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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Yahoo Says It Is Backing Away From TV-Style Web Shows — After proclaiming grand plans to bring elaborately produced sitcoms, talk shows and other television-style programs to the Internet, the head of Yahoo's Media Group said yesterday that he was sharply scaling back those efforts.
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Fred / A VC:Not Surprising — Saul Hansell has a story in today's …
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft whispers Origami details — Microsoft updated the Web site for its secretive Origami Project on Thursday, offering a more elaborate tease, but also confirming key details about the Windows-based mini tablet. — "I am everywhere you are, but never in the way," …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:Origami and UMPC one and the same?
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Ken Belson / New York Times:
Senate Bill to Address Fears of Blocked Access to Net — Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, will introduce new legislation today that would prohibit Internet network operators from charging companies for faster delivery of their content to consumers or favoring some content providers over others.
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Jason Snell / Macworld:
Opening up the Intel Mac mini — Our first Intel-based Mac minis have arrived, straight from the Apple Store, and what was the first thing the cold, cruel alien intellects at Macworld did with one of these innocents? That's right. We got out our putty knife, popped it open, and spilled its guts out faster than you could say "CSI!"
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Lester Haines / The Register:
MS in geek sex hard sell shocker — There was a time when Microsoft ads were a bit more entertaining than the current "dinosaur head" offerings which have of late been baffling adults and scaring small children worldwide. — The proof comes in this hitherto-unseen-in-the-civilised- world shocker …
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Joris Evers / silicon.com:
Apple plugs 20 OS X holes — Security update deals with Leap.A threat and more... Apple on Wednesday released a security update for Mac OS X that fixes 20 vulnerabilities, including a high-profile web browser and Mail flaw disclosed last week. — The set of patches addresses a variety …
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Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband:
Some Vonage users are frustrated about Comcast connection quality — Over the last couple of years, when I've wanted to take the temperature of the Vonage user community, I've often stopped at the Vonage Forum. This is a privately run enterprise, totally independent of Vonage.
Bloomberg:
Google Is Reportedly Switching to AMD — Google Inc. is switching its servers to run on Advanced Micro Devices Inc. chips instead of those made by Intel Corp., according to a Morgan Stanley report. — Google, which has more than 200,000 servers, has started to buy Advanced Micro's Opteron processors …
Richard MacManus / Web 2.0 Explorer:
Mashups: who's really in control? — In the mashup ecosystem, let's get one thing straight. The data owner is ultimately in control, because a mashup developer is reliant on data owners to keep the supply of data flowing. — Sometimes data services that were open to begin with, then have restrictions imposed on them.
Reuters:
Viacom to enter social networking market in '06 — NEW YORK (Reuters) - MTV owner Viacom Inc. plans to enter the business of connecting youth viewers on the Internet this year, a top Viacom executive said on Wednesday, amid threats of losing its cool cachet to News Corp.
Rajen Sheth / Official Google Enterprise Blog:
Google Mini for a mini price — Why do I look so smug? No, it's not because I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance. In fact, I just figured out a way to save you a bunch of money on a Google Mini. — OK, in all seriousness (if you can take me seriously now) …
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Malware-Speak Spooks Symantec — Symantec said Wednesday it plans to tweak the behavior of its Norton Internet Security and Norton Personal Firewall products so that they are no longer vulnerable to an annoying but otherwise harmless prank that "script kiddie" hackers have been using …
Mike Barton / InfoWorld TechWatch:
Open letter to AOL on its email tax — More than 50 groups have formed a coalition to fight AOL's plan for fee-based email and have written an online open letter to the internet giant with their concerns. — The coalition is comprised of a number of diverse groups, ranging …
Smartphone / slashphone.com:
T-Mobile Start Ticketless check-in with MMS — Views: 1 — Getting into the air has never been so quick: from March 9, the opening day of CeBIT, passengers of the second-largest German domestic airline dba will be able to complete the check-in and boarding procedures for their flight using their mobile phone.
Seán Captain / New York Times:
From Blogger to Published Author, for $30 and Up — Though not all blogs may aspire to literary permanence, they can achieve it through the new Book-Smart software from Blurb, a publish-your-own-book service. The software, which is expected to be available free later this month at www.blurb.com …
Andru Edwards / gearlive.com:
TiVo's To Announce "KidZone" Parental Control Service — It seems people are wondering what is up with TiVo booking the Museum of Television and Radio for a big announcement tomorrow. Luckily, we have some peeps on the inside who have given us the good stuff.
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