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8:55 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 …
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:   Apple on its cash, netbooks, Apple TV, iPhone nano and the Palm Pre
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Rocks Christmas, Guidance Strong, iPhone Weak (AAPL)
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. …
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.
Discussion: Screenwerk and Beet.TV
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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.
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.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
YAHOO=Yet Another Hiring Over and Out (Hadley Heads Back to Microsoft)  —  One of Yahoo's top marketing execs, Eric Hadley, who came to the company with a lot of acclaim in only November, is set to leave for a new job in working in branding and global marketing for Microsoft's MSN online service, several sources said.
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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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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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 …
Discussion: VentureBeat and Collaboration 2.0
David Jolly / New York Times:
Sony Expects $3 Billion Loss for the Year  —  Sony, the Japanese electronics company, said Thursday that it expected to post a record annual operating loss of nearly $3 billion because of the rapid deterioration of the global economy.  It also announced a major restructuring that will include layoffs and factory closings.
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Publisher Rethinks the Daily: It's Free and Printed and Has Blogs All Over  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Amid the din of naysayers who insist that newspapers are on the verge of death, a new company wants to start dozens of new ones — with a twist.  —  The Printed Blog, a Chicago start-up …
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 …
Violet Blue / San Francisco Chronicle:
A Twitter Sex Guide  —  Violet Blue: A Twitter Sex Guide  —  Do you Tweet during sex?  You might moan or squeal, but even if you've never heard of the free, minimalist social networking service that allows users to write, send and post to the Internet short messages via devices ranging from phones to laptops via SMS (text).
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) …
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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CBC News:
NFB makes films free online  —  $1.3M project to digitize the best of its films  —  The National Film Board of Canada has launched a new project to allow Canadians to see its films through online streaming.  —  Oscar winners such as 1952's Neighbours, 1977's I'll Find a Way and 2004's Ryan …
Discussion: p2pnet
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Palm Pre Android port already in progress  —  The Palm Pre won't be out for several months yet, but that isn't stopping a few clever hackers from working out how to boot Android onto the pebble-shaped slider.  As it turns out, efforts to port Android to the OMAP 3 processor used in the Pre …
Kaspersky.com:
Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management systems, has detected a new malicious program capable of controlling a user's mobile phone account.  —  Last week, Kaspersky Lab experts detected a new malicious program for Symbian that targets customers of an Indonesian mobile phone operator.
 
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Emil Protalinski / One Microsoft Way:
Is Microsoft working on a software center for Windows?
Discussion: Neowin.net
Gizmodo:
Apple Hints At Palm Pre Legal Battle
Rick Aristotle Munarriz / Motley Fool:
5 Reasons to Worry About Google
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
Evelyn Nussenbaum / Fortune Small Business:
Making millions from YouTube ads
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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

Evan Drellich / New York Times:
The MLB is planning national packages for streaming companies to bid on in 2028, when its national TV deals with ESPN, Fox, and Turner expire

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