Techmeme: Google and Intel in web TV launch (Chris Nuttall/Financial Times)

2:40 PM ET, May 17, 2010

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Foxconn to ship 24 million iPhone 4G in 2010, says Digitimes Research — Foxconn will ship 24 million units of Apple's latest iPhone 4G with shipments starting in June, according to Digitimes senior analysts Ming-Chi Kuo citing sources from Taiwan-based component makers.

Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:

iPhone 4: June launch, high-res screen, iBookstore - Digitimes — Apple's making major orders now for the next-gen iPhone, reports from the company's suppliers in China and Taiwan suggest. — Manufacturer, Foxconn, seems set to ship 24 million units of the device at least this year …

Discussion: Electronista, Ubergizmo and dailywireless.org

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

The Pirate Bay Goes Down Following Legal Pressure — A few days ago we exclusively revealed that several major Hollywood movie studios had obtained a preliminary injunction against CyberBunker operator CB3ROB Ltd. & Co. KG from the Regional Court of Hamburg.

Discussion: Guardian, NewTeeVee, Download Squad, CNET News, ZeroPaid.com, TG Daily, Boy Genius Report, TechSpot, MediaMemo, Erictric, Slyck, DailyTech, Softpedia News and Geekosystem

Chris Nuttall / Financial Times:

Google and Intel in web TV launch — Google and Intel are expected to announce a significant breakthrough into consumer electronics and the broadcast industry this week with the launch of a “Smart TV” platform. — Top executives from the Silicon Valley companies are reported to be ready …

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

Five Years In, YouTube Is Now Streaming Two Billion Views Per Day — It's hard to believe, but it's been five years since YouTube launched and changed the way people share video online (it was acquired by Google a year and a half later). To celebrate its birthday, YouTube has just announced …

Brad Stone / New York Times:
YouTube, Now 5, Shows Signs of Growing Up

Discussion: Digits, Telegraph, Fast Company, bub.blicio.us, The Blog Herald, fierceonlinevideo.com … and Lost Remote

Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
YouTube Turns Five, Quietly Adds Hashtags to Comments

Discussion: eWeek, Search Engine Watch and WATBlog.com

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

U.S. Mac sales up 39% in April — Based on NPD data, iPods, not Macs, are being cannibalized by the iPad, says an analyst — Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster has looked at the NPD Group's data for the month of April and concluded that it's good news for Apple (AAPL). How so?

Discussion: MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac and AppleInsider

Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:

iPad Already Taking Away iPod Sales (AAPL) — After analyzing newly released data from the NPD group, Gene Munster at Piper Jaffray thinks the iPad's early success is already affecting iPod sales. — This afternoon NPD reported Apple's iPod sales are down 17% year-over-year for April.

Discussion: Digital Daily

Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Web Browsers Leave ‘Fingerprints’ Behind as You Surf the Net — San Francisco - New research by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has found that an overwhelming majority of web browsers have unique signatures — creating identifiable “fingerprints” that could be used to track you as you surf the Internet.

Discussion: Network World and p2pnet

Reuters:

Apple's iPhone replaces Blackberry for some bankers — * Singapore's OCBC gives staff choice of iPhone or Blackberry — * RIM teams up with China Telecom for Blackberry service (Adds comments from RIM, OCBC) — British bank Standard Chartered is replacing the Blackberry …

Discussion: GigaOM, AppleInsider, I4U News, TG Daily, Electronista, 9 to 5 Mac, Unwired View and Edible Apple

Sarah Kershaw / New York Times:

Google Tells Sites for ‘Cougars’ to Go Prowl Elsewhere — IF you're a woman who would like to date younger men, you can find lots of articles about these relationships by doing a Google search. — But as a woman looking for a man, you might be a little confused by the advertisements that accompany these articles.

Discussion: counternotions, Boy Genius Report, GeekSugar and AppScout

Katherine Bourzac / Technology Review:

New Inks Could Mean Cheaper OLED Screens — DuPont has developed a printing process to bring down the cost of high-performance displays. — Organic light emitting diode, or OLED, displays seem to have it all: energy efficiency and a beautiful, crisp picture that refreshes rapidly.

Discussion: OLED TV Display Lighting …, Fast Company, Gizmodo, Engadget, SlashGear, Softpedia News, DVICE and I4U News

Chris Messina / FactoryCity:

Two tastes better together: Combining OpenID and OAuth with OpenID Connect — On Friday, David Recordon, one of the original authors of OpenID, released a single-page specification for OpenID Connect, a concept that I outlined on this blog in January before I joined Google.

Discussion: Webmonkey

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

Google Refreshes Android Market Website - It Inexplicably Still Lacks Search — We're not 100% sure when it popped up first, but Google has seemingly updated the Android Market website. Don't pee your pants just yet - they've apparently merely shuffled some things around along with other layout changes.

Discussion: GameLife, Android Central, AndroidGuys, Silicon Alley Insider, EuroDroid, GottaBeMobile, Google Android Blog, Erictric and Android and Me

Bernard Condon / Associated Press:

Secretive speed traders in spotlight after crash — NEW YORK — If you saw a penny on the sidewalk, would you pick it up? — You may think it's not worth the effort, but a breed of investors who have been in the news do. Using super-fast computers, high-frequency traders in effect bend …

Kevin Purdy / Lifehacker:

ReclaimPrivacy Bookmarklet Rates Your Facebook Exposure Levels — Facebook's privacy settings are notoriously complex, and the results of changes hard to see instantly. ReclaimPrivacy.org has a handy bookmarklet that shows which potentially insecure and privacy-invading settings are enabled on your Facebook account when you click it.

Discussion: VentureBeat and ReadWriteWeb

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Roku Claims Two-Hour Daily Consumption for Device Users — Roku, the little black box that connects the Internet to the television set, has sold over 500,000 units and its owners use it over two hours a sitting, Roku spokesman Brian Jaquet told Beet.TV in this interview.

Discussion: Technology News, L.A. Times Tech Blog and NewTeeVee

Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:

Wikipedia founder tries to remove alleged kiddie porn, then gives up editorial privileges — [Update: Jimmy Wales tweeted me to say the change to his editorial status is “A purely technical matter. I am not stepping down or pulling back from anything.” — For my sourcing beyond Fox …

Discussion: GigaOM, Tech Eye, Guardian, Wikimedia Commons, ResourceShelf, TechCrunch and Computerworld

Jennifer Guevin / CNET News:
Wikimedia's Wales gives up some top-level controls

Discussion: eWeek, DailyTech, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, GMSV, Geekosystem, ZDNet, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Neowin.net, Fox News and TechSpot

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