Friday News Watch: Die! iPhone Mania! Die! Die! Die! . . .
A tidal wave of iPhone stories Thursday swept away many other news stories. I hope the iPhone mania will die very soon but it probably won't. Here is some of the iPhone coverage plus a few stories not about the iPhone.
eBay's iPhone app now out of the box
Twitterrific for the Apple App Store
Searching on an iPhone can be fun
Microsoft's first iPhone app--Tellme?
Apple Imposes Gag Rule on iPhone Application Makers
Wall Street Journal:
Semiconductor Suppliers Hit by Downturn
EBay Drops PayPal Plan Down Under
Microsoft Ready to Hit Back at Mac Guy
Most Workers Aren’t Satisfied With Their Tech Departments
Tech Diary: Hooked on Chinese Phonics - Video
New York Times:
Apple's Latest Opens a Developers' Playground
Yahoo Is Inviting Partners to Build on Its Search Power
Senators Weigh Possible Rules for Advertising and Online Privacy
SF Chronicle:
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Armed man shot to death during raid on marijuana farm near Saratoga
Samsung Instinct breaks Best Buy sales record
News.com:
Whole Foods CEO: Bill Gates should consider "conscious capitalism"
Going thin on Road Trip 2008 with the MacBook Air
Blogs:
Put Meebo IM on your desktop with Meebone
Amid the App Store fanfare, Apple releases significant update for AppleTV
Yahoo Patents Anchor Text Relevance in Search Indexing