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10:55 AM ET, June 23, 2010

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iFixit:
iPhone 4 Teardown  —  Join us live and follow iFixit on twitter as we disassemble the newly released iPhone 4.  Stay tuned!  Being the resourceful tinkerers that we are, we scoured the depths of this great nation, and we have emerged victorious.  At long last, the journey to the iPhone 4 teardown …
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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.
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.
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 …
Arn / MacRumors:
iPhone 4 is Faster than 3GS and Slower than iPad in Early Benchmarks  —  iPhone 4 results on left, 3GS on right  —  Early benchmarks of the iPhone 4 show it to be 31% faster than the iPhone 3GS according to the Geekbench 2 app.  Geek Bench has been a popular benchmarking utility on the Mac …
Yusuf Mehdi / Search Blog:
A New Entertainment Experience for Bing  —  In this release of Bing one of the biggest investments we are making is in the area of entertainment.  As the content on the web has exploded, it has become difficult to navigate and find what you are looking for.
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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.
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft, Hollywood debate future of entertainment
Discussion: MediaPost
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
App Store: 1% of Apple's gross profit  —  Since its launch in July 2008, it has generated revenue of $429 million for the company  —  Click to enlarge.  Source: Piper Jaffray  —  Apple (AAPL) claims to run the App Store at or near break even, and apparently that's not terribly far from the truth.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Looks Like Apple Is Suing HTC (Again)  —  It appears Apple has filed yet another patent infringement lawsuit against HTC and its subsidiaries.  —  From the looks of it, the new suit, which was filed earlier this week in the same Delaware court as the initial lawsuit filed in March 2010 …
Discussion: Digital Daily and SlashGear
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook Has Been Massively Underreporting Twitter App Users — By Over 6 Million  —  Inside Network's AppData is a goldmine of information about third-party applications on Facebook.  With it, you can see stats like: FarmVille has 63.9 million monthly active users — making it well over twice …
Discussion: Inside Facebook
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Report: A fifth of Android apps expose private data  —  About 20 percent of the 48,000 apps in the Android marketplace allow a third-party application access to sensitive or private information, according to a report released on Tuesday.  —  And some of the apps were found to have the ability …
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 …
Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:
Virgin America Offers Free Flights to Twitter Influencers  —  Virgin America has partnered with Klout, an analytics service that tracks users' influence on Twitter (based on variables such as the quality and number of followers and retweets), to extend free flights (plus tax) to influencers in Toronto.
Discussion: ZDNet and AppScout, Thanks:bobcaswell
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
How Microsoft foresaw—and still missed—the iPad  —  The technology icon stands before a crowd, holding in his hands a prototype that embodies his vision for the future of computing.  It's a touch-screen tablet that is thinner than a magazine, has all-day battery life, and sells for less than $800.
Discussion: GottaBeMobile
Ian Paul / PC World:
Google Under Multistate Privacy Microscope: How We Got Here  —  Google's Wi-Fi data snooping brouhaha just got worse.  Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal on Monday announced his office is leading a multistate investigation into Google's Wi-Fi data snooping gaffe.
Discussion: SC Magazine US and Bloomberg
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David Kravets / Threat Level:   Packet-Sniffing Laws Murky as Open Wi-Fi Proliferates
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 …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter For iPhone Quick To Add Multitasking And Retina Display Support  —  When Twitter bought Atebits, the company behind the excellent iPhone Twitter client, Tweetie, there was some concern it would slow down development of that app.  Luckily, it doesn't look like that has happened.
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Facebook Tests A News Feed For People With Few Friends  —  Facebook is testing a version of its News Feed customized for users with very few friends.  Reader Erik Eliason spotted the test and took a screen grab that we've pasted below.  Check out the sexy skybox.
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 …
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Libox lets you access media files from anywhere, easily share files with no limits  —  Libox is aiming to do the impossible: The Tel Aviv, Israel-based startup wants to help people manage their digital media collections by making any media file — be it a picture, song, or high-definition video …
Discussion: Technology Review, Libox Blog and NewTeeVee, Thanks:devindra
 
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Tom Warren / Neowin.net:
IE9 Platform Preview 3 with HTML5 video support due today
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Chris Morrison / Inside Social Games:
Seven Languages Grow, Three Hold Steady on Facebook for June 2010
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
P2P lawyers tell judge: suing 5,000 “Does” at once is fine
Discussion: Techdirt
Mark Lee / Bloomberg:
China Government Bans Online Virtual-Currency Dealing Platforms for Minors
Jennifer / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
It's Your Data, It's Your Bot: It's Not A Crime
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Apple leaves iPad vulnerable after monster iPhone patch job
Pete Carey / Mercury News:
Russian president to tour Silicon Valley
Audrey Watters / ReadWriteWeb:
Delicious Founder, AOL Exec Launch Hacker Angels
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Sinead Carew / Reuters:
FCC OKs AT&T buy of assets from Verizon
Discussion: dailywireless.org
Chris Dale / YouTube Blog:
WWE lays smackdown on YouTube community with full-length, catch-up episodes
Dennis Kneale / CNBC:
Why Amazon Should Give Away Kindle Free
Discussion: TeleRead and Kindle Review
Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:
No Power? No Problem: ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Relies on a Webcam
Discussion: TUAW, Technologizer and Techland
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
AT&T: iPhone 4 Backordered At Our Stores Until Next Tuesday, June 29 (T, AAPL)
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming
 
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