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7:01 AM ET, March 22, 2007

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David Pogue / New York Times:
Apple TV Has Landed  —  In the technology world, conventional wisdom says that we'll soon be saying R.I.P. for the DVD.  Internet downloads are the future, baby.  No driving, no postpaid envelopes.  Any movie, any TV show, any time.  —  Only one problem: once you've downloaded the shows to your computer …
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Wall Street Journal:
From PC to TV — via Apple
Phillip Swann / tvpredictions.com:
Why Apple TV Will Bomb
Discussion: MacUser and Tech Trader Daily
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Mossberg reviews Apple TV: "simple and elegant"
Discussion: SearchViews, MacRumors and Crave
Los Angeles Times:
News Corp., NBC pull together to challenge YouTube  —  Several media giants are teaming up to challenge Google Inc. and its YouTube video-sharing service, seeking to blunt their incursion into the entertainment business.  —  News Corp. and NBC Universal plan to announce as soon as today …
Discussion: NewTeeVee, Mashable! and PaidContent
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
News Corp, NBC May Announce Distributed YouTube Competitor Tomorrow  —  There have been rumors of a TV network led joint venture to compete with YouTube for months - the first time we heard it was just a couple of days after the first rumor of Google's acquisition of the company.
Discussion: 24/7 Wall St. and PaidContent
Tony Smith / The Register:
Ten reasons why you should buy a Mac  —  Receive the days biggest stories by email, sign up here  —  Yes, you can accept Apple's logic that "it all just works" straight out of the packaging, but there are better reasons for moving to a Mac than a factor that's just as true of modern PCs these days.
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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.
Dave Caolo / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:   Mac gaming on the cheap: Our favorite low-cost Mac games
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% …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Good News! CD Music Sales Down 20% from 2006
Carlo / Techdirt:
The Shift From CDs To Downloads Is So Much More Than A Format Change
Discussion: Furdlog
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
CIOs Spurn Web 2.0 Startups - Enterprises Want Suites and Large, Incumbent Software Vendors  —  Forrester Research has just released two reports concerning 'web 2.0' in the enterprise.  Forrester recently surveyed 119 CIOs on the topic and their answers illustrate what IT honchos want …
Discussion: Open Culture and WebMetricsGuru
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Nick / Rough Type:
Two views of Web 2.0 in business
Discussion: Smalltalk Tidbits …
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Who Created "Hillary 1984"?  Mystery Solved!  —  For the last two weeks, the Internet has been buzzing about the hottest online mystery since lonelygirl15: who was behind the "Hillary 1984" video mashup?  —  Some suspected right wing SwiftBoaters.  Some speculated it was the work of disaffected Democratic consultants.
Discussion: PrezVid, Jon Udell and techPresident
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The Huffington Post:
Phil de Vellis, aka ParkRidge47: I Made the "Vote Different" Ad
Discussion: Cult of Mac
Grant Robertson / Download Squad:
Linux MCE looks hot  —  MythTV, the popular Linux based PVR project, has been around for some time.  It's nice, and it functions well, but it's only as functional as Windows Media Center Edition plus, it can be difficult to install and configure.  Linux MCE, which wraps MythTV up into a nice package …
Discussion: eHomeUpgrade and digg
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft severs Live Search from the rest of the Windows Live family  —  Live Search is no longer part of the larger Windows Live services family, in terms of engineering and development.  —  One by-product of the March 21 Microsoft announcement of the creation of a new Search and Ad Platform group got relatively little play.
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Kongregate Gets $1M, Launches User Generated Games  —  We covered Kongregate when they were in private beta, but they're officially public with a new wad of cash from some big names to back them up.  They've created a gaming community around Flash games developed by other users …
Discussion: VentureBeat and A+E Interactive
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)
Motorola:
Motorola Announces Revised Guidance for First Quarter and Actions to Improve Profitability and Shareholder Value  —  Greg Brown Appointed President and Chief Operating Officer  —  Thomas J. Meredith Appointed Acting Chief Financial Officer  —  Accelerates Repurchase of $2.0 Billion of Common Stock …
Jay Fortner / Read/WriteWeb:
Dekoh Challenges Apollo As Desktop/Web Platform  —  After the tremendous build-up and response to Adobe's Apollo platform, which aims to integrate desktop apps with the Web, we must also remember there are other products trying for the same thing.  Dekoh is one such competitor and …
Gizmodo:
Frankenfight: Affordable HDMI Receivers  —  Audio is hard.  There are lots of wires and plugs and swearing.  That's why HDMI receivers, with their promises of audio and video over one cord, make us so excited.  —  For today's Frankenfight, two 7.1 HDMI receivers compete for that special place in our [heart] home theater.
Gizmodo:
AppleTV First Unboxing  —  Packaging is one of the only things about the AppleTV that we haven't seen already.  I was lucky enough to get one early.  Biggest surprise?  No cables in the box.  —  NOAH ROBISCHON
Discussion: Cult of Mac and digg
 
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Jonathan Seff / Macworld:
Picking an HDTV for your Apple TV
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
FatKat to use quant investing to help you pick stocks
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PrimeNewswire:
Global Venture Capital Investment in Web 2.0 Companies On the Rise
 Earlier Items: 
MediaShift:
Will Video Kill the Audio Podcasting Star? Not Exactly
Richard Wray / Guardian:
Google joins Apple in race to launch mobiles in Europe
Carlo / Techdirt:
UK Judge Rules That Selling Consumers Cheaper CDs Is Illegal
Discussion: Reuters and Furdlog
Dan Primack / PE HUB:
Amp'd Keeps Powering Up
Discussion: GigaOM and PaidContent
Hugh Macleod / gapingvoid:
EDELMAN TALK  —  Edelman have kindly asked me to come …
Downes / Half an Hour:
Why the Semantic Web Will Fail
Lee Gomes / Wall Street Journal:
Some Traditional Sites, Aiming to Be Hip, End Up the Opposite
BBC:
Laptops set to out sell desktops