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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Yahoo Says It Is Backing Away From TV-Style Web Shows — After proclaiming grand plans to bring elaborately produced sitcoms, talk shows and other television-style programs to the Internet, the head of Yahoo's Media Group said yesterday that he was sharply scaling back those efforts.
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Henry Blodget / Internet Outsider:
NYT: Yahoo!'s LLoyd Braun Now "Gets" the Internet — One of the lingering risks about Yahoo, given Terry Semel's Tinseltown roots, is that the company will lean too far toward becoming a "content company"—and thus wreck a business model that is more powerful than that of any content company on the planet.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft whispers Origami details — Microsoft updated the Web site for its secretive Origami Project on Thursday, offering a more elaborate tease, but also confirming key details about the Windows-based mini tablet. — "I am everywhere you are, but never in the way," …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:Origami and UMPC one and the same?
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Mike Davidson / Mike Davidson:
Newsvine Launches — After eight weeks of testing in private beta, Newsvine is now live to the world. It's been an extremely productive couple of months, with countless enhancements and feature additions making their way onto the site almost every day. — The decision when to release to the world was a tough one for us.
Mike / Techdirt:
Google's Moves Chinese Search Records So They Can Be Subpoenaed By The US — from the out-of-the-frying-pan... dept. — If you were Google, where would you store your Chinese search data these days? As just about everyone knows, Google made the move into China recently with a somewhat scaled down …
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Ken Belson / New York Times:
Senate Bill to Address Fears of Blocked Access to Net — Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, will introduce new legislation today that would prohibit Internet network operators from charging companies for faster delivery of their content to consumers or favoring some content providers over others.
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Networking Pipeline
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
MacBook Pro — Introduction — Apple MacBook Pro — Just about a month-and-a-half after Steve Jobs's surprisingly unsurprising announcement at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco that the first two Intel-based Macs to be rolled out would be the iMac and the MacBook Pro …
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The Apple Core
Joris Evers / silicon.com:
Apple plugs 20 OS X holes — Security update deals with Leap.A threat and more... Apple on Wednesday released a security update for Mac OS X that fixes 20 vulnerabilities, including a high-profile web browser and Mail flaw disclosed last week. — The set of patches addresses a variety …
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Lester Haines / The Register:
MS in geek sex hard sell shocker — There was a time when Microsoft ads were a bit more entertaining than the current "dinosaur head" offerings which have of late been baffling adults and scaring small children worldwide. — The proof comes in this hitherto-unseen-in-the-civilised- world shocker …
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Jason Snell / Macworld:
Opening up the Intel Mac mini — Our first Intel-based Mac minis have arrived, straight from the Apple Store, and what was the first thing the cold, cruel alien intellects at Macworld did with one of these innocents? That's right. We got out our putty knife, popped it open, and spilled its guts out faster than you could say "CSI!"
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Reuters gets it — Tom Glocer, CEO of Reuters, is giving a keynote at the Online Publishers Association. It's good enough to live-blog. — Glocer said a year ago, the focus of Reuters was on "the consumer as editor," with tools such as RSS to allow consumers to consume differently.
Richard MacManus / Web 2.0 Explorer:
Mashups: who's really in control? — In the mashup ecosystem, let's get one thing straight. The data owner is ultimately in control, because a mashup developer is reliant on data owners to keep the supply of data flowing. — Sometimes data services that were open to begin with, then have restrictions imposed on them.
Reuters:
Viacom to enter social networking market in '06 — NEW YORK (Reuters) - MTV owner Viacom Inc. plans to enter the business of connecting youth viewers on the Internet this year, a top Viacom executive said on Wednesday, amid threats of losing its cool cachet to News Corp.
Rajen Sheth / Official Google Enterprise Blog:
Google Mini for a mini price — Why do I look so smug? No, it's not because I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance. In fact, I just figured out a way to save you a bunch of money on a Google Mini. — OK, in all seriousness (if you can take me seriously now) …
Bloomberg:
Google Is Reportedly Switching to AMD — Google Inc. is switching its servers to run on Advanced Micro Devices Inc. chips instead of those made by Intel Corp., according to a Morgan Stanley report. — Google, which has more than 200,000 servers, has started to buy Advanced Micro's Opteron processors …
Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband:
Some Vonage users are frustrated about Comcast connection quality — Over the last couple of years, when I've wanted to take the temperature of the Vonage user community, I've often stopped at the Vonage Forum. This is a privately run enterprise, totally independent of Vonage.
