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Richard Siklos / New York Times:
New Disc May Sway DVD Wars — Consumers wary of buying new high-definition DVD players because of a technology war reminiscent of the days of Betamax versus VHS will soon have a new kind of DVD that might make the decision less daunting. — Warner Brothers, which helped popularize the DVD …
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Reuters:
Brazil court orders YouTube shut on celeb sex video — SAO PAULO, Brazil, Jan 4 (Reuters) - A Brazilian court ordered the popular video sharing service YouTube, a unit of Internet search provider Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile , Research), to be shut down until it removes a celebrity sex video …
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Guardian:
What Jobs told me on the iPhone — Will Apple's chief executive unveil a tablet Mac or an 'iPhone' at Macworld next week? Former sales boss David Sobotta describes the meeting which explained key thinking — Next week, Steve Jobs will stand on stage in San Francisco to make his keynote speech …
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Mathew Ingram / mathewingram.com/work:
Bubbleshare finally gets acquired — Update 2: — I just got off the phone with Jason DeZwirek, the CEO of Kaboose — which is publicly-listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange — who told me that the acquisition of Bubbleshare is the first in a series of steps the company plans to take to move …
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Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
New Reader Trends page — One of the things I love about Google Reader is that they listen to feedback. But sometimes you gotta leave feedback behind and just work on fun stuff. Mihai Parparita recently posted about the new Google Reader Trends page. — Here's what mine looks like:
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Mihai Parparita / Official Google Reader Blog:
I like big charts and I cannot lie — I've always been a big fan of charts, tables and other ways of analyzing and visualizing data. On my own blog I will often plot things just to get a handle on them. Even here I've posted some analyses that I've done of the data that the Reader team has on hand.
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Alan Boyle / Cosmic Log:
BLUE ORIGIN REVEALED — After years of working behind closed doors and locked gates, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has finally lifted the curtain that shrouded Blue Origin, his space tourism venture. — Among the goodies now displayed on Blue Origin's Web site are photos and videos …
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LeeAnn Prescott / Hitwise US:
Google Calendar Up Threefold Since June — As you resolve to get your schedule more organized in the new year, do what more and more people are doing - use Google Calendar. A few weeks ago, Google Calendar overtook MSN Calendar in market share of US visits, and is quickly approaching Yahoo! Calendar.
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Jim Dalrymple / Macworld:
Adobe brings Premiere back to the Mac — Adobe will announce on Thursday that it will revive a Mac version of Premiere, the software maker's video program aimed at professional editors. The new Mac version will only run on Intel-based Macs and will be part of a larger Adobe Production Studio suite …
Christopher Drew / New York Times:
U.S. Bars Lab From Testing Electronic Voting — A laboratory that has tested most of the nation's electronic voting systems has been temporarily barred from approving new machines after federal officials found that it was not following its quality-control procedures and could not document that it was conducting all the required tests.
Stephen Shankland / ZDNet:
A peek at faster Power6, Cell chips — Judging by details revealed in a chip conference agenda, the clock frequency race isn't over yet. — IBM's Power6 processor will be able to exceed 5 gigahertz in a high-performance mode, and the second-generation Cell Broadband Engine processor from IBM …
Google:
China Mobile, Google Launch Cooperation: Creating Leading Mobile Search Service in China — China Mobile, the world's largest mobile telecommunications carrier, and Google, the world's largest search engine, announced today a cooperation to provide mobile and Internet search services in China.
David / Ironic Sans:
Celebrity Patents — Last month, Google introduced its new Patent Search feature (in beta), allowing users to dig through 7 million US patents from 1790 to mid-1996. On-line patent searching has already been possible through the US Patent and Trademark Office website …
