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Ellen Lee / The Technology Chronicles:
Long line for Gates — Lining up for the Bill Gates keynote. — Each year I write about the insane lines and crowds at CES. The only place I don't have to wait is the women's bathroom because the female to male ratio is about 1 to 100. — With Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates set …
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Microsoft:
Bill Gates Looks Ahead at “Next Digital Decade” — Microsoft announces new entertainment partnerships with Disney-ABC Television Group, MGM and NBC Universal. — At the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates and Microsoft President …
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
NBC Universal Selects Microsoft and Silverlight to Power Olympics Video — Just received news out of NBC Universal that they have selected Microsoft to host the online video portal for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The site will be available at NBCOlympics.com and will be powered by Microsoft's Silverlight platform.
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TechCrunch, The Universal Desktop, Gizmodo, Mobility Site, Lost Remote, Mashable! and Furrier.org
Ina Fried / ZDNet:
Gates: Curtain call for crystal ball — LAS VEGAS—Bill Gates may be stepping away from full-time work later this year, but he still has a few things he wants to show off. — In his annual Consumer Electronics Show address, the Microsoft chairman demonstrated a slew of fashionable PCs …
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:CES preview: Bill Gates' last speech....Will we miss him so?
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Gizmodo
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org: Microsoft's Content Announcement At CES; NBCOlympics; Disney/MGM on XboxLive; IPTV
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:Live From CES: Anybody Up for a Little Billion-Dollar-a-Hand Poker …
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Tech Check with Jim Goldman
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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Evan Blass / Engadget:Is this Windows Mobile 7? — Not all the big news is coming …
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Mlevram / Techland:
Yahoo's new mobile strategy — By Michal Lev-Ram — LAS VEGAS - Don't hang up on Yahoo yet. — Even as the wireless industry continues to buzz about Google's Android initiative, rival Yahoo is taking steps to ensure it too has a place in the mobile future by opening up its platform to outside developers.
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Yahoo Makes a New Play for Ads on Mobile Phones — SAN FRANCISCO — There may not be a Yahoo phone in the works, but the struggling Internet company is betting that a new mobile-phone strategy will help it better compete with the likes of Google, Microsoft and others for a share of the growing cellphone advertising business.
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
The Times and CNBC Will Share Material on Web Sites — CNBC and The New York Times have agreed to share material on their Web sites, uniting the main competitive targets of the News Corporation's new ventures, the Fox Business Network and The Wall Street Journal.
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 …
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 …
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Brian Lam / Gizmodo:Samsung High End Plasma: Series 7 Getting Ethernet and Amber Tinged Frames
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Electronista
Dan Fost / New York Times:
Some Brand-Name Bloggers Say Stress of Posting Is a Hazard to Their Health — Om Malik's blog, GigaOm, regularly breaks news about the technology industry. Last week, the journalist turned blogger broke a big story about himself. Mr. Malik, 41, blogged that he had suffered a heart attack on Dec. 28.
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 …
Electronista:
Sling preps SlingCatcher, SlingModem — Sling Media very early Monday heated up the challengers to the Apple TV and other media hubs with a finalized announcement of the SlingCatcher, its first device designed to bring computer content to a TV. Using a feature named SlingProjector …
Greg Linden / Geeking with Greg:
MapReducing 20 petabytes per day — Googlers Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat have an article, “MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters”, in the January 2008 issue of Communications of the ACM. — It is a great introduction to MapReduce, but what I found most interesting …
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 …
