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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.
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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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Salon, Things That, BoomTown, Bit Player, Microsoft, Gadgetell, All about Microsoft, Guardian Unlimited, CrunchGear, paidContent.org and Digital Daily
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:Bill Gates at CES: No Web Fridges, But You Can Watch TV on Your Xbox 360
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Napster moves to MP3-only music download format — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Napster Inc, one of the largest digital music retailers, said on Monday it would start selling downloads in the MP3 format from the second quarter of this year in the latest blow to copy protection for songs bought online.
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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 …
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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Intel:
Intel Unveils 16 Next-Generation Processors, Including First Notebook Chips Built on 45nm Technology — New Transistor Design, Manufacturing Capabilities will Also Power Mobile Internet Devices — INTERNATIONAL 2008 CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW, Las Vegas, Jan. 7, 2008 …
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Between the Lines, Digital Daily, Gadget Lab, 9 to 5 Mac, Insanely Great Mac and dailywireless.org
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PC World:
Intel Unveils First Penryn Mobile Processors — LAS VEGAS— Intel unveiled today the first Penryn laptop processors, a follow-up to the Penryn desktop processors that began to appear late last year. They mark a refresh to the fourth-generation (Santa Rosa) Centrino laptop platform and should begin to appear in new laptops next week.
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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Search Engine Watch Blog, Insider Chatter, mathewingram.com/work, InfoWorld, Download Squad, Search Engine Journal, Google Blogoscoped, New York Times, Searchviews, CenterNetworks, The Globe and Mail, VentureBeat, Matt Cutts, Search Marketing Gurus, Pulse 2.0, Business Week, ParisLemon, innonate, franticindustries, Silicon Alley Insider, Mark Evans, Search Engine Land, WebProNews, Search Engine Roundtable, Infothought, Techmamas, Mashable! and Kevin Burton's NEW FeedBlog
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Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:Why SEOs Will Kill Wikia Search
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HipMojo.com, Search Engine Land, Insider Chatter, Search Engine Watch Blog and WebProNews
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.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
CES: Panasonic's Toshihiro Sakamoto Unveils 150-Inch Plasma Display; Unveils Deal For YouTube Content On TVs — Monday morning's keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas comes from Toshihiro Sakamoto, President of Panasonic AVC Networks. — Here are some bullet points from his keynote:
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Guardian, Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi, Gizmodo, Byte of the Apple, Silicon Alley Insider and Engadget
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Hulu Says Veoh Is Violating Terms Of Use But No Sign Of Action—Yet — Veoh wants to have it both ways: legit distribution deals with the likes of CBS (NYSE: CBS) and guerrilla tactics to showcase NBC and Fox content from Hulu. Prison Break, Heroes and other other prime-time shows …
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Microsoft:
Windows Home Server Breaks Ground on New Features, Expands Into More Homes Worldwide — New Power Pack 1 adds support for Windows Vista x64, enhances remote access capabilities, extends data protection and supports the Chinese and Japanese languages. — Attendees of this week's 2008 International CES …
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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.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Is Clearly Up To Something Big Around Music — There have been rumors that Yahoo Music is preparing to launch a big new product sometime soon. And when I read this overview of a presentation given by Yahoo Music's VP of Product Development Ian Rogers last month it basically confirmed it for me …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: Mozilla Secretly Launches A Viral Campaign For Firefox — Mozilla has quietly launched a new viral campaign in support of Firefox, complete with song (YouTube TC exclusive above) and some fighting words against Internet Explorer. — The main part of the campaign is a site …
Janet Adamy / Wall Street Journal:
McDonald's Takes On A Weakened Starbucks — Food Giant to Install Specialty Coffee Bars, — OLATHE, Kan. — This fall, a McDonald's here added a position to its crew: barista. — McDonald's is setting out to poach Starbucks customers with the biggest addition to its menu in 30 years.
Richard Thurston / CNET News.com:
Microsoft admits Office 2003 ‘mistake’ — Microsoft has acknowledged it made a mistake over a security advisory it released concerning Office 2003. — The advisory, posted in December, told users that dozens of file formats had been blocked in the latest service pack for Office 2003—Service Pack 3 (SP3)—because they were insecure.
