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Avner Ronen / boxee blog:
the trials and tribulations of innovation — we just found out that Hulu blocked the boxee browser from accessing the Hulu site. this is a disappointing development since their RSS feeds are publicly available, and our browser, while optimized for a great 10 ft video experience …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Hulu Brushes Off Boxee, And Boxee Comes Back For More — Just in case anyone was wondering: Hulu, the Web video service that lets you watch Fox and NBC shows on your computer, really doesn't want you to plug that computer into your TV. — And Boxee, a startup that makes it easy for you to plug …
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Brad Stone / Bits:
Hulu Evades Boxee's Embrace (Again) — Well that was quick. — Content from the video site Hulu no longer works on the latest version of the video-watching software Boxee, which I described earlier today. Hulu, the joint Web venture between NBC and Fox, is clearly not interested …
Don Reisinger / Webware.com:
Kindle is not the best iPhone e-reader — By now, you know you don't need a Kindle 2 to read books electronically. You can use the new Kindle for iPhone app. — But Kindle's not the only way to read books on a iPhone or iPod Touch. There are two other readers well worth checking out:
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Chauncey Dupree / 9 to 5 Mac:Cydia to open jailbroken paid app store
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CNET News, TUAW, PMP Today, MacNN, Mobilewhack.com, Engadget, I4U News, MobileCrunch, The Register and iLounge
Nick / Rough Type:
The coming of the megacomputer — Here's an incredible, and telling, data point. In a talk yesterday, reports the Financial Times' Richard Waters, the head of Microsoft Research, Rick Rashid, said that about 20 percent of all the server computers being sold in the world …
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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.
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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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David Zeiler / Apple a Day:Prediction: Snow Leopard release date is June 8
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The Register, Apple 2.0, MacRumors, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, CrunchGear and Obsessable
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:Two possible dates for Apple's WWDC 2009 emerge
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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 …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Pure Digital (Flip Video) In Acquisition Discussions; Cisco May Be Buying (Updated) — San Francisco based Pure Digital Technologies, the seven year old company behind the Flip Video line of video cameras, is considering a sale of the company, multiple sources have confirmed.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Some Indie Facebook Developers Pulling In Over $700,000 A Month — The mass media may be enamored of the rags-to-riches stories of developers on Apple's App Store, but it isn't the only game in town for indie developers to strike it rich. We've gotten word from SocialMedia …
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:Want all 25,000 iPhone apps? That will be $71,442.69.
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Macworld, PC World, IntoMobile, Gizmodo, AppScout, NEWSFACTOR, mocoNews, paidContent.org, Edible Apple and USA Today
Erica Sadun / Ars Technica:
Apple has no clue what's going on with dev contracts — Apple seems to be caught flat-footed and unprepared for the upcoming deluge of developer renewals for its iPhone program, Ars has learned. Here's what we found regarding the status of both ADC and iTunes Connect renewals.
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Daniel Libit / The Politico:
Hill tries to bypass Storm — There are a lot of storms swirling around Washington these days but only one that's dragging down Democrats and Republicans alike. It's the one made by Research in Motion. — The BlackBerry Storm — the first BlackBerry without a physical keyboard …
Rep. John Conyers / The Huffington Post:
A Reply to Larry Lessig — Congress is not perfect, and I respect Professor Larry Lessig's vigorous effort to change and improve it. Furthermore, as readers of the Huffington Post well know, I am firmly committed to tough oversight and great transparency in government, and I don't mind taking it as well as dishing it out.
Pete Carey / Mercury News:
Silicon Valley unemployment rate jumps to ‘frightening’ 9.4 percent — Silicon Valley's jobless rate leapt more than a full point to a stunning 9.4 percent in January, the biggest jump since at least 1990. — The hair-raising report had Silicon Valley Leadership Group Chief Executive Carl Guardino worried …
The McKinsey Quarterly:
When job seekers invade Facebook — The increasing popularity of online social networking is changing not only the way people manage their careers but social networking itself. — • Soumitra Dutta and Matthew Fraser — This short essay is a Conversation Starter, one in a series of invited opinions on topical issues.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Large Pirate Topsite Raided in Sweden — The raids were carried out two weeks ago but were only announced today. The site, which goes by the name ‘Sunnydale’, was a so-called topsite that hosted pirated movies, software and TV-shows spread out over a dozen servers.
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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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The Register, Joe Duck, Search Engine Watch, Bits, JenSense, p2pnet, the Econsultancy blog, Understanding Google … and Search Engine Land, Thanks:atul
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Changing Nature of Virality: Facebook and Twitter — After Perez Hilton recorded a single-day high of 13.9 million page views on the day after the Oscars, web research firm Hitwise found that the celeb gossip site's top traffic source is Facebook. That's crazy — for nearly as long …
Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Did Kumo.com go live last night? — Kumo.com, the new iteration of Live Search, is supposed to be in “internal tests”, but apparently at least for a time last night it was live. We picked up on a re-tweet of a tweet taken down (btw, why bother? Removing a tweet doesn't remove it from Twitter Search! …
Rik Ferguson / Countermeasures:
Webcam Porn Hijacks Twitter Accounts — It appears that there is a rash of Twitter account hijacking going on this evening. Hundreds of twitter accounts are being compromised and tweets are being posted encouraging users to make the accquaintance of a 23 year old female with a webcam...
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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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Microsoft Watch, TechFlash, Technologizer, Computerworld, Ars Technica, Softpedia News, CrunchGear, Beyond Binary, InformationWeek, Lifehacker, The Toybox, Download Squad, Silicon Alley Insider, Gizmodo, TechSpot, Hardware 2.0, The Register, eWeek, Neowin.net, SuperSite Blog and GottaBeMobile.com
Associated Press:
Stock slump could end up enriching Google workers — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — This week's steep drop in the stock market is yielding a golden opportunity for most Google employees. That's because the Internet search leader plans to reset the price on millions of stock options based …
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Jeff Segal / Telegraph:
Google needs to grow up and pay a dividend — Google looks to be printing money as fast as the US government - it may pile up $21bn (£14.8bn) of cash by next year. — But unlike the Obama administration, chief executive Eric Schmidt says the company has no plans for a spending spree.
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DSLreports:
Craig Moffett: Wireless Industry ‘Collapsing’ - Because hysterically ridiculous growth may slow slightly... Sanford Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett has become an easy quote machine for telecommunications journalists looking for tasty sound bites, his name popping up about fifty times a week across various outlets.
Bloomberg:
Universal Music Wins Trial Over Eminem Royalties — Universal Music Group, a Vivendi unit, won a jury verdict over royalties from Apple Inc. iTunes downloads and mobile-phone ringtones in a lawsuit brought by the Detroit producers who helped launch rapper Eminem's career.
Erik Larkin / PC World:
Conficker Worm Strikes Back With New Variant — The Conficker/Downadup worm managed to slither onto millions of PCs worldwide at its height, but after it initially infected a computer it only really acted to spread itself, and didn't cause further harm. Until now.
