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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
NBC Launching VOD Service — What about Hulu? — NBC will offer its top television shows as ad-supported downloads for up to a week after broadcast on a new service called "NBC Direct" that will launch this fall, the network is announcing today. It seems we're not the only ones scratching …
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Bill Carter / New York Times:
NBC to Offer a Free Video Download Service — NBC Universal, acknowledging that viewers are increasingly moving away from traditional television viewing, announced plans today for a service that will make popular NBC programs available to download free to personal computers and other devices.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:Is Hulu Doomed? NBC To Begin Offering Free Downloads
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kottke.org:
Gems from the archive of the New York Times — Now that the NY Times has discontinued their Times Select subscription program and made much more of their 150+ years of content available for anyone to read and link to, let's take a look at some of the more notable items that the non-subscriber has been missing.
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Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:
DIGG: New Digg Profiles Launch — The Digg team is excited to launch new Digg user profiles later tonight, the first of many cool new features rolling out this year. — We've completely revamped our profiles from the ground up - making it easy for you to share your favorite stories …
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Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:
Google Gphone still on the way, say sources — Google will definitely launch its own-brand handset but has yet to finalize the handset's specifications, OS, production contractor and operating partners, according to sources at Taiwan handset makers. — Although market rumors previously stated …
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Nicole Lee / Crave: The gadget blog:
Google phone rumors heat up — According to a variety of sources, the Google phone rumor is starting to really take shape, and if we're lucky, it may even come true. Information gathered from Digitimes, GigaOm, CrunchGear, and more, hints at Google perhaps closely working …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
Netscape's Propeller is Changing More Than You Might Think — AOL's social news site relaunched today under the new name Propeller. No longer "the new Netscape", Propeller seems on face like a clone of a clone. There may, though, be much more going on underneath the surface.
BBC:
Time for Apple to face the music? — Columnist Bill Thompson asks whether the time has come for Apple to be put under the EU microscope in the same way as Microsoft has. — Microsoft was humiliated by the European Union's Court of First Instance on Monday when it rejected almost all elements …
Chris Soghoian / CNET News.com:
A game of cat and mouse: The iPhone, Steve Jobs and an army of blind hackers — With Steve Jobs' recent announcement of his intention to fight off the independent iPhone developers, the question that must be asked is how will Apple try to defeat the hackers: Frequent and disruptive software updates, or lawsuits?
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Mark Glaser / MediaShift:
Digging Deeper:: Business 2.0 Closed Due to Corporate Neglect, Ad Woes — Business 2.0 Closed Due to Corporate Neglect, Ad Woes — When the dot-com boom fizzled, the business magazines that covered that huge story similarly flamed out. The Industry Standard closed, Red Herring went south, and Business 2.0 was on death's door.
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Techcrunch40: Conference Review, How did Mint win? and many Thank You's! — Now that the first TechCrunch40 conference is complete, this post will serve as my final conference review and recap. Some of the startups asked me about full, in-depth reviews. I am going to do my best to review each …
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Web host breach may have exposed passwords for 6,000 clients — Names, addresses and phone numbers also at risk — Layered Technologies has been targeted by malicious hackers who may have stolen passwords and other personal details on as many as 6,000 of its clients, the Texas-based web host provider warned.
Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
Apple: iPhone GPS Hack Works! — Whoa, the iPhone just got GPS. Well, assisted GPS, but still. It actually works. This morning, the Navizon GPS app showed up in Installer.app. After creating a username and login (get this: email NOT required), the free app started up …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Why a Recession Will Help Google Rule The World — As start-ups and investors pee in their britches over the thought that the U.S. economy is headed for a recession, Google and other cash rich companies are sitting pretty. Why? Because a recession would make their cash flow, cash piles …
Janak Parekh / Pocket PC Thoughts:
Upcoming Samsung Pocket PC with Mouse Pointer? — Our pal at DinarSoft spotted the following Samsung Pocket PC phone at GITEX this week. In addition to the standard fare, the device appears to have a navigable mouse pointer controlled by some scroller mechanism underneath the screen (and presumably embedded in the d-pad).
