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1:05 PM ET, April 30, 2009

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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Finally: Disney, Hulu Deal Announced  —  Took 'em long enough.  —  Just as MediaMemo predicted, Walt Disney Co. has finally taken a stake in Hulu, the video-streaming site operated by General Electric's (GE) NBC Universal, News Corp. (NWS) and Providence Equity Partners.
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Christina Lee / Business Wire:
Disney to Join NBC Universal, News Corporation and Providence …
John C Abell / Epicenter:
Disney to Acquire 30% Hulu Stake, Full ABC Shows on the Way: Report
Discussion: I4U News
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 impressions, insights, and expectations  —  As you may or may not know, Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 has been officially handed out to MSDN and TechNet subscribers today, and there are plans to unleash the heavily-hyped OS to the waiting public at large come May 5th.
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Microsoft:
Windows 7 Release Candidate Is Available From Microsoft  —  Industry experts advise partners, companies and developers to preview Microsoft's next operating system.  —  Today Microsoft Corp. has reached a significant milestone with the Release Candidate (RC) of the highly anticipated Windows …
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Palm's next webOS device?  Pre Centro?  —  One of our ninjas just hit us up with the above photo... they said it would be Palm's next webOS device, the rumored Centro-esque handset.  No specs or anything, just a “Fall” release date.  Sorry for the blurry and small photo, but it's legit!
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Forget The Pre, Palm's Got A Second Device Coming Out This Year.  We're Calling It The Mini-Pre  —  I came across some very interesting news today.  I was mostly minding my own business, hammering away at our various sources in the hardware industry and trying to dig up some sort of information …
Wayne Schulz / Gear Diary:
Amazon starts charging by the megabyte for delivering personal documents to your Kindle - adds support for DOCX and RTF file formats  —  Amazon just revealed a few changes to their Kindle supported documents as well as modifications to their whispernet fee structure.
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Amazon Kindle / Amazon Kindle's Blog:
Kindle Personal Documents  —  For anyone who has recently sent personal documents to your Kindle, we'd like to let you know about some updates to our Personal Document Service (via Whispernet).  —  Starting May 4, in addition to the existing list of supported file types (DOC, HTML, JPEG …
BBC:
Web tool ‘as important as Google’  —  A web tool that “could be as important as Google”, according to some experts, has been shown off to the public.  —  Wolfram Alpha is the brainchild of British-born physicist Stephen Wolfram.  —  The free program aims to answer questions directly …
Wall Street Journal:
In Major Shift, Apple Builds Its Own Team to Design Chips  —  Apple Inc. is building a significant capability to design its own computer chips, a strategy shift that the company hopes will create exclusive features for its gadgets and shield Apple's work from rivals.
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Yukari Iwatani Kane / Digits:   What Does Steve Jobs Want With All Those Chip Guys?
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Flickr Co-Founder Butterfield and Chief Architect Henderson Working on Stealth Start-Up  —  Yesterday, several Flickr engineers posted news of their layoffs from the Yahoo photo-sharing unit on Twitter, which caused GigaOm's Om Malik to notice that Flickr architect Cal Henderson (pictured here) was also no longer on its About page.
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Alexis Madrigal / Wired Science:
Google Could Have Caught Swine Flu Early  —  Google's search data may have been able to provide an early warning of the swine flu outbreak — if the company had been looking in the right place.  —  Last week, at the request of the Centers for Disease Control, Google took a retroactive look at its search data from Mexico.
Peter Lauria / New York Post:
FACE(BOOK) VALUE  —  SOCIAL NETWORK CAN'T GET FRIENDLY FUNDING NUMBERS  —  Facebook has been holding exploratory meetings with private-equity firms about raising another round of funding, but the two sides are $3 billion apart on what the popular social-networking Web site is worth, The Post has learned.
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:
A Look Inside the Twitter Admin Panel  —  According to French blog Nowhere Else, someone has been able to access Twitter's administration area, and they've got a bunch of screenshots to prove it.  —  The URL which leads to Twitter's admin page is simple enough (and open to everyone): “https …
Discussion: Zero Day
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL Announces New President Of Global Advertising, Ex-Googler Jeff Levick  —  There will be no more presidents of Platform-A, at Time Warner's (TWX) online subsidiary AOL, it seems.  —  Replacing the last one, Greg Coleman, ex-Googler Jeff Levick will join the company as president, global advertising and strategy.
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Eric Rabe / Verizon:
Some Thoughts on Cablevision's 101 Mbps Speed  —  Verizon first demonstrated the ability to deliver 100 Mbps to the home over our FiOS system nearly two years ago.  Now Cablevision is offering that speed - oh, yeah, 101 Mbps — over its DOCSIS cable system, it claims, to customers across its footprint in the New York area.
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Karl Bode / DSLreports:   Verizon Calls Cablevision's 101Mbps ‘A Parlor Trick’ …
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Filing confirms Apple exploring carbon fiber Mac enclosures  —  A new patent filing discovered by AppleInsider provides some of the first public evidence that Apple is indeed exploring carbon fiber-like enclosures for future product designs, corroborating an earlier report on the matter.
Discussion: MacRumors and Electricpig.co.uk
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Booyah nears launch of cause-oriented iPhone entertainment apps  —  Booyah is nearing the completion of its first round of cause-oriented apps for the iPhone.  —  Keith Lee, (pictured below) chief executive of the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company, also confirmed that the company raised $4.5 million …
Discussion: GigaOM
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
New Phishing Attack Spreading On Facebook.  This Time From FBstarter  —  Yesterday a phishing scam spread across Facebook in the form of a message form a friend asking you to click on a link which took you to what appeared to be a Facebook login, but was actually at a different URL, http://fbaction.net.
Discussion: All Facebook and Industry Standard
Financial Times:
Madison Avenue feels the squeeze  —  Duck Phillips!  Thou should'st be living at this hour.  —  Phillips was the alcoholic account executive in the television series Mad Men who lost out after failing to marginalise his advertising agency's charismatic copywriters, led by Don Draper.
Peter Burrows / BusinessWeek:
Making Movies: The Next Big Thing in iPhones?  —  Think back to a time before iPods.  Back then, digital music was such a hassle that few people bothered to buy portable MP3 players.  Until Apple made it easy.  Then came photos.  Other than using snapshots as wallpaper …
Discussion: blogs.chron.com
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Flip Video Ultra HD video review  —  What better way to give you a look at Flip Video's new Ultra HD camcorder than by reviewing it on video... shot with the Ultra HD.  The specs are simple: 720p / 30 FPS, 8GB of storage on-board, HDMI out, and pretty much nothing else.
James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
Peewee PC Launches Today- Convertible Netbook for Kids  —  I thoroughly enjoyed the time I had to play with the Intel Classmate Convertible, and that was timely as the folks at Peewee PC today are launching their commercial version of this netbook.  The Peewee PC looks to be the same …
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Death to Windows AutoRun!  —  The economy might be in ruins, and swine flu might put us all in pine boxes, but there are still things that we can be happy about.  One thing that has put a broad grin on my face over the past day or so is news that Microsoft plans to kill off AutoRun.
Discussion: Computerworld and ITworld.com
 
