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11:40 PM ET, January 17, 2009

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Arlen Parsa / The Daily Background:
Exclusive: Belkin's Development Rep is Hiring People to Write Fake Positive Amazon Reviews  —  (Update: Welcome to Slashdot, Digg, Engadget, Gizmodo readers!  The latest is, I've heard from Belkin's public relations department and I am expecting a formal comment to come out from them relatively soon …
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John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Belkin paying 65 cents for good reviews on NewEgg and Amazon?  —  I just contacted Belkin to confirm but this doesn't look good.  A site called The Daily Background found evidence that Belkin Bizdev guy, Michael Bayard, is paying folks 65 cents to write good things about Belkin routers.  Why?
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Bloodbath in the Clouds Continues as RSS Email Service Shutters  —  Every day it feels like I am hearing about another cloud computing service that is shutting down.  This time it's RSS FWD, a neat tool that let you read RSS feeds in your email account.  The site just rolled out an upgraded offering in September.
Discussion: Mashable!
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Jaiku Founder: “We're Not Dying, We're Morphing”  —  Last week, Google announced that the company was unceremoniously discontinuing or at least ceasing development of a number of services it had launched or acquired in the past, including Google Video, Notebook, Catalog Search, Dodgeball and The Mashup Editor.
Discussion: /Message and rizzn's socnets
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Jyri / zengestrom.com:
Signal (and noise) about Jaiku this week
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
Why No Twitter Search from the Big Guys?  —  Danny asks a very good question here: … Well, my answer is simple: Competition.  —  The reason there is not a “Twitter search” from Yahoo or Google is because both companies want to own Twitter, or at least, they want to own the phenomenon of real time search Twitter represents.
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
IT venture investing posts worst Q4 in a decade  —  Venture capital investments in IT companies plunged 40 percent to $2.18 billion in the fourth quarter, their worst level in a decade, according to figures released late Friday by VentureSource.  —  The data further confirms concerns entrepreneurs …
Discussion: PR Newswire, TechFlash and VatorNews
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google may still be working on GDrive  —  It's been a very long time since rumors of GDrive have surfaced, and I all but gave up on the idea.  Reports today make it sound like Google is still interested in working on it, but gave no indication if it's actually currently being worked on, or when it would be launched.
Dan Nosowitz / Gizmodo:
iPod Touch 2G Jailbroken by the iPhone Dev Team  —  The 2nd generation iPod touch proved a tricky customer to break, but the Dev Team has made the first big step toward a full-on jailbreak.  —  The Dev Team stumbled upon the break when making yellowsn0w, the iPhone jailbreaker …
Discussion: Mashable!
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Napster Warns Subscribers That Best Buy Will Have Access To All Data Unless They Cancel By Feb. 17  —  Napster (NSDQ: NAPS) subscribers using the service after Feb. 17 will be giving the gift of data to Best Buy.  In an “important announcement” sent to subscribers this morning …
Reuters:
Vatican to get own YouTube channel  —  VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican will soon have its own channel on the video sharing site YouTube where the Catholic faithful or the curious will be able to see Pope Benedict or Church events, a Vatican source said on Saturday.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch  —  Cloud storage and file synchronization is becoming increasingly important as users access the Internet and their data via a plethora of devices - desktop computers with large hard drives, laptops with smaller drives …
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Discussion: LiveSide and Search Engine Journal
 
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Discussion: VentureBeat and Lifehacker
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Boxee, Used to View Web on TV, Generates Buzz
Discussion: New York Times, A VC and Technologizer
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Road to Mac OS X Snow Leopard: 64-bit security
 

 
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
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:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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