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Fred Vogelstein / Wired:
Bad Connection: Inside the iPhone Network Meltdown — For iPhone fans, it really was too good to be true. A pair of Apple executives had just described the latest model of the iPhone — the 3GS — onstage at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in June 2009. The audience loved it.
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Amazon Says E-Books Now Top Hardcover Sales — The heft and musty smell of a hardcover book are one step closer to becoming relics in a museum. — Amazon.com, one of the nation's largest bookstores, said Monday that for the last three months, sales of electronic books for the Kindle …
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Kindle Device Unit Sales Accelerate Each Month in Second Quarter; New $189 Price Results in Tipping Point for Growth — Amazon.com Now Selling More Kindle Books Than Hardcover Books — (NASDAQ: AMZN) — Millions of people are already reading on Kindles and Kindle is the #1 bestselling item on Amazon.com for two years running.
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Joann S. Lublin / Wall Street Journal:
Nokia Conducting Search for New CEO — Mobile phone maker Nokia Corp. has launched a search for a new chief executive, people familiar with the situation said Monday. — The move comes as the current chief executive, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, struggles to find traction for the company …
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Michael White / Bloomberg:
Redbox Plots Web Strategy in Challenge to Netflix — Redbox, which became the fastest- growing U.S. video retailer with DVD kiosks and a $1-a-day rental price stores couldn't match, is developing an online strategy to stay competitive with larger rival Netflix Inc.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Apple's Magic Trackpad gets FCC approval? — We're admittedly using our Jump To Conclusions Mat a little bit here, but we're pretty sure Apple's Magic Trackpad (or whatever they'll end up calling it) just got FCC approval — and considering how tightly Apple usually manages its FCC dealings …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch Review: The Blekko Search Engine Prepares To Launch — It takes a crazier than average entrepreneur to go after the search market. There's an entrenched player, Google, with 65% market share. Google is so powerful the second player, Yahoo, just bailed out of the market.
Andrew Keen / TechCrunch:
Chris Sacca: “The Obama Administration Didn't Fully Embrace the People Who Got it Elected” [Video] — The best investors are learners rather than teachers. Micro venture capitalist Chris Sacca is one of Silicon Valley's most thoughtful learners - a former lawyer and failed entrepreneur …
Andy M. Zaky / Fortune:
Apple closes in on Microsoft in revenue race — After living in the shadows of Microsoft for 30 years, Apple is just a hair behind Microsoft in sales. Will this quarter be the one? — by Andy M. Zaky, contributor — Whether it deserves it or not, Apple has held onto its lead …
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Scott Adams / Dilbert.com Blog:
High Ground Maneuver — I'm sure you're all following the iPhone 4 story. If you hold the phone a certain way, it drops calls. — In a press conference on the subject, Steve Jobs said, “We're not perfect. Phones are not perfect. We all know that. But we want to make our users happy.”
Andrew Munchbach / Boy Genius Report:
HTC DROID Incredible to be updated to Froyo end of July, early August — We just received a juicy tip about the HTC DROID Incredible software update schedule that we'd like to share. One of our strategically placed Ninjas was kind enough to pass along an email from HTC that read as follows:
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Yahoo, Others Eyeing Bit.ly — Yahoo and some of the other web giants have been kicking the tires on New York-based URL shortening service Bit.ly, according to a few people in the know. The interest in the company has increased over the past 60 days or so.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Bomb-making tips, hit list behind Blogetery closure — More details are surfacing about why Blogetery.com, a blogging platform that claimed to service more than 70,000 blogs, was mysteriously booted from the Internet by its Web-hosting company. — The site was shut down after FBI agents …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Tumblr Is On Fire. Now Over 6 Million Users, 1.5 Billion Pageviews A Month — One year ago, in July 2009, Tumblr was going strong. They had 255 million pageviews that month. By November of last year, that was up to 420 million pageviews. But some new stats which Tumblr is releasing today show an explosion in growth since then.
Diane Bartz / Reuters:
Intel deal with FTC comes with little pain — (Reuters) - The preliminary deal between Intel Corp, which just reported stellar quarterly earnings, and federal antitrust enforcers gives the world's top chip maker less marketing leeway, but does not cost it any money.
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David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Apple responds to lawmakers' questions about location data collection — Apple Inc. answered congressional questions about the ways it collects users' precise location information from its mobile devices and computers, highlighting users' ability to opt out of data collection …
Sam Diaz / ZDNet:
Dell to acquire Ocarina Networks to boost data management offerings — Dell today announced that it was acquiring Ocarina Networks, a storage optimization technology company, as part of its greater competitive push into the data management game. Terms of the deal were not released.
Lora Kolodny / TechCrunch:
New Market Research: Social Media Sites as Annoying to U.S. Customers as Cable Providers, Airlines — A new study by ForeSee Results and the American Customer Satisfaction Index finds that U.S. consumers regard social media sites Facebook and Myspace as lowly as they regard cable providers, airlines and the I.R.S.
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Ryan Nakashima / The Huffington Post:
Digital movie locker ‘UltraViolet’ nears launch — LOS ANGELES — A group of media and electronics companies will soon start testing a system that will let you watch the movies you buy wherever you are, regardless of formats and other technical hurdles. Like ATMs, your account would follow you …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Lawsuit Saying Scribd's Copyright-Protection Filters Infringe On Copyrights Has Been Dumped — Last year, we wrote about the somewhat bizarre class action lawsuit filed against Scribd for copyright infringement. It was bizarre on multiple levels. First, the lawyers filing the lawsuit …
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Tarik / Winamp Blog:
Winamp: Official Supporter of WebM — The latest version of our media player, Winamp 5.58 now officially supports WebM video. What is WebM video you ask? WebM is an open, royalty-free, media file format designed for the web. — WebM video files play directly in your media player …
Stuart J. Johnston / Datamation:
Former DARPA Researcher to Lead Top MSFT Lab — Microsoft said this week it has hired a former government researcher to head the Redmond labs contingent of its basic research organization, Microsoft Research (MSR). — In addition, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is expanding its New England Research …
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John Biggs / CrunchGear:
iBooks gets a major update — iBooks just received an update that adds dictionary look-up of words as well as quick, closer views of in-line images, and updated PDF controls for quicker browsing. Generally, it adds a number of features missing both from iBooks and the iPad Kindle app.
