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Friday Highlights: Shots fired, one wounded at Arlington, Virginia Apple Store, more in our Apple/Macintosh section; Los Angeles Times reports on iPhone battery life problems; iPhone sweeps Japan smartphone sales according new survey; China's Green Dam, at first thought to exclude Mac users, now includes them; 3GS jailbroken by Geohot; Apple to fix broken iPhone screens in-store; regarding Apple's active packaging patent, Fast Company asks if this will "undermine" Apple's sustainability goals; a number of reviews today from the UK's MacUser magazine includeing the new 15" MacBook Pro, and TUAW takes AT&T's Navigator out for a spin; is the future "bleak" for desktops?; and today's MacUpdate Promo features 44% off MacGourmet Deluxe which is allows you to "easily create, build, and share your recipe collection. Make notes about your favorite wines; plan meals for a day or a week and then sync to iCal. Get the nutritional values of foods, recipes and individual servings by accessing the USDA database included in MacGourmet."
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"Employee Shot at Apple Store; Suspect Sought"
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"Breaking: shot fired at Virginia-based Apple Store" AppleInsider 10:39 AM
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"Employee shot, wounded at Virginia Apple store" CNET News 8:32 PM
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"One Person Shot At Apple Store" myfoxdc 10:39 AM
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"One Confirmed Shot at Arlington Apple Store" ABC 7 News 10:39 AM
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"Macs Sales Growing Much Faster Than PCs" DailyTech 10:07 AM
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"IPhone 3GS owners bemoan its battery life: Buyers are finding that the device has trouble making it through a workday without a rest stop at the electrical outlet." Los Angeles Times [Free Registration Required] 8:13 AM
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"Bankrupt Psystar offers new range of Mac clones: 'Open7 represents the future of Open Computing by introducing new Intel Corei7 line of processors'" Macworld UK 8:53 AM
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"Psystar set to leave Chapter 11" iTWire 7:09 AM
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"Apple's Borchers makes the leap to venture capital: On June 19, I sat down with Bob Borchers, senior director of worldwide product marketing for the iPhone, to talk about the launch of the iPhone 3GS. Little did I know that that would be his last day with Apple." Seattle Post-Intelligencer 11:32 AM
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"PearC Mac Cloner Expands to France, The Netherlands, Belgium" OSNews 8:33 PM
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"Mac OS X 10.5.8 update nearing completion" MacNN 11:55 AM
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"Apple's iLife takes home photo albums to a new level" San Jose Mercury News [Free Registration Required] 3:02 PM
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"Final Draft AV 2.5: Two-column script formatting software targets commercial, documentary, and corporate video auteurs" Macworld 8:16 AM
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"Safari Gets Inquisitive" DigMo! 7:09 AM
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"Software Review: PopChar X 4.2" ATPM 8:50 AM
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"Software Review: Prizmo 1.0.1" ATPM 8:49 AM
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"Book Review: Take Control of Syncing Data in Leopard" ATPM 8:48 AM
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"iTunes minus the player: hack your Apple beats/Dodge the shareware sledgehammer" The Register 2:16 PM
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"Fox Sleeps with the Devil?" Rixstep 8:27 PM
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"Windows 7 Pricing vs. Mac OS X: Why Even Go There?" The Apple Blog 2:16 PM
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"Why Do We Claim Mac OS X Is Subsidised at Retail?" OSNews 7:21 AM
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"24U Software releases 24U Phone Companion" prMac 10:43 AM
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"Pixologic is pleased to announce the release of four significant updates to ZBrush for Mac OSX: ZBrush3.2, GoZBrush, Decimation Master and 3D Print Exporter." Pixologic 7:04 AM
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"Apple's iPhone sweeps the board in smartphone sales: A survey of 2300 retail stores reveals that Apple has cleaned up in the smartphone market in Japan." TG Daily 10:43 AM
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"China's Green Dam Is Back - And Aiming At Apple/Campaigners celebrated too soon: China has said it will press ahead with its Green Dam filtering software - and a version is coming for the Apple Macintosh" eWeek Europe 10:40 AM
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"Macs may be exempt from China's Web filter mandate: Non-Windows machines do not have to come with the software" Macworld UK 7:19 AM
