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8:30 AM ET, April 20, 2009

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Electronista:
Microsoft asks just $15 for each XP netbook  —  Microsoft's determination to wrest control of netbooks from Linux has seen it drop the bulk price of Windows XP for the systems to under $15 per copy, according to a leak from an unnamed source.  Although Microsoft has never publicly disclosed …
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Seth H. Weintraub / Computerworld Blogs:
Windows 7 application limit opens door for Android  —  We all know that Google Android netbook devices will be hitting the streets in the coming months.  They are going to be running on really inexpensive ARM-based hardware and be getting an easy, unified interface, care of Google.
Discussion: OStatic blogs
Jason Hiner / Between the Lines:   Have we arrived in the post-Windows era?
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Microsoft Windows 7 Starter for Netbooks to only allow 3 concurrent applications?
Discussion: DailyFinance and TechSpot
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Flash Charges into the Living Room  —  Adobe is making a major push to bring its Flash platform to the living room, announcing a version of Flash that's optimized for televisions, set-top boxes and Blu-ray players at the NAB Show in Las Vegas on Monday.  —  Flash is already installed …
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Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
Washington, D.C. will be 1st to get free mobile TV  —  Washington will be the first U.S. city to get free digital TV broadcasts for mobile devices like cell phones, laptop computers and in-car entertainment systems, broadcasters were set to announce Monday.  —  Broadcasts using new …
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com and PhoneNews.com
Douglas Quenqua / New York Times:
Recklessly Seeking Sex on Craigslist  —  THIS is it, Melvin thought: Craigslist is about to get me killed.  —  A recent divorcé who lacked the money and confidence for a conventional date, Melvin, 35, had been lured to a stranger's apartment by the promise of anonymous sex.
Discussion: Online Dating Insider
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Twitter overhyped, or another example of macromyopia?  —  Twitter is everywhere.  Is it overhyped?  Or is it another case of Macromyopia; over-estimating the short term effects and under-estimating the long term impact.  No doubt there is a lot of hype and attention around Twitter, fueled by Ashton Kutcher, CNN, and Oprah.
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Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Bloggers: Let's Band Together and Stop the Hype Cycle
Discussion: GMSV, Scripting News and broadstuff, Thanks:bobcaswell
Jonathan Skillings / CNET News:
Oracle to buy Sun in $7.4 billion deal  —  Oracle, not IBM, will be buying Sun Microsystems.  —  Oracle and Sun announced Monday that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash.
Discussion: GigaOM and The Register
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The newspaper industry just gave away another free meal, er Twitter: do they have any left?  —  I'm listening to Dave Winer and Jay Rosen “reboot the news.”  Jay is a journalism professor and Dave is a geek that helped either birth or bootstrap all sorts of publishing technologies including blogging, RSS, OPML, XML-RPC, and more.
Thanks:atul
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
New ‘Get a Mac’ ads don't acknowledge ‘PC Hunter’ talking points  —  We were worried that Apple would somehow try to respond to the PC Hunter advertising by switching their message.  They didn't.  They are staying on their message.  Our favorite?  Legal Copy: (more below)  —  Also see them at Apple
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
How Many New Twitter Users Post-Oprah?  A Lot.  Maybe Over A Million.  —  Late last night, former Engadget editor-in-chief Ryan Block tweeted out that he had done some research to attempt to quantify the “Oprah Effect” — that is, the number of users who signed up for Twitter after Oprah featured the service on her show on Friday.
Christopher Price / PhoneNews.com:
Apple Consolidating AV Cables Ahead of iPhone HD Launch  —  Apple has advised Apple Authorized Resellers to begin placing on clearance both the Apple Composite AV Cable and Apple Component AV Cable.  PhoneNews.com has learned that Apple will be consolidating these cables, ahead of the launch of the next iPhone.
Bobbie Mixon / EurekAlert!:
‘Instant on’ computing  —  Materials researchers say rebooting soon may be a thing of the past  —  The ferroelectric materials found in today's “smart cards” used in subway, ATM and fuel cards soon may eliminate the time-consuming booting and rebooting of computer operating systems by providing an …
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David Lieberman / USA Today:
TiVo to sell instant data on what people watch, fast-forward
Discussion: TechCrunch
Lisa Baertlein / Reuters:
Eyeing diners, restaurants take to Twitter
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
He makes $1 million crowdsourcing sources
Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
Google tips FCC about new YouTube comment filtering system
Thanks:atul
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
As Costs Fall, Companies Push to Raise Internet Price
 Earlier Items: 
Lee Mathews / Download Squad:
Is Google the next Pirate Bay? In a word, no.
Discussion: Maximum PC all
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Ask Welcomes Back Jeeves, At Least In The UK, That Is
Caine Moss / VentureBeat:
VCs are turning the screws with financing terms
Discussion: the Econsultancy blog
 

 
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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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