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12:10 PM ET, February 6, 2009

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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
A Microsoft smartphone: No. A Microsoft phone chassis: Yes  —  Microsoft is not going to introduce a Microsoft-branded phone at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona later this month.  Not a Microsoft-branded Zune phone.  Not any kind of Microsoft-branded phone.  Period.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget Mobile:
Microsoft's SkyBox site live, branded My Phone?  —  It appears that Microsoft may have its SkyBox beta sign-up site up and running in preparation for a Mobile World Congress unveiling — except that it's not called SkyBox, it's called “My Phone” (even though the domain is getskybox.com — go figure).
Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: Multiple Inboxes  —  I'm seriously into filters and labels.  All the email I get related to Flash goes under my “flash” label, everything about paragliding goes under “flying,” and they all skip my inbox because that's how I like to stay organized.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Gmail Adds Support For Multi-Pane Viewing
Discussion: CloudAve, /Message and digg.com
Daniel Ionescu / PC World:
Google Makes iPhone the New eBook Reader: Watch Out Kindle  —  Waiting for the new Amazon Kindle e-book reader is no fun.  But if you already have an iPhone or a T-Mobile G1 in your pocket, over 1.5 million books are now at your fingertips.  The Google Book Search project …
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Lawrence Chang / Google Mobile Blog:
Google Book Search for iPhone and Android  —  Over 1.5 million public domain books in the US (and over half a million outside the US) are now available for perusing on iPhone and Android devices.  Just go to books.google.com/m in your mobile browser.  You can search for a title, author, or subject.
Walter Isaacson / Time:
How to Save Your Newspaper  —  During the past few months, the crisis in journalism has reached meltdown proportions.  It is now possible to contemplate a time when some major cities will no longer have a newspaper and when magazines and network-news operations will employ no more than a handful of reporters.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
New York Times Nuts Not To Charge Subscription Fee (NYT)
Discussion: Industry Standard
Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:
Isaacson's pitch for micropayments
Engineering Windows 7:
UAC Feedback and Follow-Up  —  When we started the “E7” blog we were both excited and also a bit uneasy.  The excitement is obvious.  The unease is because at some point we knew we would mess up.  We weren't sure if we would mess up because we were blogging about a poorly designed feature …
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Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
ESPN to ISPs: Pay for Your Customers to Play Video  —  For some sports fans, ESPN360, the online version of ESPN's television channel, is a cornucopia of more than 3,500 sporting events each year, viewable from the convenience of a computer.  For others, it's a total bust.  The only difference: their ISP.
Discussion: Slashdot and bit-tech.net
Judd Legum / Legum's New Line:
Maryland General Assembly Bans Facebook  —  The New Line has learned that the Maryland General Assembly, citing security concerns, has blocked Facebook and MySpace from the computers of state legislators and their staffs.  —  Here is the full text of the memo from Office …
Discussion: GigaOM, Silicon Alley Insider and Obsessable, Thanks:juddleg
Kim Zetter / Epicenter:
TED: MIT Students Turn Internet Into a Sixth Human Sense — Video  —  LONG BEACH, California — Students at the MIT Media Lab have developed a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen.  The wearer can summon virtual gadgets and internet data at will …
Discussion: Incremental Blogger and SlashGear
Jason Wilk / tinyComb:
Apple Store Bans Facebook For Life  — In an effort to thwart off time-theft and loiterers, Apple has decided to add Facebook to the list of banned websites at retail locations nationwide.  When I asked some of the genius' today whether or not anyone noticed the change …
Reuters:
Three executives leave Salesforce.com  —  * Salesforce.com President Steve Cakebread resigns  —  * Company lays off 2 executive vice presidents - sources (Recasts to include president's departure, background, )  —  Three senior executives left business software maker Salesforce.com Inc …
PC World:
Intel Now Shipping Atom N280 Processor  —  Intel confirmed on Thursday that it's shipping the Atom N280 processor to PC makers, which should bring more performance and improved graphics capabilities to netbooks.  —  The new single-core Atom processor is paired with a chipset that allows users …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Why Microsoft, labels cling to music subscriptions  —  LOS ANGELES—For anybody wondering why Microsoft and the top music labels continue to promote subscription music services, the answer was revealed Thursday.  —  David Ring, executive vice president of business development …
Discussion: paidContent.org
Tomi T Ahonen / Communities Dominate Brands:
Bigger than TV, bigger than the internet: Understand mobile of 4 billion users  —  We do an annual look into the size of the mobile industry here at the Communities Dominate blog.  So its time to review the growth of mobile and report on the technology that has 4 Billion subscribers.
Discussion: TeleRead and MobHappy, Thanks:mask
Dean Jackson / Surfin' Safari:
CSS Animation  —  WebKit now supports explicit animations in CSS.  As a counterpart to transitions, animations provide a way to declare repeating animated effects, with keyframes, completely in CSS.  —  With a recent nightly build, you can see the above animation in action.
Discussion: MacRumors, The iPhone Blog and Ajaxian
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
Roku's Amazon VOD in Beta.  YouTube Next?  —  We knew Amazon Video on Demand was headed to Roku's media streamer ($99) early this year.  And now, via their forums, we have word that the service has entered private beta.  I had hoped Amazon VOD functionality was hidden within the recent 1.5 software update …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
IMO.IM Is The Best IM Web Service You've Never Heard Of  —  With all the talk about Meebo adding support for Facebook chat yesterday, I took notice of a message in our tips inbox today about another instant messaging aggregator service that I'd never heard of before adding support for Skype chat.
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Verisign's Naming Business Health Checkup: Online Ad Network Weakness Hurting Us  —  For another sign of the times, have a closer look at Verisign's Internet naming business and its health during Q408: in its earnings announcement call yesterday.  Some numbers on new name registrations in .com and .net …
Simon Sage / IntoMobile:
RIM Co-CEO Temporarily Steps Down After Continued Stock Options Charges  —  In Financial, RIM (Research in Motion) … Yesterday, RIM and the Ontario Securities Commission had settled (hopefully once and for all) the back-dated stock options scandal from 2006.
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Where Do Mobile Ads Work Best?  On the iPhone!  —  The latest Mobile Advertising Report from market research agency GfK found that users of Apple's iPhone were more likely to recall and respond to ads than other mobile phone users.  The reason for their higher response rates?  Probably exposure.
Discussion: Macsimum News and mocoNews.net
Matthew Moore / Telegraph:
Police create wanted poster on Nintendo Wii  —  Japanese police have used a Nintendo Wii to generate a wanted poster of a hit-and-run suspect.  —  Rather than commissioning an artist or employing photofit software, officers put together a caricature of the man they want to trace using …
Tony Smith / The Register:
Third-gen iPhone to run on Nvidia chippery?  —  Analyst names Apple as key Tegra design win  —  Will Apple's next iPhone pack an Nvidia ARM-based system-on-a-chip?  That's what one US analyst thinks.  —  Enter Doug Freedman of AmTech, the market watcher formerly known as American Technology Research.
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac
Brian Livingston / Windows Secrets Newsletter:
Watch a live video, share your PC with CNN  —  Many people who watched live streaming video of the inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama on Jan. 20 may not realize that their PC was used to send the video to other PCs, too.  —  Clicking “yes” to a CNN.com dialog box installed a peer-to-peer …
internetnews.com:
Study: IT Woes as Mobile Edges Out Desk Phones  —  Workers are picking ever-more-powerful smartphones over desktop phones.  But businesses may face unexpected worries as a result.  —  With sales of smartphones on a tear, it might not come as a surprise that enterprise workers are forgo …
 