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"Want to beat China's web filtering? Get a Mac: Apple's computers look likely to be exempt from the Green Dam" TechRadar 8:56 AM
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"Hotz does it again, 3GS jailbroken!" DaniWeb 9:35 AM
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"Geohot Sneaks Out iPhone 3GS Jailbreak Early" Wired 8:58 AM
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"iPhone 3GS Set Sales Record: AT&T Internal Memo/The latest iPhone helped AT&T rack up single-day records: Sales, most transactions processed by the company's internal IT systems, and largest order day at att.com." InformationWeek 9:58 AM
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"How many new iPhones did AT&T sell?" Fortune 8:39 AM
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"iPhone 3GS a winner for AT&T" iTWire 7:06 AM
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"iPods ban for aerospace staff: An aerospace firm has banned employees from wearing iPods on safety grounds." Press Association 8:56 AM
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"iPhone eReader Eucalyptus Given 17+ Rating By Apple" Cult of Mac 4:02 PM
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"Want The Obama 'Hope' Artwork On Your iPhone? Nope, Says Apple." TechCrunch 2:16 PM
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"'Naughty' dice app quietly denied by Apple?" iPodNN 2:16 PM
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"Imaginary Gadgets 0005: The fantastic machines of Leonardo" Wired 12:06 PM
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"Symantec's Ramzan on solving the antivirus puzzle" CNET News 12:11 PM
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"Archos steps up portable computing push: Range of new devices moves beyond media players" V3 12:02 PM
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"Google adds global address list to Apps suite: Google has added global address list functionality to its enterprise application suite, and made it possible for companies to share templates internally." ZDNet UK 12:07 PM
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"Ottawa IP vendor eyes Cisco's marketshare" ITBusiness.ca 11:11 AM
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"The InfoWorld news quiz: July 3, 2009" InfoWorld 10:40 AM
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"Nokia Siemens: 'We're here to stay; we're here to grow'" The Globe and Mail [Free Registration Required] 10:36 AM
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"Home Theaters in the Five (or Six, or Seven) Figures" New York Times [Free Registration Required] 10:19 AM
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"The robot will see you now" Boston Globe [Free Registration Required] 10:07 AM
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"Billions stolen in online robbery: Space trading game Eve Online has suffered a virtual version of the credit crunch." BBC 10:05 AM
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"Bluetooth 'Big Brother' tracks festival-goers" Reuters 9:54 AM
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"Treasure Hunt gets digital update in WiFi Venice" Reuters 9:52 AM
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"15.07 / July 2009: Volume 15, Number 7" ATPM 8:48 AM
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"Nvidia denies Apple dropping them" Fudzilla 2:35 PM
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"Countering rumor says Apple and NVIDIA 'doing just fine': Just as soon as one rumor has suggested trouble in the relationship between Apple and NVIDIA, a conflicting report now claims that the two are still on good terms." AppleInsider 2:34 PM
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"Apple Fixing Broken iPhone Screens In-Store: Apple's popular smartphone, the iPhone 3GS, is prone to mishandling and subsequent cracks in the screen. Apple is making it easier to fix the screen now by adding an in-store repair service." eWeek 8:46 AM
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"iPhone open to SMS attack" iTWire 7:05 AM
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"Researchers warn of critical iPhone vulnerability" V3 8:57 AM
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"Overheating iPhone 3GS: Apple blames the weather/Apple has admitted that its latest iPhone 3GS model can overheat but has blamed the problem on sunshine rather than a glitch with its design." Telegraph 1:09 PM
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"iPhones die in hot cars: Apple blames heatwave for handset breakdowns" Daily Mail 1:08 PM
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"Apple May Treat Overheated iPhones Like Waterlogged iPhones: You're SOL" Cult of Mac 8:38 AM
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"Spate of iPhone Overheating Reports Roast Apple" eWeek 8:46 AM
