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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
New iPhone Keeps Apple Top of Class — Just three years ago, Apple wasn't in the mobile-phone business at all. Since then, its game-changing iPhone has become the most influential smartphone in the world. Now, on June 24, the company will roll out the fourth generation of the device, called the iPhone 4.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
iPhone 4 review — The iPhone 4 is no small thing to review. As most readers of Engadget are well aware, in the gadget world a new piece of Apple hardware is a major event, preceded by rumors, speculation, an over-the-top announcement, and finally days, weeks, or months of anticipation from an ever-widening fan base.
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David Pogue / New York Times:
New iPhone Arrives, Rivals Beware — Apple's new iPhone, its fourth in four years, reaches stores on Thursday. Ordinarily, this is where you'd expect to find a review of it. But honestly — what's the point? — The iPhone 4 is already a hit. AT&T says that it received 10 times …
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Google Voice Blog:
Google Voice for everyone — A little over a year ago, we released an early preview of Google Voice, our web-based platform for managing your communications. We introduced one number to ring all your phones, voicemail that works like email, free calls and text messages to the U.S. and Canada …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
A Million Users Strong, Google Voice Opens To All
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
AT&T: iPhone 4 Backordered At Our Stores Until Next Tuesday, June 29 (T, AAPL) — AT&T just put out a statement regarding Apple's new iPhone 4. — If you preordered the device on June 15, you'll be able to pick one up this Thursday, June 24, as planned. — If you didn't preorder …
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
iPhone 4 arrives at Walmart (update: and Best Buy!)
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Apple:
Apple Sells Three Million iPads in 80 Days — Apple® today announced that it sold its three millionth iPad™ yesterday, just 80 days after its introduction in the US. iPad is a revolutionary and magical product that allows users to connect with their apps, content and the Internet …
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Rosa Golijan / Gizmodo:
Why Your iPhone 3G Didn't Get Backgrounds With iOS 4 — Today we finally got to officially download iOS 4 and update our iPhone and iPod touch devices. There was a catch though: iPhone 3G users don't get to use all the new features—like backgrounds or multitasking. Here's why.
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Mike Beltzner / The Mozilla Blog:
Firefox 3.6.4 with Crash Protection Now Available — Today, Mozilla is happy to release Firefox 3.6.4, the latest security and stability release for Firefox, used by nearly 400 million people around the world to browse the Web. This release provides crash protection for Windows and Linux users …
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Andrew Oplinger / Google Mobile Blog:
Google Maps for Android Helps You Find the Right Place, Catch a Train, and Add Latitude Friends — Labels: android, google latitude, google maps for mobile, transit — Hot off the presses, Google Maps for Android version 4.3 has added a couple new features to help you quickly choose …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Posterous Targets Ning In Massive Switching Campaign. Who Is Next? — We're big fans of easy-to-use blogging platform Posterous, which has seen fast growth, revenue and impressive funding since its launch in 2008. Over the past six months Posterous has steadily added nearly …
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Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:
No Power? No Problem: ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Relies on a Webcam — Most television hosts will do whatever it takes to keep their programs on the air, but when a power failure struck Jimmy Kimmel's show on Monday evening, he really went the extra mile: he grabbed a laptop computer and shot …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Biden to file sharers: ‘Piracy is theft’ — Do people commit theft when they share unauthorized copies of film and music over the Internet? U.S. Vice President Joe Biden thinks so. — “We used to have a problem in this town saying this,” Biden told reporters Thursday at a press conference in Washington, D.C. “But piracy is theft.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Counters Apple's HTML5 Showcase With HTML5Rocks (Yes, It's Really Called That) — Earlier this month, Apple unveiled a new site to showcase HTML5. On it, Apple showed off a number of impressive web demos coded using only HTML5 technologies. However, at least on the main page …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Bing Entertainment Brings Full Music Streams To Search, Plus Games, Movies, And TV Shows — Bing's iPhone app isn't the only thing getting an upgrade today at Microsoft's search engine. Bing is also starting to roll out close to 100 new features to its main search engine on the Web.
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Adobe Delivers Flash Player 10.1 But Most People Can't Use It — Adobe today released Flash Player 10.1 for mobile, just barely meeting prior expectations for a mid-year delivery. The final version of the software, previously available in several beta releases, runs on Google Android 2.2 …
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Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Gourmet Magazine Revived for the iPad — Can a shuttered magazine find a new life on the iPad? — That's what Conde Nast is hoping. On Tuesday, the company announced it would resurrect Gourmet magazine, the celebrated food and travel publication the company discontinued last October, as an iPad application called Gourmet Live.
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Sean Michaels / paidContent:UK:
Music Labels Tell Google To Remove Infringing Links — By Sean Michaels: Britain's biggest recording industry association, the BPI, has sent a cease-and-desist order to Google (NSDQ: GOOG), asking the search engine to take down links to nine “one-click hosting” sites, each of which hosts thousands of illegal songs.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Salesforce says social network Chatter is ready to talk — Will this be the day that business social networking grows up? Salesforce.com founder and chief executive Marc Benioff probably hopes so. Today, the company is announcing the availability of Chatter, its Facebook-style social network for companies.
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Exclusive: Discussing the Future of Facebook and the Facebook Ecosystem with CEO Mark Zuckerberg — There's no shortage of big initiatives going on at Facebook these days. We sat down with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week to talk about the state and future of Facebook and its surrounding ecosystem.
