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2:25 PM ET, April 13, 2009

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PC World:
Google Disables Uploads, Comments on YouTube Korea  —  Google has disabled user uploads and comments on the Korean version of its YouTube video portal in reaction to a new law that requires the real name of a contributor be listed along each contribution they make.
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Deconstructing Apple's Tiny iPod Shuffle  —  A teardown by researchers shows the device's components cost a mere 28% of its retail price—a fat profit margin.  Biggest supplier: Samsung  —  When the first iPod graced store shelves almost eight years ago, it could pack about 1,000 songs …
Arn / MacRumors:
All-Time Top iPhone App Sales Figures and Estimates  —  As part of Apple's one billion app countdown for their iTunes App Store, they have also compiled a list of the all-time top 20 apps [App Store] for both Paid and Free apps.  —  Perhaps most interesting is what the potential market for a very successful paid iPhone app might be.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
How Apple Put Everyone In an App State of Mind
Dan Primack / PE Hub Blog:
Q1 VC Fundraising: Down & Up  —  Forty U.S.-based venture capital firms raised just $4.3 billion in the first quarter of 2009, according to data released this morning by Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association.  The downside is that this represents the lowest number of funds to raise capital since Q3 2003.
Discussion: GigaOM and TechFlash
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Spencer Ante / Tech Beat:
New Venture Capital Investment Nearly Comes to a Halt
Discussion: HipMojo.com, TechCrunch and DealZone
Owen Thomas / Valleywag - Gawker:
Why It Makes Sense That a Hacker's Behind Amazon's Big Gay Outrage  —  Twitter had a big tizzy yesterday over Amazon.com's supposed censorship of gay and lesbian titles, did you hear?  Just one problem: A well-known hacker has come forward and claimed the whole thing was his prank.
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Andrew LaVallee / Digits:
Blogs and Twitter Coin “AmazonFail”
Discussion: Epicenter and Publishers Weekly, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Peter Burrows / BusinessWeek:
A One-Time Raging Bull on Apple Rages Again.  —  Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu is out with a report this morning, advising investors that Apple's stock could rise from its current $119 to $152.  That would be a 26% gain in the shares, which have already risen 45% in recent weeks despite concerns …
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Buy.com offering Apple official unlocked iPhones for $799  —  Buy.com is offering an official Apple Unlocked iPhones now for $799.  This is an official Apple iPhone which isn't jailbroken.  You can do iTunes updates and not have to worry about locking your iPhone up again.  Apple warranty also applies.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Let's Go Crazy: New Prince iPod Costs $150 Per Song  —  The newest special edition iPod to hit the market comes from Prince.  It is purple, it is produced in a limited batch of 950, and it will cost you $2,100.  —  But at least it contains every Prince song ever recorded, right?  Nope.
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Top Facebook Applications See 25 Percent Drop In Traffic Since Redesign  —  If you thought the last redesign spelled the death of the Facebook platform, you ain't seen nothing yet!  Last July Facebook released their new design and within a matter of months, widget applications had become a thing of the past.
Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
Windows 7: 83% Of Businesses Won't Deploy Next Year  —  New data shows that the vast majority of corporate IT departments won't touch Microsoft's next OS until at least 2011.  —  Microsoft may need to keep its Windows XP operating system around a little longer—at least for its deep-pocketed corporate customers.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Don't Buy A Smartphone Until June!  —  In the market for a smartphone?  Unless you desperately need one today, it's a smart idea to wait — at least until early June.  Apple, Palm, and other companies are readying new phones for summer launches.  And there's a good chance you'll want to try out one or more of them.
Mark Walsh / MediaPost:
What iPhone Apps Are Used Most?  Hint: Not Games  —  When it comes to the type of applications iPhone owners use most, ones for checking the weather trump games, music, news and everything else.  —  According to an upcoming report on smartphone usage by online market research firm Compete …
Discussion: TechCrunch and ReadWriteWeb
Kim Poh Liaw / SlashPhone:
Rumor: Apple Expect 4 Million New iPhones Shipment by end Q2  —  Together with the rumors on the new iPhone in the past few months, here is yet another rumor from chinatimes according to its source from iPhone component suppliers.  According to its insider news, Apple has already ordered 4 million units …
Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley's blog:
HP upgrades home server, adds video streaming to iPhones  —  With serious competitors for its MediaSmart home server finally coming to the U.S., Hewlett-Packard today is announcing a big software update of the Windows Home Server-based system.  —  Highlight include new software …
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Vista/7 more secure than Linux and Mac OS X  —  Operating system security is always a hotly contended subject, and last week Microsoft amped up the hype by claiming that Windows Vista and the soon-to-be-released 7 is the world's most secure OS, beating both Linux and Mac OS X.
Discussion: Boy Genius Report
Scott Campbell / Net News Daily:
Interview with the Creator of the StalkDaily Worm  —  Today, Twitter was infamously attacked by a worm which maliciously effected accounts by forcing them to post a link to the website StalkDaily.  I spoke to its creator, 17 year old Michael Mooney, who lives in Winnfield, Louisiana.
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Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft Lands a Big Cable Fish as Clients Clamor for New Advertising  —  Microsoft Corp. beat Yahoo! Inc. and Google Inc.'s YouTube for a seven figure advertising campaign with Discovery Communications Inc., its first to simultaneously combine Internet, mobile and video-game ads.
Hutch Carpenter / I'm Not Actually a Geek:
Enterprise 2.0 and the Trough of Disillusionment … It feels like I'm seeing more posts describing the challenges that Enterprise 2.0 faces.  I'm not alone, Dion Hinchcliffe noted a similar trend yesterday as well on ZDNet.  Of course, these concerns have always been there …
Discussion: Irregular Enterprise and Enterprise Web 2.0, Thanks:atul
Jesse Stay / louisgray.com:
Twitteronia vs. Status.net: The Battle for Hosted Microblogging Begins  —  By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Facebook/FriendFeed)  —  It's no secret that I'm a huge proponent of self-hosted Microblogging.  I've written numerous times on LouisGray.com and my own blog about the benefits business can see by …
Thanks:atul
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Apple's best move: Jobs as chairman with Cook as CEO  —  Apple chief Steve Jobs is involved with all of the company's key product plans, had a hand in the iPhone 3.0 launch and at least a few people expect him to return in June.  —  Those interesting takeaways appeared in a Wall Street Journal story …
 
