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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Analyst: How Apple sells 45 million iPhones in 2009 — Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster took a lot of heat back in June 2007 when he predicted, three weeks before Apple even began selling the iPhone, that the company would be shipping them at the rate of 45 million a year by 2009.
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Hardware 2.0, Electronista, Between the Lines, Apple Gazette, LoopRumors and MacDailyNews
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Brandon Holley / Yodel Anecdotal:
Hear us roar — This isn't exactly a secret, but we've unveiled a new website for women today, called Yahoo! Shine. — When our editorial team — which includes editors that hail from Lucky to Jane to the Wall Street Journal — sat down to conceive it, we wanted to avoid all of the buckets …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:What Yahoo could bring to Microsoft: Some media sense
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BoomTown
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:Yahoo targets women with new ‘Shine’ site
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Download Squad, AppScout, BoomTown, BuzzMachine, 901am, MarketingVOX, VentureBeat, paidContent.org, Search Engine Watch Blog, Los Angeles Times and Mashable!
Juliette Garside / Telegraph:
Virgin Media takes fight to illegal downloaders — Virgin Media looks set to become the first British internet company to crack down on customers who download music illegally. — Record labels are lobbying for a “three strikes” regime that would see those who collect pirated material disconnected …
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Chris Williams / The Register:Virgin Media in talks to trial three strikes regime against P2P
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Ars Technica
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Publish2 raises a round, aims to bring more journalists to the web — In recent years, many journalists (including myself) have experimented with web services intended to help journalism go online, and those efforts have failed. — We'd hoped that things like better newsroom software …
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paidContent.org
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Chumby Picks Up $12.5 Million Series B Funding — Chumby Industries (love the name), makers of the Chumby Internet connected device, have picked up $12.5 million in Series B funding today. The lead investor was JK&B Capital, and other participants included existing venture investors …
Jim Thompson / brandchannel.com:
Brandjunkies on the Influence of Brands: The 2008 Brandjunkie Survey Results — So, just what does a man in Algeria between the ages of 40 and 45 feel about the McDonald's brand? Or what does a woman in the Philippines between the ages of 26 and 30 think of Google's brand?
Charles Knight / Alt Search Engines:
APRIL 1st is THE ANNUAL DAY WITHOUT GOOGLE! — Editor's note: This blog is not anti-Google. — All we're asking is that for One Day you try one of the Top 100 Alternative Search Engines to be posted here tomorrow for One Day - April 1, 2008. And no, it's not a joke, we're very serious.
Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
Creative irate after modder spruces up Vista X-Fi drivers — Managing third-party/user-created drivers is a tricky task for any corporation. Unofficially modified drivers have been known to boost performance or improve system stability, but they are also capable of causing or exacerbating such issues.
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The Register
Peter Sayer / InfoWorld:
Adobe joins Linux Foundation, develops AIR for Linux — San Francisco - Adobe Systems released an early alpha version of its rich Internet application platform AIR for Linux on Monday, and announced that it has joined the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes and standardizes Linux.
Denise Howell / Lawgarithms:
Sparks fly over copyright at Tech Policy Summit — The group of copyright scholars and advocates gathered Wednesday at the Tech Policy Summit in Hollywood demonstrated that while copyright must function in a converged world, opinions on how it should function are as divergent as ever.
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Thomas Hawk's Digital …
Doc Searls Weblog:
Getting airports and hotels out of the pay toilet business — I upload a lot of photos. It's almost always an ordeal unless I'm at home or work. That's because I get fast upload speeds in both places. At home I have a fiber connection to the Net with 20Mb symmetrical service — a rare and good thing.
Jackson West / Valleywag:
Technorati needed a new systems adminstrator, like, yesterday — Rocketboom's Andrew Baron is fed up with Technorati, and switching to Google. Could the blog search engine's problems be due to the fact that there's no one minding the servers? Because the company is offering an “IMMEDIATE” …
Matthew Moskovciak / Crave:
Don't sign up for your $40 DTV converter box coupon—yet — The DTV transition is less than a year away and as of January 1, 2008, Americans have been eligible to sign up for a $40 coupon to help purchase DTV converter boxes needed to receive new digital TV signals.
Rich / Attributor Blog:
Get your fair share of the ad network pie — The buzz around ad networks and ad serving technologies couldn't be louder: The Google/DoubleClick merger is moving forward, new ad exchanges continue to pop up on a monthly basis, and just last week Forbes and ESPN followed Martha Stewart's lead to start their own ad network.
