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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Steve Jobs live from D8 — 7:16PM Steve: Well let first say we have two platforms we support. One is open and uncontrolled — that's HTML5. We support HTML5. We have the best support for it of anyone in the world. We then support a curated platform which is the app store.
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Peter Kafka / D8 Conference:
D8 Video: Steve Jobs on Flash, Adobe and Other Technology Apple Doesn't Use Anymore — Steve Jobs insists that he isn't out to crush Adobe (ADBE). But at the opening session of the D8 conference, the Apple CEO (AAPL) explained at length why he's done with Adobe's Flash …
AppleInsider:
Steve Jobs talks lost prototype iPhone, Adobe Flash at All Things D — Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs took the stage at D8 Tuesday evening, and discussed his company's opposition to Adobe Flash on the iPhone OS, as well as the prototype fourth-generation iPhone that was left behind at a bar.
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ReadWriteWeb, PC World, Electricpig, Reuters, Pocket-lint, paidContent, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, TiPb, Redmond Pie, BlogsDNA, Scripting News, The Next Web and D8 Conference
Arn / MacRumors:
Steve Jobs on Stolen Prototype iPhone: Not Going to Let It Slide. — During tonight's All Things D Interview, Steve Jobs indicated that he was not going to let the stolen/lost iPhone prototype incident “slide”: … In April, Gizmodo purchased an iPhone prototype and posted several news stories about the device.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Apple's Steve Jobs: Google and Adobe picked fights with us — Apple chief executive Steve Jobs was questioned on-stage tonight at the D8 conference by reporters Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. It's one of Jobs' few public appearances where he doesn't completely control the format …
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ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Phones Review, Gizmodo, CrunchGear, The Next Web, Electronista, Silicon Alley Insider and D8 Conference
Ross Miller / Engadget:
Steve Jobs on TV: ‘no one wants to buy a box’ — Well isn't that a breath of fresh air. With no apologies given to its long-standing policy, Apple CEO Steve Jobs provided a pretty honest and thorough assessment of what's wrong with the TV set-top box market.
Daniel Farber / CBS News:
Steve Jobs explains his world at All Things D — In a on-stage interview, Apple CEO and Silicon Valley legend-in-his-own-time Steve Jobs shared his views with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at the Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital conference (D8).
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Steve Jobs Both Smacks And Kisses AT&T — Tonight at the D8 Conference outside of Los Angeles, Apple CEO Steve Jobs addressed the iPhone's exclusivity with AT&T in the U.S. This has been the subject of debate for three years now, and it's getting more heated as the iPhone continues to grow in popularity.
AppleInsider:
Jobs: There ‘might be’ an advantage to a multi-carrier US iPhone — Steve Jobs admitted Tuesday that there “might be” an advantage to having more than one carrier for the iPhone in the U.S., but stopped short of suggesting that such a move could happen anytime soon.
Zee / The Next Web:
Steve Jobs: The iPad Concept Came BEFORE the iPhone
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Tech Trader Daily, VentureBeat, Engadget, Edible Apple, Geekword, AppleInsider, MacRumors and D8 Conference
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
AT&T makes sweeping changes to data plans, iPhone tethering coming at OS 4 launch — You might think that AT&T would hold off for a national HSPA+ deployment or a full-on LTE launch before tweaking its data pricing strategy, but not so much — the carrier is coming out swinging today …
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Silicon Alley Insider, Fast Company, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, Associated Press, Boy Genius Report, Unwired View, techeblog.com, Gizmodo and parislemon, Thanks:rawmeet
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AT&T:
AT&T Announces New Lower-Priced Wireless Data Plans to Make Mobile Internet More Affordable to More People — AT&T*, the U.S. smartphone leader, today introduced new wireless data plans that make it more affordable for more people to enjoy the benefits of the mobile Internet.
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MacRumors, ZDNet, Macworld, Mashable!, 9 to 5 Mac, Gizmodo, Crave, TUAW, SlashGear, I4U News, PhoneNews.com and Phones Review
Nielsen Wire:
The State of Mobile Apps — “There's an app for that” is Apple's catch phrase to promote the literally thousands of applications that can be downloaded to an iPhone. Whether you want to check the weather or traffic, bide time playing a game, or study a new language, there is likely a free or paid application that you can access.
