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Steve Jobs / Apple:
To all iPhone customers: — I have received hundreds of emails from iPhone customers who are upset about Apple dropping the price of iPhone by $200 two months after it went on sale. After reading every one of these emails, I have some observations and conclusions.
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I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
The Puppet Master — I have never before quoted myself at length in a column, but this week's Apple iPhone pricing fiasco calls for it, so here is the beginning of a column I wrote back in January 2002: — In 1999, I was commissioned by Vanity Fair magazine to write a story about the relationship between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
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Howard Lindzon
New York Times:
IPhone Owners Crying Foul Over Price Cut — In June, they were calling it the God Phone. Yesterday, it was the Chump Phone. — People who had rushed to buy the Apple iPhone over the last two months suddenly and embarrassingly found that they had overpaid by $200 for the year's most coveted gadget.
CNNMoney.com:
Apple giving $100 credit to early iPhone buyers — After the price of an 8 GB iPhone was reduced to $399 from $599, CEO Jobs agrees to give store credit to those who paid the original price. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — After receiving hundreds of emailed complaints from existing Apple …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Dear Steve Jobs — Dave Winer wants a T-shirt. — Me, I'd like to let you keep the $100 per iPhone you so generously are going to give me and other early adopters who bought the iPhone. — Here's what I'd like for my $300. — I'd like an iPhone where software developers can go to town and play.
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Tom Drapeau / The Netscape Blog:
Upcoming Netscape changes — › tags: Community, Netscape, Portal, Social News, SocialNews — To the Netscape Community... There are some upcoming changes to the Netscape.com site that we hope will improve your experience. We'll be providing two different news options for you based …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Netscape Digg Clone Is Kaput — We've known about it for weeks (despite Netscape's claims that our post was innacurate), but now it's confirmed: AOL has announced the end of Netscape as a social news portal. — In a statement, Tom Drapeau spun the decision as being AOL listening …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: Screen Shots And Feature Overview of Delicious 2.0 Preview — Social bookmarking site Delicious launched a limited, invite-only preview of version 2.0 of the service this afternoon. The new site can be accessed at preview.delicious.com, although only invited users can actually get in.
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Associated Press:
Feds OK Fee for Priority Web Traffic — WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Thursday said Internet service providers should be allowed to charge a fee for priority Web traffic. — The agency told the Federal Communications Commission, which is reviewing high-speed Internet practices …
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Multiply, social networking for 30-somethings, raises $16.6M — Multiply, a social network aimed at 30-somethings, has just announced additional venture funding of $16.6 million — The Boca Raton, Florida-based Multiply struggled after launching in late 2003.
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Matt Richtel / International Herald Tribune:Social networking sites take notice of seniors
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Phil Windley / Between the Lines:
Why Vista? — I'm working on a head-to-head review of Parallels and Fusion, two competing virtualization packages on OS X, for InfoWorld. As part of that review, I'm doing a Vista install in both to check the experience, resource usage, and so on. — One of the cool features of Parallels is something they call "Smart Select."
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Microsoft hires WebGuide developer — Firs there was Windows XP Media Center Edition. Then there was Windows Vista with media center features built into the operating system. But while Microsoft has built an excellent 10-foot interface for interacting with TV, video, radio …
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Jnack / John Nack on Adobe:
"Photoshop Express" RIA sneak-peeked today — Today the crowd at Photoshop World got a quick preview of Photoshop Express, a new application currently in development at Adobe. First hinted at by Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen some six months ago, Photoshop Express isn't meant to duplicate/replace Photoshop CS3 or Photoshop Elements.
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Cell phones can trigger medical equipment failure, problem could get worse — As people become increasingly comfortable with the use of cellphones, they're beginning to chafe at the remaining restrictions on their use (as anyone who has boarded an airplane recently can attest).
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
Europe's Seedcamp winners announced — The winners of Seedcamp, the new incubator-style event for European startups, have been announced. In an extraordinary decision the 36 judges (made up of Seedcamp investors including nine of Europe's top VCs, mentors and Seedcamp board) …
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Fred Destin
Business Week:
Amazon Does Downloads, Sort Of — Why its push into digital delivery of books, movies, and music seems halfhearted — Shoppers looking to buy Dean Koontz's alien invasion novel The Taking on Amazon.com (AMZN ) see it offered as a new or used paperback. But they're given no clue …
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
Welcome back to TechCrunch UK & Ireland — Well, we're cranking up the blogging engine here again. My name is Mike Butcher and some readers may know me from a while back when I helped launch this site for the first time late last year. I'm delighted to say that - following a hiatus …
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Guardian Unlimited
