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7:25 PM ET, March 2, 2009

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Chris Soghoian / CNET News:
White House ditches YouTube after privacy complaints  —  Responding to complaints by privacy activists, the White House has quietly abandoned YouTube as the provider of the embedded videos on the president's official home page.  —  With the release of the latest weekly video address …
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Goodbye to the YouTube Address: White House Goes with Akamai Instead
Arn / MacRumors:
New Mac Mini Packaging Spy Shot  —  Earlier today, we received a product photo of what is claimed to be the new Mac Mini.  Without another source, we published it on Page 2 and called it a likely fake.  —  OneMoreThing.nl, however, has received the same image and feels it's likely to be real.
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Arn / MacRumors:
Mac Mini and iMac Product Part Numbers?  Available Tomorrow?  [Updated]  —  Hardmac posts what it claims are the product numbers and rough descriptions of the iMac and Mac mini which are expected to be released tomorrow:
Mark / MT Hacks:
Realtime Twitter Search Results on Google  —  During the past few weeks, there has been a lot of discussion about whether Twitter's “real time search” could pose a threat to Google.  —  While I am not sure if Twitter poses a threat to Google, I think it is clear that real-time search is increasingly important.
AppleInsider:
Apple ready with new Time Capsules, AirPort Extremes  —  Apple is poised to introduce new versions of its Time Capsule wireless backup appliance and AirPort Extreme 802.11n wireless routers, regulatory filings with the Federal Communications Commission reveal.
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Video: Evan Williams explains Twitter on Charlie Rose (or tries to)  —  Twitter co-founder and chief executive Evan Williams was on Charlie Rose last week to talk about the rise of the service.  The video has now been posted online (and embedded below).  —  After acknowledging …
Discussion: TechCrunch, Mashable! and Charlie Rose
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Softpedia News:
Palm Pre Still Not Ready for Launch, Says Sprint CEO  —  Palm and Sprint plan to launch it when there will be enough units available  —  The newly unveiled Palm Pre is one of the most expected devices that will come to the United States market this year, yet it is still uncertain when that will happen.
Discussion: Obsessable and Gear Diary
Christy Pettey / Gartner:
Gartner Says PC Industry Will Suffer Sharpest Unit Decline in History in 2009  —  Mini-Notebooks Will Cushion Market Slowdown, but Still Remain Too Few to Counter Overall Market Challenges  —  The PC industry will experience its sharpest unit decline in history, with PC shipments totaling 257 million units …
Rik Ferguson / TrendLabs:
New Variant of Koobface Worm Spreading on Facebook  —  Figure 1.  Fake Facebook message  —  What surprised me though, was the page that the link led to.  On the face of it is a very familiar looking spoofed version of YouTube, complete with bogus comments from “viewers”.
Jose Antonio Vargas / Washington Post:
Obama Team Finds It Hard to Adapt Its Web Savvy to Government  —  Issues of Technology, Security and Privacy Slow the New Administration's Effort to Foster Instant Communication  —  The team that ran the most technologically advanced presidential campaign in modern history is finding it difficult to adapt that model to government.
Discussion: Between the Lines
geeksugar:
iPods and iPhones Are Not Allowed in the Gates Household  —  This month's Vogue has a great interview with Mrs. Bill Gates, the lovely philanthropist Melinda Gates.  The interview focuses on the Microsoft founder's better half, but there's a fun Apple rivalry moment in the piece, when the subject of the couples' kids is brought up.
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Thomson Reuters Plans Video on Demand Service  —  Thomson Reuters will announce on Tuesday an ambitious new video-on-demand service for its financial services clients, with thousands of searchable videos and transcripts on a range of topics, hoping to become a one-stop source for business people.
Discussion: Pulse2
Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac:
Why are Time Capsules going so cheap?  Upgrade coming?  —  Both Amazon ($387 for 1TB) and the Apple refurb store are selling Time Capsules at steep discounts this week.  Apple doesn't usually discount its current products nearly as sharply as this.  So why is Apple chopping prices?  Is it the economy?
Discussion: Gizmodo
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
DEMO: Always Innovating's Touch Book sounds amazing.  Can it deliver?  —  I haven't gotten a chance to try a Touch Book yet, but I want to.  Who wouldn't?  The netbook made by Always Innovating and making its debut at the DEMO conference today, claims to offer 10 to 15 hours of battery life …
Wall Street Journal:
Too Risky for Venture Capitalists  —  Why proposals for a government bailout were roundly rejected.  —  With industries from autos to banking begging for taxpayer handouts, what would you call an industry that says thanks, but no thanks?  Crazy, but like a fox.  Even for venture capitalists, some ideas are just too risky.
Spencer E. Ante / Business Week:
Facebook's Thiel Explains Failed Twitter Takeover  —  The social network intends to grow during the downturn, but Facebook's imprecise and illiquid stock valuation limited its appeal to Twitter  —  Facebook remains on the lookout for acquisitions after its failed attempt to buy microblogging site Twitter …
AdAge:
TV Everywhere — As Long As You Pay for It  —  Time Warner's Bewkes Plots Industry Initiative to Eradicate Free Content  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Jeff Bewkes hopes to put more TV on the internet, but he's going to make consumers prove they've paid for it.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple tops Fortune's “most admired” list — again  —  For the second time in as many years, Apple Inc. (AAPL) is No. 1 on Fortune Magazine's list of the World's Most Admired Companies. … In the nine key attributes used to rank the companies, Apple got top marks (1 out of 12) for innovation …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Who's Winning The Mobile Internet Race?  —  America's wireless carriers — AT&T (T), Verizon (VZ), Sprint (S), and T-Mobile (DT) — all want their customers to spend money on mobile Internet service.  Who's on top?  —  That's not the easiest question to answer, based on the different ways carriers report …
Discussion: DSLreports
Mark Guim / The Nokia Blog:
Nokia's Response To The Nokia 5800 NAM Issue  —  I just got word from one of my contacts at Nokia about the issues surrounding the Nokia 5800 NAM and their reponse.  It looks like they learned some devices are having problems concerning 3G performance, but it seems isolated to New York and Chicago.
Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Live Search to get new features...oh and a new brand, too  —  Live Search, keeping to a Spring and Fall update schedule, is set to unveil its new name sometime this spring, and now thanks to Twitter it is more than just rumor.  We've been hearing about a possible rebrand for quite some time …
Electronista:
Intel unveils first Atom chip for media phones  —  Intel this afternoon continued on its Atom emphasis with the launch of the Atom Z500 series and matching chipsets.  Originally codenamed Poulsbo, the processor platform is Intel's first Atom generation targeted at very small embedded devices …
Discussion: eWeek
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
Flickr video goes HD, tells time  —  A little under a year ago, Flickr began hosting video alongside its online photo service.  One of its shortcomings was that it did not support high-definition video, which in the past year has become a major feature on point-and-shoot and digital SLR cameras …
PRWeb:
Dailymotion and Hulu Announce Strategic Distribution Partnership  —  Deal with Hulu adds content from major television and film studios to one of the fastest-growing Web video sites in the U.S.  —  New York, NY (PRWEB) March 2, 2009 — Dailymotion, one of the world's largest independent video sharing sites …
Discussion: NewTeeVee
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
DEMO: Cc:Betty makes email easier for collaboration  —  A new company called Cc:Betty is making it a lot easier to follow email conversations.  —  Ever get fed up with tracking threads in your email inbox?  Google's Gmail was early to track conversation threads, but if you're like me …
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
Report: iPhone takes 2/3 of mobile Web in February  —  The latest browser share numbers suggest that the iPhone OS still dominates mobile Web browsing, though it appears as if Apple gave up some ground in the post-holiday months to competition from Google and even Nokia.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Twilio Closes Funding Round, Lands Major Customers For Its Telephony API  —  Twilio, the powerful API for phone services that allows developers to quickly integrate telephony functionality into their apps, has closed its first institutional investment round, which was led by Founders Fund and Mitchell Kapor.
Discussion: TechFlash
James Quintana Pearce / mocoNews.net:
Report: 4.1 Billion Mobile Subscribers Worldwide Helps Reduce Digital Divide (Slightly)  —  There are now 4.1 billion mobile subscriptions in the world, a global penetration rate of 61.1 percent: This compares to 1.270 billion fixed line subscribers, corresponding to a penetration rate of 18.9 percent.
Rory Maher / paidContent.org:
Earnings: TiVo Loses More Subs But Belt-Tightening Helps Bottom Line  —  TiVo's revenue during the fourth quarter ended Jan. 31 dropped 20 percent to $59.2 million from the comparable year-ago quarter, as the company continued to lose subscribers.  Earnings before interest, taxes …
Discussion: PR Newswire and Tech Trader Daily
Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:
Mark Hurd's moment  —  He's obsessed with numbers and execution.  In other words, the HP CEO is the guy you want running a company in a recession.  But is he a CEO for the ages?  —  (Fortune Magazine) — When Mark Hurd is at home in California, he wakes up each day at 4:45 A.M. - without an alarm clock.
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Test build of 10.5.7 points to possible Mac Pro update  —  Netkas, perhaps best known for his work on the OSx86 project, enabled support for his ATI Radeon 4850 by using beta drivers found in the recent test build of Mac OS X 10.5.7.  In addition to support for the 4000-series graphics cards from ATI …
 
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Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
Neil Young: Failed Warner/YouTube Negotiations ‘Penalized’ Artists
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
EMC: DOJ Investigating Government Transactions
Discussion: The Register and Computerworld
Gregg Keizer / LinuxWorld.com:
Safari loses, Firefox gains market share
Discussion: PC Magazine
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft's own private Macworld
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Erica Naone / Technology Review:
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NYC Seed Nurtures Homegrown Start-Ups
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Industry Moves: Schiller Leaves Glam To Head Sales For Comcast Interactive
Discussion: PR Newswire
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Fined By Belgian Court For Refusing To Give Up E-Mail Account Info
Discussion: tinyComb, Thanks:blogfisher
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Labels size up Web 2.0 music services
Discussion: Bits
Don Clark / Wall Street Journal:
From Small Tech Show, New Ideas
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Foxmarks becomes Xmarks, does site discovery
Discussion: TechCrunch
 

 
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