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Microsoft:
Zune Expands Beyond Music to Deliver Integrated All-in-One Entertainment Experience — New software updates bring popular television shows to online store, enhancements to online music community and subscription service. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that Zune, the company's …
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Nancy Gohring / IDG News Service:
After Abandoning ITunes, NBC Shows up on Zune — After a pricing spat with Apple led NBC to pull its video content from iTunes, the broadcaster has struck a deal with Microsoft's Zune online store. — On Tuesday, as part of an announcement about new Zune features, Microsoft planned …
Royal Pingdom:
Social network downtime Jan-Apr 2008 — This survey shows how much 16 of the largest and most popular social network sites have been unavailable during the first four months of 2008. How much has MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, Twitter, LiveJournal and many others been offline? Read on to find out.
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Vodafone:
Vodafone to Offer Apple's iPhone in Ten Markets — Vodafone today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten of its markets around the globe. Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Andreessen to Facebook Board? — Silicon Valley luminary Marc Andreessen (pictured here) has been asked to join the board of Facebook, according to several sources with knowledge of the situation. — While the arrangement is not completed yet, sources said the longtime entrepreneur …
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Bits, Google Blogoscoped, Google Watch, VentureBeat, Digital Daily, Inside Facebook, Marc's Voice, The Social, Valleywag, All Facebook and BetaNews
Jesse / 20bits:
The State of the Facebook Platform — Something is wrong in the Facebook developer community. Starting in March I began noticing that the level of activity in the Facebook developers forum was dropping sharply. — But it's numbers that matter, not vague impressions, so does the data back me up?
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The Boy Genius Report:
Apple and AT&T to launch iPhone 3G a lot sooner than we think? — Well, here's the story. Let's start this off by saying that we think this might be a little bit too early, but you never know with Apple. Anyways, we told y'all last year before the first iPhone launched that AT&T employees …
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Joshua Fruhlinger / Engadget:
HTC unveils new HTC Touch Diamond, “not too big, not too small” — Here we are in London at the Soho Hotel with HTC, and we are among the first to see their new Diamond handset. While we thought we may see three new products in three different form factors, HTC Prez and CEO Peter Chou led-off …
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The Boy Genius Report, Unwired View, Boing Boing Gadgets, Pocket PC Thoughts.com and Gearlog
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Doug Aamoth / CrunchGear:Live in London: ‘HTC Touch Diamond’ announcement
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MacRumors, Salon, Engadget, Gizmodo, Forbes, Electronista, The Boy Genius Report, Windows Connected, IntoMobile and Brier Dudley's blog
Leigh / Leigh's Blitherings:
Have We Crossed The Chasm? — Geoffrey Moore wrote Crossing the Chasm over 15 years ago and it's still probably the foremost framework used for launching new technology products. Wikipedia gives a nice summary to the theories basic premise: — “Moore's key insight is that the groups adopt innovations for different reasons.
Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
In praise of dual-class stock structures for public companies — A dual-class stock structure means that a company has two different classes of common stock. Each class of stock has the same economic ownership of the company, yet different voting rights. — In a typical scenario …
Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
When location is everywhere — What if you could take location as a given in the design of web applications and services? By that I mean, what if — when someone who has never used your service before shows up, signs up (ideally with an OpenID!) — and it's both trivial and desirable …
Pete Kazanjy / Team Fusion:
More Displays. More 3D. More to Love: VMware Fusion 2.0 Public Beta 1 Now Available — The VMware Fusion team is proud to announce VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1. — This public beta, a free download, boasts a handful of industry firsts for Mac virtualization, including true multi-display support …
The Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Javelin and BlackBerry Niagara explained! — There was a little bit of confusion with the 3G-less BlackBerry 9000 we posted. We heard two different codenames: Javelin and Niagara. Well, we were just told some more information on both devices.
Jeff Smykil / Infinite Loop:
17-year-old creates impressive Mac OS X multi-touch table — At first, it may seem impressive that a 17-year-old is making a multi-touch table running Mac OS X, similar to Microsoft's Surface, for a science fair. It all becomes a little more clear when you consider that the youngster, Bridger Maxwell, is from Utah.
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Colbert's Webby honor: ‘Person of the Year’ — He might not get to fulfill his presidential dreams, but comic pundit Stephen Colbert will still end 2008 with at least one, uh, honor: Person of the Year at the 12th Annual Webby Awards. — The “Oscars of the Internet,” …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Global Telcos Plotting a Skype Rival? — AT&T, in conjunction with some 10-15 incumbent telecom carriers — British Telecom, Deutsche Telecom and NTT among them — is plotting to launch a Skype competitor, according to a research report issued this morning by ThinkEquity analyst Anton Wahlman.
Robert Hof / Business Week:
Why Yahoo Shares Lost Only 15% — The bottom didn't fall out of the stock after Microsoft yanked its bid. One reason, says CEO Yang: “We have more alternatives” than before the offer — Justin Sullivan/Getty Images — When Microsoft (MSFT) pulled its sweetened, $33-a-share offer …
