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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Jerry Yang offers sneak peak of Yahoo's future: Life! — Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang made his inaugural CES appearance, outlining how he plans to evolve his company ahead of the curve and to become an indispensable starting point for consumers' Web experience, which has become richer and more complex over the last decade.
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Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
CES: Yahoo's Jerry Yang Talks Up Yahoo! Go! 3.0, Letting Any Developer or Advertiser Build “Widgets” — Yahoo's (YHOO) CEO Jerry Yang comes out in khaki's and a blue polo shirt. — “We're ready and excited about what the next phase of the Internet has to offer.”
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb: Flickr to Authenticate OpenID - Is This The Yahoo! CES Announcement?
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:Yahoo! Life! and Go 3.0 Announced at CES - is Yahoo! Back in '08?
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Spencer Reiss / Wired News:
Q&A: Author Nicholas Carr on the Terrifying Future of Computing — Nicholas Carr is high tech's Captain Buzzkill — the go-to guy for bad news. A former executive editor of Harvard Business Review, he tossed a grenade under big-budget corporate computing with his 2004 polemic Does IT Matter?
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Carolyn Duffy Marsan / Network World:The IT department is dead, author argues
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Mitchell / mitchell's blog:
Mozilla Corporation CEO and Chairman — 2007 has been another year of extremely high growth for Mozilla and thus for the Mozilla Corporation. The number of Firefox users has grown to approximately 125 million. Mozilla's mindshare in the industry continues to grow.
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John / John's Blog:
my new job at mozilla — Sometimes in life, you find an opportunity to make a difference in something you care about, and it feels like, even though you didn't know it at the time, that the last few years have really just been practice, giving you the background, skills and ability to really help.
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Live from Intel's CES press event — Well here we are folks, back for more at Intel's sprawling CES press event. The room is teeming with people right now, and the mood is thick with Penryns and MIDs. We'll see if it all works out like we hope. Stay tuned! — 4:27PM PT - We're seated, we're ready.
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John Siracusa / Ars Technica:
MWSF 2008 keynote bingo — Ah, winter in San Francisco: the time of year when a young man's fancy lightly turns to keynote bingo. What's that, you ask? You haven't played? Oh, but you must. Peruse last year's edition to learn the rules and internalize the philosophy.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Ten Common Objections to Social Media Adoption and How You Can Respond — Steve Outing wrote a very good article at Editor and Publisher on Friday about the need for cultural change inside the newpapers around the US (found via the wonderful CyberJournalist.net).
Ronald Grover / Business Week:
Apple Closes In on Hollywood — Steve Jobs is negotiating with the big studios to offer more movies for sale and rental on iTunes, but both sides will have to give a little — It has been Hollywood's worst-kept secret: Steve Jobs is starting to win over the film industry.
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BBC:
Clarkson stung after bank prank — TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has lost money after publishing his bank details in his newspaper column. — The Top Gear host revealed his account numbers after rubbishing the furore over the loss of 25 million people's personal details on two computer discs.
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Obama Effect: ABC News Claims 1M Downloads Of Facebook App — ABC rang in huge Nielsen numbers for its ABC News/Facebook debates Saturday night. But we're more interested in the fact that ABC is claiming that more than a million Facebook users have downloaded ABC News' U.S. Politics application.
Claudia H. Deutsch / New York Times:
Xerox Hopes Its New Logo Doesn't Say ‘Copier’ — Still think copier when you hear the name Xerox? — The company knows that you do. And it is sick of it. Good grief, Xerox doesn't even make stand-alone copiers any more. — These days, Xerox gets most of its revenue from machines …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
No More New Things From Microsoft — In an era when the vanguard of technology is creating smart devices for entertainment and communications, Bill Gates, the outgoing chairman of Microsoft, had little that was interesting or innovative to show off in his last annual keynote at CES in Las Vegas on Sunday.
Matt Croydon / Postneo:
Google apps for your newsroom — I like to think that I'm pretty good at recognizing trends. One thing that I've been seeing a lot recently in my interactions with the newsroom is that we're no longer exchanging Excel spreadsheets, Word files, and other binary blobs via email.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Back from the dead: CompUSA assets snapped up by TigerDirect — CompUSA will live on, thanks to a deal with electronics marketer Systemax. Systemax, which owns popular computer parts reseller (and CompUSA competitor) TigerDirect, announced yesterday that it has entered into an agreement …
