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Who da'Punk / Mini-Microsoft:
The KIN-fusing KIN-clusion to KIN, and FY11 Microsoft Layoff Rumors — Get out of the way Microsoft Bob, you have a replacement that Microsoft's Gen-Y employees can claim for their own! It's spelled K-I-N. — KIN's demise can't surprise anyone. When I looked at the phone's features …
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The Microsoft Blog, ZDNet, Robert X. Cringely's blog, Microsoft Watch, Gizmodo, Daring Fireball, Electronista, Windows Phone Thoughts.com, Coolsmartphone News, Engadget and VentureBeat, Thanks:atul
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Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft Rank And File Felt “Embarrassment All Over Campus” From Kin Failure (MSFT) — Microsoft's Kin failure sank morale at the company's Redmond campus according to an employee who emailed us after the news broke. — “Embarrassment all over campus from the rank and file about the Kin announcement,” says this Microsoftie.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft Only Sold 503 Kin Phones, John Gruber Hears (MSFT)
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
YouTube Mobile Goes HTML5, Video Quality Beats Native Apps Hands Down — If you've got a phone with an HTML5 compliant browser, you'll probably want to check out YouTube's new mobile site, which is rolling out over the next few hours at m.youtube.com. It's a major upgrade from the old mobile web app …
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ReadWriteWeb, mocoNews, NewTeeVee, Erictric, 901am, AppScout, Mashable! and Electronista
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Nick Bilton / Bits:
Google Makes the iPhone YouTube App Obsolete — What's the difference between the new version of YouTube's mobile Web site and the Apple-created YouTube application that is installed on every iPhone? The Web site is a lot better. At least that's the subtext of a video that YouTube released …
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YouTube Blog, CNET News, Beet.TV, Technologizer, Android Phone Fans, IntoMobile, The Next Web and Gizmodo
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Android 2.2 demolishes iOS4 in JavaScript benchmarks — Google's Android mobile operating system got some significant performance improvements in version 2.2, codenamed Froyo. A high-performance JIT was introduced in Android's Dalvik runtime environment and the browser got some very deep optimizations.
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Fortune, Engadget, VentureBeat, Erictric, Boy Genius Report, PadGadget, TiPb, Droid Life, AndroidGuys, Maximum PC, Electronista, Neowin.net, AndroidSPIN, MobileCrunch, Gizmodo, Android Phone Fans, PhoneDog.com, Inc.com, Techland, DailyTech, I4U News, IntoMobile and Mobility Site
Bloomberg:
Nokia Asks Russian Police to Get Smartphone Back From Blogger — By Diana ben-Aaron and Anastasia Ustinova — Nokia Oyj, the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, asked the Russian police to help retrieve a smartphone prototype from a Moscow-based blogger who riled the company by posting information it calls confidential.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
AT&T identifies Alcatel-Lucent as slow upload culprit, fix in the works — As we'd suspected, AT&T isn't intentionally limiting upload speeds on iPhone 4s in some markets where things suddenly got slow over the weekend. Or that's the company's claim, anyhow — and seeing how they're actually calling …
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PC World, BetaNews, CNET News, DSLreports, Boy Genius Report, App Advice, Digital Daily, Neowin.net, Gizmodo, DailyTech, 9 to 5 Mac, MobileCrunch, IntoMobile, Electronista, I4U News, Erictric, dailywireless.org, Geek.com, MacDailyNews, Pulse2, Ubergizmo, MacRumors and MacStories
Rachael King / Bloomberg:
Apple's IPad Wins Corporate Converts at Wells Fargo, SAP — Wells Fargo & Co. spent two years studying the iPhone before letting bankers use the device at work. Apple Inc.'s iPad, released in April, took just weeks to get cleared. — This time around, safeguards against security breaches …
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PC World, Network World, iLounge, Silicon Alley Insider, InformationWeek, AppleInsider, MacNN, TiPb, MacStories, IntoMobile, FierceCIO News and MacRumors
Apple MobileMe News:
Preview the New MobileMe Calendar Beta — A completely new version of MobileMe Calendar is now available as a beta on me.com. — To sign up, go to me.com/calendar and click “Request an invitation.” You will receive an email notification when you have been added to the beta …
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Apple, Mashable!, AppleInsider, Geeky-Gadgets, Ars Technica, everythingiCafe, TiPb, Geek.com, Covering Web, TheAppleBlog, Insanely Great Mac, Softpedia News, CNET News, MacRumors, TUAW, Daring Fireball, I4U News, Engadget, PC World and 9 to 5 Mac
Tim Partridge / YouTube Blog:
Life in a Day — Every day, 6.7 billion people view the world through their own unique lens. Imagine if there was a way to collect all of these perspectives, to aggregate and mold them into the cohesive story of a single day on earth. — Today, we're excited to announce the launch of …
