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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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Electronista:
BlackBerry 9800 due soon, tablet by end of 2010 — RIM's BlackBerry 9800 and its tablet companion won't come side by side but could together bet available this year, insiders said this evening with a handful of new details [sub. required]. The 9800, a multi-touch QWERTY slider …
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 …
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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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 …
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 …
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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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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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 …
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Kinect priced at GameStop: $149, $399 for Elite bundle — Microsoft didn't say a peep about Kinect pricing at its E3 keynote, but GameStop isn't being shy: Kinect is now listed on the retailer's website for $149.99. The page is dead if you try to click through from search results …
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Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360 launches on November 4
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Associated Press:
T-Mobile promotion to offer free phones — SAN FRANCISCO - Wireless carrier T-Mobile plans to give free phones to customers who sign up for group calling plans at its retail stores on Saturday — just days before rival At&T will start selling Apple's latest iPhone.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Can't Seem To Locate Itself; Could Be Down The Next 5 Hours — 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.
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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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
SeaMicro drops an atom bomb on the server industry — Coming out of stealth, SeaMicro is dispelling the Silicon Valley myth that you can't innovate in hardware anymore. The startup is announcing today it has created a server with 512 Intel Atom chips that gets supercomputer performance …
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 …
Michelle Maisto / eWeek:
RadioShack to Sell Apple iPhone 4 with Sweetened Deal — The Apple iPhone 4 will go on sale at RadioShack, as well as Wal-Mart, Best Buy, AT&T and Apple online and retail stores beginning June 24. RadioShack will also begin taking preorders June 15 and allow customers to trade in older electronics toward their iPhone 4 purchase.
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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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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Set to Launch Official Retail Store Application for iOS? — MacRumors has heard from several sources that Apple is planning to launch a new iOS application tomorrow that will offer customers access to the company's online store and iPhone pre-ordering, as well as the ability …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Wikipedia to Loosen Controls Tonight — Wikipedia will roll out the latest changes to its editing policy later tonight, called Pending Changes. The constant struggle to find a way to limit vandalism without a chilling effect on legitimate editing will take a more permissive turn with the change.
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Steve Grove / YouTube Blog:
The YouTube News Feed: What's happening now? — Whether it's an altercation between a Congressman and a student in Washington, D.C., violent attacks against ethnic minorities in Kyrgyzstan, or oil washing up on a beach in the Gulf Coast, videos uploaded to YouTube by both amateur reporters …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Android Steals Market Share from iPhone — Online tracking firm Quantcast has just released new data that shows mobile operating systems' current market share in North America, with the newly renamed “iOS” (originally called “iPhone OS” - the OS powering the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch) in the lead...by miles.
