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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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Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch Europe:
Hate commitment? iPhone 4 goes SIM-free and unlocked in the UK — Today is the day that most of the UK mobile carriers are taking iPhone 4 pre-orders. But, if like me, you're afraid of commitment - well the 2 year mobile contract kind, anyway - then you might want to hold off for now.
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
iPhone 4 Order System Collapsed, Suffering Security Breaches — These are people waiting in line outside an AT&T store in NYC to pre-order the iPhone 4. Why? Because AT&T's iPhone 4 upgrade ordering systems are collapsed. Updating live: Readers are also reporting account security breaches.
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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Apple:
Apple Unveils All New Mac mini — Apple® today unveiled a completely redesigned Mac® mini, featuring up to twice the graphics performance, a new HDMI port and a new SD card slot, all in an amazingly compact aluminum enclosure. Mac mini is the world's most energy efficient desktop …
Mike Schackwitz / The Windows Blog:
The new Hotmail is rolling out now! — Today, we have reason to celebrate, as we've begun to roll out the new Hotmail worldwide! — You may start seeing the new features in you inbox as early as today, features like the new Sweep menu, the freshly integrated Office Web Apps …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Office 2010 Now Available for Consumers Worldwide — Millions of beta users help Microsoft deliver the best experience for getting things done across the PC, phone and browser. — Today, Microsoft Corp. announced the worldwide availability of Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010.
JP Gownder / Consumer Product Strategy:
Office 2010 Will Continue To Succeed With Consumers
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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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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
‘Apple Store’ iOS Application Goes Live in App Store [Updated] — As rumored, Apple's new iOS application dedicated to the company's retail store experience is now live in the App Store. Known simply as Apple Store, the free application allows users to shop the full online Apple Store …
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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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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.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Samsung Galaxy Beam: world's first Android projector phone on sale in July — Ah, here we go, Samsung's other cellphone with an integrated projector just got an official launch date. The Galaxy Beam (codename: Halo) with its 3.7-inch Super AMOLED display is now slated to hit Singapore in July.
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Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Facebook CEO Deletes Controversial iPhone 4 Post — While I've followed the story about Mark Zuckerberg dissing the iPhone, it wasn't really of much interest to me-or to you. — Until today. — For those of you unaware, the Facebook CEO posted the following to his Facebook page:
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Facebook CEO Disses iPhone
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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 …
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 …
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!
Larry Dignan / ZDNet:
Microsoft's Xbox Kinect: Pondering 6 business uses — Microsoft launched its Xbox Kinect, a gaming unit sans controllers, and this pup goes on sale Nov. 4. Will this technology make it to the business world and how would it be used? — This Kinect technology, which allows you to use gestures …
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
New Xbox 360 gets official at $299, shipping today, looks angular …
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Rachel King / ZDNet:
Amazon finally begins rolling out Kindle 2.5 firmware update — For all of you Kindle owners out there, it's time for another firmware update. Originally announced in April for a late May release, Amazon will be rolling out software version 2.5 over the next few weeks.
