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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, Neowin.net, Electronista and iPhone in Canada Blog, Thanks:markgurman
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.
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@gaberivera
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
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PlayStation Blog, Engadget, New York Times, Hardware 2.0 Blog, CNN, NewEnterprise, Reuters, BetaNews, Digital Trends, Gadgetell, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, PC World, SlashGear, Mashable!, VentureBeat, Reuters, Neowin.net, IndustryGamers, Siliconera, Engadget, Bloomberg, Kotaku and VentureBeat
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Sony executive Kaz Hirai apologizes for PlayStation Network outage
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Ars Technica, L.A. Times Tech Blog, PC Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Hillicon Valley, SAI, Guardian and CNET News
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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@tldrsuster, Addicted to Digital Media and @jason
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 World, PC Magazine and SAI
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Yes, There's An Apple “Castle” In The Cloud — Yesterday, French site Consomac.fr did some digging into the latest developer preview build of OS X Lion and found something interesting. Buried in the code are references to a service named called “Castle”. Given the context of one of the mentions …
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AppleInsider
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Michael Rose / TUAW:
Rumor: Evidence for a Castle in the ‘iCloud’ for Lion
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iPhone in Canada Blog, TiPb, Gizmodo and MacRumors, Thanks:miketrose
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
With Deep Pockets, SB Nation is “Building a Great Media Company” — Launches Interim Site for ex-Engadget Crew, Sets up Shop in NYC — With a fast-growing digital spports news business and investment backing from Accel Partners, Comcast, and Allen & Company, SB Nation is aiming to be a …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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) …
