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8:25 AM ET, March 19, 2010

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Zahavah Levine / 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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Viacom:
Viacom Statement  —  YouTube was intentionally built on infringement and there are countless internal YouTube communications demonstrating that YouTube's founders and its employees intended to profit from that infringement.  By their own admission, the site contained “truckloads” …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:   Viacom Seems To Be Misrepresenting YouTube Founder's Call To “Steal It!”
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Who Got the Loot? How YouTube Split Up Google's Billions.
Discussion: PE Hub Blog and TechCrunch
Mark Lee / Bloomberg:
Google May Shut Down Chinese Unit on April 10, China Business News Reports  —  Google Inc. may pull out of China on April 10, China Business News reported today, citing an unidentified Chinese sales agent for the company.  —  The search engine may announce its exit on March 22 …
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Bloomberg:   Google China Pullout Would Be Permanent, ‘Burn Bridges,’ Ex-Executive Says
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.
Dan Ardelean / Mobile Development:
WP7 Emulator “Unlocked”  —  I still cannot believe it but I did it... After a good idea, 6 hours of work and a lot a lot of digging I've unlocked the ROM image in the emulator CTP.  I will describe tomorrow the method but right now I will just post some screenshots, upload the bin somewhere …
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.
Douglas MacMillan / Tech Beat:
Study: Developers Testing Games, Entertainment Apps on iPad  —  Some software makers have been lucky enough to get their hands on Apple's iPad weeks before its April release, people tell Bloomberg BusinessWeek.  What kinds of apps are they building?  —  Games are the focus …
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Douglas MacMillan / Business Week:   Apple Swears iPad Partners to Secrecy
Zak Cohen / Google Mobile Blog:
Introducing Google Buzz widget for Android  —  Since we launched Google Buzz for mobile, we've been working on ways to make it quicker and easier to share your thoughts and experiences while you're out and about.  —  Today, we're excited to release a Google Buzz widget for Android phones …
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 …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Those Facebook QR Codes Are Part Of Their Location Plans  —  A few days ago, we noted that Facebook was testing putting links to QR codes on their main profile pages.  Now we know why.  Apparently, Facebook is doing some testing ahead of their location feature roll-out, which will use these codes.
Rick Pal / Yahoo! Mail Blog:
A Yahoo! Contacts That Updates Itself  —  Have you ever lost track of a friend because she moved and forgot to let you know her new address and phone number?  When you've changed your contact information, did you remember to let all of your friends and colleagues know?
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Palm Sold Only 408,000 Smartphones Last Quarter (PALM)  —  Palm's third quarter was terrible, as anticipated.  The company slashed its guidance a few weeks ago, and today confirmed that its Pre and Pixi smartphones are simply not selling very well.  —  Specifically, Palm's smartphone sellthrough …
David Marmaros / 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 …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Big Music's Digital Strategy: Cheap CDs  —  Good chance that if you're reading this story, you haven't bought a CD in a long time.  Would you think about it if CDs were cheaper?  —  That's what Universal Music Group is hoping.  The world's biggest music label is pushing a plan to sell …
Jesse Stay / Stay N' Alive:
Facebook Goes After Their Trademark in Popular Domains  —  It's common practice, and perhaps necessary for large companies to protect their Trademark.  I've written before about Google going after an incorrect spelling of their own Trademark, on http://googleappsengine.com, because it resembles one of their products.
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Naming and Shaming ‘Bad’ ISPs  —  Roughly two years ago, I began an investigation that sought to chart the baddest places on the Internet, the red light districts of the Web, if you will.  What I found in the process was that many security experts, companies and private researchers …
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
More News about Omidyar's Peer News  —  I'm at the NewsMorphosis Conference in Hawaii today locked in a day of debates about the state of news quality and how the hell we find a business model to keep paying for it.  It's a big issue locally- earlier this year three of Hawaii's five largest …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Google aims for easier 3D Web on Windows  —  Google announced a move Thursday that could broaden the appeal of a nascent 3D Web graphics technology called WebGL.  —  A year ago Mozilla and the Khronos Group announced WebGL, which gives Web programmers a way to use hardware-accelerated 3D graphics …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Courts Stretching Computer Hacking Law In Dangerous Ways  —  Michael Scott points us to a very interesting analysis of how to different appeals courts have very different interpretations of our federal anti-hacking law.  The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act was passed by Congress to create criminal sanctions for malicious computer hacking.
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Craig Newmark on the Web's Next Big Problem  —  I had the chance to sit down with Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark recently at his favorite breakfast spot in San Francisco, just a block or two from the house where Craigslist was launched 15 years ago this month.
Liz Tay / iTnews:
Employers: Look to gaming to motivate staff  —  Gamer rewards could boost employee engagement.  —  Clearly defined goals and fair, incremental rewards are two game design techniques that could motivate the ‘gamer generation’ in the workforce, according to a US academic.
Discussion: VG247, GamePolitics News and Techland
 
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Whatever Happened to Web 2.0?
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
“Piracy” sounds too sexy, say rightsholders
Chris Morrison / Inside Social Games:
Zynga Was PayPal's Second-Largest Merchant in 2009
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Digits:
Yelp Goes On the Offensive About Filtering
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Pay to Play: Some iPhone App Sites Demand Money for Reviews
Discussion: The Loop and AppScout, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Peter Eckersley / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
FTC to Internet Companies: Start Using SSL
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
August Capital Bets Big On Blippy
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Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
VirnetX files same patent claims against Windows 7
Discussion: Tech Eye and All about Microsoft
Khris Loux / paidContent:
How Twitter Can Become A New Breed Of Technology Company
Discussion: Silicon Valley Watcher, Thanks:atul
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Fascinating motion magazine demo highlights iPad's potential
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
iGroups: Apple's New iPhone Social App in Development
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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