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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Boxee, Used to View Web on TV, Generates Buzz — Piping Internet video into a television seems as if it should be simple — after all, a screen is a screen. But consumer electronics and media companies have been moving toward that combination with painstaking caution …
Andrew Nusca / The Toybox:
Where to watch Obama's presidential inauguration online — Washington is about to throw President-elect Barack Obama a $160 million party on Tuesday, January 20 at 11:30 ET, so the least you should do is show up! — But for those of us who don't want to bear the incredibly low temperatures …
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Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Tricky Windows Worm Wallops Millions — A sneaky computer worm that uses a virtual Swiss army knife of attack techniques has infected millions of Microsoft Windows PCs, and appears to be spreading at a fairly rapid pace, security experts warn. — Also, while infected PCs could be used …
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:‘Amazing’ worm attack infects 9 million PCs
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Matt / Signal vs. Noise:
Hulu CEO: “We screwed up royally” — Great apology note from Hulu's CEO [via DF]: … Mistakes happen. It's how you handle them that really matters.
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Bloomberg:
Apple's Jobs Said to Be Considering Liver Transplant — Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs is considering a liver transplant as a result of complications after treatment for pancreatic cancer in 2004, according to people who are monitoring his illness.
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Intel's Barrett on Paranoia, the Core Craze and the End of Gigahertz — At first, Intel chairman Craig Barrett struck me as a testy old dude. — This would be fair, considering his company was about to announce a sudden 90% plunge in profits. So it's understandable that …
Ben Jones / TorrentFreak:
RIAA Scared of Court Case Webcast — RIAA court cases are few and far between. The cost of attorneys usually makes hiring one a costly alternative in comparison to the settlement money that they ask from alleged infringers. Thus far, only one case has actually gone to trial …
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Lessig Blog:
Really great news from YouTube — Notice an important new feature in the world of YouTube — a “Click to download” link. YouTube is rolling this out slowly, initially with content that aspires to be consistent with principles of open government. I'm told it will be offered more generally.
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Gina Trapani / Lifehacker:
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish — Today is my last day as site lead at Lifehacker, so I'm taking off my distanced reporter hat to get all mushy, personal, and behind-the-scenes on you. Come in and grab a seat. — (Note: This posts breaks two of our biggest editorial edicts …
Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
Feel Better, Steve — Publishing rumors about Steve Jobs' health is one of the most distasteful things I've done in a long time. Let me just get this off my chest. — Do not read on if you have a problem with foul language. — Professionally, I think we did what we were supposed to do …
Alana Semuels / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Cisco's unfortunate airplane commercial during coverage of flight 1549 — Let's say you're a big-name advertiser, and one of your TV commercials mocks airplanes, flying and water landings. You probably wouldn't want to run that ad during CNN's coverage of US Airways Flight 1549, which crash-landed Thursday in the Hudson River, right?
Brian “Krow” Aker's Idle Thoughts:
Netscape Enterprise Server, Now Open Source — Last year when Sun acquired MySQL I did a tour of a few of the campuses meeting different engineers to see what they did with Sun. At some point last year I met up with a group in Menlo Park who had been working on a webserver at Sun.
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Road to Mac OS X Snow Leopard: 64-bit security — In addition to the benefits detailed in previous articles in this series, the move to 64-bits in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will enhance Apple's efforts to secure its operating system. — Over the last eight years, Mac OS X has enjoyed …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ustream May Be First To Broadcast Video From Unhacked iPhone — Ustream is anticipating Apple's approval of the first non-jailbroken iPhone application that will let users record and broadcast live video from the device. Last month MobileCrunch obtained a picture of the application running on a test phone.
Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
Obama plans to keep his BlackBerry — President-elect did not explain how he would overcome legal and security concerns, however — Computerworld) President-elect Barack Obama told CNN today he planned to “hang onto” his beloved BlackBerry, but did not explain how he would overcome legal and security concerns.