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ZDNet, Mashable!, Mobile Entertainment, Internet2Go, ReadWriteWeb, MobileContentToday, The Next Web, Phones Review, GigaOM and ResourceShelf
Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Windows and Security: Setting the Record Straight — There's been some coverage overnight about the security of Windows and whether or not one particular company is reducing its use of Windows. We thought this was a good opportunity to set the record straight. — There is some irony here that is hard to overlook.
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Datamation, InfoWorld, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, thebigmoney.com, TG Daily, Erictric, USA Today, ZDNet Australia, NBC Bay Area, Relevant Results, PC World, Geekword, eWeek, TechSpot, DailyFinance, Neowin.net, creativebits and Silicon Alley Insider, Thanks:rawmeet
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Cade Metz / The Register:
Steve Jobs beheads iPad apps for acting like desktops — ‘Off with their widgets!’ — The Apple App Store police are now rejecting iPhone and iPad applications for behaving like “widgets” and “creating their own desktops,” according to one developer who's busy eating his previous claims that Apple isn't evil.
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Shifty Jelly's blog of mystery, CrunchGear, Edible Apple, Guardian, PadGadget, MacStories and App Advice
Ryan King / The Twitter Engineering Blog:
Announcing Snowflake — A while back to we announced on our API developers list that we would change the way we generate unique ID numbers for tweets. While we're not quite ready to make this change, we've been hard at work on Snowflake which is the internal service to generate these ids.
Dan Morrill / Android Developers Blog:
On Android Compatibility — At Google I/O 2010, we announced that there are over 60 Android models now, selling 100,000 units a day. When I wear my open-source hat, this is exciting: every day the equivalent of the entire population of my old home city starts using open-source software, possibly for the first time.
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Engadget, PC World, FierceWireless, PhoneDog.com, Android Phone Fans, Technologizer, Electronista, Big in Japan and ongoing, Thanks:atul
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Android Chief Andy Rubin: Updates Will Eventually Come Once A Year
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Phone Arena, MobileContentToday, ZDNet, MobileBurn.com, Boy Genius Report, Maximum PC, AndroidGuys, PhoneDog.com, Electronista, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Erictric, Android Phone Fans and Phone Scoop
Daniel Cawrey / thechromesource:
Google VP: Chrome OS Release in Q4 — Speaking today at the Computex Cloud Computing forum, Google VP of product management Sundar Pichai said that Chrome OS will be on the market in the fourth quarter of 2010. The Cloud Computing Forum is featuring executives from Google, ARM and Quanta Computers.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Already Leaving Google (GOOG, YHOO) — Delicious founder Joshua Schachter is leaving Google less than 1.5 years after he joined the company. — “Today is my last day at google. sad about leaving but excited about the future,” he just tweeted.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
FetchBack Fetches $40 Million From GSI Commerce — Let the ad retargeting acquisitions begin. This morning, GSI Commerce announced it purchased FetchBack, an advertising startup which specializes in retargeting. The size of the cash deal was not disclosed, but one source puts it in the $40 million range.
Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
How The Mainstream Media Stole Our News Story Without Credit — On Friday, I broke a tasty story about a woman suing Google, claiming bad directions caused her to get hit by a vehicle. Today, I discover our story is everywhere, often with no attribution. Come along and watch …
Adam Smith / Xobni Blog:
Xobni Has a New CTO and Change in My Role — Four years ago, Xobni was still an idea, and I was 21 years old. The company and I have come a long way since the early days in my dorm room at MIT. Now Xobni has been downloaded over five million times, the company has raised over $30M …
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Microsoft reveals Windows Embedded Compact 7 at Computex, hosts heaps of tablets — We know, you're probably eager to brush off yet another “embedded” operating system, but here at Computex, Microsoft is giving the naysayers a reason to think twice with the official debut of Windows Embedded Compact 7.