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Paul Schwartzman / Washington Post:
Apple Store Design Hits a Glass Wall Again
Discussion: MacNN and TUAW
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Source: ‘Significant’ layoffs at MPAA
Discussion: TechSpot
Marcia / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Court Orders County to Release Geographic Mapping Data
Dave Rosenberg / Negative Approach:
Open-source dilemma in the U.K.?
Discussion: Open Source and Forbes
Christian Science Monitor:
Record labels eye mobile music games
Discussion: Music Ally and mocoNews.net
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Earthlink on AOL Dialup Acquisition: We Wanted To Buy, But Too Late …
Martin Anderson / denofgeek.com:
Geek tech: Why your pop-up blocker doesn't work as well as it used to
Discussion: Slashdot
 Earlier Items: 
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Is The Worst Behind Us?  Online Ad Revenues Pick Up In The Fourth Quarter.
Eric Goldman / Technology & Marketing Law Blog:
Publisher Promising “Visitors” Owes “Visitors,” Not “Unique Visitors”—WebMD v. RDA
Economist:
Virtual pleasures  —  Many young people prefer pleasure-seeking …
Channel 9:
The History of Microsoft - 1975  —  Thirty-four years ago …
Discussion: TechFlash
Therese Poletti / MarketWatch:
Silicon Valley has a few rare bright spots
Thanks:atul
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Hackers Hit Anti-Pirates to Avenge Sub-Site Takedown
Discussion: digg.com
Mike Schroepfer / Facebook Developers:
Next Steps in Openness
 

 
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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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