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Enable tethering shortcut found - iPhone 3.0 is Live! — iPhone 3.0 is live! so we are going to repost our tethering tutorial with some big improvements. You now don't have to do any downgrading or torrenting. Seems you can just run a little command in terminal (Make sure you are on OS 3.0 on a 3G iPhone and iTunes 8.2):
Discussion: MacMegasite, PC World, Geek News Central, TUAW, Cult of Mac, VentureBeat, CyberNet, Maximum PC all, IntoMobile, The Apple Core, Graham Cluley's blog, iTnews Australia, LOOPRumors, Gadget Lab, CrunchGear, TheNextWeb.com, WebWorkerDaily, blogs.chron.com, CNET News, OSNews, TidBITS and Phones Review
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David Coursey / PC World: Apple iPhone 3.0: Evolution, Not Revolution
Chris Rawson / TUAW: Inside iPhone 3.0: Tethering
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac: Review: The New iPhone 3.0 Software Is a Must-Have Upgrade
Paul Boutin / VentureBeat: iPhone tethering instructions are easy
Stefan Constantinescu / IntoMobile: The ridiculously easy way to enable iPhone tethering: visit http …
Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core: How-to: Enable tethering under iPhone 3.0 right now
Brett Winterford / iTnews Australia: Optus iPhone tethering starts at $9.95 a month
Kazouz / LOOPRumors: Apple releases iPhone OS 3.0.
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab: How to Turn on Tethering in iPhone 3.0
John Biggs / CrunchGear: Enable tethering in iPhone 3.0
Ralf Rottmann / TheNextWeb.com: How did your iPhone OS 3.0 update go?
Simon Mackie / WebWorkerDaily: iPhone OS 3.0 Update Available
Thom Holwerda / OSNews: iPhone OS 3.0 Released
Jeff Carlson / TidBITS: iPhone OS 3.0 Now Available
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How to tether your iPhone running OS 3.0 without jailbreaking, for free — Is it simple? Yes. Risky? A bit. Legal? We'll leave that to the lawyers 'cause we know that you're aching to give tethering a spin over your newly downloaded iPhone OS 3.0 update.
Discussion: Digits, SlashGear, Switched, TUAW, Engadget Mobile, T3.com News, Gizmodo and PalmAddicts
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Andrew LaVallee / Digits: iPhone Users: How's 3.0?
Chris Ziegler / Engadget Mobile: AT&T's free hotspot access finally useful with auto-connection in iPhone OS 3.0
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo: iPhone OS 3.0 Software Review: What To Expect
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Enable tethering on iPhone 3.0 - Too easy... (WORLDWIDE carriers) — Tested platform: iPhone 3G 16GB, Firmware 3.0, O2 Contract — iTunes not needed. — This is a walkthrough of how I enabled tethering on my iPhone 3G on O2 UK. It was a lot easier than I thought - no jailbreaking needed …
Discussion: Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Neowin.net, GMSV, Gadget Lab, T3.com News, Phones Review, techblog.dallasnews.com and Personal Technology
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Adam Pash / Lifehacker: Enable Tethering and MMS on Your iPhone 3.0
John Herrman / Gizmodo: How To Enable Tethering and MMS on iPhone 3.0: A Duet
John Murrell / GMSV: IPhone fine-tuning gets good reception
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab: The International Costs of iPhone Tethering
Victor Godinez / techblog.dallasnews.com: The unofficial and free iPhone OS 3.0 tethering hack
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology: New iPhone Is Better Model-Or Just Get OS 3.0
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O2: We'll disconnect ‘free’ iPhone tetherers
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Chris Davies / SlashGear: iPhone OS 3.0 tethering and MMS hack released
Ben Sillis / Electricpig.co.uk: O2 to cut off iPhone hack tetherers
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iPhone 3.0 Update: 10 Hidden Features — It has been a crazy night trying to download the latest iPhone update, with many reporting that they are unable to access Apple's servers due to unusually high traffic. But Apple's servers are now up to scratch and everybody should have the 3. software …
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The iPhone OS 4.0 Wishlist
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David Pogue / New York Times: Apple Fills in Some Gaps With Latest iPhone
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Instant Expert: Secrets & Features of iPhone OS 3.0
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors: Apple Releases iPhone OS 3.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch
Rene Ritchie / The iPhone Blog: iPhone 3.0 Software Walkthrough
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iPhone 3.0 Upgrade Process Deactivating Some Phones From AT&T (Update: Working Now)
Discussion: bit-tech.net, CNET News, Lifehacker, Ars Technica, GottaBeMobile.com, eWeek, blogs.chron.com, Zero Day and digg.com
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Gareth Halfacree / bit-tech.net: Hiccups mar iPhone 3.0 update
Adam Pash / Lifehacker: Hands On with iPhone 3.0's Best New Features