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"Reports of iPhone overheating: Apple hasn't issued any formal statement about reports of overheating iPhones. But Apple watchers have been noticing an Apple support document online that addresses temperature concerns for the iPhone." San Francisco Chronicle 8:03 AM
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"Apple Reminds: iPhone and iPod Overheat at 35 Degrees Celcius." X-bit labs 9:03 PM
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"iPhones will not work properly when it is too hot or cold" ComputerWeekly 8:12 AM
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"Will 'Active Packaging' Undermine Apple's Quest for Sustainability?" Fast Company 8:55 AM
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"Apple patents iPhone fingerprint scanning; haptic feedback" Macworld UK 9:35 AM
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"Apple patents point to haptics, fingerprints, RFID" ZDNet UK 8:40 AM
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"Apple LI Security Compromised" DigMo! 7:13 AM
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"Bugs & Fixes: Tying up loose ends" Macworld 10:06 AM
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"13'' MacBook Pro Prices & Current Bundles" MacPrices 9:34 AM
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"15'' MacBook Pro Prices & Current Bundles" MacPrices 9:34 AM
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"17'' MacBook Pro Prices & Current Bundles" MacPrices 9:34 AM
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"MacBook Pro Price Tracker 13 Inch Models -Up To $100 Off List Prices... Other Extras" MacReviewZone 4:00 PM
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"iPhone 3G S ... very niiiiiiice!" Orlando Sentinel [Free Registration Required] 9:03 PM
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"Xserve (2009): New architecture yields better performance with less power and heat" Macworld 2:16 PM
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"Apple MacBook Pro 15in 2.8GHz" MacUser (UK) [Free Registration Required] 8:55 AM
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"WD My Book Studio II 4TB" MacUser (UK) [Free Registration Required] 8:55 AM
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"Nikon D5000" MacUser (UK) [Free Registration Required] 8:56 AM
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"Sigma DP2" MacUser (UK) [Free Registration Required] 8:55 AM
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"Epson Stylus SX515W" MacUser (UK) [Free Registration Required] 8:56 AM
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"Samsung SCX-4824FN" MacUser (UK) [Free Registration Required] 8:56 AM
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"Deathmatch rematch: BlackBerry versus iPhone 3.0" InfoWorld 8:03 AM
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"hf2 Custom•Fit review: The perfect fit and a damn-near perfect set of earphones" Macworld UK 8:16 AM
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"Accessory Review: Ballistix AURA Pro-Tour" ATPM 8:49 AM
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"'Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK' by Dave Mark and Jeff LaMarche" iDevGames 7:45 AM
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"Lego Batman: The Videogame/Yet another Lego game" Macworld 8:17 AM
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"Video review: iPhone 3GS Voice Control" T3 10:43 AM
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"Feature on new iPhone 3GS: battery iDrain" Los Angeles Times [Free Registration Required] 8:38 AM
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"Read It Later for iPhone: Paid and free versions of offline reading app get the job done" Macworld 2:42 PM
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"HuffingtonPost.com for iPhone: Mobile app feels a lot like the Web site—which isn't always a good thing" Macworld 11:45 AM
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"Gadgetell Review: SnapWords for the iPhone and iPod touch" Gadgetell 9:03 PM
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"Geotagging Your Photos with GeoLogTag" AppleMatters 10:43 AM
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"SurfaceDJ review: Put your DJ skills to good use with SurfaceDJ on your iPhone and iPod touch" Macworld UK 8:17 AM
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"IPhone App Tells Moviegoers When to Take a Bathroom Break - ABC News" ABCNews 8:16 AM
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"Oxford UP Dictionaries Go Geek: Now on the iPhone" Wired 12:12 PM
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"Rise of Lost Empires: Like Warcraft for iPhone, but Not Nearly as Good" The Apple Blog 4:55 PM
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"Tiki Golf 3D for iPhone: Energetic golf game show promise" Macworld 8:16 AM
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"How to jailbreak the iPhone 3GS" CrunchGear 11:46 AM
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"Suggestions Requested for Router Replacement" ATPM 8:49 AM
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Deal Brothers Daily Deal: The Electrical Storm of Deals is Still Raging at Amazon!
