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1:35 AM ET, June 23, 2010

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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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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Bing / 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.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Live From Hollywood: It's Bing & Ryan Seacrest  —  Bing's holding a big press event here tonight in Hollywood, California.  We're live on the red carpet.  OK, no red carpet, but we do have Ryan Seacrest hosting the event.  Sit back and stay tuned as we live blog what's to come.
Discussion: ZDNet and The Microsoft Blog
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:   Microsoft, Hollywood debate future of entertainment
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 …
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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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
First iPhone 4 Deliveries Arrive [Updated With Video]
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
iPhone 4 arrives at Walmart (update: and Best Buy!)
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 …
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.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Zuckerberg: Facebook Revenue Estimates Of $1.1 Billion “Not So Far Off..”
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.
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 …
Audrey Watters / ReadWriteWeb:
Delicious Founder, AOL Exec Launch Hacker Angels  —  The Hacker Angels announced their formation last week, nabbing what is arguably the best name for an angel investor group.  The group was formed by Going Inc. founder and current AOL executive Roy Rodenstein, Delicious founder Joshua Schachter …
Discussion: Mass High Tech
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: PC World, TUAW, Macworld and Techland
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.
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 …
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Packet-Sniffing Laws Murky as Open Wi-Fi Proliferates  —  Starbucks is rolling out free, unsecured Wi-Fi access at about 7,000 coffee shops across the United States beginning July 1.  But will there be packet-sniffing with your latte?  —  The Seattle-based coffee concern's move to lure customers …
 
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