Digg has announced that it will change the way the DiggBar works, which should pacify a lot of Digg's critics.

Digg said in a company blog post that the DiggBar will now only appear when users are logged in to Digg, so that content providers will continue to receive full credit from search engines, without Digg's iframe getting in the way.

The site plans to launch these changes over the coming week.

Despite the backlash the company has been receiving, Digg's vice president of engineering continues to push that the DiggBar's done good things for both Digg and the sites it's linking to.

In a company blog post on the upcoming changes, he said that "oughly 45% of all Digging activity is now happening on the Diggbar and over 25% of all DiggBar users are discovering new content they otherwise wouldn’t have by viewing related stories and content from the same source."

Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) YouTube unit delivered 5.48 billion total video streams to 89.4 million unique users last month, up from 5.16 billion videos and 88.1 million unique viewers in February.

Comparatively, Hulu still held onto its No. 2 spot, and served up more streams (348.5 million) — but to fewer unique viewers (8.8 million) than February (308 million streams to 9.4 million viewers).

Yahoo was the third-ranked online video provider in March, delivering 231.8 million video streams, down from 250.4 million video streams in February. But Yahoo's unique viewer count increased from 24.1 million in February to 24.8 million last month.

Nielsen said the average Web viewer watched 74.4 video streams in March, an increase of 6.7 percent from February. And the average viewer watched 190.7 minutes of online videos last month, up 12.6 percent from February.

Sprint employees are getting ready to receive training on the much anticipated Palm Pre phone that will be released later this year.

Even though the companies have not yet announced the release date for the Pre, it could be soon if a report from the BoyGeniusReport is correct.

Sprint has apparently sent out an email stating, “Employees can expect training to start in April as well as multiple communications to get them excited and ready to help our customers.”

Nokia has finally announced it will enter the touchscreen movement.

The Finnish phone titan has plans to introduce three devices that feature big touchscreens and so-called Qwerty keypads, according to industry sources, say analysts according to The Street.

One of the new models to be rolled out over the next 12 months has a 4.2-inch touchscreen and a "hidden slide-out keyboard," and is considered to be mobile Internet device or tablet.

According to the analysts, three thin handsets will be rolled out this fall. The handsets will use Immersion’s VibeTonz technology, licensed by Nokia in 2007. It should improve touchscreen typing through direct feedback to the user’s fingertips.

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Universal Music Group (UMG) and YouTube formally announced today Vevo, their expected music video web venture.

Specific details of how the site will work is still pretty sparse; it will be “ready later this year,” will include content other than music videos, and options to buy merchandise and concert tickets, the companies said.

Vevo is the first satellite web site for YouTube, and the move should be seen as a concession since it detracts from the value of YouTube as a portal and an interlinked community.

Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt reportedly said at a joint press conference with UMG he hopes to introduce additional YouTube satellite sites in the Vevo mold.

UMG chairman and CEO Doug Morris said his company now earns roughly $70 million per year on music video distribution, after having lost about that same amount on music video production for unpaid promotion in the past.

UMG is the most-viewed YouTube channel of all time, with 3.8 billion video views.

YouTube is still Google's toughest sell to advertisers, but the video is selling ads against about 9% of its video views in the U.S., up from just 6% a year ago.

YouTube's director-product management said in an interview with Ad Age that the company is selling ads against "hundreds of millions of views" each month.

YouTube declined to comment on the exact rate at which it is selling ads and keeps the exact percentage a closely held secret.

A YouTube spokesman confirmed that the social site is placing ads on more videos than Fox Interactive Media, parent of MySpace and IGN Entertainment.

Fox Interactive ranks No. 2 by ComScore's measure, with 463 million views in February, or about 8.7% of YouTube's 5.3 billion views in the U.S.

New images of Microsoft's Windows 7 were leaked on the web this morning which show the clean layout of the new OS.

Meanwhile, a poll conducted by ChangeWave Research, showed that 44 percent of 68 IT professionals that tested Windows 7 said they were “very satisfied” with the beta version of the OS.

Comcast users are reportedly experiencing comcast.net email errors as they attempt to sign in on Saturday.

The failed sign in takes users to an "Error Code 400" landing page

The error stated to occur on Comcast's net email services as more and more people tried to log in on Saturday morning.

No official statement or confirmation has been issued from Comcast.net regarding the cause of the problem.

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Microsoft's Virtual Earth has released the Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control community technology preview which supports video, animation, and vector graphics.

Platforms now include Silverlight, AJAX, Virtual Earth Web Services (SOAP) or MapPoint Web Service (SOAP).

Watch an introductory video of Microsoft's Virtual Earth here.

Nintendo rolled out its new Nintendo DSi in Europe today and will be available in the U.S. on Sunday.

The third-generation version of the Nintendo DS console, the new DSi, has a new dual screen, is lighter at 7.5 oz and slightly slimmer than Nintendo DS Lite.

The third generation in the DS franchise was launched in Japan last November and has so far sold 2 million units. It will be $40 more expensive than the DS Lite making it $170 apiece.

Nintendo DSi will compete directly with Sony's PlayStation Portable 3000 as well as Apple iPod Touch on grounds of gaming platforms.

The DSi has two low resolution (0.3 megapixels) cameras, slightly larger screens (3.25 inches), and a SD card slot, although the Game Boy Advance slot has been removed from the updated version.

The DSi has an ARM processor running at 133MHz and a RAM beefed up to 16MB as compared to the DS Lite having a processor running at 67MHz and a 4MB RAM. DSi also has WiFi 802.11 option for connectivity.

Nintendo has also packed in a music player on DSi that allows the playing of AAC music files with support for .m4a, .mp4, and .3gp file format.

The Wii, Nintendo's console platform, has sold more than 50 million units worldwide since its release in 2006.