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Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
What Valley Companies Should Know about Tencent — Quick quiz: Who are the three largest Internet companies in the world by market capitalization? — If you guessed Google and Amazon you got two right, but I'm betting few of our American readers guessed the third. I certainly wouldn't have a year ago.
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Begins Shipping iPhone 4 to Customers — Several readers have notified us that they have started receiving shipment notifications and FedEx tracking numbers for their iPhone 4. Several of the shipment notifications indicate a “Delivers By” date of June 23rd — a day before the official launch day.
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AT&T Randomly Cancelling iPhone 4 Pre-Orders?
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Royal Pingdom:
Exploring the software behind Facebook, the world's largest site — At the scale that Facebook operates, a lot of traditional approaches to serving web content break down or simply aren't practical. The challenge for Facebook's engineers has been to keep the site up and running smoothly …
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John Naughton / Guardian:
The internet: Everything you ever need to know — In spite of all the answers the internet has given us, its full potential to transform our lives remains the great unknown. Here are the nine key steps to understanding the most powerful tool of our age - and where it's taking us
John Boudreau / Mercury News:
SFO to join San Jose and Oakland airports in offering free Wi-Fi — Soon all three major Bay Area airports will offer free Wi-Fi to always-connected travelers. — San Francisco International will join Mineta San Jose International and Oakland International airports in offering free Internet connections.
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Matthew DeCarlo / TechSpot:
Mozilla intern examines startup speed of Firefox, Chrome — A Mozilla intern has figured out a way to make Firefox open faster - or at least seem like it's opening faster. In a blog post, interface designer John Wayne Hill explained how Chrome, although only slightly faster than Firefox at starting, feels much quicker.
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Dell Introduces Back-to-School Friendly Inspiron 14R, 15R and 17R — Today Dell launched a new line of Inspiron notebooks geared toward mainstream consumers and the Back to School crowd. The Inspiron R series — 14R, 15R and 17R — come wrapped in attractive, metal chassis, pack Intel Core i CPUs …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Best iOS 4-Ready Apps So Far — We all know that the iPhone 4 launches this coming Thursday. But on Monday, current iPhone users get an early treat in the form of iOS 4, the new iPhone operating system (formerly known as iPhone OS 4). It comes with several enhancements …
Alex Billington / FirstShowing.net:
David Fincher's ‘The Social Network’ Official Poster Unveiled — Bold marketing going on here - the tagline is the poster! So where is the title? It's along the side, as part of a sidebar that looks like the header from Facebook. Notice anything similar?
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Napolitano: US must balance liberties, security — WASHINGTON — Fighting homegrown terrorism by monitoring Internet communications is a civil liberties trade-off the U.S. government must make to beef up national security, the nation's homeland security chief said Friday.
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Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Microsoft sues spammers for abusing Hotmail anti-spam filters — Two anti-spam systems developed by Microsoft for Hotmail designed to help ISPs track down offending users were abused by spammers, a lawsuit brought last week by the software giant alleges. The spammers are accused …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Like E-Books? Amazon Sells More of Them, for Less, Than Apple. For Now. — The introduction of the iPad and the iBooks store has lots of people forecasting doom for Amazon's Kindle. And Citigroup's (C) Mark Mahaney, an Amazon bull, acknowledges that Apple will eat into Kindle's share …
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
OnLive Streaming Game Service Tested (At Home, Finally!) — We've checked out the OnLive pure-streaming gaming system before, but it was always in a somewhat controlled environment. Finally, the service has launched, and we can see what it's like to play this at home. Where it matters.
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