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica: iTunes servers being slammed with iPhone 3.0 activations
Nicholas Kolakowski / eWeek: Apple iPhone OS 3.0 Rolls Out to Public
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day: Apple iPhone OS 3.0 update plugs 46 security holes
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Munster: 500,000 new iPhones this weekend — Will there be long lines outside Apple Stores Friday at 7 a.m. when the iPhone 3G S goes on sale? — Gene Munster thinks there will, although not as long as last year's. — Piper Jaffray's senior research analyst issued a report to clients Thursday …
Discussion: Between the Lines, BaltTech, Macsimum News, FierceMobileContent, TechCrunch and Business Week
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Gus Sentementes / BaltTech: iPhone 3.0 round-up for dummies
Dennis Sellers / Macsimum News: Analysts forecast 500,000 iPhones (or more) to be sold this weekend …
Jason Ankeny / FierceMobileContent: iPhone 3G S weekend sales forecast to top 500,000
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch: Here Comes The iPhone 3G S
Stephen H. Wildstrom / Business Week: The 3G S iPhone: Apple's Force to Be Reckoned With
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iPhone 3G S hits stores Friday: Will the crowds follow?
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Kelly Hodgkins / Boy Genius Report: Apple and AT&T announce details for tomorrow's iPhone 3G S launch
Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage: iPhone OS 3.0 to Hit Today
Charles Starrett / iLounge: Apple Stores now open 7am on Friday iPhone 3G S launch
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AT&T using 802.21 for iPhone 3G-Wifi handoffs?
Discussion: louisgray.com, InformationWeek, dailywireless.org, MobileContentToday, Gizmodo and MacRumors
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Eric Zeman / InformationWeek: AT&T Simplfies Wi-Fi Log-In On The iPhone
Sam Churchill / dailywireless.org: iPhone Features Seamless Handoff
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Sirius XM iPhone app offers free 7-day trial — Satellite radio seems to be something people either fall in love with, or can't understand why anyone would. I've been a loyal XM listener for years. To my surprise, XM's merger with Sirius didn't wipe out my favorite channels.
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Olga Kharif / Tech Beat: Sirius XM Launches iPhone App — Without Howard Stern
Eric Slivka / MacRumors iPhone Blog: Sirius XM for iPhone Arrives in App Store
Peter Cohen / PC World: Sirius Satellite Radio Available for IPhone, IPod Touch
Franklin Paul / MediaFile: Sirius unveils iPhone App: reviews not so good
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: Sirius iPhone App: No Stern? No NFL? No MLB? No Way.
Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac: Sirius XM Radio comes to iPhone
Jeff Scott / 148Apps148Apps: Sirius XM App Tunes Into the App Store
James Falconer / IntoMobile: The Challenge: 30 iPhone Apps in 30 Days!
Brian Heater / AppScout: Sirius XM Releases iPhone App
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Sirius XM's latest blunder: Its iPhone app
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Sam Churchill / dailywireless.org: Sirius Competition: Free
David Kaplan / mocoNews: Sirius iPhone App Being Released Thursday
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Yahoo Is Now Resorting To Selling Killer Domain Names On The Cheap — No sooner do we finish writing up Yahoo deadpooling yet another project, Gallery, do we get a tip that Yahoo apparently has another money saving/making plan: Selling off domains it owns. That's exactly what it has done …
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Pulkit Chandna / Maximum PC all: Cash-Strapped Yahoo Stoops to Selling Premium Domains
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal: Yahoo Selling Off Domain Names : Unloads Contests.com for $380K
Brian Heater / AppScout: Is Yahoo Becoming a Domain Name Clearing House?
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New Features on Google Books — Think about how you use a book. You want to read it, sure—but there are a host of other ways for you to interact with the words between the covers. You might want to flip through the pages to find an image. You might want to open right up to the table …
Discussion: Bits, ReadWriteWeb, Google Operating System, The Official Google Blog and ResourceShelf, Thanks:atul
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Miguel Helft / Bits: Google Improves Book Search Service
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb: Google Book Search Just Got Better
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System: A New Interface for Google Books
Brandon Badger / The Official Google Blog: The next edition of Google Books
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Google Fires Back At Bing, Launches “Explore Google Search” — I wrote earlier that it was probably driving Google crazy to see people “amazed” that Bing is doing stuff that Google itself has long offered. Now Google's fighting back. The first shot? A new Explore Google Search page.
