Tech News Today 740

Amazon gets into set-top box TV, Yahoo gets Saturday Night Live, LinkedIn takes over your contacts

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• EU Wants Feedback on Google Search Concessions
• LinkedIn's new Contacts app aims to replace your phone's address book
• Windows 8 tablets hit 3 million shipped in first quarter
• Samsung delays Knox launch
• Exclusive: Verizon eyes roughly $100 billion bid for Vodafone's wireless stake
• AT&T getting secret immunity from wiretapping laws for government surveillance
• Ubuntu 13.04 available Thursday, brings a streamlined footprint to the forefront (update)
• Apple's Tim Cook auctions the most expensive cup of coffee ever
• Amazon Said to Plan TV Set-Top Box for Streaming Video
• Yahoo snags exclusive rights to Saturday Night Live's archives (update: clips only) starting September 1st
• LinkedIn Turns Its Contacts Section Into A Personal Assistant
• Netflix Spends $2B Per Year On Content, Primarily On Licensing Movies And TV Shows
• How Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Sees the Future: Netflix Wins, Apps Win and So Do HBO, ESPN and the Cable Guys
• Netflix's 'Long Term View' lays out predictions for internet vs. traditional TV delivery
• 11-page Netflix mission statement
• International coalition of Internet freedom organizations urges W3C to reject Encrypted Media Extensions
• DRM in HTML5
• Tim Berners-Lee: The Web needs to stay open, but DRM is fine by me
• Open Letter to W3C on EMEs
• Encrypted Media Extensions Working Draft
• We Had No Idea What Alexander Graham Bell Sounded Like. Until Now
• Nokia schedules London Lumia event for May 14
• YouTube to livestream its first-ever Comedy Week May 19-25, bolstering its channel surfing agenda