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Apple MobileMe News:
The New MobileMe Mail. Now Available to All Members — The all-new MobileMe Mail at me.com is now out of beta and available to all members. We'd like to thank the many people who used the beta and provided us with feedback. — Here's a summary of what's new in the Mail web application …
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Find My iPhone App Now Available — The Find My iPhone app is now available as a free download from the App Store. — If you lose your iPhone or iPad while on the go, simply install the Find My iPhone app on any other iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to find it.
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Rosa Golijan / Gizmodo:
Droid 2: First Impressions — Gizmodo reader Zack recently had a chance to play with Verizon's next offering, the Motorola Droid 2. He sent us his impressions, some details about the specs, and a few extra pictures. — Zack wrote: … Zack's observations and impressions match …
Darren Murph / Engadget:
White HTC EVO 4G coming exclusively to Best Buy on July 11th, pre-orders start today — Jumpin' Jehosaphat! Just when you thought America's first 4G phone couldn't get any hotter, along comes this: a striking white version of the HTC EVO 4G (so much for that unavailable white iPhone 4, eh?).
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Photo, video quality of Apple's iPhone 4 demonstrated in Prague — An iPhone 4 obtained early by a user in the Czech Republic has allowed a look at the photo and video recording quality of Apple's latest handset, prior to its public release. — A reader of Jablickar.cz offered the hands …
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Verizon May Follow AT&T's IPhone to Tiered Pricing — Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile-phone carrier, may follow AT&T Inc. in introducing tiered pricing and eliminating unlimited data plans this year as it moves to its faster fourth-generation network technology.
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Tech Trader Daily, CNET News, Computerworld, Digital Trends, Internet2Go, FierceWireless, SiliconANGLE and Gearlog
Chris Holt / Macworld:
OnLive gaming service now available for Mac — “OnLive can run on most PCs—but on all Macs,” boasted Steve Perlman, founder and CEO of OnLive. On Thursday, the cloud-based gaming service launched for the Mac and Windows, thereby enabling thousands of players to stream high-end games to their computers like never before.
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Eli Hodapp / Touch Arcade:
E3 2010: Video of OnLive for the iPad
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Agence France Presse, ITworld.com, 9 to 5 Mac, App Advice, TechSpot, WebProNews and MacStories
Pde / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Encrypt the Web with the HTTPS Everywhere Firefox Extension — Today EFF and the Tor Project are launching a public beta of a new Firefox extension called HTTPS Everywhere. — This Firefox extension was inspired by the launch of Google's encrypted search option.
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
On Google Chrome's Lack of Native Support for Feeds — Google Chrome is the only popular browser that doesn't have native support for feeds: it doesn't detect or preview feeds and it doesn't let you subscribe to feeds using your favorite feed reader. Most of these features are available in Firefox …
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Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Facebook '09 revenue neared $800 million — (Reuters) - Facebook's financial performance is stronger than previously believed, as the Internet social network's explosive growth in users and advertisers boosted 2009 revenue to as much as $800 million, according to two sources familiar with the situation.
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Arn / MacRumors:
iPhone 4 Confirmed to Have 512MB of RAM (Twice the iPad and 3GS) — Since the launch of the original iPhone, Apple has made efforts to hide some of the actual tech specs of the device from consumers. Apple has never advertised or even published the processor speed or amount of RAM found in the iPhone.
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Digital Daily, Appolicious Advisor, Gadget Lab, Ars Technica, planet iPad, iPhone Buzz, TiPb, Apple Gazette, Newlaunches.com, Pocket-lint, Engadget, CNET News, Computerworld, ZDNet, MacRumors Page 2, Fudzilla, AppleInsider, Phones Review, MobileCrunch, The Tech Report, DailyTech, Boy Genius Report, ZDNet Australia, 9 to 5 Mac, techeblog.com and Erictric
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Two location companies that are more important than Foursquare, MyTown, Loopt, Gowalla, or Whrrl — I still love Foursquare. I check in nearly everywhere I go. I still also check in with Gowalla (my checkins) and Yelp (my Yelps) and a variety of other services. Why?
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
YouTube's Secret “News Experiment” Explained! (Warning: Not Really That Secret) — Is YouTube getting into the local news business? No, not really. — But! SF Weekly has a weird, confusing tale about YouTube's sort of secretive effort to launch a “local news experiment” in San Francisco.
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Victor Godinez / techblog.dallasnews.com:
Photo: first iPhone 4 camper shows up at Dallas Apple store on Knox St. [UPDATED] — A reader sends this photo: — You've got a long, hot week ahead of you, friend. — UPDATE: Drew, the reader who sent me the photo, notes that our intrepid camper has chimed in on the macrumors forum:
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Andrew Munchbach / Boy Genius Report:
DigiTimes: Apple shipping 1.2 million iPads per month — In a post this morning, DigiTimes analyst Kuo Ming-Chi stated that Apple, Inc. is currently shipping close to 1.2 million iPads per month. Ming-Chi also went onto note that, “the monthly shipments may reach 2.5 million units by the end of 2010.”
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MacRumors, DigiTimes, AppleInsider, Erictric, 9 to 5 Mac, Tech Eye, SlashGear, Electronista, everythingiCafe and MacStories
Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
Microsoft floating cash to iPhone devs for Windows Phone app portages — Microsoft is splashing out cash to tempt iPhone app developers into porting their software to Windows Phone 7. — A report on PocketGamer.biz claims the company is flashing its chequebook as it moves to woo developers …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Co-President Jason Hirschhorn Out — Less than a month ago I asked the MySpace Co-Presidents, Mike Jones and Jason Hirschhorn (pictured left), if it was possible to effectively run a company with two equal leaders. Their answer - they've made it work. I asked if they were both there for the long term.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
The Real Story Behind MySpace Co-Prez Jason Hirschhorn Quitting (NWS)
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George Ponder / WMExperts:
Hotmail gets Exchange ActiveSync support — Windows Live Hotmail is slated to officially receive Exchange ActiveSync support sometime this summer. However, while nothing has been announced, it appears this support is already active. — Liveside.net is reporting some users are having success …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Millennial Media: Apple OS Drops By 33 Percent In May But iPad Impressions Grow 160 Percent — Mobile ad network Millennial Media, which claims that its network reaches 82 percent of 72 million mobile web users in the U.S., is reporting that iPad ad requests grew 160 percent from April …
Hank Williams / Why does everything suck?:
Law enforcement has apparently become an arm of AT&T and Apple — I feel like we are living in what I thought was the fictional world of the movie RoboCop. In that movie law enforcement is turned over to private company OCP with the cyborg RoboCop leading the way.
Sarah Rotman Epps / Forrester Blogs:
Steve Ballmer Is Right: The PC Market Is Getting Bigger — At The Wall Street Journal's D8 conference in June, Apple CEO Steve Jobs compared the PC to a farm truck, saying that when America was an agrarian economy: “All cars were trucks because that's what you needed on the farm.
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Scott Moritz / TheStreet.com:
Apple iPhone Debut Nipped by Shortages — Supplies of Apple's iPhone will be far below the company's plan and most likely not sufficient enough to keep up with the presumably strong early consumer demand. Apple's iPhone production has hit a speed bump due to display screen shortages …
