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Apple has done it … from PC to TV they have just begun shipping their latest and greatest technical advancement into the entertainment arena, the AppleTV.
There’s a little video here (Wallstreet Journal) on how they setup and tested the new AppleTV
More at http://www.apple.com/appletv/

YouTube will announces the launch of “YouTube Video Awards” - a late attempt to honor the best-user generated videos of 2006.  The seven categories are Most Inspirational, Most Creative, Best Series, Best Comedy, Musician of the Year, Best Commentary and “Most Adorable Video Ever.”
Read the official news.

Gigaom reported today that Viacom is sueing YouTube for $1 billion.
The ever delightful Mike Masnick over on Techdirt pointed out that young companies innovate, and old timers litigate. One is reminded of his words when reading about Viacom’s decision to YouTube-Google and seek a billion dollars in damages for copyright infringement. Cynthia Brumfield describes […]

BitTorrent launched their new digital media download this week in attempts to legalize the BitTorrent process and to, of course, make money. The new site allows users to download and rent movies, television shows, music, and games through the BitTorrent client at a price. Prices aren’t too high, but will BitTorrent users actually pay? More […]

XM and Sirius have confirmed their merger plans. Both companies have a combined subscriber base of 14 million. The merger at this point is considered a done deal to XM and Sirius, but depends on the shareholders consent to approve … as well as the FCC. This merger will create a satellite radio monopoly, but […]

Congradulations to the Indianapolis Colts for the winning Super Bowl 41 after making the biggest comeback in Super Bowl history.
For Super Bowl Commercials, checkout the TV Commercial Blog.

In a sign of the growing tension between old-line media and the new Internet behemoths, Viacom, the parent company of MTV and Comedy Central, demanded yesterday that YouTube, the video-sharing Web site owned by Google, remove more than 100,000 clips of its programming. More …
UPDATE: YouTube begining to remove Viacom TV shows and snippets!
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Here’s a CBS video that is posted on YouTube reporting on “a closer look at the iPhone”, Apple’s new mobile device set to release in June of this year:

Also around the Net today is this iPhone cut-out (found on iPhoneCountdown.com (pdf)) that lets you build your own right iPhone right now … for free. NOTE: […]

YouTube CEO Chad Hurley said the company (acquired by Google) “is going to move in direction” of rewarding video creators for their content, as part of a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.
Attendee Jeff Jarvis taped the statements and posted them to his blog.
“In terms of paying users revenue against the […]

I’m sure everyone’s heard the news already, but if you haven’t … Netflix is now offering a new streaming video service to their subscribers. TechCrunch writer Michael Arrington has a funny (but legitimate) post on his blog today that is a follow-up to a post he made last month about how he was finished with […]