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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Jerry Yang's Entire Memo to His Employees on Stepping Down as CEO — BoomTown has obtained the entire memo from Jerry Yang to his employees at Yahoo about his plans to step down as Yahoo CEO. — Yang, a truly nice man-which has been a plus and a minus for him-and an Internet visionary for sure …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo's Jerry Yang to Step Down, as a Search for New CEO Commences — Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang will step down from his job as CEO as soon as the board finds a replacement for him, in what sources close to the situation call a joint decision by him and the company's directors.
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New York Times:
Jerry Yang, Yahoo Chief, Steps Down — SAN FRANCISCO — Jerry Yang, who, as chief executive of Yahoo, resisted a takeover bid from Microsoft only to later ask that merger talks resume, said he was stepping down. — In a memorandum sent to the company's staff Monday evening, Mr. Yang, 40 …
Werner Vogels / All Things Distributed:
Expanding the Cloud: Amazon CloudFront — Today marks the launch of Amazon CloudFront, the new Amazon Web Service for content delivery. It integrates seamlessly with Amazon S3 to provide low-latency distribution of content with high data transfer speeds through a world-wide network of edge locations.
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Dave Burke / Google Mobile Blog:
Google Mobile App for iPhone now with Voice Search and My Location — The new Google Mobile App for iPhone makes it possible for you to do a Google web search using only your voice. Just hold the phone to your ear, wait for the beep, and say what you're looking for. That's it. Just talk.
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Nick Farrell / Inquirer:
Help! Iphone snapped my husband's genitals — Apple says it is a software glitch — THE FRUIT THEMED Iphone apparently has a glitch that will photograph your genitals, attach it to an email and place it in your sent folder. — We found the glitch reported in an Apple forum and penned by a woman called Susan.
Fred Wilson / Union Square Ventures:
Boxee — One of the big “aha moments” for me in the past couple years came when I hooked up a Mac Mini to a large display in our family room in the spring of 2007. Slowly but surely, our family started using the Mac Mini instead of the cable set-top box and the DVD player.
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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Why Apple Won't Allow Adobe Flash on iPhone — Don't hold your breath waiting for the iPhone to support Adobe's Flash software: Apple's terms-of-service agreement prohibits it. — Although Adobe says it is working on a version of its popular Flash player for the iPhone …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
It's Official. Facebook Is Running A Protection Racket On App Developers — Earlier today Facebook released details on its new Verified App Program for third party developers. — Basically, application developers (there are 48,000 applications on Facebook today) can apply to become a Verified App.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Facebook Rolls Out Verified App Program, Plus One Hell Of A Revenue …
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Carlo Longino / Techdirt:
Blu-ray Working Great, For Pirates — Blu-ray “won” the next-generation DVD standards battle, but that victory has, thus far, been pretty hollow, as consumers haven't wholeheartedly embraced the new format (and the new DVD players they need to take advantage of it).
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:Chinese pirates crack Blu-ray DRM, sell pirated HD discs
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Business Wire:
HP Announces Preliminary Fourth Quarter Results; Provides 2009 Outlook — PALO ALTO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—HP (NYSE:HPQ - News) today announced preliminary results for the fourth fiscal quarter 2008 with revenue of $33.6 billion, a year-over-year increase of 19% or 16% when adjusted for the effects of currency.
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:HP to Workforce: Seriously, There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Netflix Now Streams Movies To The Xbox 360 — Adding to the options of streaming movies to your PC, Mac, or TiVo, Netflix now streams 12,000 movies to the Xbox360. That includes 300 HD movies. — Xbox watchers have been waiting for this since last July.
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Edible Apple:
Old school Steve Jobs flicks off IBM — Given the recent litigation involving I.B.M. and new Apple-hire Mark Papermaster, I wouldn't be surprised if Jobs still feels the same way about Big Blue. — This photo was taken in mid-Manhattan sometime in the early 80's. And check it out, no black turtleneck!
Benjamin J. Romano / Microsoft Pri0:
Vista Capable: E-mails tell story of tense Monday at Microsoft — There are several interesting narratives to be found in the 252 pages of e-mail released last night in the Windows Vista Capable class action lawsuit unfolding in Seattle. Microsoft is accused of deceiving consumers …
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AppleInsider:
Apple now taking orders for 24-inch LED Cinema Display — Following a month-long wait, Apple on Tuesday finally began taking orders for its new 24-inch LED-backlit Cinema Display through its online store, saying shipments will begin sometime later this month.
Paco Galanes / The Official Google Blog:
LIFE Photo Archive available on Google Image Search — The Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination; The Mansell Collection from London; Dahlstrom glass plates of New York and environs from the 1880s; and the entire works left to the collection from LIFE photographers Alfred Eisenstaedt, Gjon Mili, and Nina Leen.
Kelly Hodgkins / Boy Genius Report:
LG Incite now available from AT&T — Sweet - it looks like our leaked AT&T Holiday lineup was spot on, with every phone on the list now available from AT&T. The last phone on the list to make its debut, the LG Incite, went live on AT&T's website early this morning.
