Top Items:
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
I Eat My Words: Hulu Will Shake Up the Online Video Market — OK, I will admit, I was busy sharpening up the knives at BoomTown HQ to prepare for the debut of Hulu this week. — Let's just say that I have been dubious that two lumbering media companies-in this case, News Corp. …
Discussion:
InfoWorld, Glass House, AppScout, Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab, VentureBeat and broadstuff
RELATED:
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Hulu Readies Its Online TV, Dodging the Insults — The knives are out for Hulu.com. — Hulu is the new-media creation of two old-media rivals, NBC, which is owned by General Electric, and Fox, owned by the News Corporation. Since March, when the broadcasters announced their joint effort to bring free …
Discussion:
Daily Feed, Insider Chatter, Associated Press, Silicon Alley Insider, The Register, David Schatsky, Smalltalk Tidbits …, IP Democracy, p2pnet, PDA and David Card
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Hulu Launches Private Beta, Makes Very Good First Impressions — Last March NBC Universal and News Corporation announced a joint venture that we initially thought would result in a direct competitor to YouTube. As details emerged, it became clear that the two media conglomerates were not planning …
Discussion:
Epicenter, mathewingram.com/work, Download Squad, Mark Evans, Online Video Watch, Lost Remote, Compiler, Scobleizer and Digg
Jason / Hulu Blog:Beta testing begins for Hulu
Discussion:
DSLreports, Between the Lines, Insider Chatter, Digital Trends, Jon Burg's Future Visions, 901am and CenterNetworks
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google's Response to Facebook: "Maka-Maka" — Google may have lost the bidding war to invest in Facebook, but it is preparing its own major assault on the social networking scene. It goes by the codename "Maka-Maka" inside the Googleplex (or, perhaps, "Makamaka").
Jeremy Kirk / InfoWorld:
Hutchison 3 to release Skypephone in eight countries — San Francisco (IDGNS) - U.K. mobile phone operator Hutchison 3G UK on Monday rolled out the Skypephone, a handset designed to simplify use of the Skype VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) application. — Hutchison 3G, branded as "3" …
Discussion:
The Register
RELATED:
MacNN:
Leopard drivers hint at upcoming MacBooks — Apple may have tipped its hand and revealed a near-term update to its 13-inch MacBooks and potentially its Mac minis, based on files discovered inside Mac OS X Leopard's system folders. The company has included a full set of recent drivers …
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook's New Hiring Hurdle? — Microsoft Deal May Boost — Options Prices, Hurting — Ability to Lure Top Talent — There is a little-noticed downside to Microsoft Corp.'s investment in Facebook Inc.: The deal will likely raise the price of stock options issued by the social-networking company …
Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Instant Jailbreak for iPhone and iPod touch — A crew of hackers (including hdm/metasploit, rezn, dinopio, drudge, kroo, pumpkin, davidc, dunham, and NerveGas) have introduced a one-touch instant jailbreak for both iPhone and iPod touch. The jailbreak opens your iPhone for full disk access …
Discussion:
Infinite Loop, CrunchGear, PaulStamatiou.com, Gizmodo, Engadget, O'Grady's PowerPage, Mobility Site and Digg
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Microsoft to buy Global Care Solutions — Microsoft is giving a booster shot to its Health Solutions Group, announcing on Monday plans to acquire clinical workflow software developer Global Care Solutions. — The acquisition of Global Care Solutions, based in Bangkok, Thailand …
RELATED:
Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:
T-Mobile HTC Shadow Finally Emerges Looking Damn Good (Gallery) [Hands On] — The long-rumored T-Mobile Shadow (aka Juno) officially launches now. It hits stores Wednesday for $200 with voice-plan or $150 with $20-per-month unlimited data plan. (Both require two year contracts.)
Discussion:
Mobility Site
RELATED:
John Siracusa / Ars Technica:
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review — Introduction — At the end of my Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger review, I wrote this. … That was exactly two and a half years ago, to the day. It seems that I've gotten my wish and then some. Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard has gestated longer …
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Akamai's HD Showcase Portal is Live — Looks Great, But Will the Industry Pay to Stream Huge Files? — The Akamai showcase site for HD online videos from several customers including the BBC, MTV, the NBA and others has just gone live. — The images that load to the home page are in very high quality Flash.
Discussion:
The Universal Desktop
RELATED:
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Apple not just refusing cash, also refusing Apple Gift Cards for iPhones — You can chalk this one up to our bad in assuming best intentions, but when Apple said no cash for iPhones, they damn well meant it — enough to extend the policy out to no cash for anything that could in turn purchase an iPhone.
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
Travel Sales Still Growing, but Numbers of Customers Are Declining — THE online travel category is still rolling along, but there may be trouble ahead. — Like other e-commerce markets, travel is expected to produce double-digit sales growth this year in the United States …
Lewis Page / The Register:
Carmack's X-Prize rocket explodes on pad — The sole remaining contender to win a prize for privately-built rocket lander systems exploded yesterday, ending hopes that the prize might be won this year. — Following the 2004 victory of the famous SpaceShip One in the Ansari X-Prize race …
Discussion:
CNET News.com
