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Yusuf Mehdi / Search Blog:
A Farewell to Bing cashback — One of the principles we have here at Bing is to constantly experiment and learn. We do this to ensure we are keeping pace with new social and technology trends, and can continue to deliver great value for our customers and advertisers.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Microsoft Discovers That Bribing People To Use Its Search Engine Didn't Work
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft axes Bing Cashback, saying it fell short of aspirations
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Nick Bilton / Bits:
Updated: iPad 3G Shortage Won't Bar Getting Unlimited Data Plan, AT&T Says — Since AT&T announced this week that it would eliminate its unlimited monthly data plans beginning Monday, June 7, some customers have been scrambling to get an iPad 3G with the hopes of signing up for the unlimited plan, which would be grandfathered in.
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Jim Lanzone / Clicker Blog:
How Much Video Can You Actually Stream With AT&T's New Data Plans? — OK, we're going to tell you the punchline right away. Run, don't walk, to get your iPad 3G before the end of the weekend. If want to stream video while on-the-go from sources like Netflix or the ABC Player …
Alexia Tsotsis / The Snitch:
Zuckerberg's Bizarre Facebook Insignia Revealed, And What It Means — To much media fanfare, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took off his signature hoodie at D8 conference Wednesday, revealing a what looked strange Illuminati-like diagram printed on the blue silk lining.
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Jason Calacanis / VentureBeat:
Five things Facebook can do to rebuild trust
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Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
At This Monday's Apple Keynote? Help Us Liveblog — It's no surprise: Apple has not responded to our requests to attend the WWDC keynote on Monday at 10am PST. But we'll still cover the news. Want to help? — If you're going to the keynote, and want to be a part of the exciting Apple coverage …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Gizmodo Denied Press Passes for WWDC Keynote — Brian Lam: … WWDC attendees, be warned: guard your conference badges Sunday night if you're at a bar. — (If Gizmodo's editors were smart, they'd have purchased WWDC conference badges if they wanted to attend the keynote. But of course, that's a big “if”.)
Robin Wauters / MobileCrunch:
Sprint officially kicks off sales of the HTC EVO 4G — “History will be made across the nation as anxious customers get their hands on America's first 3G/4G wireless phone, HTC EVO 4G, packed with industry-leading features.” — A little over the top right there, but anyway …
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Chris Cameron / ReadWriteWeb:
Don't Believe the Hype: Sprint “4G” Slower Than T-Mobile 3G, Report Finds
Matt Mastracci / grack.com:
HTC EVO 4G: Nice Hardware, Horrible Sprint Software
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Steven Johnson / stevenberlinjohnson.com:
Is Steve Jobs Repeating His Past Mistakes? — One of my very favorite writers, Robert Wright, had an interesting Opinionator post at the NY Times site this week, which revolved around the question of Steve Jobs' alleged lust for power and why he was making the same mistakes with the iPhone …
Boy Genius Report:
AT&T officially stops selling iPhone 3G — You had a really, really good run iPhone 3G. We'll miss you. … Anyone excited for the 3GS to probably drop to $99, or will you spring for the new $199/$299 device? — Thanks, AT&TFreshNinja!
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Hank Williams / Why does everything suck?:
John Gruber jumps the shark — I have been using Macs since February 1984. From just about the day the Mac was announced I was writing software for it from my college dorm room using one of the school's two $10,000 Apple Lisa computers. The Lisa was, at that time, the only tool you could use …
David Feng / techblog86:
China Blocks Foursquare; Too Many People Checking Into Tian'anmen — The Chinese censors are a sight to behold. As in how fast they react. It's an open secret that while Twitter is probably chock-full of “the wrong people” (to the censors), the censors themselves are there, too.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google's iTunes Competitor Will Likely Be Called Google Music — At Google I/O a few weeks ago, Google teased the audience with a glimpse of a web-based iTunes competitor that would be a new section of the Android Market. Details were sparse during that time, but we may have found the name …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Wants HuffPo Badly — Yahoo is clearly positioning itself to become a stronger player in the online content game, as evidenced by its recent acquisition of Associated Content. But we are hearing that the real prize they want is the Huffington Post. The two companies are currently …
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David Heinemeier Hansson / Signal vs. Noise:
You couldn't pay me to work for Ballmer — I'm not going to lie. I was never a Microsoft fan. Not even when I was using Windows (that I begrudgingly moved to after the Amiga). But at least you used to have some awe and respect for the gorilla that was Microsoft.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL Isn't Negotiating A Search Deal, It's Negotiating A Sale To Microsoft (AOL, MSFT, YHOO, GOOG) — AOL, which currently outsources search to Google, began negotiating a new search deal last week, CEO Tim Armstrong said yesterday at the D8 Conference out in California. — Tim is just being coy.
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John D. Sutter / CNN:
With Foursquare's founder, life is a virtual game — New York (CNN) — Dennis Crowley was jogging across a New York bridge when he spotted something exciting: a cartoon mushroom, spray-painted on the sidewalk. — It looked like something out of Nintendo's “Super Mario Bros.,” which Crowley grew up playing.
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Windows 7 passes XP on Steam, Mac OS X grabs 8% share — Four months ago, Windows 7 passed Windows Vista on Steam, the leader of the digital game distribution market, and we predicted that XP was in its crosshairs. Last month, Windows 7 passed Windows XP, making it the most popular operating system on Steam.
