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Othman Laraki / Twitter Blog:
Twitter Places: More Context For Your Tweets — If you're like everyone at the Twitter office, you're going crazy about the World Cup. When turning to Twitter to keep up with the current game, it helps to know where a Tweet is coming from—is that person watching the game on TV or is he actually in the stadium?
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Wall Street Journal:
RIM Tests A Tablet And New BlackBerry to Rival iPhone — Research In Motion Ltd. is readying a slate of new devices and software as it looks to keep its BlackBerry smartphone from losing more ground to touch-screen devices like Apple Inc.'s iPhone and iPad.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
iPhone 4 Up For Pre-Order — Black Only — Henry Ford once famously said, “Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.” The same can now be said for the iPhone 4. — Just moments ago, Apple's latest mobile device was put up for pre-sale on Apple's Online Store.
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Michelle Maisto / eWeek:
RadioShack to Sell Apple iPhone 4 with Sweetened Deal
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
New Xbox 360 gets official at $299, shipping today, looks angular and ominous (video hands-on!) — At first we were doubtful that a edgy box appearing in a little Flash ad from Italy last night could be legit, but Microsoft just got real with the new Xbox 360. (That's all it's officially called — just “the new Xbox 360.")
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Kinect priced at GameStop: $149, $399 for Elite bundle
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Samsung's 7-inch ‘Galaxy Tape’ to run Android 2.2 on 1.2GHz A8 processor? — More details about Samsung's new tablet have emerged courtesy of Tinh te and from what it claims is a highly reliable source. This time around, the Vietnamese site is claiming that Samsung's 7-inch Tab will be running Anroid 2.2 …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Google music store could launch this fall — With the iTunes' banner waving supremely over the digital music landscape, Google continues to build its own music service. — According to multiple music industry sources, Google could launch a music service that offers song downloads and streaming music as early as this fall.
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Is the iPad going Retina? — With the launch of Apple's iPhone 4 and its gorgeous retina display, it's a high probability that Apple will soon update their other iOS devices with better displays as well. Perhaps you don't need 326 PPI on a device that is meant to sit on your lap? Nonsense!
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Dustin Curtis / Hi.:
iPhone 4: Who cares about pixel density? It's about interface definition.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Is Very Down, And Could Be Well Into The Night — Earlier today, Twitter rolled out a pretty killer new feature: Place support for geolocation. With it, you can tag your tweets to a specific place you're at, or pipe in your check-ins from Foursquare and Gowalla to do the same thing.
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Bloomberg:
Zynga Said to Get $147 Million Softbank Investment — Zynga Game Network Inc., the biggest provider of Facebook games, received a 13.5 billion yen ($147 million) investment from Softbank Corp., according to two people familiar with the agreement. — Softbank and Zynga have discussed distributing …
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Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
Mac mini updated with HDMI, aluminum unibody, and SD card reader — Would you look at that, some love for the seemingly abandoned desktop crowd. Apple has today unveiled a freshly redesigned Mac mini, which benefits from a unibody aluminum exterior and more grunt under the hood.
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Facebook CEO Disses iPhone — Mark Zuckerberg recently bought an iPhone. But the mobile phone is not very mobile, and not much of a phone, the Facebook CEO says. — In a post to his Facebook wall, Zuckerberg explained that, within one week of acquiring the device, he's already …
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Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Sprint cans employee for leaking EVO 4G sales numbers — The tales surrounding the launch of the EVO 4G have been intriguing, to say the least. On June 4th, the device launched. By June 7th, Sprint was touting the phone's sales as mammoth, claiming that it had broken their previous one-day sales records …
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Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Google Earth 3.0 Available in the App Store with Native iPad Support — An update for the Google Earth app has been released in the App Store, which finally comes as a universal application with native iPad support. It's available for free here as a 12MB download.
Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire:
Yahoo Settles Lawsuit and Gets Flicker.com Domain Name — Yahoo now has Flicker.com for Flickr.com web site. — As Michael Berkens pointed out today, Yahoo now owns the domain name Flicker.com. — But this wasn't your typical domain name sale. It was actually the culmination …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Free WiFi Coming To All U.S. Starbucks Stores Beginning July 1 — At Wired's Business Conference in New York City, Starbucks' Howard Schultz announced that the coffee giant is now offering free Wifi to customers beginning July 1. — Currently, you can connect to AT&T WiFi in Starbucks stores …
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Free Wi-Fi is Just a Small Part of Starbucks' Plan: Free Access …
Kellex / Droid Life:
Exclusive: Droid 2 and Droid X Commercial Slides, New Juicy Details — Over the weekend we got a hold of the commercial slides and scripts for the new batch of Motorola Droid 2 and Droid X commercials that are slated to run as we get closer to launch next month.
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News Corporation:
News Corporation Acquires Skiff, LLC; Makes Investment in Journalism Online, LLC — News Corporation today announced that it has acquired Skiff, LLC, Hearst Corporation's e-reading platform designed to deliver premium journalism to tablets, smartphones, e- readers and netbooks.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: OutCast's Wennmachers Joins Andreessen Horowitz as Partner — Margit Wennmachers (pictured here), one of Silicon Valley's leading public relations and communications execs, is joining Andreessen Horowitz as a partner. — Wennmachers, 45, co-founded OutCast Communications …
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