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HTC Can't Disguise Windows Mobile Flaws
New iPhone competitors continue to crop up, though most are mobile devices from companies that simply slap on a touch screen in hopes of fooling consumers. The real key to the iPhone’s success is its...
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And We Couldn't Have Done It Without Jessica Yellin and the CNN Holodeck …
Tuesday’s presidential election was a historic one for more than just the obvious reasons. Monomaniacal interest in its outcome drove Internet usage to a new record. According to Akamai Technologies,...
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How Many People Watched Obama's Inauguration on the Web? A Lot.
Was Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration a big day for Web video? Yes. Was it a record day? No one knows. Credit NewTeeVee’s Liz Gannes for trying to get her arms around the size of the audience...
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Obama's Big Day on the Web: Smaller Than You Thought
A follow-up to last week’s guesstimates about the Web video audience that watched Barack Obama’s inauguration: A more refined estimate from comScore says the number may be smaller than we thought....
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CNN: We Don't Need YouTube and Twitter to Tell Us What's Going on in...
The “Iran is Twitter’s defining moment” meme is losing momentum to the “Iran is YouTube’s defining moment” meme. But CNN has a different spin. Time Warner’s (TWX) cable news channel wants us to know...
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Is Bigger Better? Here Come the Supersized Web Ads.
Earlier this year an online publishing trade group promised to get its members to start running new, bigger, harder-to-ignore ads by July. So here they are: The Online Publishers Association says 37...
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Is the Internet Ready for Michael Jackson's Funeral?
Michael Jackson’s funeral service starts at 1 pm Eastern today and you will have to try very hard not to see it: In addition to wall-to-wall coverage on the news channels, any Web site capable of...
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Yahoo Renovates Its Home Page
Makeovers are always fun to watch. Someone swoops in on an unsuspecting fashion “don’t,” improves him or her with a new hairstyle, makeup and wardrobe, and presents the finished product to overjoyed...
View ArticleCNN's New Look Includes an "iTunes" for News
Time Warner’s (TWX) CNN unveiled its new Web site Thursday evening in a presentation that was part Hollywood and part Apple (AAPL). All week long, the network had been touting the event, dubbed “The...
View ArticleCNN Invests in Neighborhood News Feed Outside.In
CNN.com is investing in Outside.In, a start-up that feeds neighborhood blogs and other local news and information to the Web sites of newspapers, TV stations and other media. The investment, whose size...
View ArticleTwitter Moves to Make it Easier to Tweet
Twitter borrowed a page from Facebook Thursday, announcing a plan to begin offering online publishers the chance to embed a “tweet” button on their sites. The goal is to make it easier for users of...
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Google CEO's Advice to the Street-View Shy: The Video
Earlier this morning, I wrote about Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s suggestion that people who don’t like the company publishing pictures of their homes and businesses on its Street View service should move...
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Bang! Publishers Say Giant Web Ads Have "Stopping Power"
Bigger really is better! So say Web publishers who have been running supersized, don’t-you-dare-look-away-from-me ads for the past year. Even better, the ad sellers insist–they have scientific proof to...
View ArticleA Few Quarters for Pinball
He has not proven his lack of ability and he has not yet proven his ability. So let’s give him a few more quarters and see what he does. – Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter, about Mark...
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