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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Information on Downloading and Installing Windows 7 Beta — As of today, I am running the Windows 7 Beta on several different PCs including my laptop, my work PC, and my PC at home, which I upgraded recently to Windows 7 from Windows Vista SP1. (I'll be outlining the PCs I'm using to test Windows 7 shortly.)
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Microsoft's Ballmer Announces Availability of Windows 7 Beta and Windows Live — Company previews simpler, better Windows operating system and highlights connected entertainment offerings at CES. — In a keynote address at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Live blogging CES: Sony CEO Howard Stringer pals with Tom Hanks — Summary: Sir Howard did a good job showing off a combination of cool technology and Sony's clout in rounding up celebrities to appear on stage with him. Thanks to Sony's movie studio, he's got an unfair advantage over Microsoft's Steve Ballmer in that department.
Business Wire:
Lenovo Announces Resource Redeployment Plan — RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. & SINGAPORE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Lenovo today announced a resource redeployment plan that will help the company increase its efficiencies and become more competitive in the face of the continuing global economic downturn.
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Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Microsoft Tag: Microsoft's own 2D barcode — It just wouldn't be right if Microsoft didn't have its own barcode technology too, which is why today Microsoft Tag (Beta) was announced at CES 2009. Much like other 2D barcode technologies including the popular but underwhelming QR Code …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Releases Tag, Its Second iPhone Application — At CES, Microsoft has introduced its second iPhone app after dipping its toe with the release of Seadragon Mobile last month. The name of the application is Microsoft Tag, and it enables users to instantly access mobile content …
Harrison Hoffman / Webware.com:
Boxee plugs into Joost, MTV Music, Apple TV — Boxee, one of the more promising media applications out there today, is announcing the launch of a few new content sources today at the Consumer Electronics Show. — Boxee now has added support for content from Joost and MTV Music.
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Messaging made simple - the Nokia E63 heads to the United States — This affordable QWERTY smartphone to be made available with US 3G optimization — Las Vegas, NV, USA - At the Consumer Electronics Show today, Nokia announced it will bring a US optimized version of the Nokia E63 to the North American market.
BBC:
Hard drive destruction ‘crucial’ — The only way to stop fraudsters stealing information from old computer hard drives is by destroying them completely, a study has found. — Which? Computing magazine recovered 22,000 “deleted” files from eight computers purchased on eBay.
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Sony Vaio P Super Don't-Call-It-a-Netbook Hands On — The keyboard? It rocks. The screen? Beautiful. The trackball is just the right amount of gritty, so your finger sticks to it and doesn't slide off onto the keyboard. The instant-on OS? Classy.
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
GiiNii's Movit Mini WiFi Android tablet hands-on — We just spent some quality time playing with GiiNii's Movit Mini WiFi Android tablet, which might be one of the best things we've seen at CES so far — think of it as the Android version of the iPod touch and you'll get why we're so stoked.
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Sony Cybershot G3: World's First Camera You Can Surf the Web On — The Cybershot G3 is a camera so special Sony Sir Howard Stringer himself did the honors: It's the world's first Wi-Fi camera with a built-in browser. — GALLERY — END Besides stealing your neighbor's Wi-Fi …
Nick Wingfield / Digits:
CES: Ballmer's Pregame Jitters — Steve Ballmer admits he's a little nervous. Not about Google or Apple or the economy, at least not at this very moment. It was a few hours before the Microsoft CEO was to give his first keynote speech Wednesday night at CES, a chore traditionally handled by Bill Gates, and he's a little antsy.
