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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. — (owner of this site!)
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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 …
Michael Learmonth / Variety:
Zucker says Apple deal rotten — NBC U says iTunes revenues meager — NBC U topper Jeff Zucker warned that new digital business models were turning media revenues "from dollars into pennies" and revealed NBC U booked just $15 million in revenue during the last year of its deal with Apple's iTunes.
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
NBC: iTunes Video Was A Non-Business — In August, after the spat between Apple and NBC over iTunes video pricing erupted, we ran back of the envelope numbers and concluded that this wasn't a fight about current dollars: At best, we figured, NBC was netting $50 million annually from iTunes.
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Jason / Hulu Blog:Beta testing begins for Hulu
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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").
Anil Dash:
Smug Ugly — Although I've been accused sometimes of reflexive contrariness, the truth is I'm just pretty consistent in my assessments of technology, with little regard for the perceptions of the companies or people who provide those technologies. — The best case in point I can use …
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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 …
Don Reisinger / CNET News.com:
Leopard will open the Mac OS X floodgates (and embarrass Microsoft) — As many of you are aware, I think Windows Vista is a blunder. And with its annoying UAC system and horrifically slow operation, it won't take long before the majority of home users agree with me.
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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 …
Reuters:
Skype and 3 launch mobile phone — eBay division Skype and mobile phone group 3 have launched a mobile handset that allows Skype users to make free Internet calls to each other while on the move. — The companies said on Monday the new 3 Skypephone could also send free Skype instant messages …
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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 …
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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 …
Business Wire:
T-Mobile Launches the T-Mobile Shadow - the First in a Planned Family of People-Centric Phones Built to Help Customers Stick Together with Those Who Matter Most — T-Mobile Shadow™ Attacks Complexity through Super-Simple Communication Interfaces Designed To Make Popular Calling …
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Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:T-Mobile HTC Shadow Finally Emerges Looking Damn Good (Gallery) [Hands On]
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Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Matt Cutts Confirms Paid Links & Google PageRank Update — Matt Cutts emailed Search Engine Journal last night to let us know that in fact, the partial Google 'Toolbar' PageRank update which happened last week was a result of Google's campaign against paid linking and advertisement links which influence PageRank.
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InfoWorld:
Microsoft to buy Thai health software vendor — Microsoft Corp. on Monday said it has agreed to buy a Thai software vendor that specializes in hospital administration applications, and plans to sell the software in emerging markets. — Global Care Solutions (GCS) of Bangkok, Thailand …
John Markoff / New York Times:
Reimagining the Automobile Industry by Selling the Electricity — Shai Agassi, a Silicon Valley technologist who was in competition to become chief executive of SAP, one of the world's largest software companies, has re-emerged with a grand plan to reinvent the world's automobile industry around battery-powered all-electric cars.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Comcast to employees: talking about blocking P2P can get you fired — In the wake of the discovery that Comcast is blocking some peer-to-peer traffic (and even blocking some Lotus Notes e-mails), the company is attempting to keep the PR machine well-oiled by giving customer tech support reps some talking points.
