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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
NBC Launching VOD Service — What about Hulu? — NBC will offer its top television shows as ad-supported downloads for up to a week after broadcast on a new service called "NBC Direct" that will launch this fall, the network is announcing today. It seems we're not the only ones scratching …
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Bill Carter / New York Times:
NBC to Offer a Free Video Download Service — NBC Universal, acknowledging that viewers are increasingly moving away from traditional television viewing, announced plans today for a service that will make popular NBC programs available to download free to personal computers and other devices.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Is Hulu Doomed? NBC To Begin Offering Free Downloads — NBC will start offering its top television shows as ad-supported downloads this fall (autumn) from the NBC Direct website. — The announcement is a major setback for the NBC/ News Corp joint venture Hulu, which was originally set up to offer this very content.
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Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:
DIGG: New Digg Profiles Launch — The Digg team is excited to launch new Digg user profiles later tonight, the first of many cool new features rolling out this year. — We've completely revamped our profiles from the ground up - making it easy for you to share your favorite stories …
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Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:DIGG TURNS ITS SOCIAL NETWORKING UP A FEW NOTCHES
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kottke.org:
Gems from the archive of the New York Times — Now that the NY Times has discontinued their Times Select subscription program and made much more of their 150+ years of content available for anyone to read and link to, let's take a look at some of the more notable items that the non-subscriber has been missing.
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Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:
Google Gphone still on the way, say sources — Google will definitely launch its own-brand handset but has yet to finalize the handset's specifications, OS, production contractor and operating partners, according to sources at Taiwan handset makers. — Although market rumors previously stated …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
Netscape's Propeller is Changing More Than You Might Think — AOL's social news site relaunched today under the new name Propeller. No longer "the new Netscape", Propeller seems on face like a clone of a clone. There may, though, be much more going on underneath the surface.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:Propeller Lives...For Now — Yaaarrrrr! It's International Talk …
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Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
Apple: iPhone GPS Hack Works! — Whoa, the iPhone just got GPS. Well, assisted GPS, but still. It actually works. This morning, the Navizon GPS app showed up in Installer.app. After creating a username and login (get this: email NOT required), the free app started up …
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Techcrunch40: Conference Review, How did Mint win? and many Thank You's! — Now that the first TechCrunch40 conference is complete, this post will serve as my final conference review and recap. Some of the startups asked me about full, in-depth reviews. I am going to do my best to review each …
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Web host breach may have exposed passwords for 6,000 clients — Names, addresses and phone numbers also at risk — Layered Technologies has been targeted by malicious hackers who may have stolen passwords and other personal details on as many as 6,000 of its clients, the Texas-based web host provider warned.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Why a Recession Will Help Google Rule The World — As start-ups and investors pee in their britches over the thought that the U.S. economy is headed for a recession, Google and other cash rich companies are sitting pretty. Why? Because a recession would make their cash flow, cash piles …
BBC:
Time for Apple to face the music? — Columnist Bill Thompson asks whether the time has come for Apple to be put under the EU microscope in the same way as Microsoft has. — Microsoft was humiliated by the European Union's Court of First Instance on Monday when it rejected almost all elements …
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Mark Glaser / MediaShift:
Digging Deeper:: Business 2.0 Closed Due to Corporate Neglect, Ad Woes — Business 2.0 Closed Due to Corporate Neglect, Ad Woes — When the dot-com boom fizzled, the business magazines that covered that huge story similarly flamed out. The Industry Standard closed, Red Herring went south, and Business 2.0 was on death's door.
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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
TAKE THAT, SOUTHWEST! PASS-A-MATIC ANSWERS THE WEBWARE CALL — Just in case I wasn't crystal clear in my earlier post about Southwest Airlines' new online boarding pass lottery, I despise the carrier's "cattle car" seat assignment scheme. There's at least one clever entrepreneur …
