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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
YouTube Coming Soon to Cellphones — YouTube is coming to mobile phones — or, to be more precise, a small slice of YouTube is coming to some Verizon Wireless phones. — While its explosively popular Web site is free, YouTube's phone-based version will require a $15-a-month subscription to a Verizon Wireless service called VCast.
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Rob Pegoraro / Washington Post:
Missing the Big Picture — We're supposed to be excited that our mobile phones are getting to be more and more like mobile TVs, thanks to developments like Verizon Wireless's just-announced deal to bring YouTube videos to its V Cast service. — Forgive me if I'm less than thrilled.
Sarah Jane Tribble / Mercury News:
YouTube in deal with Verizon — YouTube plans to announce a deal with Verizon Wireless today to bring user-submitted videos from the Web to mobile phone customers nationwide, marking the biggest marriage yet between a video Web service and mobile phone carrier.
Parija B. Kavilanz / CNNMoney.com:
Wal-Mart launches digital movie downloads — Retailer kicks off its own video downloads service beginning with an exclusive 'Superman Returns' DVD bundle. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Wal-Mart Stores on Tuesday announced the launch its own video downloads service beginning with an exclusive …
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Latest toe in the movie download pond? Wal-Mart — Wal-Mart Stores has entered the fledgling but growing market of movie downloads with a new service that bundles a digital copy of a film with the purchase of a hard copy of the DVD. — The movie download program, announced Tuesday …
Donna Bogatin / Digital Micro-Markets:
Google Radio EXCLUSIVE: Audio Ads in pictures! — Google is nearing its one year anniversary of the dMarc Broadcasting acqusition, purchased to further Google's mission to bring "targeted, measurable advertising" to the entire world, including radio. — Google is also nearing its promised launch date for Google Audio Ads "beta."
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Bubble Burst 2.0 — In the late 90s, the period of irrational exuberance, we knew the end would come, and we knew what the end would look like — a stock market crash of the dotcom sector. So, if Web 2.0 is a bubble, and if like all bubbles it bursts, how will we know when it happens?
Rafat Ali / PaidContent:
Why Aggregation & Context and Not (Necessarily) Content are King in Entertainment — Bear Stearns analyst Spencer Wang has come out with a report on, well, Long Tail, but this one focuses on what he calls the mid part of the content and distribution value chain, where he sees the most value in the long run …
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Brian Morrissey / Adweek:
TiVo Tries Fresh DVR Ad Approach — NEW YORK TiVo upped its efforts to include advertising in its digital video recording service with its most intrusive effort to date. The company will embed ads after a recorded program plays. — The graphical ad unit, which TiVo calls a "program placement …
opera.com:
Opera Mini drives social networking from mobile phones — Opera Mini™ upgrade released today with new level of interactivity — Today, Opera Software introduces Opera Mini 3.0, the latest version of the award-winning mobile browser already used by eight million people worldwide
Michael Flaherty / Reuters:
Diller says Internet valuations inflated — NEW YORK (Reuters) - IAC/InterActiveCorp. (IACI.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is staying on the sidelines for now in terms of big acquisitions as many Internet sector companies are overpriced, Chief Executive Barry Diller said on Monday.
Shawn / Shawn Hogan Fan Club:
Google Christmas Present — I received my first Christmas card this year... and it was from Google. It's a digital photo frame... pretty cool if you ask me. — Comes with a mini USB cable, power cord, batteries, and an international power adapter. The international power adapter will really come in handy for some other stuff.
EFF: Breaking News:
EFF Accepts Barney's Surrender — Purple Dinosaur Backs Off and Pays Up; Free Speech Rights Preserved — San Francisco - The corporate owners of the popular children's television character Barney the Purple Dinosaur have agreed to withdraw their baseless legal threats against a website publisher …
Mike / Techdirt:
Supreme Court Refuses Another Microsoft Patent Appeal — from the end-of-the-line-on-this-one dept — While the Supreme Court has taken a more active interest in patents lately, it hasn't worked out to Microsoft's benefit lately. Just as the court is about to finally hear arguments …
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
A Lone Sponsor for a Longer 'Nightly News' — A week from tonight, viewers of the "NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams" will be able to watch more news — and fewer commercials — as a result of a sponsorship deal with the Philips Electronics North America Corporation.
Max Wang / DigiTimes:
Apple and ViewSonic to unveil 17-inch widescreen LCD monitors soon — LCD vendors such as ViewSonic and Apple are set to launch 17-inch widescreen LCD monitors by year-end or the first quarter of 2007, according to industry sources. — LCD monitor vendors expect 17-inch widescreen monitors …
Scott Small / BBspot:
MPAA Lobbying for Home Theater Regulations — Los Angeles , CA - The MPAA is lobbying congress to push through a new bill that would make unauthorized home theaters illegal. The group feels that all theaters should be sanctioned, whether they be commercial settings or at home.
Jo Best / silicon.com:
Google: 'iPod will hold all the world's TV in 12 years' — The future of music inspires the future of mobile — The idea of fitting your entire music collection into a single device the size of a packet of cigarettes might have seemed outlandish 15 years ago. But that was before the iPod.
Andrew Schmitt / nyquistcapital.com:
Squirrels Ate My FiOS — It's not just a catchy title. I lost my FiOS connectivity Saturday morning, rendering my Verizon (VZ) triple-play package of voice, data, and television inoperative. The culprit? Squirrels. — I blogged my original install here. I've linked to a few of the original photos in the narrative below.
