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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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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, Lost Remote, Mobility Site, Mashable! and Furrier.org
BBC:
Gates hails age of digital senses — The way people interact with computers is going to dramatically change in the next five years, Microsoft chief Bill Gates has told BBC News. — He predicted that the keyboard and mouse would gradually give way to more intuitive and natural technologies.
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:CES preview: Bill Gates' last speech....Will we miss him so?
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Gates' last CES keynote: Long on sales claims, short on futures
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:Microsoft's Content Announcement At CES; NBC Olympics; Disney/MGM on XboxLive; IPTV
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Wikia Search Is A Complete Letdown. — Many of us have waited a year as the Jimmy Wales hype machine promised a human powered search engine that could take on Google. Tonight that search engine launched at alpha.search.wikia.com, and it may be one of the biggest disappointments I've had the displeasure of reviewing.
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Wiki Citizens Taking on a New Area: Searching — SAN FRANCISCO — When Jimmy Wales co-founded Wikipedia in 2001 and called the site, which carried only a few articles then, a free encyclopedia, not many people took him seriously. — Nowadays, with more than two million articles in English alone …
Saumil Mehta / VentureBeat:
Search Wikia launches: Will it threaten Google? — Search Wikia, a new search engine site, has launched publicly after two weeks of private testing. — The search engine has been highly anticipated for its unique, open-source approach to search as well as its high profile founder …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:Wikia Search Goes Live: Not Great
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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.
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ReadWriteWeb, Techland, mocoNews.net, TechCrunch, CenterNetworks, Macworld and Yodel Anecdotal
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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.
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.
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Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Google's Lunchtime Betting Game — IT probably doesn't come as a huge surprise to learn that while employees in many companies sit in the cafeteria gossiping about work, or the boss, or the competition, at Google they are doing something else. — At Google, employees are encouraged …
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.
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Liberty to Bulk Up Internet Portfolio — Liberty Media Corp., in the latest move to beef up its portfolio of Internet businesses, is expected to announce today that it has bought a controlling stake in sports-nutrition retailer and fitness Web-site operator Bodybuilding.com LLC.
