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4:20 PM ET, April 23, 2009

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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Quietly Pulls The Plug On Geocities  —  Not with a bang, but with a whimper.  Yahoo! is unceremoniously closing GeoCities, one of the original web-hosting services acquired by Yahoo! in 1999 for $2.87 billion.  (Fun venture fact: Fred Wilson's Flatiron Partners was an investor).
The Local:
Pirate Bay lawyer calls for retrial  —  A lawyer representing one of the men convicted in the Pirate Bay trial has called for a retrial after reports that the judge was a member of the same copyright protection organisations as several of the main entertainment industry representatives.
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Pirate Bay Judge Accused of Bias, Calls for a Retrial  —  It's been almost a week since the verdicts of one year in prison and heavy financial damages were passed against the four accused in the Pirate Bay trial.  The sentence seemed surprisingly tough to many analysts …
Claudine Beaumont / Telegraph:
Pirate Bay trial judge denies accusations of bias
Discussion: TechSpot
Rob Stacey / Google Mobile Blog:
Google Product Search for Android and iPhone  —  In my spare time, I like to build computer systems at home.  So I often use Google Product Search on a desktop computer to look for video cards, memory, and peripherals.  Google Product Search gives me information like prices, ratings, reviews, and product details from all over the web.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Product Search Finally Useful as Mobile Service
Discussion: TechCrunch and GPS Obsessed
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The State Of The iPhone Is Strong — Very Strong  —  Of the major companies that announced their earnings yesterday, two of them, AT&T and Apple, beat Wall Street estimates largely thanks to a single product: The iPhone.  We're approaching the two year birthday of the device, and it still remains one of the hottest items out there.
Fred / A VC:
A Second Market Is Emerging  —  Claire Cain Miller has a story in today's NY Times about Second Market, a NYC based company that makes markets in illiquid securities.  She reports that they will shortly be launching a marketplace for private company stock.  —  I've written about this idea in the past and I think it is badly needed.
Discussion: StartupDunia
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Android Catches Up To Palm In Mobile Ad Market Share.  IPhone Still Blows It Away.  —  Android is making steady gains in mobile ad market share, accounting for 6 percent of all mobile ad requests measured by AdMob in its latest March metrics (full report embedded below).
Discussion: Electronista and Big in Japan, Thanks:atul
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Bruce Perens / perens.com:
A Cyber-Attack on an American City  —  Just after midnight on Thursday, April 9, unidentified attackers climbed down four manholes serving the Northern California city of Morgan Hill and cut eight fiber cables in what appears to have been an organized attack on the electronic infrastructure of an American city.
Discussion: The Noisy Channel and Slashdot
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple's Q2: Analyzing the analysts  —  No analyst we know of correctly predicted Apple's (AAPL) second fiscal quarter results for 2009, in which the company proved that computer makers don't have to slash prices or build “junky” $400 netbooks to weather an economic storm.  But some analysts did better than others.
Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
ITV, YouTube and Simon Cowell miss out on Susan Boyle windfall  —  ITV, YouTube and Simon Cowell have missed sharing a million-pound windfall because they have failed to reach a deal to sell advertising against clips of Susan Boyle, the internet singing sensation.
Microsoft:
Microsoft Reports Third-Quarter Results  —  Lower operating expenses narrow revenue gap in difficult economic environment.  —  Income Statements  —  Segment Revenue and Operating Income (Loss)  —  Third Quarter Form 10-Q  —  View the PowerPoint Earnings Release
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Chris Nuttall / blogs.ft.com:
Aliph and Plantronics in ears race escalation  —  It's an ears race rather than an arms race, but the contest for the coolest and quietest Bluetooth headset has just been stepped up another notch with new releases by Aliph and Plantronics.  —  San Francisco-based Aliph brought forward …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
With MySpace Changes, a Social Networking Era Ends  —  Murdochs & MySpacers Tom Anderson & Chris DeWolfe in Happier Days.  (Photo via Flickr courtesy of Oxfam America)  —  The legendary New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra is rumored to have said about a restaurant: “Nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded.”
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Business Wire:
Amazon.com Announces First Quarter Financial Results  —  SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN - News) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2009.  —  Operating cash flow was $1.76 billion for the trailing twelve months …
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Researching Methods to Offer Customized Control of Browser-Based Audio Content  —  In a patent application filed in November 2007 and released today, Apple reveals that it is researching methods for providing customized audio control for Internet browser content.
Discussion: CNET News and blackrimglasses
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Ubuntu 9.04 is available for download  —  Right on schedule, the folks at Canonical released the latest version of Ubuntu Linux this morning.  Ubuntu 9.04 adds a number of new features including a revamped notification system, support for the Ext4 file system, and updated applications like Firefox 3 and OpenOffice.org 3.0.
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook TOS Voting Concludes, Users Vote for New Revised Documents  —  Facebook's first-ever user vote on proposed changes to the site's Terms of Service has just concluded, and the results are in: the new documents have won out over the old documents by a 74% - 26% margin.
Discussion: All Facebook
csh.rit.edu:
Fun with YouTube's Audio Content ID System  —  Anybody who hasn't been living under a rock knows about YouTube.  It's a video site built entirely around user-submitted content.  Anybody can film anything, upload it to the site, and anybody on the Internet can watch it if they so choose.
Discussion: P2P Blog
Bill Bergstrom / Associated Press:
Record attempt reaps 217K texts, $26K phone bill  —  PHILADELPHIA -  —  Their thumbs sure must be sore.  Two central Pennsylvania friends spent most of March in a text-messaging record attempt, exchanging a thumbs-flying total of 217,000.  For one of the two, that meant an inches-thick itemized bill for $26,000.
Discussion: AppScout, IntoMobile, Neowin.net and Gizmodo
Kevin Fitchard / blog.telephonyonline.com:
T-Mobile: 1 million Android phones sold  —  Deutsche Telekom revealed one particularly interesting tidbit when it released T-Mobile's Q1 subscriber numbers Monday: T-Mobile USA has sold 1 million G1 Android phones since the Google-powered device emerged in October.
Aaron Ricadela / Business Week:
Oracle's Sun Deal: A Closer Look  —  Oracle's conference call left plenty of questions about its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems.  Here are a few, and how they might be resolved  —  Oracle's Apr. 20 conference call with Wall Street analysts to discuss its $7.4 billion buyout …
Discussion: Storage Station and eWeek
Sumner Lemon / Network World:
Researchers show how to take control of Windows 7  —  Proof-of-concept code takes control of the computer during the boot process  —  Security researchers demonstrated how to take control of a computer running Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 operating system at the Hack In The Box Security Conference (HITB) in Dubai on Thursday.
Nat Ives / AdAge:
‘Us Weekly’ Sells Facebook Fan Page Ad to State Farm  —  Social Network Doesn't Get Any Revenue From Deal  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Us Weekly has sold sponsorship of its new Facebook profile to State Farm in what appears to be a first for a media company on the social network website, as well as a first for a company's fan page.
Discussion: Mashable!, Thanks:mrinaldesai
John D. Sutter / CNN:
Experts: Malicious program targets Macs  —  (CNN) — Mac computers are known for their near-immunity to malicious computer programs that plague PCs.  —  But that may be changing somewhat, according to computer security researchers.  It seems that as sleek Mac computers become more popular …
Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
Verizon unveils the Samsung Trance  —  Just as we said in our exclusive post a few weeks ago, Verizon Wireless has just announced that the Samsung Trance will go on sale Friday, April 24th for $49.99 after a $50 mail-in with a two-year contract.  For those of you not familiar with the device …
Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
Rural Riddle: Do Jobs Follow Broadband Access?  —  Two Hamlets That Got High-Speed Lines Show Wildly Different Results  —  In the southwest corner of Virginia, where tobacco farms meet the Appalachian Mountains, two towns desperately in need of an economic boost were given what many had hoped …
Discussion: DSLreports
 