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Chris Kanaracus / ITworld.com:
Sun's open source boss slams App Engine's Java support
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
Analyst: Apple placed chip order for 32GB iPhones
Discussion: Electronista
Robert Weisman / Boston Globe:
What went wrong?  —  Secure in their profits, the Globe …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo Spikes Over $14 On Microsoft Deal Talks
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Paul Marks / New Scientist:
Our ears may have built-in passwords
Discussion: Softpedia News
Dave Greenfield / Team Think:
New Skype Vulnerability Discovered
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
BoomTown Channels Miss Cleo: A Twitter Transaction? …
Discussion: MediaMemo
Owen Fletcher / Network World:
Analyst: Dell in smartphone talks with China Mobile
Lidija Davis / ReadWriteWeb:
Digggate: Conspiracy Theory or Brave New World for Digg
Thanks:atul
Michael Bush / AdAge:
Bloggers Be Warned: FTC May Monitor What You Say
Discussion: The Noisy Channel, Thanks:atul
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Update, Open Sourced
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
You Will Be Using FriendFeed In The Future — But It May Be Called Facebook
Discussion: The FASTForward Blog, Thanks:bobcaswell
 

 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
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Tubi launches Scenes, a mobile feature that lets viewers watch 60-to-90-second trailer-style clips from its library to help with content discovery

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
James Harding says the Tortoise-Observer deal could create a profitable media group and there isn't a guaranteed future for the Observer with the Guardian

 
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