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Macworld, Variety, The Social, Guardian, NewTeeVee, Switched, ReadWriteWeb, WebProNews, Pulse2, /Film, Fast Company, Speakeasy, AppScout, SocialTimes.com, Telegraph, VatorNews, GMSV, The Next Web, I4U News, Reuters, VentureBeat, BaltTech, fierceonlinevideo.com …, Softpedia News, Techie Buzz and Globe and Mail, more at Mediagazer »
Alexia Tsotsis / The Snitch:
Fast Company Influence Project Pisses Off Online Influencers — BECAUSE THAT'S HOW INFLUENCE IS MEASURED. Nowadays. Apparently. By tricking one's friends into pimping generic product. What is this, Amway? — Hope you used protection. — Radian6's Amber Naslund fell for it …
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TechCrunch, Advertising Lab, PSFK, Black Web 2.0, Inc.com, Going Social Now, Fast Company and DealBook
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Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Dominates Third-Party Logins For All But News — More and more, we're logging into websites using our credentials from sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google or Yahoo. But which one is leading in the battle of the third-party login? What login do we chose when it comes to entertainment sites like MTV?
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Inside Social Games, Mashable!, All Facebook, Inside Facebook, Neowin.net, gHacks Technology News, Softpedia News and Changing Way
Mahendra / Skeptic Geek:
Googler's Take on Social Networking Reveals Chinks in Facebook's Armor — Paul Adams, lead for User Research for Social at Google, shared a presentation a few days back that was picked up by Venture Beat among others. I am sharing it here along with my own thoughts as I think it deserves a closer look.
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Silicon Alley Insider, All Facebook, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check and The Huffington Post, Thanks:rawmeet
Wall Street Journal:
Console Makers in Talks to Add 3G — TOKYO—Japanese wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. is in talks with videogame-device makers about adding 3G network connections to the next generation of hand-held consoles in a push to expand connected-game play. — “Videogame makers know that in order …
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Fast Company, PlayStation LifeStyle, VG247, SlashGear, Electronista, CrunchGear and Engadget
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
The Facebook Movie Will Not Be Using Facebook to Market the Facebook Movie — You might think a huge target audience and golden marketing opportunity for a high-profile Hollywood movie on Facebook, titled “The Social Network,” would be the 500 million members of Facebook. — Maybe not so much.
Chris Morrison / Inside Facebook:
Facebook's June 2010 US Traffic by Age and Sex: Users Aged 18-44 Take a Growth Break — [Editor's Note: The data cited in this article is excerpted from Inside Facebook Gold, our membership service tracking Facebook's business and growth around the world. Please see Inside Facebook Gold …
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Twitter search queries up 33 percent from April to 800 million per day — Twitter is supporting 800 million queries a day, or 33 percent more than it said it was handling back in April, according to co-founder Biz Stone, who spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival today.
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Fast Company, Mashable!, Pulse2, Maximum PC, Softpedia News, GigaOM, Erictric, The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb and Search Engine Land
Simon Mackie / WebWorkerDaily:
This Just In: Firefox is Still Slow — Mozilla released the first beta of Firefox 4 yesterday. In addition to offering a spiffy, new interface and a whole host of new features, including enhanced HTML5 and WebM video support, the latest version should be faster.
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The Register, Metro.co.uk, InformationWeek, Download Squad, Computerworld, Wall Street Journal, Geek.com, Maximum PC, FierceCIO News, Mozilla, Security Watch, Digits, Techland and Lifehacker
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Xbox Live Sales Probably Topped $1 Billion for the First Time — Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox Live online video-game service probably broke the $1 billion revenue mark for the first time in the year that just ended, helped by sales of movies, avatar accessories and extra game levels.
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Metro.co.uk, SiliconANGLE, VG247, The Microsoft Blog, DailyTech, Neowin.net, NewTeeVee, Computerworld, Gizmodo, Destructoid, Gizmodo Australia and fierceonlinevideo.com …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Time Magazine Walls Off Its Web Site: Will You Pay Up? — Want to read the cover story of this week's Time magazine? Whip out your wallet: You can only get all of Steve Brill's piece on lobbying and financial reform via Time's print edition or its new iPad app.
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