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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 …
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 …
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. …
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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.
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Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Media Firms Test Online-Video Ad Formats — Focus Groups Will Pick Two Designs for Further Study as Tight Marketing Budgets Intensify Need to Set Standards — The recession is making for some strange ad fellows. Media companies including Microsoft, Yahoo, CBS's CBS Interactive and Hulu.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.
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.
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Phil Wolff / Skype Journal:
2008q3: Skype activity spikes, revenue growth slows — eBay Inc. (Public, NASDAQ:EBAY) reported Skype's financials today. eBay CEO Donohoe was pleased with Skype's management and Skype's performance but still didn't see synergies with the rest of the eBay portfolio.
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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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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 …
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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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Washington Post launches database of political who's whos — The Washington Post today is launching Who Runs Gov, a site primarily made up of a database of personalities in the United States government. If you're looking for info on your state's senator or representative …
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 …
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.
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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.
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) …
KFC / The physics arXiv blog:
How Google's PageRank predicts Nobel Prize winners — Ranking scientists by their citations-the number of times they are mentioned in other scientists' papers- is a miserable business. Everybody can point to ways in which this system is flawed: — not all citations are equal.
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