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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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Silicon Alley Insider, CNET News, TECH.BLORGE.com, Neowin.net, Lucas Gonze' blog, hypebot and paidContent.org
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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 …
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.
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 …
Nick Farrell / Inquirer:
Judge protects Wackypedia hackers — State employees free to post political propaganda — IN A LANDMARK CASE, a judge has ruled that it is okay for public servants to post political statements on Wackypedia because identifying them would cause security problems for the government.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg's Sorry Revenue Stream, And Rumors Of An Experimental Ad Product — So Business Week gets their hands on Digg's financials and reports that the company had 2007 revenues of $4.8 million and losses of $2.8 million. The first three quarters of 2008 Digg had revenues of $6.4 million and losses of $4 million.
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
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 …
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
Markus / The Paradigm Shift:
2008 was a good year, now #13 in the US. … I had a good year this year, taking over the top spots for dating in both the US and the UK. In the US I managed to break into the top 10 sites in terms of pageviews if you combine Yahoo and googles properties otherwise I'm between 12 and 13 on any given day according to hitwise.
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Mashable!
