 Mac, Obsessable, Boy Genius Report, The iPhone Blog, The Tech Report, SlipperyBrick.com, Rolling Stone, mocoNews, Nerd World, Touch Arcade, Tech Check with Jim Goldman, CrunchGear, Technologizer, Music Ally and AppScout, Thanks:mrinaldesai
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
iTunes Connects With Facebook And Twitter — Apple's Rock and Roll event is in full swing, and they've just announced that you'll be able to share albums you're interested in over Facebook and Twitter. This isn't exactly a unique feature — we've seen music sites like Lala and plenty …
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AppleInsider:
Apple unveils 64GB iPod touch with faster processor for $399 — With a library huge library of titles, Apple pushed the iPod touch and iPhone as the definitive mobile gaming platform Wednesday as it announced a new 64GB iPod touch priced at $399. — In addition, a 32GB offering will be available for $299, and an 8GB option for $199.
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Steve Jobs says iPod touch didn't get a camera because “it's a great game machine” — Wondering why Apple chose to add a camera to the iPod nano, but not the revised iPod touch? You're not alone, but one Mr. Steven P. Jobs has an answer for you: it's because the touch is a game machine, you see.
Christine Monaghan / Apple:Apple Introduces New iPod touch Lineup
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:Why There Is No Camera In the iPod Touch and Why That Sucks
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Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Google Voice, Skype Are on a VOIP Collision Course — News Analysis: Why would Google want to acquire Skype when it already has a VOIP application? The fact is, Google Voice and Skype are not yet direct competitors, but Google is enriching its application and could put it on a collision course with Skype.
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Joanna Stern / Gizmodo:
Dell Adamo XPS: Half As Thick As Air — What happens when Dell's Adamo and XPS laptops get set up on a date, have a few too many drinks and end up rocking the bed? The 9.99mm-thin Dell Adamo XPS. That's about half as thin as the MacBook Air. — Here's the math: 9.99 mm is about 0.39 inches.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Rolls Out The Mother Of All Updates: A Larger Search Box — Google is continually updating its search experience via the algorithms and the way results are displayed. But when it comes to the search box itself, it has largely left it alone. Sure, it has added drop downs for suggested results …
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Marissa Mayer / The Official Google Blog:Now S-U-P-E-R-sized! — Search, that is. For us, search has always been our focus.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: Apple Takes Over Gaming — Apple continues to set its sights on the gaming industry, touting its massive, low-cost game selection as a reason to buy an iPod touch (or iPhone) instead of a Sony PSP or Nintendo DS. — During today's iPod event, Apple showed off this chart.
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AT&T:
AT&T to Make Faster 3G Technology Available in Six Major Cities This Year — Rollout of New Technology - HSPA 7.2 - Matched by Backhaul Deployment to Cell Sites to Support Surging Mobile Broadband Demand Throughout Evolution to 4G
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook's Experimental Desktop Notifications App For Mac Is Very, Very Slick — If you're on a Mac and you use Facebook frequently, you're going to love this. We've stumbled across a new experimental application being developed in-house at Facebook that's called “Desktop Notifications”.
Thanks:thinkmantra
Tom Conrad / Pandora:
Pandora for Android — When we set out building Pandora four years ago we knew that our work wouldn't be done until we'd found a great way to unlock the service from the PC. Just over a year ago the iPhone let us take the first compelling step in that direction and the year since has been filled …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Apple Approves Real's Rhapsody iPhone App; First Look — Maybe it was the anti-trust patrol looking over Apple's shoulder or the memory of the RealNetwork settlement with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), but the Rhapsody iPhone/iTouch app—the first in the U.S. to offer on-demand streaming music …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Twitter And The Revenue Dilemma — One thing every venture capitalist knows but rarely talks about is the “revenue problem” with hot startups. When a startup is “growing like gangbusters” as Twitter cofounder Biz Stone told Bloomberg today, they tend to get a lot of attention from suitors.
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Lee Mathews / Download Squad:
Google Docs “hidden” viewer feature coming to Chrome OS — Over at Google OS today, Alex Chitu mentioned a “hidden” embeddable document viewer that is part of Google Docs. The viewer can be embedded in any web page to enable inline display of PDF and PPT files.
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Google Operating System
AT&T:
AT&T Customers Enjoy Unlimited Calling to Their A-List — New Feature for Qualifying Plans Offers Unlimited Calling to Domestic Phone Numbers, Combined with Rollover Lets Users Keep the Minutes They Save
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Bits, Boy Genius Report, PR Newswire, MobileCrunch, Softpedia News, IntoMobile, DailyTech, I4U News, Gadgetell, jkOnTheRun, Macworld, Phone Arena, DSLreports, Electronista, Engadget Mobile and SlashGear
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Microsoft helps Best Buy employees troll Mac users, too — After our coverage from yesterday regarding Microsoft training material for Best Buy employees that not only makes Linux look bad, but is also full of inaccuracies, one of our faithful readers wrote in and said he could show us that Redmond was doing the same thing for Apple.
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Stuart Dredge / Mobile Entertainment:
Exclusive: New App Store chart for ‘Top Grossing’ applications — Good news for developers complaining about the clutter of 99-cent iPhone apps — Apple has introduced a new chart on its App Store, and developers are sure to be pleased. Alongside Top Paid and Top Free apps will be Top Grossing apps.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Comcast's Burke: TV Everywhere trials going national in 30 to 60 days — Comcast has built a TV Everywhere site that's “complicated technically,” but will roll out nationally as a pilot in the next 30 to 60 days, said Stephen Burke, chief operating officer of the cable giant.
