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Nathan Weinberg / InsideMicrosoft:
Exclusive: Windows Mobile 7 To Focus On Touch and Motion Gestures — Microsoft is currently developing Windows Mobile 7, the first revolutionary change to its mobile device operating system. Recently, I was given a document by a source inside Microsoft that details the touch and gesture plans for Mobile 7.
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All about Microsoft, Download Squad, Gizmodo, Darren Herman, TECH.BLORGE.com, Phone Scoop, IntoMobile and Engadget Mobile
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:
CES gadget: Sony re-enters the GPS navigation market with some cool features — Sony is introducing a couple of new global positioning system navigation (GPS) devices at its press conference today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The so-called nav-u car GPS navigators include …
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Reuters:
Philips partners with Rhapsody for digital music — LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Dutch electronics group Philips is forming an alliance with digital media company RealNetworks to offer online music using Philips' music players, the two companies said on Sunday. — Philips, which is redefining …
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PC World:
Samsung Shows OLED and Quad-HD TVs at CES — Announcements include ultrathin 14- and 31-inch OLED TVs and a prototype with four times the definition of most HD sets. — Recommend this story? — LAS VEGAS — Samsung Electronics is unveiling here today two ultrathin TVs and a prototype LCD TV …
Fred / A VC:
What My Kids Tell Me About The Future of Media — I was reading a Goldman Sachs research report on the radio business on the plane back from Australia. I came across this chart of EBITDA multiples versus EBITA growth rates for various media categories. — There's not a ton of insight …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Casio's new ambition: Fast-frame rate camera — Casio is unveiling a radical departure from its basic point-and-shoot camera roots Sunday, the $1,000 Exilim Pro EX-F1 that the company says can shoot 60 still images per second or movies at 1,200 frames per second.
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Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Amazon launches software downloads — Online retailer Amazon has launched a software download section. And when we say launched, we mean, they've built a software downloader application which you can currently use to download a handful of products from TurboTax.
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Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
Sharp Announces New TVs With Aquos Net Widgets/Services — We're here, baby. The conference starts at noon PST. Until then, were just chewing away at our Venetian boxed lunches while scoping out Sharp's 20mm, 100,000:1 contrast LCD we saw back at IFA. We still want one. Hit the jump for updates.
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Bits, The Technology Chronicles, CNET News.com, Engadget and Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi
Franklin Paul / MediaFile:
Toshiba, defiant, says HD-DVD, down, not out — Breaking new records in press conference brevity, Toshiba's CES presentation speed through why its TVs are the best and not a whole lot of detail on the fate of its HD DVD format after Hollywood's biggest studio Warner Bros decided to back Sony's Blu-ray exclusively.
samsung.com:
SAMSUNG Expands Its Q1 Ultra Line With New High-Performance UMPC — Q1 Ultra Premium UMPC Features Intel Core Solo Pentium CPU, Named 2008 CES Innovations Honoree — Samsung Electronics America, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Corporation, a global leader in digital media …
Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
Samsung High End Plasma: Series 7 Getting Ethernet and Amber Tinged Frames — The Catch: Samsung's high end 1080p plasma line comes in three sizes, 50, 58, and 63-inches. The press release is thin on specs but its got the ethernet port for RSS downloads of stock, and weather info.
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Information overload in the Facebook-ABC presidential debates? — MANCHESTER, N.H.—It sounded like a good idea at first: Let Internet users be part of, virtually speaking, the Democratic and Republican presidential debates on Saturday evening by posting comments on a special Facebook message board.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Live coverage from Sony's CES press conference — We're live at the Sony press conference. Sitting directly in front of a wall. Only Sony. — 4:06PM - Here we go! It's opening. — 4:07PM - And it just opened into another room, where the entire audience — maybe a hundred or so members …
Christopher Grant / Engadget:
Sony officially announces Skype on PSP — As if we didn't already know, Sony just spit out a press release announcing the availability of Skype on PSP courtesy of a firmware update due later this month. After the update, a Skype icon will be available under the Network menu …
Erik Hanson / Engadget:
Sony XEL-1 OLED slips into US stores — As expected, Sony has released the first OLED display in the US, with the 11-inch XEL-1 available now at select Sony Style locations for $2,500. Japanese customers have been able to purchase the 3mm-thick XEL-1 since late last year for ¥200,000 …
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