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  YouTube in talks with Sony for feature films

  YouTube continues to pursue full-length content from major motion-picture studios and TV networks. Sony Pictures' Crackle wants a big audience. The two companies need each other

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  Microsoft puts finger
  on better gestures

  At a conference this week, Microsoft is showcasing what might make for more natural multitouch gestures.

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• Report: Sun rejects IBM offer, IBM withdraws bid

  Sun Microsystems rejects IBM's formal buyout bid on Saturday and terminates Big Blue's right to exclusive negotiations, prompting IBM to withdraw its offer, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Dawn Kawamoto)

• Survey: Credit card fraud a top concern in U.S.

  Fears of financial security rise while national security concerns drop in Unisys Security Index.

  (Posted in Security by Elinor Mills)

• N.Y. hospital taps Microsoft to digitize records

  New York-Presbyterian Hospital will use the software maker's technology to help make health records electronically available to patients.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• The iPhone gold rush

  Develop a popular app and quit your day job.
  (From The New York Times)

• Geocoding error distorts L.A. crime statistics

  The LAPD's online crime map erroneously shows a location just a block from the department's new headquarters is the most crime-ridden place in the city.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Steven Musil)

• Facebook friend helps avert suicide

  A 16-year-old in England tells one of his Facebook friends in Maryland that he is contemplating suicide. She doesn't know the boy's address, but with the help of her parents and the British Embassy, a life is saved.

  (Posted in Technically Incorrect by Chris Matyszczyk)

• Is an Apple more form than function?

  One of the reasons people buy an Apple is aesthetics--and not just because some guy said it in a Microsoft ad.

  (Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers)

• Microsoft's 'Lauren' ad follow-up disses Mac power

  Among other things that feel somewhat scripted, hipster Giampaolo, the star of the newest anti-Apple ad from Microsoft, says "Macs to me are about aesthetics..I'm really picky."

  (Posted in Microsoft by Zoë Slocum)

• Facebook: Pay to make your friends feel better

  Amid furor surrounding the new redesign, Facebook tests a feature with which you can give friends kudos--monetary credits--for the quality of their updates. But you have to buy them.

  (Posted in Technically Incorrect by Chris Matyszczyk)

• Comcast e-mail access suffers outage

  The company's Comcastcares Twitter stream says "there is an e-mail server outage" affecting its customers. A fix expected at 11 a.m. apparently arrives at about 2:45 p.m.

  (Posted in Wireless by Zoë Slocum)

• Web 2.0 Expo: Time to hit refresh?

  The dominant conversation at the confab was how to innovate and thrive in the new economy. Here's a suggestion: change the way conferences work, too.
  • Complete coverage: Web 2.0 Expo
  • Photos from the expo hall

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• Google's plan for out-of-print books is challenged

  The exclusivity of a legal settlement giving Google online rights to out-of-print "orphan" books is being challenged in court.
  (From The New York Times)

• Samsung to launch two Android devices in U.S.

  A Samsung executive reveals more details about its Android plans to Forbes magazine at CTIA 2009. Suspected carriers for the devices, debuting this year, are Sprint and T-Mobile.

  (Posted in CTIA show by Bonnie Cha)
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