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Jonny Evans / Computerworld:
iPhone 4: queues everywhere, selling out — iPhone-mania this morning as queues form across the US for Apple's must-have product, even as shops across the UK, France, Germany and Japan have already sold out following huge demand. — Video above: The queue outside Apple's flagship Regent Street, London store this morning.
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Arn / MacRumors:
Standing in Line for the iPhone 4 — Line at Michigan Ave Store in Chicago, IL, photo by @chartier — Lines are starting to grow around the world for the iPhone 4 launch. Pictured above is the Michigan Ave Apple Store in Chicago where the weather isn't quite cooperating.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
iPhone 4 Lines Around The World (AAPL) — It's here: The one day of the year when practically no one is too big or too important to stand in line for HOURS. — That is, to wait in line to pick up the new Apple iPhone 4, which goes on sale today in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, and Japan.
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Kent Walker / YouTube Blog:
YouTube wins case against Viacom — Today, the court granted our motion for summary judgment in Viacom's lawsuit with YouTube. This means that the court has decided that YouTube is protected by the safe harbor of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) against claims of copyright infringement.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Google Wins YouTube Copyright Suit; Viacom Promises Appeal
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Richard Waters / blogs.ft.com:
Why Viacom ruling could take YouTube to profitability
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
iPhone 4 Loses Reception When You Hold It By The Antenna Band? — This is a reader video found on Macrumors forums illustrating something weird. When the guy holds the iPhone in his hands, touching the outside antenna band in two places, he drops reception. Placing the phone down gets him 4 bars.
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Sebastian Anthony / Download Squad:
Internet Explorer 9 destroys Chrome 6 in HTML5 speed test (video) — I think the video speaks for itself! — If you can't watch the video: IE9 is some orders of magnitude faster than HTML5 when it comes to hardware-accelerated canvas rendering. — In some other initial benchmarks …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Microsoft's next web browser will display rich graphics (demo videos)
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Some iPhone 4 Displays Have Yellow Discoloration Bands and Spots — We are seeing multiple accounts of a problem with the iPhone 4's Retina displays: Some screens have a yellow tint across its surface. In some cases, it's a yellow band. In others, yellow spots. See the gallery. [Updating Live]
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Josh Elman / Twitter Blog:
Following your friends and colleagues — Many Twitter users follow their favorite celebrities, sports heroes, or brands. They often find and follow even more nearby businesses or experts in their industry. And, of course, people also follow friends, family and associates so that they can keep updated on what's happening with them.
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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
150 Million Licenses of Windows 7 Sold, Windows Live Betas Announced — I have a couple of things to tell you about today. First off, we are excited to announce that Windows 7 has sold 150 million licenses to-date. As I've said before, Windows 7 is the fastest selling operating system …
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Piero Sierra / The Windows Blog:
Announcing the new Windows Live Essentials beta!
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Jon Brodkin / Computerworld:
Google Docs creates expectations CIOs can't meet, Red Hat CEO says — Red Hat CEO says CIOs are “under siege” by user expectations. — As chief executive of Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst spends much of his time traveling the world and talking to CIOs, and he constantly hears one thing: that they are “under siege” by user expectations.
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
GetJar, The ‘Wal-Mart For Mobile Apps,’ Raises $11 Million — Fast-growing mobile app store GetJar, which says it has had more than one billion apps downloaded from its store to date, making it second in size only to Apple's app store, has raised $11 million in a second round of funding.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
BZZZZZZ: YouTube Gets A Vuvuzela Button (Seriously) — YouTube always has had a way with pranks. Some time in the last hour, the world's largest video portal activated a new button on some videos that looks like a tiny soccer ball. Clicking it will activate an endless …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Could Accessing Your Own Data On Facebook Make You Criminally Liable? — We've been following the rather bizarre and dangerous lawsuit filed by Facebook against Power.com, an online service that tries to let users aggregate various social networking activity into a single service.
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Louis Gray:
Author: Zuckerberg has “Total Control” over Facebook — This morning at the Churchill Club in Mountain View, David Kirkpatrick, author of the Facebook Effect, which chronicles the ascension of the world's largest social network, based on significant access to the company's youthful …
Mark Milian / Los Angeles Times:
IFixit's ‘teardowns’ of Apple gadgets draw customers to its parts business — The company, which sells electronic parts on its website to do-it-yourselfers, has achieved a cult-like following by ripping apart the latest technology wonders and documenting the details online.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Android 2.2 Froyo source code available today — It's still not hitting the bulk of Nexus Ones as far as we can tell, but for what it's worth, Google has unleashed the source code for Android 2.2 today, which is a solid sign that the code's been bulletproofed to the Open Handset Alliance's satisfaction …
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Andy Rubin / The Official Google Blog:
Celebrating Android — Today, Verizon and Motorola announced …
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Chad Catacchio / The Next Web:
18 online map providers approved by China authorities, Baidu, Google, others not among them yet — According to the China Daily, 18 domestic companies in China have received licenses to provide online and/or mobile mapping services in Mainland China, the first such licenses awarded since …
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