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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Phil Schiller: White iPhone isn't thicker, don't believe all the junk that you read — Following the news that the white iPhone 4 is slightly thicker than its black variant, 9to5Mac reader Ernesto Barron tweeted Apple Senior Vice President of Product Marketing Phil Schiller to see if the news is really true.
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App Advice, @dannysullivan, TiPb, iPhone in Canada Blog, Neowin.net and Electronista, Thanks:markgurman
Martyn Williams / PC World:
Sony Finds No Apparent Anonymous Link to PlayStation Attack — Sony said it has found no link between an attack on its PlayStation Network and Qriocity services and Internet activist group Anonymous, which had earlier targeted its systems. — The online gaming and entertainment services …
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RipTen Videogame Blog
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Chris Kohler / GameLife:
Sony Details PlayStation Network Revival, ‘Welcome Back’ Gift — Sony will turn on most features of the PlayStation Network within a week and offer its customers a selection of free downloads, it said early Sunday morning. — The PlayStation maker's online service for its PlayStation 3 …
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Hardware 2.0 Blog, PlayStation Blog, Engadget, New York Times, BetaNews, Reuters, CNN, I4U News, NewEnterprise, Computerworld, SlashGear, Destructoid, Digital Trends, Reuters, Mashable!, Neowin.net, VentureBeat, IndustryGamers, Gizmodo, Siliconera, Engadget, Bloomberg, Kotaku and VentureBeat
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Sony executive Kaz Hirai apologizes for PlayStation Network outage
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PC Magazine, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Wall Street Journal, Hillicon Valley, CNET News, Guardian and SAI
Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:
The Future of Advertising will be Integrated — Banner Ads. They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself. They were very effective back then, with the original ad garnering a 78% click-through rate (CTR)! I guess from there we had nowhere to go but down.
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@jason and Addicted to Digital Media
Steven Levy / Epicenter:
The Little Red (Face)Book — When I spoke at Facebook about In The Plex recently, rumors were swirling that the social networking giant was about to enter China, supposedly in a partnership with the search engine Baidu. So I made sure that my talk to a dining hall full of FB'ers included …
Mike Swift / Mercury News:
Google emails highlight value of location data — Larry Page's Memorial Day weekend email was terse — “Can I get a response on this?” — but the scramble it set off among top Google (GOOG) executives on a Saturday afternoon illustrates the critical importance the company places on the data …
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PC Magazine and SAI
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Shed a Tear: The Age of Broadband Caps Begins Monday — Come Monday, AT&T will begin restricting more than 16 million broadband users based on the amount of data they use in a month. The No. 2 carrier's entry into the broadband-cap club means that a majority of U.S. broadband users …
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:
A Closer Look At Jack Dorsey's Twin Startups, Twitter And Square — There are few startups that are more the product of one man's vision and imagination than Twitter and Square. — Jack Dorsey, the inventor of both, is clearly a “vision” entrepreneur. Much has been written about his original …
Kevin Poulsen / Threat Level:
Wrongly Jailed Security Whistleblower Caught Up in PlayStation Hacker Hunt — Armchair cybersleuths on the trail of the PlayStation Network hackers have been focusing attention on a chat log that shows several technically sophisticated PlayStation tinkerers discussing Sony's security vulnerabilities …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Intuit's GoPayment Cuts Transaction Fees, Pricing Now More In Line With Square — Inuit's GoPayment reader, which competes directly with Square, is about to become more attractive to small businesses. The company has made the decision dropped the transaction fee ($0.15 per transaction) …
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Carnival Barker Edition: Show me your iOS licensing certificate! — Apple is doing it wrong, Apple is living on borrowed time! Apple will Fail Again! — This idea, this meme, isn't new. For more than 30 years we've heard a number of versions of the “Apple is doomed” requiem.
Michael Geist Blog:
Wikileaks on New Zealand Copyright: US Funds IP Enforcement, Offers to Draft Legislation — This week I published multiple posts Wikileaks cables revelations on the U.S. lobbying pressure on Canadian copyright including attempts to embarrass Canada, joint efforts with lobby groups such as CRIA …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Hey Apple, Sony and Amazon: Crisis Response is Real Time Now Too — We've seen a trifecta of failures and/or screwups over the past couple of weeks, from three of the world's technology giants: Apple was shown to be keeping a log of the location of millions of iPhone users …
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Jason Snell / Macworld:
Apple's unique brand of crisis management
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iPhone in Canada Blog and TUAW
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
FCC opens floor for public comment on AT&T / T-Mobile deal — Since the world's engineers haven't yet come up with a way to read minds over the internet (or at all, last we checked), we're not sure what you think about the proposed marriage of T-Mobile to AT&T. We're pretty sure …
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Android Community and Android Phone Fans
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