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5:11 PM ET, January 24, 2008

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Miguel Helft / Bits:
YouTube On the Go  —  YouTube first dipped its toe in the mobile world in November of 2006 with a deal to deliver some video clips through the VCast service of Verizon Wireless.  Last year it created a mobile Web site accessible on many Sprint and AT&T phones.  But the site only carried a small slice of YouTube content.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
YouTube Takes Entire Site Mobile
Discussion: mocoNews.net and Yahoo! Finance
Robert A. Guth / Wall Street Journal:
Gates Calls for Kind Capitalism  —  Famously Competitive, Billionaire Now Urges Business to Aid the Poor  —  Free enterprise has been good to Bill Gates.  But later today, the Microsoft Corp. chairman will call for a revision of capitalism.  —  In a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos …
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InfoWorld:
Gates calls for ‘creative capitalism’ to solve needs of poor
Discussion: eWeek
Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
Wall Street Journal Web Site To Remain Subscription-Based  —  The Wall Street Journal's Web site, WSJ.com, will keep a significant portion of its content behind its paid-subscription wall, News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said Thursday.  —  Speculation that News Corp. would make WSJ.com …
John P. Falcone / CNET News.com:
Vudu drops price to fend off resurgent Apple TV  —  Vudu is knocking 25 percent off the price of its eponymous video-on-demand box.  Effective immediately, the Vudu is now $295, down from its original $399 asking price.  Customers who've purchased the unit in the past 30 days …
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Steve O'Hear / last100:
Vudu “slashes” price again (sort of)
Discussion: NewTeeVee, Gearlog and Valleywag
Robert Andrews / paidContent.org:
Music Biz Pushes Piracy Blame To ISPs; Digital Sales Up 40 Percent  —  We said in December the music industry would this year start to shift blame for piracy on to ISPs.  As of today - and buoyed by recent similar French moves - the business is going after access providers in a big way.
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Report: iPhones piling up at AT&T stores  —  Is demand for the iPhone in America already starting to wane?  —  AT&T, the exclusive American carrier of the iPhone, activated just 900,000 iPhones during the fourth quarter, the company revealed during its earnings conference call Thursday.
Discussion: Macsimum News
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Charles Starrett / iLounge:
Analysis: One-third of iPhones sold to unlock
InfoWorld:
How the wireless spectrum auction could change your life  —  Depending on who's talking, the wireless spectrum auction that starts on Jan. 24 will significantly change the mobile and wireless landscape in the United States, or it won't have much impact at all.
Discussion: Electronista, last100 and Computerworld
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Robert X. Cringely / Popular Mechanics:
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the 700-MHz Auction …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Battelle Turns Down $100 Million Offer For FM Publishing.  Decides To Shop Around For a Higher Price.  —  Yesterday, news started circulating that Federated Media Publishing hired Savvian, a boutique San Francisco investment bank, to shop around the blog ad network to potential buyers.
Alex Iskold / ReadWriteWeb:
The “Work From Home” Generation  —  For decades in American households the most dreaded morning sound was that of an alarm clock.  Sometime between 6 and 7am a beep or radio music signaled that it was time to get up and head to work.  But in the early 21st century two things have begun to change.
NTT DoCoMo Global Site:
NTT DoCoMo and Google to Partner in Mobile Internet Services  —  Tokyo, January 24, 2008 - NTT DoCoMo, Inc. (Headquartered in Tokyo; President & CEO Masao Nakamura) and Google Inc. (Headquartered in California; Chairman & CEO; Eric Schmidt) today jointly announced that they formed a partnership …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Sprint Cleans House: CFO, CMO, Sales Chief Get The Boot  —  Sprint Nextel (S) this morning started cleaning house: the company announced the departures effective tomorrow of CFO Paul Saleh, Chief Marketing Officer Tim Kelly, and President of Sales and Distribution Mark Angelino.  Buh-bye.  Buh-bye.
Bill Snyder / InfoWorld:
Has open source sold out?  —  As open source goes mainstream, big commercial software companies reap as much revenue as scrappy independents  —  Has the open source software movement become a victim of its own success?  A provocative new study by a longtime software analyst suggests …
Discussion: Open Source
Josh / Redeye VC:
After the Techcrunch Bump  —  I see many consumer Internet pitches these days where the basic marketing strategy is to (1) get covered by Techcrunch, (2) get tens of thousands of users from the “Techcrunch Bump”, and then (3) “grow virally".  While a positive Techcrunch review has the potential …
John Leyden / The Register:
Estonia fines man for DDoS attacks  —  Local pest rather than international conspiracy  —  Estonia has fined a local man a year's salary for involvement in last April's sustained denial of service attacks against the Baltic nation's critical internet systems.
Jrjones / Jeff Jones Security Blog:
DOWNLOAD: WINDOWS VISTA ONE YEAR VULNERABILITY REPORT  —  Windows Vista shipped to business customers on the last day of November 2006, so the end of November 2007 marks the one year anniversary for supported production use of the product.  —  This paper analyzes the vulnerability disclosures …
 
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Microsoft earnings shine; Ups fiscal year outlook
Julian Sanchez / Ars Technica:
Smartphones, seat belts, searches, and the Fourth Amendment
Discussion: Salon and Gizmodo
Jasmine France / Crave: The gadget blog:
Do you know Jack?  —  Meet Jack.  Jack hates tangled earphone wires.
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Dell and Microsoft get official with (PRODUCT) RED gear
Smaran / TorrentFreak:
Alchemist Author Pirates His Own Books
Discussion: P2P Blog and O'Reilly Radar
Business Wire:
Rockstar Games Announces Release Date for Grand Theft Auto IV
Cher Pryce / Inquirer:
Rumours of Big Blue buy-out boost AMD stock
Discussion: Between the Lines
 Earlier Items: 
Lance Ulanoff / PC Magazine:
DRM-Free Music Spells Trouble
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Netflix bringing streaming rentals to Macs, game console next?
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Thunderbolt's jetpack: Just $100,000 for 75 seconds of flight
Discussion: Engadget
Timothy Lee / Techdirt:
Your Website Shouldn't Be Just An Electronic Version Of Your Print Publication
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
What Growth in Widget networks means to the Web Strategist
Discussion: Snipperoo
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple halving iPhone projections for quarter?
Brian Crecente / Kotaku:
EA Calls Fox Out on “Insulting” Mass Effect Inaccuracies
Tony Smith / The Register:
Linux-less Eee PC launched in Japan
 

 
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Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
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