Around the Web 3.3.09: New Macs, greener gadgets and Google bonuses
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Good times at last year’s Rock Band 2 party at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles. Credit: Charlie Gallay / Getty Images.
-- Warner Music Group hits sour note with MTV’s Rock Band game. Billboard via Hollywood Reporter
-- Apple releases new iMac and Mac Mini. ChannelWeb
-- Meanwhile, MacBook Pro gets a speed boost. Engadget
-- Roku player adds Amazon Video on Demand to lineup. CNet
-- For consumer electronics companies, it’s not that easy being green. Twice
-- Microsoft testing search service code-named Kumo. PCWorld
-- It’s good to be a Google executive who gets a million-dollar bonus. PaidContent.org
-- Here’s a business model: charge for content. Thomson Reuters to launch paid video news service. Reuters
-- Fasten your seat belts for a photo montage of the history of flight, via Chicago. Chicago Tribune
-- Smartphones will hit 20% of the cellphone market by 2013, doubling their share, says In-Stat. MediaPost
-- But will they be smart enough to survive for a week in the belly of a fish? The Sun
-- Alex Pham