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5:30 AM ET, February 15, 2008

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Saul Hansell / Bits:
Google Tests Video Ads on Search Results Pages  —  Google has always had a love-hate relationship with advertising.  Its power and wealth come from the $16 billion a year of advertising that it sells.  Yet on its most important pages, the results from its Web search engine …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft reorg: Who's in; who's out  —  On February 14, Microsoft announced a corporate reorganization affecting many of its divisions.  —  As with any Microsoft early-year reorg — which typically occur after the company's fiscal mid-year reviews — there are winners and losers.
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Microsoft Announces New, Expanded Roles for Key Executives  —  Fourteen leaders promoted as company matches leadership talent to expanding business priorities.  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced a series of executive promotions — seven new senior vice presidents and seven new corporate vice presidents …
Hollywood Reporter:
Toshiba to drop HD DVD, sources say  —  Company says no decision has been made  —  The format war has turned into a format death watch.  —  Toshiba is widely expected to pull the plug on its HD DVD format sometime in the coming weeks, reliable industry sources say, after a rash …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Microsoft researchers make me cry  —  It's not often that I see software that really changes my world.  It's even rarer that I see software that I know will change the world my sons live in.  I can count those times pretty easily.  The first time I saw an Apple II in 1977.
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Long Zheng / istartedsomething:   Scoble's big secret coincides with “Open Source Hero”. …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
What's Microsoft Offering Open Source On February 27?
Discussion: Scobleizer
Electronista:
PS3 said to outsell Xbox in 2008, crack 20m in 2011  —  Sony's PlayStation 3 console will outperform the Xbox 360 and roughly double its user base in 2008, says a new estimate by research firm iSuppli.  The study predicts that Sony will sell approximately 10 million PS3s over the course of 2008 …
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Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:   Xbox 360 failure rates worse than most consumer electronics
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Report: PlayStation 3 could be top-selling next-gen console by 2011
Discussion: InformationWeek
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
PR Wire Service to Journalists & Bloggers: We Don't Need You  —  We received an interesting email today from Business Wire, a press release wire service that Warren Buffett bought in March 2006.  Currently Business Wire is ranked about #32 on the Techmeme Leaderboard, which puts it above some top tech blogs …
Discussion: The Last Podcast, PR 2.0 and Blogcosm
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Your competition: The press release
Discussion: Smalltalk Tidbits …
Louise Story / New York Times:
4 News Companies Ally to Sell Ads on the Internet  —  Four large newspaper companies are joining forces to sell advertisements on the Internet, hoping that the combined heft of their Web sites will encourage large advertisers to spend more money.  —  Each of the four companies …
Discussion: TechCrunch
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
NYT-Gannett-Trib-Hearst Combine Form Local Online Ad Sales Company quadrantONE
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
LiveUniverse Buys Revver for More than a Song (about $5M)  —  Troubled video site Revver was bought by Brad Greenspan's LiveUniverse last night for a price “many multiples more” than the $500,000 to $1.5 million reported recently, according to a source close to the deal.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Nielsen: YouTube is from Mars, streaming video is from Venus  —  There is a gender split when it comes to preferences in online video, according to new data from market research group Nielsen Online.  While streams of network TV shows have proven to be pretty popular among women …
Discussion: TechCrunch, WebProNews and Mashable!
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Jon Healey / Bit Player:
Online video: crunching some numbers
Discussion: TVover.net
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Why You Should Let Users Define Your App  —  There's an old well-worn addage that says, “The customer is always right.”  On the surface, it means that you should always strive to provide good customer service.  But on a deeper level, it means that if your customers do things with your service …
Discussion: Beth's Blog and New York Times
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Consumating Closing Quietly, Demonstrates Another Side of a Startup's Life  —  We like startups and innovation here at RWW so we try to pay attention to the news good and bad about what tech entrepreneurs are up to.  It certainly seemed strange then that almost no one but its users …
Discussion: paidContent.org
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Rival gaming networks compete for developer attention  —  The Social Gaming Network, which operates gaming applications like Warbook and Super Snake for social-networking developer platforms, announced on Thursday that it has opened a platform of its own.  Developers can now access …
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Zynga and SGN launch ad networks for game developers on social networks
Discussion: TechCrunch and CenterNetworks
The Boy Genius Report:
AT&T Palm Centro unboxing!  —  We're not really sure where to begin...It's the Palm Centro on AT&T. You know the Centro, right?  Outdated OS, tiny, miniscule puke-lime-green keyboard, EDGE, camera, and phone.  We didn't get a solid feel for pricing when it launches on February 19th, but we've heard $99 and $149 for a 2-year agreement.
Discussion: Engadget, Gizmodo and PalmAddicts
Jason Bush / Business Week:
The Blogging Czar of Moscow  —  How American Andrew Paulson is building a growing Internet empire in Russia  —  Andrew Paulson has a knack for spinning chance encounters with the rich and famous into business opportunities.  In the late '80s the New Haven native carved out a career …
Discussion: Quintura blog
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Tom Coates: Web of Data  —  Tom Coates of Yahoo Brickhouse (ex-BBC) is over in Wellington for Webstock, giving a talk on the Web of Data.  I've been a fan of Tom's Web theories for a long time, so it was great to see him speak live.  —  He starts by saying that the companies that have done well on the Web …
Eric Lai / Computerworld:
Indie coffeehouses tell Starbucks: Bring on your free Wi-Fi  —  Smaller chains and solo shops brew wireless access their own way  —  Computerworld) Like many indie cafes, Seattle's Bauhaus Books and Coffee has long relied on free Wi-Fi to help bring in customers.
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David Haskin / Computerworld:
Six ways the Starbucks-AT&T deal will change mobility
Discussion: Slashdot
 
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UK's Holiday Watchdog Site Bought By TripAdviser
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Nintendo estimates it lost $975m worldwide in 2007 due to piracy
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Bradley Horowitz / Elatable:
On Leaving Yahoo...  Leaving Yahoo.  —  Yes, it's true.  I've left Yahoo.
Discussion: Bits
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Using the Mobile Web is a Sticky Proposition
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Wii 2 and Xbox the Third hitting in 2010?
Discussion: GameSpot and Joystiq
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
Forrester Report: Online Community Best Practices
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A Data Point on Every Block
Tom Simonite / New Scientist:
Friendly ‘worms’ could spread software fixes
Discussion: WinBeta
 Earlier Items: 
RyanK / Yahoo! Mail Blog:
All-New Yahoo! Mail arrives for Safari 3
Matt Hickey / CrunchGear:
Apple users, meet The Continental
Discussion: Gizmodo
Business Wire:
Vivid Entertainment Head Steven Hirsch Calls on Yahoo and Google …
Ashlee Vance / The Register:
SGI tears up couch to buy Linux Networx assets
Discussion: eWeek
Chris Foresman / Infinite Loop:
VirtualBox: Move over Parallels and Fusion, it's Sizzlean!
internetnews.com:
SCO Plans Rebound Thanks to $100M Lifeline
Cade Metz / The Register:
Google cheers anti-Comcast legislation
Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Former NYT investigative reporter David Burnham, whose work uncovering corruption in the NYPD during the 1970s inspired the movie Serpico, dies at the age of 91

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Victoria Gomelsky / New York Times:
Watches of Switzerland Group, one of the world's largest watch retailers, acquires the watch enthusiast website Hodinkee, says coverage will remain independent

 
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