Congratulations to Barack Obama, who handily won the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Who else won this week? Well the New York Times (NYT) ran an extra 50,000 copies to meet demand for its “Obama” newpapers, copies of which were going for over a hundred bucks on eBay (EBAY).

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Where isn’t Netflix anymore? It looks great on the 360, it’s ending up in set-top boxes and media players from multiple makers. Now, if you had the foresight to buy a Series 3, HD, or HD XL you can now stream all of Netflix’s 12,000 streaming titles.

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A lot of things are riding on this UI redesign for Microsoft and the Xbox team, but more importantly it’s quelling the frustrations that many of us have had to deal with since the beginning of time. The blade interface was a good start, but it was frustrating at times and it certainly deterred me [...]

Netflix (NFLX) continues to improve its “Watch Instantly” movie/TV show streaming service, free for its nearly 9 million subscribers.
The latest version — the first that will work on Apple (AAPL) Mac computers — uses Microsoft’s (MSFT) Silverlight video/animation plugin.

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Not to be outdone by whatever iTunes/iPod services Apple’s (AAPL) Steve Jobs could be planning to announce next week, Amazon (AMZN) has rolled out its new Amazon Video on Demand video streaming service.

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