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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
HBO Putting Shows Online, at No Additional Charge — HBO, cable's most popular premium channel, is carefully entering the arena of Internet video. — The channel, a subsidiary of Time Warner, will introduce HBO on Broadband starting this week to subscribers in Green Bay and Milwaukee …
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Michael / DVD Dossier Blog:
HBO to Go — Home Box Office, the premium television programmer, is set to launch a new broadband service tomorrow. — Available initially only to cable customers served by the Wisconsin Division of Time Warner Cable, the new service - called HBO on Broadband - will make over 600 HBO movies …
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Funny That HBO Is Putting Shows Online, Just As Parent Time Warner Starts Charging Extra For Bandwidth — from the coincidence? dept — The NY Times is covering the news that HBO has finally decided it needs a real internet strategy, and will start offering its content online, free of (additional) charge to existing subscribers.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
iPhone goes corporate: AT&T announces business plan — Without a 3G iPhone announcement at MacWorld, Apple remains focused on increasing the penetration of their generation-one handset. True to the rumors circulating the intertubes last week, AT&T is now offering the iPhone to business customers.
Joshua Chaffin / Financial Times:
NBC chief eyes TV shake-up — Jeff Zucker, chief executive of NBC Universal, is planning to seize on the writers' strike to eliminate what he sees as extravagances in the way Hollywood makes and promotes television. — NBC and other companies have already used the strike to terminate millions …
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Arn / MacRumors:
MacBook Air Unboxing Photos and Wireless Booting — The first unboxing photos for the MacBook Air come from what appears to be a remote Macworld Expo presentation in Japan. The pictures show that they received their demonstration MacBook Air in the retail packaging. Unboxing sequence: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
MacBook Pros Getting MacBook Air's Multi-touch Trackpad — We think this is pretty obvious, but AppleInsider says they've received info that the MacBook Pros will also be getting the MacBook Air's multi-touch trackpad feature (which we got hands-on of here).
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
LinkedIn Founder Has Golden Touch — LinkedIn Founder's Road to Riches Paved With Golden Connections in Silicon Valley — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Few Internet entrepreneurs practice what they preach as devoutly as LinkedIn Corp. co-founder Reid Hoffman, whose business revolves around …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft (finally) broadens Windows Vista virtualization rules — Microsoft has lifted its ban on enabling Windows Vista Home Basic and Home Premium in virtual machine environments. — The company announced on January 21 its decision to add the two new SKUs and planned to update its end-user license agreement to reflect the change.
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New York Post:
WPP'S CHIEF TO NET MORE FOR HIS WEB — WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell - who's been on the prowl since buying online ad firm 24/7 Real Media last year - is close to making another significant acquisition in the digital ad space. — “We'll be making one or two announcements of further digital acquisitions” …
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Joel Johnson / Boing Boing Gadgets:
Talking About AT&T's Internet Filtering on AT&T's The Hugh Thompson Show — Yesterday, I was invited to talk about gadgets onThe Hugh Thompson Show, a television-style talk show sponsored exclusively by AT&T for distribution on the online AT&T Tech Channel.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Will We See Delicious 2.0 This Week? — It's been four and a half months since Yahoo first previewed Delicious 2.0. We've heard not a peep from them since as to when it might launch publicly and replace the existing, somewhat dated interface. — Well, ok, there was a peep last week.
InfoWorld:
Tech's all-time top 25 flops — Imagine how different the tech industry might have been had Gary Kildall accepted IBM's offer, back in 1980, to license his computer operating system for a top-secret project. CP/M would have been the OS that shipped with the original IBM PC …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Time Warner's Overage Caps May Be Set Very Low — Last week Broadband Reports broke the story of Time Warner's decision to test overage charges for their biggest users. I don't think it really makes sense for ISPs to charge in a way that makes their own services less valuable, but that's a different story.
