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9:30 PM ET, January 21, 2009

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Apple:
Apple Reports First Quarter Results  —  Best Quarterly Revenue and Earnings in Apple History  —  iPod Sales Set New Record  —  Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 first quarter ended December 27, 2008.  The Company posted record revenue of $10.17 billion …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Rocks Christmas, Guidance Strong, iPhone Weak (AAPL)  —  Apple (AAPL) sales and profits beat expectations on huge iPod sales, but iPhone sales came in weak.  Apple shares are up 8.6% to $89.99 in after-hours trading.  —  On Apple's conference call, executives did not offer an update on CEO Steve Jobs' health.
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Reports Record $1.61 Billion Profit for Q1 2009  —  Apple today announced financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2009.  Apple posted record revenue of $10.17 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.61 billion, or $1.78 per diluted share, compared to revenue of $9.6 billion …
Matt Rosoff / Digital Noise:
Is the iPod Touch cannibalizing iPhone sales?
Discussion: CNET News and TUAW
Business Wire:
eBay Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 Results  —  SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY - News) today reported financial results for its fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2008.  The ecommerce company posted fourth quarter revenue of $2.04 billion …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
eBay Shrs Sink On Disappointing Q1 Outlook  —  eBay (EBAY) shares are trading lower this afternoon after the company provided disappointing guidance for the March quarter.  —  For Q4, the company posted revenue of $2.04 billion, a bit below the Street consensus at $2.12 billion …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Google Tries Squeezing More Money Out of YouTube  —  Google's two-pronged “get serious” strategy-cut costs while finding new places to earn pennies here and there-continues.  The latest effort: an extension of the affiliate sales program it introduced to YouTube last fall.
Discussion: CNET News and paidContent.org
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YouTube Blog:
Watch it on YouTube, then Click-to-Buy
Discussion: TechCrunch
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Financial Times:
Intel to close its last Silicon Valley plant
Discussion: The Register
Rick Aristotle Munarriz / Motley Fool:
5 Reasons to Worry About Google  —  Save us, Google (Nasdaq: GOOG)!  —  The search-engine bellwether is now two days away from posting its fourth-quarter results.  In the past, this would be a novel time for shareholders to start snickering.  Big G would trounce Wall Street expectations …
Discussion: PC World and Network World
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Quentin Hardy / Forbes:   Google As Economic Barometer
Gizmodo:
Apple Hints At Palm Pre Legal Battle  —  Here's what Apple no. 2 Tim Cook just said about iPhone competition: “We like competition as long as they don't off our IP.  And we're going to go after anybody that does.”  Analyst asks back if he's talking about Palm, since the Pre has some very iPhoney elements, like multitouch.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Zimbra Founder Satish Dharmaraj to Depart Yahoo  —  Satish Dharmaraj-the founder of open-source email start-up Zimbra, which has been at the heart of significant new changes to Yahoo's key communications services-will be leaving the company.  —  The move, to be announced internally later today …
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Android G2 Photos: Thinner and No Keyboard  —  Here they are: Alleged spy photos of the second generation Android cellphone, the thinner, shinier, and totally lickable T-Mobile G2 made by HTC.  It has no keyboard and its back looks oh-so-soap-bar-smooth:  —  As you can see, it has a 3.2 megapixel camera.
Jesse Stay / The SocialToo Blog:
Twitter Limits Potential App Growth - How This Hurts Our Users … Today I received some disturbing news on the Twitter Developers mailing list.  In a post on the list, Alex Payne, the API Lead for Twitter, informed developers they would be placing new limits on the API which will take place at the end of this week.
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and Webware.com
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Giz Explains: Why the Windows 7 Taskbar Beats Mac OS X's Dock  —  Yeah, I said it.  The Windows 7 taskbar is the most important Windows UI change since Windows 95, and it will dramatically change the way you use Windows.  And it's better than the Mac's Dock.
