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Avner Ronen / boxee blog:
new version + hulu update — we started boxee because there was an opportunity in the media center space for a product/company who put the user first, while respecting the rights of content owners. over the past year and a half we've listened to users, content owners, investors, working to create that platform.
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Boxee and Hulu can't reach an agreement, so Boxee creates a workaround (and launches an app store) — When Boxee was forced to pull Hulu support a few weeks ago, users were outraged. And rightfully so. It's not like Boxee, a software media center startup, was blocking the advertisements Hulu was showing …
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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Snow Leopard goes 64 Bit, to be released on June 8th with Stevo? — World of Apple is publishing (naughty, naughty) Apple's Snow Leopard release notes, below, which include a new Quicktime Player UI, a new Cocoa Desktop, Info Window and Contextual Menus and of course the new Safari 4 Web Browser.
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:Two possible dates for Apple's WWDC 2009 emerge
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Aaron Greenspan / The Huffington Post:
Why I Sued Google (and Won) — Like most Americans, I use Google's search engine several times a day without so much as a second thought. It was only in 2007 that my company's relationship with Google, Inc. temporarily escalated to that of a full-fledged customer, when Think Computer …
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Engineering Windows 7:
Beta to RC Changes - Turning Windows Features On or Off — The theme of “choice and control” has been applied in many aspects of how we have designed Windows 7. We've certainly received lots of positive feedback about the theme and about the choices we've made in the design …
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CNET News:
Is Craigslist the world's biggest bordello? — Catherine is a 35-year-old sex worker in San Francisco who relies on Craigslist to reduce the physical risks often faced by a woman in her line of work. — “Craigslist is important to helping us avoid violence,” says the woman, who is originally from Europe.
Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Apple Gets Crushed, For No Good Reason — When it comes to Apple [AAPL Loading... () ], help me understand something: JP Morgan PC analyst Mark Moskowitz cuts his outlook for iPhone and Mac shipments microscopically, and it's good for a 5 percent drubbing of Apple shares.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:Apple: J.P. Morgan Cuts Ests; WSJ Sees App Store Threat
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Palm investor: Pre will trump iPhone — Palm investor Roger McNamee is talking smack and arguing that Apple iPhone users will jump ship to the to-be-launched Pre. — According to Bloomberg, McNamee said: … And. … That's some heady talk from an investor in a company that needs to ship the Pre on time to survive.
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Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
The Myth of the Darknets — Ars Technica published an intriguing piece by Nate Anderson today predicting that file-sharing programs like the new version of Lime Wire will lead to users just swapping files among friends. These private sharing networks are oftentimes called darknets …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Marissa Mayer On Charlie Rose: The Future Of Google, Future Of Search — Charlie Rose, who's been focusing lately on Silicon Valley personalities, interviewed Google Vice President Marissa Mayer last night. In a long and broad ranging discussion, Marissa talks about the product development cycle …
Richard Waters / blogs.ft.com:
How many computers does the world need? — One view of the future holds that the world will end up with just a handful of massive distributed computers, under the control of companies like Google. — If so, then we could be getting there faster than you think.
Kris Graft / Edge Online:
GameStop: “Zero Chance” for Amazon Trade-In Success — “I give the probability of this working at zero,” DeMatteo told Edge in a Thursday phone interview. — Amazon this week introduced a program in which consumers can ship, for free, games in good condition and receive an Amazon gift card …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Netvibes Appears to Be Dying — Popular start-page service Netvibes may be in its final days as a viable product. The service has been suffering frequent, extended downtime, hasn't been fully functioning even when up and can't possibly be making as much money as its backers hoped it would.
Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
USocial CEO: 'We're gaming Digg' — USocial is gaming popular social bookmarking sites, including Digg. Credit: uSocial — Among Digg's and StumbleUpon's tens of millions of users, the social bookmarking sites have successfully dealt with numerous troublemakers who try to “game” the voting systems.
Owen Thomas / Gawker:
Another Exec Unfriends Facebook — Facebook is fun to use. But it's not a fun place to work — as confirmed by the defection of Net Jacobsson, a key executive in Facebook's effort to cash in on your life online. — In 2007, Facebook was the hot startup where everyone wanted to work …
Yukari Iwatani Kane / Wall Street Journal:
Breaking Apple's Grip on the iPhone — Firms Launch Sites Selling Unauthorized Software for Device, Posing Challenge to Official Online Store — Apple Inc. faces a growing threat to its iPhone business, as renegade stores spring up online to sell unauthorized software for the device.
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I4U News, CNET News, Neowin.net, iLounge, The Register, 9 to 5 Mac, paidContent.org, Silicon Alley Insider, Gizmodo, The iPhone Blog, MobileCrunch, Engadget Mobile, TechSpot, Boy Genius Report, Geeky-Gadgets and Cult of Mac, Thanks:atul
Ars Technica:
Dialogue: the future of online obscenity and social networks — Is it time to revisit and tweak a critical portion of the Communications Decency Act (CDA)? Adam Thierer, Director of the Progress and Freedom Foundation's Center for Digital Media Freedom, and John Palfrey …
Business Wire:
Circuit City Stores Closing Permanently on March 8 — Record Shopper Turnouts Result in Early Closure for Chain — WOODLAND HILLS, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Liquidators managing the going-out-of-business sales at Circuit City stores nationwide announced today that all stores will close permanently …
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Want all 25,000 iPhone apps? That will be $71,442.69. — While RIM, Microsoft and Palm ready their mobile app stores for release this year, the one that inspired them all — Apple's App Store — continues to chug along at an impressive pace. The store now features more than 25,000 applications, according to numbers from 148Apps.
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Rory Maher / paidContent.org:
Analyst: Expect More Internet Acquisitions This Year and Next — Given the state of the economy and capital markets, one might think internet dealmakers would lay low for a little while, but not everyone is predicting a dropoff in deals this year and next. JP Morgan analyst Imran Kahn …
David Hornik / VentureBlog:
Fantastic Advice for Angel Investors — I had the good fortune of participating in the first (hopefully of many) AngelConf today. AngleConf was the brainchild of Paul Graham of YCombinator fame (although, you never know, it may well have been the brainchild of Jessica Livingston, so my apologies if that's the case Jessica).
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Searching for the wisdom of the twits — When President Barack Obama was inaugurated, I wrote a post about the new presidential website titled, “WhiteHouse.gov takes a page from Twitter's playbook.” At the time, I thought the headline was a joke — because, ha ha, no one would expect nuanced …
Gord Hotchkiss / Search Engine Land:
Is Google Rewiring Our Brains? — Some time ago, I wrote an article called “Are Our Brains Becoming Googlized?” It became my most read Search Engine Land post ever. Apparently I wasn't the only one fascinated by the prospect of wholesale rewiring of our brains through exposure to technology.
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