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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Web TV You'll Need to Pay to See: Time Warner, Comcast Roll Out “Authentication.” Who Else Is In? — Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes and Comcast CEO Brian Roberts will announce this morning that their two companies are linking up for a trial of an “authentication” effort.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Comcast, Time Warner Team Up to Control TV on the Internet — Updated: Sometime tomorrow, Comcast and Time Warner will announce a partnership to promote the concept of TV Everywhere. Jeff Bewkes, chairman and CEO of Time Warner, and Brian Roberts, chairman and CEO of Comcast, will have a joint media conference tomorrow in New York.
Sarah Rabil / Bloomberg:
Comcast, Time Warner Testing Online Television Service for TBS, TNT Shows — Comcast Corp., the largest U.S. cable operator, and Time Warner Inc. are testing a system that will let viewers who already pay for cable television watch shows on the Internet at no extra cost.
TimeWarner:Time Warner Inc. Announces Widespread Distribution of Cable TV Content Online
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
HTC Hero running Android and Sense UI leaks from HTC's own website (updated, official, video) — As we prepare for HTC's official launch event today, we're starting to see some details appear on HTC's own website of the much rumored Hero. Through some URL trickery, we've managed …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:HTC Hero hands-on (updated)
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Fast Company, Softpedia News, IntoMobile, jkOnTheRun, Gizmodo, Android Central, Engadget Mobile and TechVi
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Methodist University Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs Liver Transplant — Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare today issued a brief press release confirming that Steve Jobs did receive a liver transplant at the Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute. The release was issued …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:Apple's Secrecy — This whole Jobs liver transplant story …
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The Apple Core, Guardian, Entrepreneur Watch, Neowin.net and The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, Thanks:atul
Avner Ronen / boxee blog:
boxee for windows, moving up to the Major Leagues — We have a few exciting announcements today (which makes for our longest blog post ever). — #1 - Boxee for Windows — We are finally releasing a public alpha of boxee for Windows. We are looking forward to getting feedback from PC users …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, GeekTonic, blogs.ft.com, The Business Insider, A VC, AppScout and CrunchGear
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:Boxee Swings For The Fences: Windows Support, MLB, Digg …
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Gizmodo, Zatz Not Funny!, Black Web 2.0, paidContent, bijan sabet, Contentinople and NewTeeVee, Thanks:atul
Michael Fleming / Variety:
Fincher circles Facebook movie — Director in talks for Columbia's pic about website — Columbia Pictures is in advanced talks with David Fincher to direct “The Social Network,” the Aaron Sorkin-scripted film for Columbia Pictures about the formation of Facebook.
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:Facebook movie pinning down director, cast
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Camille Ricketts / VentureBeat:
Microsoft leaps into home energy management game with Hohm — As we've reported, the big boys are jumping into the smart grid space just in time for the stimulus funds to rain from the sky. Google introduced its home energy management system PowerMeter in February; Intel has been hard …
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Rapidshare Fined $34 Million and Ordered to Filter Content — Collections society GEMA claims to represent more than 60,000 composers, authors and music publishers worldwide, protecting their copyrights. After a request by the group, The Regional Court in Hamburg has ruled …
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The Register, Billboard.Biz, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, Music Ally, Pocket-lint.com, p2pnet and AppScout
David Talbot / Technology Review:
$100 Laptop Becomes a $5 PC — Putting OLPC's software on a USB drive gives old PCs a new lease on life. — The open-source education software developed for the “$100 laptop” can now be loaded onto a $5 USB stick to give aging PCs and Macs a new interface and custom educational software.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Microsoft, Outlook Is Broken, Says 6,000 Tweets (And Growing). Fix It. — While it is pretty much the standard email client, Microsoft Outlook has long had problems rendering HTML correctly in emails. And the latest version, Outlook 2010, due sometime in the next several months …
Sascha Segan / Gearlog:
AT&T: iPhone Coverage Getting Better, Faster Soon — The iPhone 3GS has been a huge hit for AT&T, and although they aren't saying how many customers they've stolen from other carriers, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph De La Vega said they had “hundreds of thousands” of pre-orders.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
The Startup Entrepreneur's Guide To Risk Management — Only 44% of small businesses stick around four years or more. One big reason so many go away: Poor risk management. — Fortunately, help is on the way from the guys at VC Experts (subscribe to their email here).
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
HP Mini 5101: When Did Netbooks Get This Nice? — It's safe to say we've hit the third generation of netbooks. They're nice now. The HP Mini 5105 strikes at Asus Eee Seashell's fancily contoured plastic with aluminum and magnesium. Oh yeah, and 95-percent chiclet keyboard that feels fantastic.
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HP, PC World, Engadget, T3.com News, Crave, CrunchGear, jkOnTheRun, Electronista and techeblog.com
Saul Hansell / Bits:
The Price Flows Down for Flo TV — It's easy to be skeptical about Flo TV, Qualcomm's effort to bring a mini cable system to your cellphone. The company offers up to 20 channels of TV for $15 a month and up. It is betting that consumers will value it even though more and more video content …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Analyst: Palm has sold 150,000 Pres — With Palm's (PALM) quarterly earnings due Thursday — along with Jon Rubinstein's debut performance as CEO — analysts have started to place their bets on what the quarter will show. — First out of the box — or at least, first in our inbox …
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Tech Daily Dose:
Cash-Strapped PTO Asks Hill For Help — CongressDaily's AM Edition on Wednesday reports that the Patent and Trademark Office is asking Congress to help stabilize the agency, which is facing a substantial decrease in the number of patent applications filed. Acting Director John Doll broke the news to employees in a Tuesday memo.
The Official Google Blog:
Let's make the web faster — From building data centers in different parts of the world to designing highly efficient user interfaces, we at Google always strive to make our services faster. We focus on speed as a key requirement in product and infrastructure development …
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Android now capable of running Flash with a slower CPU than iPhone — Today, Adobe is demonstrating a version of Flash running on the HTC Hero, the recently released Android device on Tmobile. The demo seems to work fairly well which may be an important benchmark to Apple's iPhone and iPod touch owners.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Verizon's CEO sidesteps questions on iPhone, Android handset — The last time we heard from Ivan Seidenberg, he was letting Sprint know precisely what he thought of it. This go 'round, in a new ‘Charlie Rose’ interview, the Verizon chief is being entirely more coy.