Discussion: The Toybox
Marc Ambinder:
Obama Will Get His Blackberry  —  President Barack Obama is going to get his blackberry.  —  On Monday, a government agency that the Obama administration — but that is probably the National Security Agency — added to a standard blackberry a super-encryption package. …
Michael Bloomberg / The Official Google Blog:
Explore New York City with Google — from your home, phone, and in person  —  [From time to time we invite guests to blog about initiatives of interest, and are very pleased to have Mayor Bloomberg join us here.  - Ed.]  —  This is New York City: the ultimate destination and home to world-class hotels …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple quietly updates $999 white MacBook with unibody specs  —  Hmmm, what's this?  Did Apple just update its lowly, $999 white plastic polycarbonate MacBook to more closely align with its new unibody MacBooks?  Why yes, yes it has... sometime in the last 3 days according to Google's cache.
wmpoweruser.com:
More Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshots  —  These screenshots has just popped up in a forum Darkforcesteam.com of Windows Mobile 6.5 in action.  —  It shows the new today screen and new lock screen.  The build number at 5.2.21140 is a few thousand builds beyond that of the HTC Touch HD which has 5.2.20757.
Discussion: GPS Obsessed
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Pat Azzarello / Windows System Deployment:
Windows 7 Deployment Changes  —  Welcome back to the Windows system Deployment blog!  —  With the public availability of Windows 7 Beta on January 9, I thought it might be a good idea to talk a bit about the changes to deployment in Windows 7, as well as some of the reasons behind the changes.
Emil Protalinski / One Microsoft Way:
Is Microsoft working on a software center for Windows?  —  Have you ever wondered why Microsoft renamed the Add/Remove Programs (XP and earlier) control panel applet to Programs and Features (Vista onwards)?  It's possible that Microsoft is considering its own version of something comparable to Linux package management systems.
Discussion: Neowin.net
Sarah Lacy / Business Week:
Corporate America, Swing Your Ax Wisely  —  Big companies could lose valuable employees to rival startups if they abandon their traditional lure: job security  —  In December, IAC Interactive (IACI) CEO Barry Diller said the unthinkable—at least for a corporate executive amid a recession.
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
New Rackable Server Targets Cloud Economics  —  A diagram of a Rackable MicroSlice server tray.  —  Can racks filled with micro-servers provide the benefits of virtualization at a lower price point?  Rackable Systems (RACK) today disclosed a new server architecture that can pack up to 264 low-power …
Discussion: The Register
Reuters:
Microsoft expected to cut jobs as profit weakens  —  NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is expected to post a quarterly profit that misses its own target and announce thousands of job cuts this week as the global economic slump hurts even the technology industry's biggest players.
Apple:
About the security content of QuickTime 7.6  —  This document describes the security content of QuickTime 7.6, which can be downloaded and installed via Software Update preferences, or from Apple Downloads.  —  For the protection of our customers, Apple does not disclose, discuss …
Ben Worthen / Digits:
Tech Workers Get a Raise  —  Businesses may be cutting the amount they spend on technology, but tech workers got a raise in 2008.  —  Tracy O via Flickr  —  The average information-technology pro made $78,035 last year, a 4.6% increase from 2007, according to tech job site Dice.com, which surveyed close to 20,000 of its visitors.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
OneSeason Raises $3.5 Million For Its Sports Stock Market  —  OneSeason, the stock market for sports that lets users invest real money into their favorite athletes, has closed a $3.5 million Series A funding round led by Charles River Ventures.  To coincide with the funding …
Discussion: VentureBeat
Santa Rosa Press-Democrat:
PANDORA ADS INVASIVE COMMERCIALS  —  Change has come to Pandora.com, the popular free music site that lets listeners craft radio stations to fit their tastes.  —  The site added 15-second commercial breaks to its streaming music service Tuesday as it continues to experiment with new ways to generate revenue.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Ten years of futility: COPA finally, truly dead  —  COPA.  1998-2008.  Requiescat in Pace.  —  The Child Online Protection Act, now a decade old, appears to be permanently, completely, and otherwise absolutely dead now that the Supreme Court has rejected Bush Administration pleas to consider reviving the law one more time.
 
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Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Omniture's Outage Woes
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David Chartier / Infinite Loop:
Apple updates iTunes SD rentals with nearly 400 titles
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Mathew Honan / Wired News:
I Am Here: One Man's Experiment With the Location-Aware Lifestyle
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Windows PC users face dwindling retail options
Discussion: Computerworld
David Hornik / VentureBlog:
Innovation Doesn't Take a Vacation in an Economic Downturn
Erin Biba / Wired News:
Inside the GPS Revolution: 10 Applications That Make the Most of Location
Michael Pinto / Fanboy.com:
Social Media “Experts” are the Cancer of Twitter (and Must Be Stopped)
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