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Steve Dowling / Apple:
AT&T and Apple Announce Simple, Affordable Service Plans for iPhone — All Plans Include Unlimited Data & Visual Voicemail — AT&T Inc. and Apple® today announced three simple, affordable service plans for iPhone™ which start at just $59.99 per month.
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Steve Dowling / Apple:
Apple and AT&T Announce iTunes Activation and Sync for iPhone — Already Familiar to Tens of Millions of iPod Users — Apple® and AT&T Inc. today announced that iPhone™ users will be able to activate their new iPhones using Apple's popular iTunes® software running on a PC …
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Michael Gartenberg, CrunchGear, Gadget Lab, Podcasting News, Macsimum News, TechBlog, Wired News and O'Grady's PowerPage
David Chartier / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:AT&T and Apple announce service plans, iTunes activation for iPhone
Ian C Rogers / Yodel Anecdotal:
Yahoo! Music goes radio silent — Apologies to anyone who was hoping to listen to free LAUNCHcast today. We're shutting down the Internet's #1 radio service for the day to draw attention to the outrageous rates recently set by the Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, D.C.
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Ars Technica, franticindustries, WebProNews, BetaNews, Guardian Unlimited, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, A VC, Bleeding Edge, Alec Saunders .LOG, Digital Music News, SMC, Tom Conrad, B.L. Ochman's weblog, Mark Evans, Licence to Roam, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, 901am, Profy.Com, ParisLemon, Pandora and Read/WriteWeb
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BBC:
'Day of silence' for US web radio — Web radio broadcasters across the US will hold a "day of silence" on Tuesday in protest at plans to hike royalty payments when music is played online. — The plan - due to come into force on 15 July - could cost webcasters around $1bn in additional administration fees, protesters claim.
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Mike Musgrove / Washington Post:
Web Radio Stations Hope Silence Speaks Volumes About Fee Hike — No, music fans, there isn't a problem with your Web connection — it's just that many Internet radio stations are deliberately offline today. — Many Web-based music services and some conventional radio stations …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Good for Yahoo, And Everyone Else Except Last.fm
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Epicenter, CrunchGear, last100, mathewingram.com/work, The Globe and Mail, Compiler, Earthling, broadstuff and The Webpreneur
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
GOOGLE EARTH ANNOUNCES FORMAL NONPROFIT INITIATIVE — At an event in Google's New York offices on Tuesday, the company unveiled a new initiative to make its Google Earth geography software a more accessible tool for nonprofit organizations. — "We're now officially launching …
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Chris Williams / The Register:
IBM turbo charges world's fastest supercomputer — Blue Gene has long division licked. Next: killer sudoku — IBM has unleashed a new iteration of its chess-playing powerhouse Blue Gene, which it also reckons is useful in academic and commercial fields like drug discovery and mineral exploration.
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Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Flickr Photos Integrated into Yahoo Image Search — Yahoo Image Search has added Flickr images into its image index. Now, Yahoo Image Search is serving over 300 million Flickr photos in its query results via a live feed from Flickr; so once an image is uploaded to a Flickr account, it's available via Yahoo Image Search too.
USA Today:
U.S. Net access not all that speedy — The USA trails other industrialized nations in high-speed Internet access and may never catch up unless quick action is taken by public-policymakers, a report commissioned by the Communications Workers of America warns.
Michael Foroobar / VentureBeat:
Lijit raises $3.3M for intimate blog search — Lijit, a provider of a more extensive search service for blogs, has said it raised a $3.3M second round of funding. — Lijit, of Louisville, Colorado, doesn't limit readers to searching blog posts. It also provides them results …
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Alt Search Engines, WebProNews, Lijit, Ross Mayfield's Weblog, TechCrunch, Mashable!, ben barren and b5media
Seobook / Threadwatch.org:
Closing Threadwatch This Friday — I hate to do this, but this Friday I am closing Threadwatch. I don't think the site died at any specific point, it has been more of a process, which I will outline below: — When the site was created it was designed to be controvercial and push the edges.
Mike / CrunchNotes:
Sorry CNET, You've Mistaken Me For Someone Who Gives A Damn — The blogosphere (but not CNET) seems to have moved on from this weekend's diversionary game of whack-a-blogger. Valleywag started the mud slinging by suggesting that a bunch of FM authors, including me, were taking payoffs to write advertising content.
BBC:
EC threat to BBC over downloads — The BBC has been accused of forcing people to use Microsoft operating systems and has been threatened with a complaint to the European Commission. — The charge concerns the use of Microsoft technology in the corporation's forthcoming iPlayer.
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Read/WriteWeb:
Top Web Apps in Canada — By Heri Rakotomalala of Montreal Tech Watch — Canadians use the Internet more than anyone in the world. According to comScore, Canadians spend on average 39.6 hours per month on the Internet, followed by Israel at 37.4 and South Korea at 34, while the USA is in 8th position with 29.4.
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Austin American-Statesman:
Austin chip industry veteran named CEO of Conexant — Artusi will lead California chipmaker in need of a turnaround — Daniel Artusi, an executive in Austin's semiconductor industry for three decades, was named CEO and chairman of a California-based chip company Monday.
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M:Metrics Home:
M:METRICS REPORTS APRIL RANKINGS OF MOBILE WEB COMPANIES IN THE UNITED STATES AND UNITED KINGDOM — M:Metrics, the mobile market authority, today announced the rankings of the top mobile Web companies among smartphone users in the United States and the United Kingdom, for the month of April.
