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Saul Hansell / Bits:
Time Warner: Download Too Much and You Might Pay $30 a Movie — Let's say you buy a new Apple TV because you want to rent high-definition movies. And say you are about to move to Beaumont, Tex. If so, you might wind up paying Time Warner Cable as much as $30 when you download a movie using its high-speed Internet service.
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Publishing 2.0, Alexander van Elsas's Weblog …, Brandon Live!, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable! and Gadget Lab
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:Video Killed the Broadband Buffet
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The Register, Southeast Texas Live!, E-Commerce Times, mikecane2008.wordpress.com, larry borsato and DSLreports
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
China Close To Becoming World's Largest Internet Market By Users — New statistics released by the Chinese Government show that China is due to surpass the United States as the nation with the most internet users in the coming months. — The state-owned China Internet Network Information Center …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Hires Tony Scott as Chief Information Officer — Respected industry veteran to join executive leadership team, run global IT operations. — Microsoft Corp. today announced the appointment of Tony Scott to the role of chief information officer (CIO) and corporate vice president of Microsoft.
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Valleywag, InformationWeek Weblog, IDG News Service, All about Microsoft and Microsoft News Tracker
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Blogger Suffers Major Outage. Bloggers Not Happy — Google's Blogger hosted blogging service has suffered a major outage this afternoon (PST) with [Spammers] bloggers flooding forums to complain. — Users affected by the outage were presented with a Blogger error message that included the code …
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violet blue:
so, everyone's asking what happened between me and steve jobs today... Update 01.16: this is now on Digg, “Steve Jobs tells off fan, calls her 'rude': Blogger and podcaster Violet Blue approached the Apple CEO on the Macworld floor to ask for a photo — and got completely blown off.".
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Crave at CNET UK:
Dell laptops in electric shock shocker — We've discovered a worrying new feature in some Dell laptops: if you touch them, you may get an electric shock. This discharge can vary in strength from a gentle tingle to a sudden jolt. Disturbingly, you could also be shocked when connecting printers …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Folks In Europe Trying To Connect The CIA To Every Successful American Internet Company? — Earlier this week, some readers sent in the utterly ridiculous article from the Guardian in the UK working out all sorts of laughable conspiracy theories behind Facebook.
AnandTech:
The MacBook Air CPU Mystery: More Details Revealed — Author: Anand Lal Shimpi MacBook Air Products — Earlier this week Apple announced its MacBook Air, and within hours we had the mystery of its “60% smaller” CPU uncovered. Or at least we thought. — It turns out there's even more depth …
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MacRumors
Steve Lohr / Bits:
IBM: A Separate Reality? — We knew the bottom-line numbers, after I.B.M. jumped the gun by three days and announced its surprisingly strong profits and sales figures on Monday. But what was striking in the company's conference call on Thursday afternoon was the unhedged optimism in its outlook for 2008 …
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Google's Schmidt to NASA: Be more ‘open’ — WASHINGTON—Google chief Eric Schmidt on Thursday suggested NASA could learn a few things from his company. — Speaking at a luncheon series to commemorate the agency's 50th anniversary this year, Schmidt urged the space agency …
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Digg's secret editors — Why do some stories abruptly disappear from Digg? Duncan Riley of TechCrunch suspects “super users." But there's a much simpler explanation: Digg's shadowy moderators. Digg cofounder Kevin Rose has admitted that the social-news site, a supposedly democratic venue …
Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag:
Domain king cashes $750,000 check for $70 domain — Rick Schwartz just sold CNN the domain iReport.com for $750,000. Schwartz bought the domain in 1997 for “$70 to $100,” he told Silicon Alley Insider. CNN likely bought the domain for its I-Report program. You know, the one where You The Viewer get to do all the work.
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Silicon Alley Insider
Max Freiert / Compete Blog:
Sink or Swim? The Top Moving Sites Of 2007 — At Compete we frequently write about monthly traffic volume and site popularity, but the focus is usually on the ten or twenty sites that enjoy monthly visitors in the tens (or even hundreds) of millions. While it's important to investigate these sites …
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Silicon Alley Insider, CenterNetworks, Paul Kedrosky's …, TechCrunch and IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband
Daniel Langendorf / last100:
NBA decides not to go it alone, partners with Turner to expand its digital offerings — The NFL and MLB stayed home. The NBA is stepping out. We'll see who innovates the best. — The NBA and Turner Broadcasting System will jointly manage the league's domestic 24-hour digital business …
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Web Ad Buyer: Online Less Robust Than You Think, CPMs Headed Down — Most prognosticators predict another booming year for online advertising, but Carl Fremont isn't so sure. Fremont, the global media director for digital ad giant Digitas, says the weakening economy will slow down Web ads as well.
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