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John P. Falcone / CNET News.com:
Look out, Apple TV: The $100 Netflix Player has arrived — The Netflix box is finally a reality. — The Netflix Player by Roku is the first product that allows subscribers to have movies and TV shows from the service's Instant Viewing feature (aka “Watch Now") to be streamed directly to their TV screen.
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Danny Dumas / Gadget Lab:
Review: Roku Netflix Set Top Box is Just Shy of Totally Amazing — Netflix Player by Roku — Yeah, yeah, yeah, we've heard this all before, right? For years now, everyone from computer companies like Apple to OS companies like Microsoft to content providers like NBC have been trying …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Netflix Roku: Free Is Such A Beautiful Word — Netflix made a big splash today with their announcement of a $100 set top box, built by a California startup called Roku, that streams free movies (for Netflix subscribers) to the living room. — Good for them.
Jasmine France / CNET News.com:
Now at Napster: 6 million DRM-free MP3s — Probably the biggest piece of digital music news to come out of CES 2008 was that Napster was planning to offer its complete catalog of more than 6 million tracks in the unprotected MP3 format. — On Tuesday, with the launch of version 4.5 …
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
BBC's Sound Index is good, but we won't get the data — The BBC's SoundIndex, currently in beta, lists the top 1,000 artists based on discussions crawled from Bebo, Last.fm, Google Groups, iTunes, MySpace and YouTube. The top five bands according to SoundIndex right now are Coldplay …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Who's The Hottest Band On The Internet? Coldplay, Says BBC SoundIndex
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Report: iPhone headed for joint launch in Japan and Korea — With less than three weeks to go before Steve Jobs' June 9 keynote address, Apple may be close to a deal that would add two of Asia's hottest cellphone carriers to its growing list of international partners.
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Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:Piper sees iPod boost; Sybase for iPhone; Japan/Korea rumor
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Jesusdiaz / Gizmodo:
iPhone 3G Launch Date Confirmed — We all suspected it, but now it is confirmed: sources close to the 3G iPhone launch have told Gizmodo that Apple will announce their new model at the WWDC Keynote on June 9th. The second-generation iPhone will be available worldwide right after the launch …
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Richard Ford / Times of London:
‘Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails — A massive government database holding details of every phone call, e-mail and time spent on the internet by the public is being planned as part of the fight against crime and terrorism. Internet service providers (ISPs) …
Simson Garfinkel / Technology Review:
Alarming Open-Source Security Holes — How a programming error introduced profound security vulnerabilities in millions of computer systems. — Back in May 2006, a few programmers working on an open-source security project made a whopper of a mistake. Last week, the full impact …
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Schneier on Security
Sid Yadav / Rev2.org:
Userplane Media Player: White Label Video Hosting — Disclosure: Userplane has been a longtime sponsor of Rev2. — With video already tipped in the real world, web publishers have been playing catch up to the demands of today's consumers. Text is old, pictures can only go far …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Backers Back Aster Data Systems. It's All About The Clusters. — Clusters are the way to go. Google and Yahoo run their Websites on distributed databases spread across vast clusters of servers. Now Aster Data Systems, a startup that is coming out of stealth mode today …
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
A Gamble, but What if He Wins? — About a month and a half ago, Carl Icahn and I went to dinner at Tse Yang, an upscale Chinese restaurant in Midtown Manhattan. Mr. Icahn, the corporate raider turned activist investor, came blustering through the dimly lit restaurant about 20 minutes late …
Tim Leberecht / CNET News.com:
SMS on the rise in the U.S., but mobile IM is expected to be the next killer app — A recent Gartner study estimates that 189 billion mobile messages have been sent by U.S. mobile-phone subscribers in 2007. It forecasts 301 billion mobile messages sent in 2008.
Reuters:
T-Mobile to keep iPhone exclusivity in Germany — PARIS (Reuters) - T-Mobile TMOG.UL expects to remain the only seller of Apple's (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) coveted iPhone in Germany, T-Mobile Chief Executive Hamid Akhavan said on Tuesday. — “We have a very good relationship with Apple …
Marissa Mayer / Official Google Blog:
A peek into our search factory — Today we hosted an informal gathering — a factory tour of sorts — to offer a glimpse into what we think is most exciting about search, and where innovation is most likely to come from. We also gave an update on Google Health.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Google Health launches; Read the terms of service
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Don't Look For BFFs When Pitching For VC Dollars — TheFunded started publishing a list of top rated venture capitalists today. The ratings are based on reviews (either anonymous or not) written by entrepreneurs who've pitched those VCs. — Should you pitch VCs that have higher ratings?
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Google execs stew over Microsoft response — Google's top brass are meeting Monday to figure out a response to how Microsoft's new overtures toward Yahoo affect Google's potential ad deal with Yahoo. — Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, speaking to reporters at a Google Zeitgeist event in the U.K. …
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