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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 …
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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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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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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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.
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?
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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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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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.
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.
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 …
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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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Demystifying Microsoft's mobile operating system roadmap — When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently criticized Google at the D8 conference for having two different mobile operating systems, it's surprising so few challenged the pot for calling the kettle black.
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
When Is a Twitter Trend Not a Trend? When It's Promoted — Twitter has just launched the next phase of its advertising strategy: In addition to “promoted tweets,” in which a brand can pay to have its tweet show up higher in the Twitter stream, the company now offers “promoted trending topics.”
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.
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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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 …
EE Times:
Apple's A4 dissected, discussed...and tantalizing — The Apple A4 discussion kicked off in earnest when Steve Jobs introduced the iPad on January 27. In an infamous series of slides tracing the roots of Apple back to the two Steves in his garage, Jobs introduced the Apple A4 processor that powers the iPad …
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?).
Bill Ray / The Register:
NFC will be in all Nokia smartphones from 2011 — Who says NFC is dead? Well... we did — Nokia has announced that from next year every Nokia smartphone will have NFC, regardless of fact that the technology lacks a business model or any market demand. — The commitment was made during …
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Working at Google - the first 6 months — So, what is it like working at Google? How is it different than working at Microsoft? I have answered that question at least 500 times in the past 6 months, so I thought I should write a more detailed answer. Google still feels like a startup.
