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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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Bruce Upbin / Forbes:
Bill Gates's Swan Song — LAS VEGAS - — Leave 'em smiling. — Some 4,000 people gathered on Sunday evening at the Venetian Hotel's Palazzo Ballroom in Las Vegas to hear Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people )Chairman Bill Gates give his final speech to the high-tech world's mega-conference.
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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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Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
This Video Makes Bill Gates Look Cooler Than Steve Jobs — OMG, I can hear the fanboys battling already. Here's a video from last night's CES 2008 keynote, Bill Gates' last for the foreseeable future. And I know its scripted, edited and contrived, but I'm sold: The man is a cool geek.
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Bill Gates at CES: No Web Fridges, But You Can Watch TV on Your Xbox 360 — One of the highlights of CES (Consumer Electronics Show) each year is Bill Gates' keynote speech, available here as a webcast. Every year ReadWriteWeb analyzes Gates' keynote, highlighting the main themes and trends that he discusses.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Gates' last CES keynote: Long on sales claims, short on futures
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 …
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Brian Burnsed / Business Week:Wikia Wants to Shake Up Search
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:Wikia Search Goes Live - It's Not Ready Yet
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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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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:Ridiculous: Sony BMG Confirms DRM Free Music, But Will Force Customers …
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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.
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Link By Link: 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.
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
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.
Barb Dybwad / Engadget:
Alienware curved display rocks Crysis at 2880 x 900 — Don't get all frothed up quite yet because it's still only a prototype, but this sweet doublewide curved DLP display with OLED illumination from Alienware will reportedly be available in the second half of '08.
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InfoWorld:
Motorola buys Soundbuzz to expand music offerings — San Francisco - Motorola will acquire online music store Soundbuzz in a bid to expand its mobile music offerings in Asia, the company said Monday. — “Soundbuzz will become part of the Motorola entertainment family,” said Ian Chapman-Banks …
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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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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.
Ken Auletta / New Yorker:
THE SEARCH PARTY — Google squares off with its Capitol Hill critics. … In June, 2006, Sergey Brin, one of the co-founders of Google, went to Washington, D.C., hoping to create a little good will. Google was something of a Washington oddity then. Although it was a multibillion-dollar company …
