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MGM to Post Full Films on YouTube — SAN FRANCISCO — YouTube is by far the world's biggest stage for online video. But in some ways Hulu is stealing the show. — With critical plaudits and advertising dollars flowing to Hulu, the popular online hub for television shows and feature films …
Ian Lamont / Industry Standard:
Netbooks: An opportunity for Windows, and a threat to Linux — The netbook revolution is upon us. Less than a year ago, the cheap, Atom-powered mini-laptops were a novelty. Now they are shaking up the regular laptop industry. Netbooks are taking marketshare and mindshare, thanks in large part to their low prices.
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Memo to Intel: Netbooks morphing into notebooks — Looking for signs that netbooks are catching on? And even morphing into notebooks? Here's a few. — Netbooks were the big end-user gadget on display at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference conference that ended Friday.
ABCNEWS:
Firefox on Your Cell Phone — Can Fennec, Mozilla's New Mobile Browser, Compete? — In addition, Mozilla designers have incorporated what they call the Awesome Bar—the smart address bar from the desktop version of Firefox that guesses which page a user wants when she types a letter or two …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Digg Dudes' Web Studio Revision3: Layoffs Last Month, But Ad Sales Are Up — Last month, Web video studio/distributor Revision3 said the plummeting economy had caused it to cut staff and stop making and distributing some of its shows. Today, the company has a different message it wants to get out: Things are great!
InfoWorld:
Microsoft eyes Visual Studio advancements — Microsoft's Visual Studio software development system is getting a makeover. — With the planned Visual Studio 2010 software development environment, Microsoft intends to offer a new editor based on the company's Windows Presentation Foundation technology …
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Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Agency.com Sues Rival Over Clients — Agency.com LLC sued rival digital-ad firm iCrossing Inc., alleging that it poached several of its top executives and clients. — Agency.com, a unit of Omnicom Group, filed suit in state court in Dallas on Thursday, alleging breach of contract …
James Randerson / Guardian:
MP3 headphones can deactivate pacemakers, study shows — Magnetic interference from iPod headphones could pose a risk to patients with surgically implanted heart monitoring devices, according to a study involving 60 pacemaker and defibrillator patients. — Interference from MP3 player headphones …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Trouble Returns to the Land of Telecom — The credit crunch and the slowing economy is beginning to impact everyone from mobile phone makers to phone companies. The economic woes are now spreading to other parts of the telecom food chain, taking down everyone from equipment makers to chip companies.
Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Obama's CTO: Watch out for the turf wars — Google CEO Eric Schmidt is out of the running for the chief technology officer (CTO) position that the Obama administration is planning to create. In an interview with CNBC's Jim Cramer, Schmidt said, “I love working at Google and I'm very happy …
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David Carr / New York Times:
How Obama Tapped Into Social Networks' Power — In February 2007, a friend called Marc Andreessen, a founder of Netscape and a board member of Facebook, and asked if he wanted to meet with a man with an idea that sounded preposterous on its face. — Always game for something new …
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Industry Moves: AdMeld Taps Former FIM Exec Barrett As CEO; Completes $7M First Round — Online ad optimizer AdMeld has named former Fox Interactive Media and AOL exec Michael Barrett to the new post of CEO. Barrett left FIM (NYSE: NWS) amid an executive shake-up last April.
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