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Apple:
iPhone 4 Sales Top 1.7 Million — Apple® today announced that it has sold over 1.7 million of its iPhone® 4 through Saturday, June 26, just three days after its launch on June 24. The new iPhone 4 features FaceTime®, which makes video calling as easy as one tap …
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Despite Glitches, iPhone 4 is Apple's Biggest Launch Ever
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Amazon.com:
Amazon Announces New Functionality for Kindle Apps for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch — Readers can now enjoy embedded video and audio clips in Kindle books on their iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced a new update to Kindle for iPad and Kindle …
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Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Apple IPhone 4 Parts Cost About $188 — Researchers at iSuppli tore down the latest iPhone to find parts from LG Display, Samsung, and Broadcom — Apple's iPhone 4 wireless handset includes components that cost as little as $187.51, according to market research firm iSuppli.
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Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Elevation Invests Another $120 Million in Facebook as that IPO Looks More Distant — Elevation Partners has quietly amassed another huge chunk of Facebook shares on the secondary market, according to a recent letter to its limited partners. Elevation spent $120 million for five million more Facebook shares.
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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
A Look at Who's Getting What on Apple's IAds — Though Complexity, Delays Mean Most Won't Hit July 1 Rollout, Marketers Appear Excited by the Prospects — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The first of Apple's iAds are expected to start popping up on iPhones later this week, but don't expect …
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App Advice, Mobile Marketing Watch, 9 to 5 Mac, paidContent, www.pocketgamer.biz and FierceMobileContent
Jon Lech / nanocr.eu:
Google's mismanagement of the Android Market — Earlier this week, CNET ran an article critical of the permission model of the Android Market. Google's response to the criticism was that “each Android app must get users' permission to access sensitive information”.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Supreme Court Rules Narrowly In Bilski; Business Method & Software Patents Survive — As I expected it appears that the Supreme Court has ruled somewhat narrowly in the Bilski case (pdf), which many had hoped would end the scourge of business method and software patents. Instead, the court effectively punted the issue.
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Bonnie Cha / Crave: The gadget blog:
Samsung Galaxy S models announced for Sprint, Verizon, U.S. Cellular — Over the past few days, we've learned the identities of a couple of Samsung Galaxy S phones headed for the U.S., including the Samsung Captivate for AT&T and the Samsung Vibrant for T-Mobile, but turns out Samsung's got plenty …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Growing pains afflict HTML5 standardization — Listening to marketing messages from companies such as Apple and Google, one might think HTML5, the next-generation Web page standard, is ready to take the Net by storm. — But the words of those producing the specification show …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Why We Check In: The Reasons People Use Location Based Social Networks — Services like Foursquare, Gowalla and others make it easy to post your physical location to the web - but what makes people want to do that at all? — Fifteen-month old Foursquare is adding 100,000 new users every week …
Mickey Kataria / Google Mobile Blog:
Google Docs viewer on Mobile Browsers — (Cross-posted with the Google Docs Blog) — Last week, we announced that the Google Docs viewer supports .doc and .docx attachments. Today we're also releasing a mobile version of the Google Docs viewer for Android, iPhone and iPad to help you view PDFs …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
mSpot Debuts Cloud-Based Music Streaming Service For Android — Mobile entertainment startup mSpot is debuting its free music cloud service today that allows you to sync your entire music collection across Android phones and PCs/Macs to the public today. The service, which was launched …
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Fast Company, Bits, Android Phone Fans, AppScout, MediaMemo, CNET News, Droid Life, Xconomy, Electronista and Pulse2
Tom Warren / Neowin.net:
Microsoft details early Windows 8 improvements to OEMs — Details leaked to a Microsoft enthusiast blog on Monday reveal Microsoft's immediate plans for Windows 8. — Francisco Martin, a Microsoft Enthusiast, posted several confidential pieces of information to his blog on Monday revealing improvements …
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I'm Just Being Manan, DailyTech, microsoft-journal …, Silicon Alley Insider, Techie Buzz, Gizmodo, CrunchGear, The Next Web and AppScout
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
Broadband Availability to Expand — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is seeking to nearly double the wireless communications spectrum available for commercial use over the next 10 years, an effort that could greatly enhance the ability of consumers to send and receive video and data with smartphones and other hand-held devices.
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Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
White House backs federal plan for more airwaves for smartphones, wireless broadband
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
Touting Redesign, MSNBC Declares Pageviews ‘Dead’ — The big idea behind just about every website redesign these days generally revolves around “less is more” minimalism. But it looks like MSNBC.com's redo actually means it: the new site, which just went fully live, promises to do an end with clicking on stories and on ads.
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Facebook grabs Chrome OS engineering director, VMWare VP — Facebook continues to be a Hoover for talent. The social network hired Matt Papakipos, a Google engineering director who oversaw development of Chrome OS, and Jocelyn Goldfein, a seven-year VMWare veteran and vice president, it said today.
