WebbAlert - November 11, 2008

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YouTube has partnered with MGM to stream feature length films
and TV shows. The selection is far from Hulu quality, but the deal
certainly won't hurt YouTube's still frigid relationship with the
rest of Hollywood.

T-Mobile and Google has reached out to AOL for a little G1 mobile
phone promoting. How's a billion ad impressions across various
AOL sites spread out over two whole days for the low, low price
of $1.5 million sound?


Apple received a double dose of good news yesterday. First, a
Square Trade study found that iPhones are twice as reliable as
Blackberries. Then, the iPhone replaced Motorola's RAZR as the
top selling mobile phone in the U.S.


A week after closing 155 stores and laying off 17 percent of its
workforce, Circuit City has filed for bankruptcy. To help dig
itself out of its financial hole, the company took out a $1.1
billion loan so it could stay open and keep not doing much
business.


Hyperion Power Generation has developed a mini nuclear reactor
that could revolutionize how people view and consume energy. Just
to be safe, does anyone know how I can in touch with
Vault-Tec?


Intel is testing its own personalized health monitoring
technology. Unlike Microsoft's online health record platform,
Intel's faux-computer kit also lets users interact with doctors
via a web cam and a touchscreen interface. Now you can finally
tell people that all that web stripping you do is strictly for
medical purposes.





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