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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Hulu Launches Private Beta, Makes Very Good First Impressions — Last March NBC Universal and News Corporation announced a joint venture that we initially thought would result in a direct competitor to YouTube. As details emerged, it became clear that the two media conglomerates were not planning …
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Hulu Debuts to Meet Foes and Find Friends — The long-awaited and much-derided NBC (GE) and News Corp (NWS) joint venture Hulu will make a somewhat public debut this week, opening up a private beta tonight of its web video service and initiating distribution of its movies, TV shows …
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Hulu Readies Online TV, Dodging Jabs — The knives are out for Hulu.com. — Hulu is the new-media creation of two old-media rivals, NBC, which is owned by General Electric, and Fox, owned by the News Corporation. Since March, when the broadcasters announced their joint effort to bring free …
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
No Need to Wait: Hulu Videos Already Available on AOL — If you are among the many who haven't received an invitation to the recently launched private beta of Hulu.com - and probably won't because users can't send their friends invitations - you don't have to keep waiting to get your Hulu fix.
John Siracusa / Ars Technica:
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review — Introduction — At the end of my Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger review, I wrote this. … That was exactly two and a half years ago, to the day. It seems that I've gotten my wish and then some. Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard has gestated longer …
Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:
T-Mobile HTC Shadow Finally Emerges Looking Damn Good (Gallery) [Hands On] — The long-rumored T-Mobile Shadow (aka Juno) officially launches now. It hits stores Wednesday for $200 with voice-plan or $150 with $20-per-month unlimited data plan. (Both require two year contracts.)
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Akamai's New HD Strategy: Show, Don't Tell — Better video quality sounds great and all, but it's not clear there's demand for high-definition content online yet. Akamai (AKAM), in an attempt to sign up customers for its new HD offering, is pounding the pavement itself.
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Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
Travel Sales Still Growing, but Numbers of Customers Are Declining — THE online travel category is still rolling along, but there may be trouble ahead. — Like other e-commerce markets, travel is expected to produce double-digit sales growth this year in the United States …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
The Colbert Nation Quickly Colonizes Facebook — Stephen Colbert's presidential candidacy may be phony, but his supporters are very real. — Late on Oct. 16, immediately after the comedian declared his intentions on his satirical news show "The Colbert Report," supportive groups began to form on the social networking site Facebook.
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Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Instant Jailbreak for iPhone and iPod touch — A crew of hackers (including hdm/metasploit, rezn, dinopio, drudge, kroo, pumpkin, davidc, dunham, and NerveGas) have introduced a one-touch instant jailbreak for both iPhone and iPod touch. The jailbreak opens your iPhone for full disk access …
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
MTV NETWORKS LAUNCHES ONLINE LYRICS INITIATIVE — On Monday, MTV Networks is set to unveil an initiative to connect its television, online, and mobile presences by helping music fans answer that crucial question—"Who the (expletive) sings that song?" — In other words, MTV Networks …
James Ashton / Times of London:
Revival hopes for 3 hinge on Skype, the phone of tomorrow — THE mobile-phone group 3 will tomorrow unveil its long-awaited Skype phone, the first to bring free international calls over the internet to consumers on the go. — It is the latest in a series of moves designed to revive …
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Leopard drivers hint at upcoming MacBooks — Apple may have tipped its hand and revealed a near-term update to its 13-inch MacBooks and potentially its Mac minis, based on files discovered inside Mac OS X Leopard's system folders. The company has included a full set of recent drivers …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Nintendo grows further from fun and games, closer to the practical and utilitarian — Nintendo's as cagey as tech companies come, but the WSJ is reporting on a recent and unusual high level, high impact strategy presentation where in top 'Tendo execs revealed what's described as a change …
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