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Aaron / YouTube Blog:
Broadcast Yourself — Around the globe, YouTube has become a metaphor for the democratizing power of the Internet and information. YouTube gives unknown performers, filmmakers, and artists new ways to promote their work to a global audience and rise to worldwide fame …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
YouTube Defense: Viacom “Secretly Uploaded” Content, And They Tried To Buy Us — Earlier today, several previously sealed legal documents in the longstanding copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube by Viacom were made public. In conjunction with the public release of those documents …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Who Got the Loot? How YouTube Split Up Google's Billions. — Google's $1.65 billion purchase of YouTube is perhaps the best-known transaction of the Web 2.0 era. Here, via court documents filed in the YouTube-Viacom case, is how some of that money got split up:
Wall Street Journal:
Apple Races to Strike Content Deals Ahead of iPad Release — Apple Inc. is still working to secure content for the iPad with just weeks to go before the tablet computer's release, said people familiar with the matter, as the company tempers some of its initial ambitions for the much-hyped device.
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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
iGroups: Apple's New iPhone Social App in Development — Apple is working on a new communications based social networking application that they're simply calling “iGroups.” According to the documents published by USPTO today, Apple's iGroup will be a new service that will work on your iPhone and likely work with MobileMe.
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Amazon:
Introducing “Kindle for Mac” — the Free Application for Reading Kindle Books on the Mac, Now Available in over 100 Countries — Read on Your Kindle, Read Some on Your iPhone, and Now, Read Some on Your Mac - Read Wherever and Whenever You Want, and Never Lose Your Place
Nick Douglas / All Shook Down:
SXSW Interactive Is Dead — No annual festival, conference, or party will ever be as good as the first year you went. That's not what I'm talking about when I say that South by Southwest Interactive died this year. — Earlier this week, Jolie O'Dell wrote the usual “Why SXSW Sucks” post.
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Windows Phone 7 Series will have copy & paste, eventually — Contrary to the controversial report out of Microsoft MIX10 this week that Windows Phone 7 Series will not feature copy & paste functionality, a person close to the den explained that copy & paste is definitely a scenario and feature …
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Jenna Wortham / Bits:
RandomDorm: Chatroulette for the College Set — Taking a dizzying spin through the video chat service Chatroulette can be highly entertaining — you might stumble onto a celebrity or an impromptu performance by a pianist. — But there's always the chance of encountering something unsavory on the service …
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Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Palm earnings: ‘Underperformance’ is disappointing but potential remains — As expected, Palm reported dismal earnings for its third quarter. Last month, the company sharply cut its outlook for the third quarter and fiscal 2010 because “driving broad consumer adoption of Palm products is taking longer than we anticipated.”
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New York Times:
A Rift at Amazon on E-Book Prices — Amazon.com has threatened to stop directly selling the books of some publishers online unless they agree to a detailed list of concessions regarding the sale of electronic books, according to two industry executives with direct knowledge the discussions.
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Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple exploring iPhone audio text message, walkie-talkie feature — Apple has been brainstorming a new capability that could allow iPhone users to transmit data — such as simple text messages — to each other over voice channels, forgoing a reliance wireless carriers' backend servers …
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
HTC responds to Apple's patent lawsuit, will ‘fully defend itself’ — HTC hasn't filed its official reply to Apple's patent lawsuit in court yet, but the company just gave us an updated and expanded statement on the case, saying that while it “strongly advocates intellectual property protection …
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Alexander Sliwinski / Joystiq:
Xbox 360 gaining USB storage support in 2010 update — Documentation obtained by Joystiq - and subsequently confirmed with two separate sources - reveals that “USB Mass Storage Device Support on Xbox 360” will soon be a reality. The document, authored by a senior software development engineer at Microsoft …
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Gmail Blog:
Smart Rescheduler in Google Calendar Labs — As you can imagine, those of us on the Google Calendar team spend a lot of time thinking about scheduling. We regularly talk to people who schedule and reschedule a lot of meetings: administrative assistants. Talking to them …
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Noah Elkin / The eMarketer Blog:
Looking Beyond the Staggering Mobile Stats in the BRIC Countries — My latest report - on wireless usage and advertising trends in the BRIC countries (Brazil / Russia / India / China) - launches today. Given their large populations, some of the numbers are understandably eye-popping.
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple preps 27-inch LED Cinema Display, dodeca-core Mac Pro — Apple is putting the finishing touches on a pair of new products targeted at its professional customers, namely a larger version of its LED Cinema Display and a major update to its Mac Pro workstations, AppleInsider has been told.
Boy Genius Report:
Motorola DROID update delayed? — We have heard from multiple sources that the much-awaited Android 2.1 OS upgrade due to start today, has been delayed. We're told a last minute bug late last night was found. There is no new ETA. We've reached out to Verizon for confirmation.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft removes hardware virtualization barrier to running XP Mode — Microsoft is making a slew of virtualization-related announcements on March 18 — including one that will be welcome by customers who've been stymied by the chip-level virtualization requirements for running Windows 7 in XP Mode.
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John Cook / TechFlash:
Report: T-Mobile USA ponders joint venture with Clearwire — It seems that every month there's a new story out about the future of T-Mobile USA, the fourth biggest mobile operator in the U.S. Last month, BusinessWeek reported that Deutsche Telekom — the parent company of T-Mobile — was contemplating an initial public offering.
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Geoffrey A. Fowler / Digits:
Facebook Co-Founder Hughes Launches Philanthropic Venture Jumo — Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama's 2008 campaign, unveiled his new project on Thursday: a Web site for charitable organizations.
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BBC:
Facebook rules out ‘panic button’ — Facebook says it will not install a “panic button” on its main pages for users to report suspected paedophiles, but will develop its existing system. — The company says it will have links to organisations including the Child Exploitation and Online Protection …
Avner Ronen / Boxee Blog:
The Future of TV — On Friday I had a debate with Mark Cuban on the future of TV. We disagreed on most things. The main debate circled around whether the future living room will be driven by the Internet, or by the existing TV infrastructure delivered by Cable/Sat/IPTV operators.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
RIM BlackBerry ‘T’ (Talladega?) slider launching next month? — Hang with us for a sec as we conjure up a speculative device from a sordid collection of rumors. By now we've all seen the leaked BlackBerry slider right? How about the “Mr. T” phone, heard of that?
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Gist Acquires Startup Weekend App ‘Learn That Name’ — Every few weeks (and sometimes even more often than that), dozens of techies gather together for regional Startup Weekends — fast-paced code writing frenzies where entrepreneurs and developers conceive of and build a new application …
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Live Streaming Sites Beat YouTube in Video Hours Uploaded — YouTube yesterday touted the fact that it now processes about 24 hours worth of video content each minute — a milestone for the site. But while that number is impressive, there are a few others that say they can beat it.
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Fascinating motion magazine demo highlights iPad's potential — Tablet devices, and more specifically Apple's iPad, are bound to forever alter the landscape for print and digital publishers, as evidenced by captivating concepts such as motion magazines like one being worked on by Alexx Henry Photography …
Rachel King / The Toybox:
Roewe 350 touted as the world's first Android-powered automobile — There's another gadget to add to the ever-growing and busy list of Google Android-based devices. But this one is a bit bigger than a handheld. — About to make its official launch at the Beijing Auto Show next month …
