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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Verizon Droid Is The Real Deal — Verizon and Motorola finally lifted the curtain on their new Droid Android phone yesterday. Make no mistake, this is Android's flagship product, and the first phone that will pose a significant threat to Apple's iPhone. And it will be available very soon, possibly as early as the end of this month.
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Verizon's anti-iPhone gets its first commercial: ‘Droid Does’ (update) — We knew Verizon Wireless would soon be throwing caution to the wind in an effort to sway uncommitted smartphone buyers towards Big Red, and it looks like the November-bound Motorola Droid will be VZW's anti-iPhone.
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Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
Sorry, Verizon, No Physical Keyboard On The iPhone Isn't That Big Of A Deal — In Verizon's slam ad on the iPhone, it ticks off all the things the iPhone doesn't do. — For a big splashy ad, we must say we're a little underwhelmed by the problems the “iDon't” ad lists with the iPhone.
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Christina Warren / Mashable!:
Wolfram Alpha Launches $50 iPhone App — On Thursday WolframAlpha launched its developer API, which should allow large and small developers (as well as businesses and educational institutions) to harness the power of the computational knowledge engine to enhance their own applications or products.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Wolfram Alpha Miscalculates What Its iPhone App Should Cost — Apple wasted little time approving Wolfram Alpha's new iPhone app, which we hinted at last week. Just a few days after they submitted it to the store, Apple sailed it right through the approval process with such speed …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
This Used To Be My Playground — Maybe you've read some of the stories this past week about how FriendFeed's traffic is way down following their sale to Facebook. The stats don't look good, as the site's traffic may have plummeted as much as 30% following its peak just prior to the sale.
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The Second Life of FriendFeed? — Where do I spend my attention? That's all I have. Unlike many others in the tech community I don't have a lot of money to invest in companies. I also don't have coding skills, so can't build stuff, so the only way I can build stuff is to spend …
Dan Nosowitz / Gizmodo:
Postal Service Mail Handler Steals 2,200 GameFly Rentals — Both GameFly and Netflix package their by-mail rentals in bright, obvious envelopes, and a Philadelphia mail handler took advantage, stealing 2,200 GameFly games in just six months. When he was caught, he had 81 games on him. 81!
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Forecast for Microsoft: Partly Cloudy — RAY OZZIE, the chief software architect at Microsoft, bristles when asked whether people think that new versions of his company's flagship software — like Windows and Office — are exciting. — “It's tremendously exciting,” he exclaims defensively …
Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
France Moves to Win Back Control of Content — PARIS — Like Asterix, the cartoon Gaul who resists the Romans with his pluck — and a magic potion — French publishers and news providers are cooking up original ways to fight the perceived threat of cultural domination by U.S. technology giants like Google and Amazon.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
A Digital Magazine Without Links Is a CD-ROM — When the next generation of touchscreen tablet computers hits the market, one of its highly anticipated uses will be as a full-color reader for books, newspapers, and magazines. Of those three, the main beneficiary may very well be old-style magazines.
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Pixel Qi e-ink / LCD hybrid display to debut on tablet next month? — It's been far, far too long (read: four months) since we've heard a peep from the gentle souls over at Pixel Qi, but it looks like the long, heart-wrenching wait for the hybrid display that's bound to revolutionize Western civilization is nearing an end.