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PR Newswire:
EMC Reports First-Quarter 2009 Financial Results
Discussion: Tech Trader Daily
Variety.com / The Cut Scene:
Activision has High Moon working on Transformers, Radical on Spider-Man
Discussion: Joystiq, GoNintendo, Kotaku and Game|Life
Peter Galli / Port 25:
An Open Source Network File System Client for Windows
Alice Marwick / tiara.org:
Foursquare, Locative Media, and Prescriptive Social Software - Part One
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Computer Buyers Have to Consider System Upgrades
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 Earlier Items: 
Theo Valich / Bright Side Of News:
nVidia's GT300 specifications revealed - it's a cGPU!
Discussion: Softpedia News and bit-tech.net
Louis Gray:
Google Reader Limits Your RSS Article Spam Potential
Jon Fortt / Fortune:
Why Yahoo shouldn't sell search
Discussion: CNNMoney.com, Thanks:atul
Keith Kleiner / Singularity Hub:
Tweetbomb - A Tweet To Shake The World
Ze Pequeno / Tiny Mix Tapes:
Joe Biden's Problem with Music
Discussion: ZDNet Government
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

Anja Karadeglija / The Canadian Press:
Meta clashes with Canada's CRTC over the Online News Act by declining to publicly release information about its measures to block news content on its platforms

 
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