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Chloe Albanesius / AppScout: Google's May Search Share Up, But Will Bing Change That?
John Murrell / GMSV: Sergey must be quivering under his desk (1)
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim: Google Scared of Microsoft? Increases Homepage Text by 33% to Address Bing
Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog: First sign of return fire from Google
Daniel Tunkelang / The Noisy Channel: Google Markets Itself
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent: Google To Bing: We Have Cool Features Too
Tom Krazit / CNET News: Google: We've got cool search, too
Charlie Anzman / SEO and Tech Daily: Google - Hey, we can do that ! — As the buzz continues …
Matthew Hurst / Data Mining: Bing, Google: The Features are there, the users don't know it
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb: ComScore: Bing is Still Going Strong
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T-Mobile to Offer Huawei's Android Phone Next Quarter — T-Mobile will release a smartphone running Google's Android operating system in Europe in the late third quarter, the phone's Chinese manufacturer, Huawei Technologies, said Thursday. — Huawei's U8230 will go on sale in Europe …
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Robert Evans / I4U News: Huawei U8230 Android Smartphone Hits T-Mobile.
Chris Davies / SlashGear: T-Mobile Android phone announcement next week
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T-Mobile confirms next Android phone will be announced next week
Discussion: Android Phone Fans, Softpedia News, Android Central, SlashGear, TmoNews, Techgeist and Engadget
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Chris Davies / SlashGear: T-Mobile Dash 3G (aka HTC Snap) coming July
Michael Klurfeld / Techgeist: New Android Phone To Be Announced Next Week
Donald Melanson / Engadget: Haier H7 Android handset set for September launch
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About that new BlackBerry Messenger... It's coming to all devices on OS 5.0, newer version revealed — You read the headline right, kids — the new and insanely hot BlackBerry Messenger that we exclusively showed off to the World looks to be headed to all BlackBerry devices that will receive the OS 5.0 treatment.
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James Falconer / IntoMobile: Revamped BlackBerry Messenger Coming to ALL 5.0 Devices!
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Another Music Start-Up Sued: EMI Takes Grooveshark to Court — Digital music start-ups seem to come in two flavors these days: Those being sued by the major music labels and those with expensive licensing deals they can't afford. — But for some reason, plucky Grooveshark, which runs a very nice …
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Barb Dybwad / Obsessable: EMI sues music streaming site Grooveshark
Bruce Houghton / hypebot: More Major Label vs. Startup: EMI Sues Grooveshark
Brian Heater / AppScout: EMI Sues Grooveshark
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Microsoft backtracks, extends XP availability to 2011 — Hammered over downgrade plan, company gives OEMs more time to sell XP PCs — Computerworld - Just hours after a noted research analyst criticized Microsoft's plans to limit sales of Windows XP PCs, the company said it would extend …
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Collecta: True Real-Time Social Search — Real-time search engines made our list as one of the top 5 Twitter related trends to watch, not only because the demand for these tools has increased, but also because we're seeing services like Tweetmeme and OneRiot innovate at lightning speed in this space.
Discussion: paidContent, Tech Beat, ReadWriteWeb, Search Engine Land, The Register, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and AltSearchEngines
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent: Startup Promises Best Real-Time Search Results Yet
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb: Collecta: Summize Backer Launches Broader Real-Time Search
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: Collecta And CrowdEye Join The “Real Time” Search Club
Cade Metz / The Register: Collecta - real-time search in real-time
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: Collecta Enters The Real Time Search Wars
Charles S. Knight / AltSearchEngines: Top Story: Collecta launches real-time search engine!