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"A few more comments on HTML, XHTML, HTML 5" McSolo 9:05 PM
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"Stealth Mac Book Pro By Colorware Begs One Important Question, Why?" The UberReview 9:03 PM
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"My Most Memorable Gadgets, By Steve Wozniak" Gizmodo 11:55 AM
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"Squeezing a Wikipedia Snapshot Onto an 8GB iPhone" Slashdot 10:07 AM
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"Psystar is Back! The sequel ..." p2pnet 10:07 AM
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"Does this case reveal the next generation iPod touch?" Appletell 8:59 AM
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"One More Thing: It's all about the iPhone 2010" MacUser (UK) [Free Registration Required] 8:59 AM
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"Editorial: Do brands need space to grow? With one key press, Apple deleted the space between the iPhone's 3G and S." MacUser (UK) [Free Registration Required] 8:58 AM
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"Analysis: The death knell for desktops? With Apple concentrating on its profitable iPhone and MacBook Pros, the future is looking decidedly bleak for its desktop Macs..." MacUser (UK) [Free Registration Required] 8:58 AM
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"Apple left iPhone 3GS prototype in an airport?" Electricpig 8:58 AM
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"iPine: The new iPhone is all I want." ATPM 8:49 AM
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"Secrecy Boils Over: Critics of Apple's tight-lipped secrecy policies paint a portrait of a company that treats its inner workings like nuclear secrets." ATPM 8:49 AM
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"Small Macs: The Next Generation" ATPM 8:49 AM
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"Apple's fruit should be forbidden/Rise up, O Macintosh computer comrades, rise up and wave your fist with indignation! Raise your tastefully designed fist, in aesthetically pleasing indignation." Reuters 8:12 AM
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"Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch Me" Gamecraft 8:08 AM
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"5 Apple patents we're still missing" Electricpig 7:43 AM
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"Play with creatures aplenty in 'Spore' add-on, 'Overlord' sequel" USA Today 12:01 PM
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"Complex firewalls cost money says new report" Techworld 11:50 AM
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"Malware authors hit by recession too" Techworld 11:50 AM
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"Summer-Friendly Cell Phones: These sand-proof, water-resistant camera phones make great beach buddies." PC Magazine 11:21 AM
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"The one essential truth of computer security: Unless you solve the all-important problem of locking down end-user PCs, all of your other security defenses will fail you" InfoWorld 10:40 AM
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"Short supply of notebook HDDs may continue in 3Q09" DigiTimes 10:25 AM
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"The carrier coup must be stopped: Cellular carriers want to take control of consumer electronics. Their success would be a disaster." Computerworld 10:21 AM
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"30 Years Of Trend-Setting Gadgets" [Slideshow] ChannelWeb 10:18 AM
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"CNET: A Speedier New Firefox/New Upgrades Help Browser Compete Against IE, But Mozilla Still Faces Competition from Other Upstarts" CNET News 10:11 AM
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"Firefox 3.5 Can Still Learn From Its Competition" PC World 11:23 AM
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"How vomit lady shows what's going wrong with Microsoft: Microsoft's obsession with its image is leading to a series of advertising missteps - and a conversation with Windows boss Bill Veghte suggests that has no signs of changing yet" The Guardian 7:44 AM
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"ViewSonic VPC100: iMac styling, netbook grunt?" iTWire 7:09 AM
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"Apple Keynote Bloopers -Steve Jobs ain't perfect! [Video] Edible Apple 12:11 PM
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"Your iPhone is trying to tell you something." The Joy of Tech [cartoon] 7:03 AM
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"Custom MatteBook Pro: $6000" Wired 12:12 PM
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"Lite: Siberian Strike, Assassin's Creed, Ragdoll Blaster" Touch Arcade 11:46 AM
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"Tatomic - A High Quality Action Puzzler Now Free" Touch Arcade 11:46 AM
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"Ngmoco releases Rolando 2 for iPhone, iPod touch" Macworld 8:55 AM