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Adrian Covert / Gizmodo:
Live: Palm Keynote — In a few moments, we will see the fruits of the Palm team's many months of labor, and the Palm fan's answer to what the Post-Treo revolution looks like. Updates as they come. — It's a lot for them to live up to, but we're resetting our expectations and approaching …
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Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Google quietly ices contractors — Keeps hush-hush SEC filing off the interwebs — Internet giant Google quietly got rid of an unspecified number of contract workers late last year. — Mountain View's spending plans were outlined in a 15 December Securities and Exchange Commission filing …
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Obama Digs In for His BlackBerry — WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama has yet to relent, but he conceded that he might be losing the battle to keep his independent lifeline to the outside world. — “I'm still clinging to my BlackBerry,” Mr. Obama said Wednesday. “They're going to pry it out of my hands.”
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Corkd Gets Hackd — If you try to visit the URL for wine review website Corkd, you'll automatically get rerouted to porn site Adult Friend Finder (obviously NSFW). We're not sure how long this has been the case, but we're not the only ones noticing. — What's weird about the redirect …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Dutch Startup eFresh.com Raises $5.4 Million From Rabobank — The Netherlands-based internet startup eFresh.com has secured €4.25 million (or roughly $5.4 million) in funding from one of the largest banks in the country, Rabobank. The company, which operates a B2B portal for the perishable industry …
Xavier / Notebooks.com:
New Generation of Netbooks: $199 and $299, Eight Hour Battery & Sexy Design — Freescale and Pegatron are ushering a new generation of netbooks that will combine excellent battery life, good looks and low cost. The two partners are hoping to bring the ARM-based netbook to market within …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
New Prospect for Yahoo CEO: Carol Bartz — How did BoomTown forget former Autodesk exec Carol Bartz for Yahoo CEO? — Yahoo certainly hasn't. According to several sources familiar with the Yahoo (YHOO) search for a new leader to replace Co-founder Jerry Yang, the company is looking hard …
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Tameka Kee / paidContent.org:
@ CES: Norwest's Chang: Things Could Get Scary For Facebook, Slide in '09 — Despite all the predictions for slashed VC spending and stagnant growth in new media this year, clearly there is still money to be spent, as we've already seen a number of fundings in the past week.
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Jessica Dolcourt / Download.com editors:
Googlepedia for Firefox brings Wikipedia to you — If you're one whose search results lead you to a Wikipedia page nine times out of ten, you would do well to install the Googlepedia extension for Firefox. — This free, terrifically easy add-on pulls the Wikipedia article most closely associated …
Marco Chiappetta / HotHardware.com News:
Enter The Dragon: AMD Phenom II X4 940 — AMD has been fighting an uphill battle on two fronts for the last few years. For a time, fierce competition from NVIDIA, coupled with some of their own problems executing, put the ATI graphics division in a deep hole.
Electronista:
Creative Zii outed as flexible system-on-chip — Creative today finally confirmed the nature of the Zii. The one-time mystery device is now known to be a processor platform based on the notion of very generalized, software-based cores known as Processing Elements: the “stemcell” …
Erik Sherman / BNET Technology:
Is Google Developing a Router? — There's an intriguing rumor floating about. SDTimes.com is reporting that according to multiple sources, “including one at Cisco,” Google is working on developing its own router. When I contacted Google, the answer was the now-standard …
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
CES: Consumer Electronics Sales Seen Off 0.6% In '09 — Before the keynote from Sony's Howard Stringer, Consumer Electronics Association President and CEO Gary Shapiro provided a state of the industry address. His talk was basically an attempt to cheer on the industry in a time when everyone …
Rob_sheridan / forum.nin.com:
Lights In The Sky HD Footage Downloads! — page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11...last > — This is my custom title. Location: Los Angeles — Posts: 160 … There is about 405gb of HD footage available. It was recorded with multiple consumer HDV cameras during three shows: Victoria 12.05.08 …
Kris Graft / Edge Online:
Sony: Competitors “Continue Peddling Add-Ons” — Who really cares about BLURAY? I play my 360 on an HD tv with a 20 quid hdmi cable and it looks amazing, I think LIVE is well worth the money, the game demos, arcade game have some decent choices and now the Movie catalogue is getting decent there is always a decent film to download.
