Disney is launching a separate digital production unit called Stage 9 to create original online and mobile sereies. The first show, “Squeegees”, a comedy series about window-washer slackers, will be published on ABC.com and YouTube. There are 19 other planned online programs.

So I checked my LinkedIn profile this morning and wow! They completely redesigned their website.

The award winning film, No Country for Old Men, directed by the Coen Borthers, was edited on Final Cut Pro, MacWorld reported this morning.

PayPal recommends all Safari users to stop using Safari. Main reason: online fraud.

Telestream released today Version 4.4.2 of it’s video compression suite, Episode Pro.

Keith Bachman, analyst with BMO Capital Markets, has cut his price target for Apple’s stock, stating that the iPods and iPhones were no longer “growth drivers” for the company. Bachman says that Apple’s 3 growth drivers, that is, the iPhone, the iPod and the iMac, has turned into one: the iMac.

According to the Financial Times, Apple currently has $18 billion sitting on their blance sheet. Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer recently said in the Q1 conference call that they like having that “flexibility”.

This is from the “cool files” - City Inn, a hotel in the UK, has new iMacs in every room. Guests can now leave their laptops at home since every room is now equipped with an iMac that has iLife, Office apps and the hotel will let you use the iMac as a TV, internet radio and media player.

iLounge is reporting that the iPhone’s and iod Touch’s SDK will be delayed anywhere between 1 and 3 weeks. Originaly, it was scheduled for the end of February. The SDK would allow third-party developers to write native applications for those devices.

Apple announced that they will release .99 cent movie rental every Thursday. The price is available from Thursday through Monday. Once rented, like all other movies, you have 30 days to watch it.

With a growing list of companies adopting Blu-Ray and dropping HD-DVD, it looks like Toshiba might have to give up on its format.

Apple released this morning Mac OS X 10.5.2., with over 60 fixed, enhancements and improvements.

Adobe announced today that they will discontinue their Adobe Stock Photo Service to “concentrate” on their core business.

Check out this great Landing Page Optimization class by CKI Studios and I believe co-sponsored by Google.

MySpace launched their developer platform (check it out)

You have to register to build applications, but you can browser through the “Learn and Play” section without having to register first.

eMarketer released a report today stating that the podcast audience for 2007 was 18.5 million with 6.5 million of those being active (downloading one or more podcasts weekly).

The outlook is for 2012 is that the podcast audience will reach 65 million with 25 million of those being active as described above!

Microsoft Corp. made an unsolicited (yeah right) $44.6 billion cash and stock bid for Yahoo today.

Basically, Yahoo is desperate and I think this is Jerry Yang’s answer to Yahoo’s problem. Have Microsoft purchase you.