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David Marcus / McAfee Avert Labs:
Looking at Swine Flu Spam Globally
Discussion: PC World
Rob Jackson / Android Phone Fans:
CONFIRMED: Official Cupcake Update Underway for T-Mobile G1 USA & UK!
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Digits:
AuctionBytes Bites Back at eBay
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
The Future of Advertising is Shakable and Location-Based
Discussion: All Points Blog, Thanks:blogfisher
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Eucalyptus in the cloud: researchers commercialize OSS project
Discussion: GigaOM, OStatic blogs and Open Source
 Earlier Items: 
Jolie O'Dell / ReadWriteWeb:
IBM Launches World's Geekiest Social Network, My developerWorks
Discussion: VentureBeat and EE Times, Thanks:atul
Hiroshi Suzuki / Bloomberg:
Canon Raises Annual Profit Forecast by 12%, Exceeding Analyst Estimates
Discussion: Imaging Insider
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Intel's Pain Party
Sarah Lacy / Business Week:
Social Gaming Scores in the Recession
Discussion: TechCrunch, Thanks:atul
Kate Greene / Technology Review:
A New Breed of Netbook?  —  Google's operating system …
New York Times:
Panel Advises Clarifying U.S. Plans on Cyberwar
Discussion: Memex 1.1
Michael Orey / Business Week:
Google's PR Campaign
 

 
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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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