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"Fitnio: Finally, An iPhone Exercise App That Gives You Control Of Your Music" TechCrunch 8:39 AM
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"Barclaycard creates 'Waterslide Extreme' iPhone game" iPhonic 8:35 AM
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"iHanWel releases iDay Deluxe 2.3 for iPhone and iPod Touch" prMac 7:15 AM
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"Game Boy iPhone Pouch Won't Make You Cooler" iPhone Savior 7:05 AM
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"Rolando 2: Quest for the Golden Orchid' now available in the App Store" OS X Reality 7:05 AM
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"Oracle, Sun deal to be filed to EU in July - source" Reuters 9:45 AM
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"Oracle may cut up to 1,000 European jobs, union says: The layoffs come as Oracle recently said it was pleased with its financial results in Europe" IDG News Service 11:10 AM
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"Oracle waves axe in faces of 1,000 European workers - report" The Register 11:59 AM
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"World's 1st presentation of Win 7 RTM set for Poland" IDG News Service 11:11 AM
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"Windows 7 promises reduced power consumption" ITBusiness.ca 11:12 AM
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"IE8: This one's for spew/Apparently Microsoft will stop at nothing to foist IE8 upon us. Cringely dissects Redmond's latest gag-inducing ads" InfoWorld 10:41 AM
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"Microsoft weighs next-phase in open-source support: Spring, PHP, and Apache sized up" The Register 12:00 PM
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"Watchdog slaps HP for slow cash backs: Hewlett-Packard has been rapped by the consumer watchdog after more than 190 complaints were received about the company's sales of personal computers and printers." Sydney Morning Herald 11:41 AM
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"IBM loses second round in effort to stop former exec from working for Dell" Austin American-Statesman [Free Registration Required] 10:04 AM
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"Dell tries to avoid paying up in LCD snafu" TG Daily 11:56 AM
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"Delaying PC refresh will cost SMBs money: Intel" ITBusiness.ca 11:12 AM
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"Chip sales rose in May" TG Daily 11:55 AM
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"May global chip sales up 5.4% on previous month" EE Times 10:26 AM
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"Global chip sales rise 5.4 pct in May m/m - SIA" Reuters 9:45 AM
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"Broadband industry group say U.S. rules go too far" Reuters 9:52 AM
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"Cyberspace Shapes Up To Be Next Battleground: Government and private computers are attacked millions of times a day. Many of these attacks are easy to identify and stop. The most sophisticated ones are not, and we must establish patterns of close cooperation and information-sharing among public and private experts to give ourselves the best chance to mitigate a substantial attack on vital systems." Atlanta Journal-Constitution 10:11 AM
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"BlackBerrys to Bing: Where tech is headed next/Tech competition is heating up: Google vs. Microsoft! Microsoft vs. Apple! Apple vs. Palm! Here's how the second half of '09 is shaping up." CNNMoney 10:17 AM
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"Wall Street Beat: After a strong Q2, what's next for tech?" IDG News Service 11:09 AM
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"Coming Week: Earnings Fireworks on Tap" TheStreet 9:38 AM
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"U.S. Stocks Retreat for Third Week in Longest Slump Since March" Bloomberg 10:06 AM
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"Markets Fall on U.S. Jobs Data: Most Asian markets closed lower Friday after paring early losses in thin trading volume before a U.S. holiday." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:41 AM
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"Asia Markets: Bank earnings may be hit by higher bad loans/Asian banking shares have been at the forefront of a stock market rally over the past three months, as credit market conditions stabilized. But there is a high risk that their future earnings may be impacted by an increase in bad loans, one analyst warns." MarketWatch 9:41 AM
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"Stocks Trade Mixed: European stocks were mixed Friday, with investors wary of putting money back into play given concerns over the pace of a potential economic recovery amid thin trading conditions." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:41 AM
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"Europe Markets: European shares steady on U.S. holiday/France Telecom downgraded at UBS; EdF downgraded at Morgan Stanley" MarketWatch 9:42 AM
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