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Avner Ronen / boxee blog:
new version + hulu update — we started boxee because there was an opportunity in the media center space for a product/company who put the user first, while respecting the rights of content owners. over the past year and a half we've listened to users, content owners, investors, working to create that platform.
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Boxee and Hulu can't reach an agreement, so Boxee creates a workaround (and launches an app store) — When Boxee was forced to pull Hulu support a few weeks ago, users were outraged. And rightfully so. It's not like Boxee, a software media center startup, was blocking the advertisements Hulu was showing …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Hulu Back On Boxee... Without Hulu's Help — Web video software company Boxee's few-hundred-thousand alpha users can again get access to one of their favorite features — Hulu, the Web video site backed by News Corp. (NWS) and NBC (GE). Sort of. — (What's Boxee? See footnote at of story.)
Aaron Greenspan / The Huffington Post:
Why I Sued Google (and Won) — Like most Americans, I use Google's search engine several times a day without so much as a second thought. It was only in 2007 that my company's relationship with Google, Inc. temporarily escalated to that of a full-fledged customer, when Think Computer …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Robert Scoble To Leave FastCompany — Super-blogger Robert Scoble is leaving his full time job at FastCompany, he confirmed by phone tonight. He first joined the company nearly a year ago and has been running their FastCompany.tv site. He says he'll continue to write a column for the magazine, but his video work with them is over.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Why I haven't posted for two weeks — TechCrunch has the news tonight: Scoble to leave Fast Company. — Back in 2003 I wrote a Corporate Blogging Manifesto. Rule #13 is “don't write if your life is in turmoil.” — It's even harder to write when you are negotiating for stuff.
Lidija Davis / ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter Begins Rolling Out Search and Trends — Twitter appears to be in the process of rolling out its integrated search feature with a search box and a trends button appearing on some user profiles today. While the feature is not yet available to all users, our guess is that it's very much on the way - and soon.
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Yukari Iwatani Kane / Wall Street Journal:
Breaking Apple's Grip on the iPhone — Firms Launch Sites Selling Unauthorized Software for Device, Posing Challenge to Official Online Store — Apple Inc. faces a growing threat to its iPhone strategy, as renegade stores spring up online to sell unauthorized software for the device.
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Jason Perlow / Tech Broiler:
Microsoft: Litigate on FAT, and you'll be the next Unisys — Remember “Burn All GIFs” from 1999? In 2009, the Open Source mantra of choice could very easily turn into “Destroy all FATs” — If you've been following the news in the Linux community, you've probably heard that Microsoft …
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CNET News:
Is Craigslist the world's biggest bordello? — Catherine is a 35-year-old sex worker in San Francisco who relies on Craigslist to reduce the physical risks often faced by a woman in her line of work. — “Craigslist is important to helping us avoid violence,” says the woman, who is originally from Europe.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Palm investor: Pre will trump iPhone — Palm investor Roger McNamee is talking smack and arguing that Apple iPhone users will jump ship to the to-be-launched Pre. — According to Bloomberg, McNamee said: … And. … That's some heady talk from an investor in a company that needs to ship the Pre on time to survive.
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Gareth Beavis / TechRadar.com:
Philips: OLED windows in a few years — Clear in the day, and all light and bright at night — Philips Research has shown off a new transparent OLED concept that is totally clear when turned off and then can be fully illuminated. — The theory of having a window that illuminates at night …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
BackType Gets More Conversation Tracking Features, Seed Funding — BackType, one of the better conversation tracking tools we've come across so far, is releasing a couple of new features today that arguably make it a top gun in the space. The startup, launched in August 2008 on $15k thanks …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Darknets and the future of P2P investigators — LimeWire's new software illustrates a growing trend: “darknets” are becoming simple to setup and use. As millions of people now find that they can easily create their own private share networks, what's in store for content industry investigators …
Business Wire:
Circuit City Stores Closing Permanently on March 8 — Record Shopper Turnouts Result in Early Closure for Chain — WOODLAND HILLS, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Liquidators managing the going-out-of-business sales at Circuit City stores nationwide announced today that all stores will close permanently …
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Oh Look... RIAA Still Filing Lawsuits... Remember back in December all the fanfare around that WSJ article claiming that the RIAA was abandoning its litigation strategy? In retrospect, the whole thing is looking like a huge PR campaign rather than anything significant.
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
ShopSavvy perfects its Android app with better location and barcode scanning — ShopSavvy is one of the most popular applications on Google's Android mobile platform. It has over 400,000 users who actively use it on their G1 phones to scan barcodes and look up items online to comparison shop in real-time.
Engineering Windows 7:
Beta to RC Changes - Turning Windows Features On or Off — The theme of “choice and control” has been applied in many aspects of how we have designed Windows 7. We've certainly received lots of positive feedback about the theme and about the choices we've made in the design …
Gord Hotchkiss / Search Engine Land:
Is Google Rewiring Our Brains? — Some time ago, I wrote an article called “Are Our Brains Becoming Googlized?” It became my most read Search Engine Land post ever. Apparently I wasn't the only one fascinated by the prospect of wholesale rewiring of our brains through exposure to technology.
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
Security holes in Apple Time Capsule, AirPort Base Station — Apple has released a firmware update with fixes for three documented security vulnerabilities affecting its Time Capsule and AirPort Base Station products. — The vulnerabilities could lead to denial-of-service …
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft protest organizer has a change of heart, agrees to cuts — Phil Palios, the 23-year-old Microsoft contract worker who organized the protest against the company's cutbacks, has decided this whole labor-leader thing isn't for him. In a post published tonight, Palios explains …
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Want all 25,000 iPhone apps? That will be $71,442.69. — While RIM, Microsoft and Palm ready their mobile app stores for release this year, the one that inspired them all, Apple's App Store, continues to chug along at an impressive pace. The store now features more than 25,000 applications …
Douglas MacMillan / Business Week:
The Music Industry's New Internet Problem — Music sites with freely accessible content are being used by a growing number of listeners as a substitute for buying music — Watch the Video... Five years ago, New York-based graphic designer Gitamba Saila-Ngita spent around $100 …
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John Herrman / Gizmodo:
First SDXC Card Is The World's Fastest, Only Holds 32GB — SDXC, the new memory card spec announced at CES, promised exciting things, storage-wise. Pretec demonstrated the first card that'll support the standard, and at a mere 32GB and 50MB/s, well, it's a step.
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