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Skype founders keep 14% of company, LinkedIn gets a redesign, Boxee beta to be available December 7
Skype's founders and eBay have come to an agreement on the terms of the sale of Skype to private investors. The founders will retain 14% of the company, not 10% as originally stated. Soon Skype will no longer be the property of eBay; that was a short-lived and fruitless arrangement if we've ever seen one.
Professional social networking site LinkedIn has received a user interface overhaul. The most notable change is the addition of a top navigation bar, but several smaller adjustments have been made too.
The beta version of the Boxee streaming web video software will finally launch on December 7th, and it won't just be the alpha version with a few bug fixes. Boxee's founder has promised a new user interface and better search features in the new version.
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Google Dashboard brings all your Google app data under one roof, PS3 Netflix discs arrive Friday, T-Mobile HSPA 7.2 service rolling out now
Google just launched a new site called Google Dashboard. It puts all the basic information about your usage of various Google apps like Gmail and Docs in one place, and you can jump from there into any app.
T-Mobile has started rolling out its HSPA 7.2 Mbps 3G cellular data network. It's twice as fast as the previous infrastructure. Only some areas have gotten the upgrade so far, but Android and Me reports that New Jersey, Chicago, Minnesota, Virginia, Arizon, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington, Michigan, and New York are among them.
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Apple pitches $30 per month iTunes TV program to studios, Snow Leopard 10.6.2 kills hackintosh Atom netbooks, Sprint WiMAX goes live in Chicago, Dallas, and eight North Carolina cities
Apple is reportedly trying to get content producers (TV studios and the like) to agree to a plan by which Apple would offer an on-demand array of TV shows via its iTunes service to compete with cable. The plan would cost $30 month, significantly less than what you probably pay for cable or satellite. So far no headway has been made, though.The upcoming 10.6.2 update to the Apple Mac OS Snow Leopard operating system torpedoes support for Intel Atom processors, presenting new challenges to the small but passionate community of hackintosh netbook owners.
Sprint today launched its WiMAX 4G network in Chicago, Dallas, and eight North Carolina cities: Charlotte, Durham, Raleigh, Winston-Salem, Chapel Hill, Cary, Greensboro, and High Point. The data plan costs $69.99 per month. Sprint has also begun selling the Dell Inspiron Mini 10 in Baltimore for $199.99.
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New York Times editor Bill Keller says Apple tablet is "impending," Sony PlayStation 3 gets Netflix streaming, Facebook Share adds counter and other new features
Bill Keller is the Executive Editor of The New York Times, so he ought to have some inside information about what the company is up to. And when speaking to an audience of fellow insiders, he named "the impending Apple slate" as one of the devices The New York Times plans to bring its digital content to.Streaming movies and TV episodes from Netflix have been a source of bragging rights for Xbox 360 advocates, but Microsoft's exclusivity deal seems to have ended, as Netflix and Sony just announced that within a few weeks the PlayStation 3 will offer Watch Instantly content as well.
Facebook has revamped its "Share" feature, which folks with websites use to embed a button that helps readers share content with their Facebook friends. Like competing services, Facebook Share now shows a total share count so you can see how popular an item is on Facebook, along with a few back-end improvements.
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Facebook profiles used to spread spyware, Comcast in talks to buy NBC Universal, Google adds new search options
An automated Facebook attack has been using fake profiles to install spyware on users' computers. Facebook has taken down the malicious profiles.
General Electric is considering selling 51% of NBC Universal to cable company Comcast. That would include not just NBC TV programming but a significant stake in web properties like Hulu.
Google has added new filters to its search function. You can search within specific ranges of time, filter out sites you've visited or haven't visited, and more.
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Facebook & Google offer website translation services, TiVo for BlackBerry announced, Apple Genius Bar says 30% dropped iPhone calls is normal rate
Facebook is using Facebook Connect to help websites translate their content with reader feedback into any one of 65 supported languages. Google also announced a similar service that operates via a gadget operated by a webmaster. The Google gadget supports 51 languages.Research in Motion has launched a TiVo app for BlackBerry smartphones. Don't get too excited, though; you can't watch the shows you've recorded. You can just use the app to remotely manage your scheduled recordings without going home to your TiVo box.
A Gizmodo reader took his iPhone into an Apple Store Genius Bar in New York to complain of repeated dropped calls. The expert at the Genius Bar determined that the phone dropped 22% of calls, and said that's actually an excellent rate; 30% is expected on iPhones operating on AT&T in New York City. Ouch.
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FCC details new net neutrality plan, Netflix hands out $1 million prize and starts new contest, Square Enix prez predicts new Nintendo Wii in 2011
FCC chairman Julius Genachowski gave a speech detailing his plans for enforcing network neutrality. The full text of the speech is available at the new website openinternet.gov, and GigaOM has written up a good bullet point summary.Netflix awarded a $1 million prize to a group of people who managed to make a sort of "if you liked this, then you might like this" movie recommendation algorithm that beat the one that Netflix has been using up to this point. The company then announced a new prize, this time for whichever team can come up with the best algorithm that makes recommendations based on demographics.
Yoichi Wada — president of the illustrious video game developer and publisher Square Enix — said that he believes Nintendo will release a new Wii console with HD graphics in 2011, leveling the technical playing field with the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, which will each get their own motion control solutions to match the Wiimote soon enough. He said he's skeptical that motion control will make waves on the 360 and PS3, though.
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Facebook has 300 million active users, Zune HD Twitter & Facebook apps coming, Blockbuster to close nearly 1,000 stores
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote a note announcing that there are a staggering 300 million Facebook users worldwide. He claims that's the number of active users, not the total number who've signed up, though he doesn't say exactly how Facebook determines who is active and who is not.Microsoft has promised to launch Facebook and Twitter apps for the just-released Zune HD portable media player by the end of this year.
Blockbuster let investors know this morning that it will close at least 810 and as many as 960 stores by the end of 2010. Many of its stores are losing money — probably due in part to the poor economy, and to competition from Netflix — so this move is being made to increase profit margins. We don't know if your local store is closing yet, but in all likelihood you'll find out within a year or so.
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Sony plans to bring 3D to BRAVIA TVs, VAIO laptops, PS3 games, and Blu-ray movies
Financial Times: http://bit.ly/BENG6
Financial Times reports that Sony exec Howard Stringer will soon announce that the company will release a line of 3D BRAVIA-family HDTVs before the end of 2010, and that 3D tech will also reach VAIO laptops, Blu-ray players, and PlayStation 3 games at some point too.
We played around with Sony's 3D tech at CES 2009, and while it was better than we expected based on past 3D experiences, we're still not fully convinced this will take on, but we'll see how it goes next year.
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iPhone, iPod touch will get Blu-ray special features from Universal
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This looks like an example of technology run amok but hey, if it excites you we won't knock it. Universal is planning to integrate some of its Blu-ray releases — starting with Fast & Furious — with the iPhone and iPod touch via apps available for download in the Apple App Store.
Features to be rolled out with Blu-ray discs over the course of this year include control of interactive features on web-enabled Blu-ray players, use of the iPhone or iPod touch as a remote control, and the option to download special features like making-of videos to the portable device. This sounds more like novelty than utility so far, but you never know for sure what people will come up with, we suppose.
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