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Archive for March 11th, 2008

Testing Over, Hulu.com to Open Its TV and Film Offerings This Week (Brad Stone/New York Times)

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Brad Stone / New York Times:
Testing Over, Hulu.com to Open Its TV and Film Offerings This Week  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Hulu.com, the long-gestating Internet joint venture between NBC Universal and Fox, emerges from limited testing on Wednesday to make its catalog of TV shows and video clips available to anyone on the Web.

The “Nuclear Disaster” At SXSW Was Nothing More Than A Witch Burning (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The “Nuclear Disaster” At SXSW Was Nothing More Than A Witch Burning  —  Based on the Twitter messages and blog posts I saw yesterday emerge real time from the SXSW conference, it sounded like Sarah Lacy’s interview of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was, truly, a career ending, never seen before train […]

Wal-Mart ends test of Linux in stores (Associated Press)

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Associated Press:
Wal-Mart ends test of Linux in stores  —  NEW YORK - Computers that run the Linux operating system instead of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows didn’t attract enough attention from Wal-Mart customers, and the chain has stopped selling them in stores, a spokeswoman said Monday.

Hulu Launches with Warner, Lionsgate (Liz Gannes/NewTeeVee)

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Hulu Launches with Warner, Lionsgate  —  Wow Hulu, you really pile it on, don’t you?  I can barely digest all the news the company is putting out tonight.  First and foremost, it’s launching tomorrow.  It’s also signed Warner Bros., Lionsgate, the NBA, and the NHL (but not Quincy Smith’s CBS).

Mozilla releases Firefox 3.0 beta 4 (Steven Musil/CNET News.com)

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Steven Musil / CNET News.com:
Mozilla releases Firefox 3.0 beta 4  —  The fourth beta of the Firefox 3.0 browser was released Monday and includes more than 900 enhancements over the previous beta, Mozilla announced.  —  The creator of the open-source browser said the new beta includes performance and memory usage …