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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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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 …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
The Truth That Dare Not Speak: The CES Keynote Sucked — Another year and another keynote speech at CES tops the headlines on Techmeme. The team over a CrunchGear did a good job under the circumstances live blogging Bill Gates and others from Microsoft as they spoke on stage …
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Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:Bill Gates at CES: No Web Fridges, But You Can Watch TV on Your Xbox 360
Ellen Lee / The Technology Chronicles:Long line for Gates
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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?
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Investors Said to Seek a Takeover of CNet — CNet Networks, one of the original online media companies, would typically write about all the gossip and speculation at the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas. Now, however, the company is likely to be the one talked about.
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.
USA Today:
Sony BMG trades cards for downloaded tunes — NEW YORK — Sony BMG Music Entertainment on Jan. 15 becomes the last major record company to sell downloads without copy restrictions — but only to buyers who first visit a retail store. — The No. 2 record company after Universal Music …
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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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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:Yahoo Takes Agnostic Platform to Battle With Android - Telcoms Still Going to Hell
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 …
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.
FOXBusiness.com:
Motorola to Enhance Music Delivery Capabilities in Asia Through Acquisition of Soundbuzz — PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ — Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Soundbuzz Pte. Ltd., a privately held, leading pan-Asian music provider.
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Breaking the Social Contract: My Data is not Your Data — This is likely my last post in Robert Scoble vs. Facebook saga but I think there are some subtle points being lost because of the typical blog feeding frenzy where people either choose to flame Facebook, Scoble or both.
Nicola Woolcock / Times of London:
Technophobe teachers wasting millions — State schools spent £1 billion on cutting-edge information technology last year but 80 per cent of them are failing to make full use of it, according to experts. — Pupils now handle equipment worth thousands of pounds, with some using laptops …
Tim Arango / New York Times:
Ex-Harvard President Meets a Former Student, and Intellectual Sparks Fly — In June 2006, Peter Hopkins, a civic-minded and idealistic 2004 Harvard graduate, trekked up to his alma mater from New York for a meeting with Lawrence H. Summers, the economist and former Treasury secretary.
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