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Who's Watching Google Watch You? Web Publishers Face Congress Today — Here's a nice way to visualize the Internet privacy circa 2009 — Google's assessment of what I'm interested in, at least when it comes to Web browsing (click to enlarge): — That listing comes from Google's …
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Tom Krazit / CNET News: Google, Yahoo to appear before Congress on ad data
Richard Bennett / Broadband Politics: Second Hearing in Internet Privacy tomorrow
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NBC Taps Microsoft For Ad-Sales System — General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal will use technology from Microsoft Corp. to sell commercial time on its broadcast and cable-TV networks in a process similar to the sale of online advertising. The change, which the companies plan to announce Thursday …
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Kevin Newcomb / Search Engine Watch: Microsoft, NBC Universal to Sell Addressable TV Ads
Ina Fried / CNET News: Microsoft wins deal to sell NBC ads
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee: NBC Enters Into Targeted TV Ad Pact with Microsoft
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: NBC Debuts “Addressable Advertising” With Microsoft Ads Platform
Zachary Rodgers / ClickZ: NBC Universal to Use Microsoft's Navic Platform to Sell TV Ads
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Globetrotting This Summer? International Services From Verizon Wireless Keep Customers Connected From The Beach To The Boardroom — Customer Inquiries — For customer inquiries, please call 800-922-0204 or go to — BASKING RIDGE, NJ — More than 220 destinations for voice calling …
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Chris Davies / SlashGear: Verizon USB1000 Global Modem: EVDO and HSPA
Humberto Saabedra / PhoneNews.com: Verizon Announces Novatel USB1000 Global Modem
Eric M. Zeman / Phone Scoop: Global Wireless Modem Hits Verizon Wireless
Chris Ziegler / Engadget: Verizon rolls out global laptop data with USB1000 stick
Michelle Ruhfass / MobileBurn.com: REGISTRATION NOW OPEN FOR THE VERIZON DEVELOPER COMMUNITY CONFERENCE
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$1 Million Netflix Prize So Close, They Can Taste It — Electrical engineer Martin Piotte and software engineer Martin Chabbert of Montreal decided to enter a million-dollar contest to improve Netflix's recommendation engine after they read about it in a 2008 Wired magazine article.
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Iran's Twitter Revolution? Maybe Not Yet — Some Iranian election protesters used Twitter to get people on the streets, but most of the organizing happened the old-fashioned way — Media across the globe have been focusing on a “Twitter Revolution” in Iran as hundreds of thousands …
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Nancy Scola / techPresident: Iran Roundup: Inside an Internet-Charged Resistance
Andrew Rosen / The Huffington Post: YouTube Diplomacy and Iran
Declan McCullagh / CNET News: Iranians find ways to bypass Net censors
Cgaylord / Christian Science Monitor: From the tumult in Iran, Twitter emerges as a powerful social tool
Alan Patrick / broadstuff: A Tale of Two Twitters — Two events sent the Twitterverse abuzz this week.
Preston Gralla / Computerworld Blogs: Four ways Iranians are beating Internet censorship
Shaun Nichols / iTnews Australia: Online world pitches in for Iran protests
Paul Carr / Guardian: And we'll tweet at the end of the tour
Thord Daniel Hedengren / The Blog Herald: What Can The Iranians Read Online?
Ryan Tate / Gawker: Why There's No Twitter Revolution in Iran
Matthew B. Stannard / San Francisco Chronicle: S.F. techie helps stir Iranian protests
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Samsung “Highlight” On Its Way — Well, another Samsung dropping for T-mobile in the coming weeks and while its not the phone we are all hoping for, its bound to please the kiddies still looking for a little touch screen enjoyment. We believe this phone to be one and the same with the Samsung …
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James Falconer / IntoMobile: Here Comes the T-Mobile Samsung ‘Highlight’
Ilinca Nita / Unwired View: Samsung Highlight to hit T-Mobile USA on July 15
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Take a Look at DirectX 11 — I don't know how I missed this but a couple weeks ago Tech Fragments wrote about some videos AMD put out showing DirectX 11. We're across the board gamers here at Channel 10, so we love seeing the PC platform fight it out against the Xbox.
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Animoto Is Already Cash-Flow Positive, Raises Another Round To Go To 11 — In a world where most startups choose gaining users over making money, Animoto is an odd exception: It's doing both. Since launching in August 2007, the company has signed up some 750,000 users, and some 10% of those are paying customers.
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent: Online Slideshow Creator Animoto Raises $4.4 Million From Investors …
Gregory T. Huang / Xconomy: Madrona, Amazon Bet $4.4M on Animoto, a Startup With Roots at Bellevue High School
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee: Animoto Raises $4.4M, Will Add Video Soon
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Not Ma Bell's Yellow Pages — AT&T plans to launch a local search site for young people later this year. — For AT&T, the Yellow Pages is still big business. — The telephone company's advertising solutions unit, which includes its Yellow Pages business, generated $1.3 billion in revenue in the first quarter of the year.
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Google Hunkers Down on Software Projects with ‘Innovation Reviews’ — What's going on with Google? Well, according to comScore's fresh May stats, the company has a whopping 65 percent search share worldwide. But comScore also said Bing is moving up the search engine charts, at least in the first three weeks of its life.
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal: Google Searches for Ways to Keep Big Ideas at Home