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7:05 AM ET, January 22, 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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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Apple Still Oblivious to Netbook Opportunity  —  During its quarterly earnings call Wednesday, Apple reinforced its skepticism in netbooks, saying their low-powered CPUs, cramped keyboards and small displays are not enough to satisfy customers.  —  “We've got some ideas …
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.
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:   Apple on its cash, netbooks, Apple TV, iPhone nano and the Palm Pre
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Obama Staff Arrives to White House Stuck in Dark Ages of Technology  —  If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the rotary-dial past.  —  Two years after launching the most technologically savvy presidential campaign …
Discussion: TechFlash and Geek News Central
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. …
David Jolly / New York Times:
Sony Expects $3 Billion Loss  —  Sony, the Japanese electronics company, said Thursday that it would post a record annual operating loss of nearly $3 billion because of the rapid deterioration of the global economy and it announced a major restructuring that will include layoffs and factory closings.
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
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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.
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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Phil Wolff / Skype Journal:
2008q3: Skype activity spikes, revenue growth slows
Discussion: GigaOM, WebProNews and 24/7 Wall St.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
eBay Shrs Sink On Disappointing Q1 Outlook
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: YouTube Will Soon Let Big Content Partners Bring Their Own Ads  —  Big media companies have always had a love-hate relationship with YouTube.  They don't know whether to sue YouTube for abetting copyright infringement or get in bed with it because it is the biggest Web video game in town.
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.
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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.
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Smashing Magazine:
More Web Design Trends For 2009  —  Last week we presented 10 Web Design Trends For 2009, our review of the most promising developments and techniques in web design that may become big in 2009.  In the first part we covered embossing letters ("letterpress"), rich user interfaces, PNG transparency …
Stephanie Condon / CNET News:
Patent office rejects subdomain patent claims  —  Technology firms are often hampered by patent disputes, but the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office called into question last week a patent that had the potential to disrupt the habits of millions of Internet users.
Stephen Hutcheon / Sydney Morning Herald:
Watch out Wikipedia, here comes Britannica 2.0  —  Encyclopedia Britannica president Jorge Cauz.  Inset: Wikipedia's cofounder Jimmy Wales.  —  In a move to take on Wikipedia, the Encyclopedia Britannica is inviting the hoi polloi to edit, enhance and contribute to its online version.
Discussion: Times of London
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.
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft's internal org chart down amid layoff chatter  —  With rumors of layoffs swirling, some Microsoft workers were dismayed on Wednesday to discover that the company's online internal organizational chart tool is scheduled to be down until Friday.  —  According to several online postings …
Paul Graham / Hacker News:
California Year-Round  —  As of this summer, Y Combinator is going to be in Silicon Valley year round instead of alternating between the Valley and Cambridge.  —  The reason has nothing to do with startups: it's because Jessica Livingston and I (who are married despite our different last names) …
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Why Apple might be better off without Steve  —  I know there are probably already nasty emails on their way to my inbox based solely on the headline of this post.  Apple better off without Steve?  How is that possible?  It's difficult to even think about the iconic consumer electronics company …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Eric Schmidt Talks Google, Apple, Energy, Obama With Jim Cramer  —  Google CEO Eric Schmidt was on Jim Cramer's Mad Money this evening to talk about a wide range of issues, from Obama to Steve Jobs.  —  On Google killing its print ads business: “That particular product didn't work particularly well and we're trying other solutions.
 
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Discussion: PC World, Network World and Forbes
Pat Azzarello / Windows System Deployment:
Windows 7 Deployment Changes
Seagate Technology:
Seagate Technology Reports Fiscal Second Quarter 2009 Preliminary Results
Between the Lines:
IBM job cuts underway
Evelyn Nussenbaum / Fortune Small Business:
Making millions from YouTube ads
Discussion: BlogStorm
Ben Worthen / Digits:
Tech Workers Get a Raise
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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