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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Warner Music Group Disappearing From YouTube: Both Sides Take Credit — Warner Music Group's videos are disappearing from YouTube. The move to take down the videos started early Saturday morning. It's a result of a breakdown in negotiations between Google and the music label over a licensing deal, which was set to expire soon.
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HipMojo.com, Silicon Alley Insider, CNET News, Neowin.net, TECH.BLORGE.com, Lucas Gonze' blog, hypebot and digg.com
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Microsoft Extends XP Availability For Distributors — Microsoft system builder partners who've been feeling queasy about the impending Jan. 31, 2009, deadline for selling PCs with Windows XP pre-installed can now breathe a bit easier, as Microsoft is giving them a way to obtain XP licenses through distribution after the deadline.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
After Steve Jobs, who runs Apple? — “We are in the early stages of changing roles in Apple's management structure,” Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster wrote last week in the wake of Steve Jobs' decision to hand the Macworld keynote over to senior vice president Phil Schiller — a move Munster characterized as …
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Actual T-Mobile G2 information... maybe — We just got a tip about the next Google Android-powered handset for T-Mobile, yes, the G2. We're running this as a rumor as it's definitely not confirmed, but we'd bet on this turning out to be true as opposed to, well, you know... Here's what our tipster had to say:
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Engadget, PMP Today, IntoMobile, Mobilewhack.com, PhoneReport v2.0 and Cell Phone Signal
Jeremy Liew / Wall Street Journal:
Will the Recession Kill Web 2.0? — The last fast few years have seen resurgence in Internet companies not seen since the bubble years of the late 90s. The growth of these advertising-supported “Web 2.0” companies has propelled online advertising sales to $21 billion from $6 billion between 2002 and 2007.
Reuters:
China blocks Internet access to New York Times — BEIJING (Reuters) - China, widely criticized for its censorship of the media, this week blocked access to The New York Times, the newspaper said on Saturday. — When computer users in cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou tried …
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James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
Touchscreens add nothing to laptop usefulness — It's time to get out my asbestos coveralls because the touchscreen faithful always appear with their flamethrowers when I broach the “touchscreen in laptops” subject. This is a hot topic currently as almost every day we see rumors that …
Adrian Covert / Gizmodo:
Hands On With The Intel Convertible Classmate — After playing with a prototype of Intel's Convertible Classmate, it more or less confirmed what I had suspected: there are some neat ideas at play, but there's a reason why it's aimed at schools. — From the outset, Intel's goal …
Macenstein:
Is this the new Mac mini? — An anonymous tip (the best kind). Thoughts? — Click to embiggen.
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Future iPhones to wield OpenCL acceleration — Imagination Technologies has posted a series of job openings for OpenCL engineers, indicating that the open, general purpose GPU parallelism technology Apple spearheaded for use in Mac OS X Snow Leopard is destined to also play a significant role …
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The iPhone Blog
John Foley / InformationWeek:
Chief Of The Year: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels — Amazon's external-facing CTO is helping to devise a cloud computing architecture with customer requirements built-in. — From an eighth-floor conference room at Amazon.com's headquarters on Beacon Hill, with an expansive view of downtown Seattle to the north …
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Scripting News
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Huffington Post Blasted For Stealing Content — The Huffington Post's news aggregation business drives enormous traffic to the third-party sites its editors link to (including, occasionally, this one). The Huffington Post also often excerpts liberally from third-party sites' stories and uses …
