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5:30 PM ET, March 21, 2007

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Wall Street Journal:
From PC to TV — via Apple  —  We Test Gadget That Lets You  —  Play Digital Video, Music,  —  Photos on Your Widescreen  —  The race to connect your TV to your computer and the Internet is about to kick into high gear this week when Apple Inc., the company many believe is best positioned …
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PR Newswire:
Apple TV Now Shipping  —  Watch Internet-Delivered Movies, Movie Trailers, TV Shows, Music, Podcasts & Photos on Your Widescreen TV  —  CUPERTINO, Calif., March 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple® is now shipping Apple TV(TM), an easy to use and fun way to wirelessly play …
Phillip Swann / tvpredictions.com:
Why Apple TV Will Bomb
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Mossberg reviews Apple TV: "simple and elegant"
Discussion: MacRumors, SearchViews and Crave
Jeremy Toeman / Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally:
Apple TV: Can they dominate the living room too?
Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:
Sales of Music, Long in Decline, Plunge Sharply  —  Rise in Downloading  —  Fails to Boost Industry;  —  A Retailing Shakeout  —  In a dramatic acceleration of the seven-year sales decline that has battered the music industry, compact-disc sales for the first three months of this year plunged 20% …
Discussion: Listening Post, Techdirt and OnoTech
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Carlo / Techdirt:
The Shift From CDs To Downloads Is So Much More Than A Format Change
Discussion: Furdlog
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:   Good News! CD Music Sales Down 20% from 2006
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digesting Google's New PPA Advertising Product  —  Google announced the testing of a new pay-per-action, or PPA, advertising product today.  It's important for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that Google controls so much of the online advertising market that just about anything …
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google Tests an Ad Idea: Pay Only for Results  —  Google is experimenting with a new proposition for advertisers: if you don't get results, you don't pay.  —  The company said Tuesday that it would expand a test of a system that allows advertisers to pay only when an ad spurs a consumer to take an action …
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Microsoft probes possible Xbox Live fraud  —  Microsoft is investigating possible fraud on its Xbox Live online gaming service, the company said Tuesday.  —  The investigation comes after gamers reported having their Xbox Live accounts hijacked and their credit cards used to buy "Microsoft Points …
Sydney Morning Herald:
Google quashes mobile phone talk  —  Google has poured cold water on claims it is developing a mobile phone.  —  The search giant said it was more logical to form partnerships with existing handset makers instead.  —  Google's South-East Asia managing director of sales and operations …
Shaun Nichols / vnunet:
Lack of Mac malware baffles experts  —  Exploit authors continue to ignore OS X  —  Apple's Mac OS X remains almost completely free of any sort of malware threat despite several years of availability, a significant market share, and even an entire month dedicated to pointing out its flaws.
Discussion: MacUser, Macsimum News and digg
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Marius van Oers / McAfee Avert Labs:   OSX Malware not taking off yet
BBC:
Laptops set to out sell desktops  —  Laptops will overtake desktop PCs as the dominant form of computer in 2011, according to a report by analysts IDC.  —  The demand for bulky machines will continue to slowly grow but at a declining rate as portable machines become quicker and more efficient.
Paul Kapustka / GigaOM:
Google's MCI Vet to fix 'Neutrality' Message  —  Fear not, network neutrality fans: Google is still on your side, and is working hard to make sure its sometimes mixed messages on the topic are more harmonious in the future.  —  That was the word from Rick Whitt Tuesday, as Google's new …
Downes / Half an Hour:
Why the Semantic Web Will Fail  —  Don't get too excited by the title.  But I do want to share a few thoughts...  It was running through my head just now, the work that we were doing here in Moncton to work on an e-learning cluster.  Because I saw that 'cluster building' is still …
Discussion: Infocult, UMBC eBiquity and Slashdot
Business Wire:
Oodle Raises $11 Million in Funding From JAFCO, Greylock Partners and Redpoint Ventures  —  SAN MATEO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Oodle, the new way to shop with classifieds, announced today that it has raised $11 million in funding from new investor JAFCO Ventures as well as from Greylock Partners …
Reuters:
Yahoo CEO praises new ad system, says "very happy"  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) Chairman and Chief Executive Terry Semel said on Wednesday he was pleased with the progress of a new Web search advertising system, launched to better compete with Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research)
Fred Aun / ClickZ:
Videos Starring Amanda Congdon Aim to Perk Up DuPont's Image  —  Venerable DuPont is experimenting with an ultra-modern form of marketing: Weblog videos it hopes will give it a young-at-heart image while chatting up the virtues of several of its products.  Featuring perky video blogger Amanda Congdon …
Discussion: Frank Barnako, ChasNote and Valleywag
 
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And Now, a Commercial Break That Doesn't Seem Like One
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Google Watch:
Film that inspired Will Wright's "Spore" is focus of latest YouTube subpoena
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Will Skype save Nokia Internet Tablets?
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Business Wire:
Adobe Systems Reports First Quarter Results
Consumerist:
How I Became A Music Pirate
Discussion: Lost Remote, SurfBits, digg and Slashdot
Variety:
New Line nabs 'Gears of War'