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Fred / A VC:
Why Hulu Should Embrace Boxee — For those that don't know, Union Square Ventures is an investor in Boxee and I am on the board. For the past several weeks I have watched Boxee's management try their hardest to convince Hulu that Boxee is a big step forward for Hulu and Hulu's content partners.
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Kathleen Richards / East Bay Express:
Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0 — Local business owners say Yelp offers to hide negative customer reviews of their businesses on its web site ... for a price. — Send a letter — The phone calls came almost daily. It started to get creepy. — “Hi, this is Mike from Yelp,” the voice would say.
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Band Puts All Its Music (Plus More) Into A $3 iPhone App — The pop band The Presidents of the United States of America have released a special iPhone app that contains all of the music from all of their albums, as well as additional rare and unreleased music and images.
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Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
The Presidents of the United States of America Unleash Multiple-Album iPhone App — Dave Dederer, former singer and guitarist for nineties hitmakers The Presidents of the United States of America, has fashioned quite a second career for himself as the vice president of business development for Melodeo …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Sprint: Customer defections continue; Can Palm's Pre reverse the slide? — Sprint Nextel showed some signs of improvement in its fourth quarter, but is still losing customers at a rapid clip. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said the company has “high expectations” that the Palm Pre handset can attract customers to the wireless provider.
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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Discontinues 20" Cinema Display, Product Refreshes Coming? — Apple has removed the 20" Cinema Display from the online Apple Store and has notified resellers that the product has been “end of life'd” and can no longer be ordered. — While it may be possible that Apple has simply chosen …
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Yahoo! Search Marketing Blog:
Your Ads, Richer — Yahoo! adds video, images and custom links to search ads — Ever since we launched pay-per-click advertising, the ads have looked more or less the same: A headline, a line of ad copy, a link. They haven't changed because, frankly, the combination works pretty well.
Arn / MacRumors:
Turn-By-Turn iPhone GPS App Already Available in iTunes — It seems despite all the anticipation about Turn-by-Turn GPS routing for the iPhone, an App already exists in the App Store that delivers this basic functionality. — XRoad Co.'s G-Map U.S. West and G-Map U.S. East apps were released …
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Day 4 - Pirate Bay Defense Calls Foul Over Evidence — Prosecutor Håkan Roswall began the day by again referencing the case in Finland against the administrators of Finreactor. Fredrik's lawyer Jonas Nilsson requested a copy of the case notes for the defense.
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple buying up available flash RAM supplies for next iPhone — A report issued on the flash RAM market indicates that Apple is inhaling supplies of memory components in preparation for the next generation iPhone, causing part shortages and raising the spot price for memory.
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Upcoming Verizon news: BlackBerry Niagara, Hub updates, Netbooks, Apex — One of our trusty ninjas just hit us up with a couple details on some of Verizon's upcoming products and product offerings. First off.. Netbooks. We've been told that Verizon Wireless will 100% start selling Netbooks in stores around May of this year.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
DocStoc Does Its Part To Rid The Web Of Download Links — Document sharing site DocStoc has launched DocShots, a free service that allows publishers to convert any document on a website into a hoverable link that provides an instant online document preview.
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InfoWorld:
Dell calls for Psion ‘netbook’ trademark to be removed — Dell has enlisted the help of the US courts in a bid to remove Psion's trademark of the term ‘Netbook’. — Netbook is the term used to describe low cost and low spec small laptops that are ideal for surfing the web on-the-go.
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Stantum's mind-blowing multitouch interface on video! — We just got a look at some amazing touchscreen interaction, running on a humble resistive touchscreen with some OMAP hardware backing it up. Stantum's technology is a software-based refinement to resistive touchscreens that allows …
Randall C. Kennedy / Enterprise Desktop:
Windows 7: Cutting corners in the rush to market? — Is Microsoft ignoring beta tester feedback in its quest to ship Windows 7 come hell or high water in 2009? — Is Microsoft moving too fast with Windows 7? That's the complaint coming from some members of the technical beta program.
Jeremy Mullman / AdAge:
Anheuser-Busch Pulls the Plug on Bud.TV — Legal Difficulties, Trouble Producing Content Led to Video Site's Demise — CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — Bud.TV, one of the boldest, most groundbreaking and least successful online video plays by a major marketer, has officially died.
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
MTV Pioneer Launches $99 Music Videos on the Web — Verizon is sponsoring latest channel from web studio Next New Networks — Back in 1981, Fred Seibert helped create MTV. Now he'd like to recreate it on the web with a new network devoted to music videos made in a day for $99 or less.
Chris Soghoian / CNET News:
Recovery.gov blocked search engine tracking — Update: As of 8 a.m. PST, within three hours of this story first going live, it appears that President Obama's Web team has (silently) pulled the robots.txt file from the Recovery.gov Web site. The site is now open to Web crawlers of all kinds.
Etgar Lefkovits / Jerusalem Post:
‘Kosher’ GPS device gets official launch — It lists thousands of kosher restaurants and includes the Book of Psalms, the three daily prayer services, the Traveler's Prayer, a Hebrew calendar, and two versions of Grace After Meals. — Welcome to the “kosher” GPS device.
NokiaPressServices / Nokia Press Bulletin Board:
Nokia completes EUR 500 million R&D loan agreement with EIB — Nokia has completed a EUR 500 million loan agreement with the European Investment Bank (EIB). The five-year loan will be used to part-finance software research and development (R&D) projects Nokia is undertaking during 2009-2011 …
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Asustek to completely phase out 8.9-inch Eee PCs in 2009, says Asia-Pacific president — Asustek Computer will completely phase out its 8.9-inch Eee PC netbooks in 2009 since 10-inch models are becoming the mainstream specification in the market, according to Benson Lin, president of Asustek's Asia-Pacific division.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
YouNoodle scores the buzz on 25,000 startups — YouNoodle, the company that made a splash last year by claiming to predict the future value of startups, is continuing its efforts to turn startup evaluation into a science. Now it's adding a YouNoodle Score that tracks news stories to determine a startup's …
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Palm confirms games are in development for Pre, drops a few other tidbits — We sat down with Palm today and in addition to spotting that soft-touch cover we chatted them up on where things stand, how things are progressing, and various other clarifications about webOS and the Pre that have yet to be made.
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Gary / HDGURU.Com:
New HDTV Makers Enter The US Market With LCD Flat Panels Up to 82″ Part I-HD Guru Exclusive — Honeywell's 82″ LCD HDTV (Outside Dimensions 52.9″ H x 79.6″ W) — Plagued by low profits (or outright losses), sagging sales, and enormous competition …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Coghead Grinds To A Halt, Heads To The Deadpool — Coghead, a visual web-based application editor that allowed users to develop enterprise applications using an intuitive GUI, is closing its doors. The company attributes its closing to the dire economic situation, and says that users …
Bloomberg:
Hewlett-Packard's Hurd Cuts Employees' Pay as Silicon Valley Retrenches — Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) — Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd spent three years cutting costs to lift profit. Now he's targeting employee pay to ride an economic slump he says will last the rest of the year.
