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Saul Hansell / Bits:
Time Warner: Download Too Much and You Might Pay $30 a Movie — Let's say you buy a new Apple TV because you want to rent high-definition movies. And say you are about to move to Beaumont, Tex. If so, you might wind up paying Time Warner Cable as much as $30 when you download a movie using its high-speed Internet service.
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:Video Killed the Broadband Buffet
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
China Close To Becoming World's Largest Internet Market By Users — New statistics released by the Chinese Government show that China is due to surpass the United States as the nation with the most internet users in the coming months. — The state-owned China Internet Network Information Center …
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Susie Pan / DigiTimes:
Touch panel component makers sampling for future Eee PCs — Sources at touch panel and related component makers have revealed that companies are currently having their products undergo sampling with Asustek Computer in bids to win orders for next-generation Eee PCs which are set to launch later this year.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Eee PC with 9-inch touchscreen in the works? — Details of future generation Eee PCs from ASUS have been trickling out even before the first generation shipped. Now that sewing circle of Taiwanese component makers have whispered a few secrets in the direction of DigiTimes.
Aviv Raff / Aviv Raff On .NET:
Skype cross-zone scripting vulnerability — Skype uses Internet Explorer web control within the application to render internal and external HTML pages. Examples for this pages are the “Send money via PayPal” dialog, or “Add video to chat” dialog. — Recently, I've discovered that Skype is running this web control in Local Zone.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Blogger Suffers Major Outage. Bloggers Not Happy — Google's Blogger hosted blogging service has suffered a major outage this afternoon (PST) with [Spammers] bloggers flooding forums to complain. — Users affected by the outage were presented with a Blogger error message that included the code …
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MG Siegler / ParisLemon:Blogger Goes Down, I Look To Twitter For Help
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Web Ad Buyer: Online Less Robust Than You Think, CPMs Headed Down — Most prognosticators predict another booming year for online advertising, but Carl Fremont isn't so sure. Fremont, the global media director for digital ad giant Digitas, says the weakening economy will slow down Web ads as well.
Steve Lohr / Bits:
IBM: A Separate Reality? — We knew the bottom-line numbers, after I.B.M. jumped the gun by three days and announced its surprisingly strong profits and sales figures on Monday. But what was striking in the company's conference call on Thursday afternoon was the unhedged optimism in its outlook for 2008 …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Hires Tony Scott as Chief Information Officer — Respected industry veteran to join executive leadership team, run global IT operations. — Microsoft Corp. today announced the appointment of Tony Scott to the role of chief information officer (CIO) and corporate vice president of Microsoft.
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AnandTech:
The MacBook Air CPU Mystery: More Details Revealed — Author: Anand Lal Shimpi MacBook Air Products — Earlier this week Apple announced its MacBook Air, and within hours we had the mystery of its “60% smaller” CPU uncovered. Or at least we thought. — It turns out there's even more depth …
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Keepin' it real fake, part CVI: N800 gets Chinafied — $140 can't get you too far in the gadget world these days, but if you're in the market for a totally crap-ass knockoff of Nokia's slim and slender N800 tablet, look no further than this “dual-band PMP cellphone,” all hooked up with a QVGA display …
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Deal Of the Day: CNN Pays $750,000 For Web Address — CNN just made self-styled “Domain King” Rick Schwartz a happy man. The network paid $750,000 to acquire urls ireport.com and i-report.com from Schwartz, who told SAI he paid “$70 or $100” to register the domains back in 1997.
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Semantic Wave 2008 - Free Summary Report for RWW Readers — Project10X has just released a 400-page study of semantic technologies and their market impact, entitled Semantic Wave 2008: Industry Roadmap to Web 3.0 and Multibillion Dollar Market Opportunities.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Slide Gets Big Funding? — Call it the Facebook Funding Effect. — I am still collecting details, but Slide-the San Francisco startup whose widgets are among the most popular on Facebook and MySpace-is completing a round of funding that could value the startup at many times a multiple of its most recent $60 to $80 million valuation.
