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Phones

IPhone 3GS Review Matrix: What Everybody’s Saying

4:00PM Wilson Rothman | It’s time for another roundup of pundits espousing heartfelt admiration and none-too-bloody criticism of a pretty hot Apple product. How did they—I mean “it”—do this time around? Have a look-see… More »
Music

Zune HD Hands On: Photos and Video Tour

6:27AM Brian Lam | Having just played with a prototype for a few minutes, I’m really impressed with the Zune HD. I’ve got a video, too, showing off how well the animations work. More »
Phones

Palm Pre: ‘Better Than Viagra’

5:30AM Wilson Rothman | Palm’s Jon Rubinstein hushing up key investor (and notorious chatterbox) Roger McNamee in this goofy D7 video. [AllThingsD] More »
Software

Steve Ballmer Quote-O-Rama

1:59AM Brian Lam | Steve Ballmer is at D. He’s rather clear today, not so ranty. Here are his best quotes from the talk. More »
Online

Confirmed: Microsoft’s New Search Engine Is Called ‘Bing’, Opens June 3rd

1:36AM John Herrman | Steve Ballmer just confirmed rumours that Microsoft’s new search engine, previously called Kumo, has been christened with the wonderfully onomatopoeic, possibly stupid name, “Bing”. UPDATE: And it’s coming next week. More »
Gadgets

Immersion’s New Haptic Touchscreen Tech Encourages Corny iPhone Romance

1:30PM Dan Nosowitz | Haptic technology has the possibility to make touchscreens so much better, improving accuracy and adding a whole new range of sensory feedback. Immersion, primary developers of haptic technology, presented both a refined onscreen keyboard and an incredibly cheesy “Immersive Messaging” protocol at this year’s All Things D conference. More »
Phones

Nokia’s CEO: Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo at All Things D

8:41AM Brian Lam | “Nokia has about 35-40% of the total phone market. 1.1 billion users…I would have said that Motorola was our number one competitor a few years ago. Now, RIM, Microsoft, Apple.” More »
Online

Blockquote: ‘Suing your customers is a bad idea’

2:59AM Brian Lam | Irving Azoff, CEO of Ticketmaster: “They were afraid of Napster, they were afraid of iTunes; The business resists change…Basically the record industry sat around and tried to protect an old model; Yeah, suing your customer is a bad idea.” [All Things D] More »
Gadgets

Fullpower’s Motion Sensing Concept Knows What You’re Doing

2:27AM Brian Lam | At All Things D, my friends at Fullpower did a demo of a accelerometer-equipped headset that can pick up a call by tapping it in a different way than you tap a regular headset. More »
Online

Microsoft Will Unveil ‘Kumo’ Search Engine At All Things D

9:09AM Jason Chen | The May 26 to May 28 conference will allow Microsoft to show off a search engine that’s supposedly more competitive to Google than its current solution. (”What current solution,” you may ask, if you’re trying to be a jerk.) [All Things D] More »