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10:05 AM ET, January 12, 2009

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The Official Google Blog:
Powering a Google search  —  Not long ago, answering a query meant traveling to the reference desk of your local library.  Today, search engines enable us to access immense quantities of useful information in an instant, without leaving home.  Tools like email, online books and photos …
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Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Betting Big on ‘Touch’  —  Software Giant Invests in Touch-Screen Technology for Personal Computers  —  While Apple Inc.'s iPhone kicked off the craze for touch-sensing screens on mobile phones, Microsoft Corp. is pushing a similar technology for personal-computer screens that could eventually replace the computer mouse.
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
CBS Tries to Out-Hulu Hulu with TV.com  —  As was expected, CBS is revamping TV.com to be a video-viewing destination.  The well-URLed site, which six months ago started featuring Hulu content, has added CBS shows, and Monday is announcing deals for shows from MGM, Sony, PBS, Endemol USA and Showtime, according to reports tonight.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Telstra exec: new Android-based HTC phone ‘better’ than Pre  —  With Mobile World Congress a little over month away — and Android essentially a no-show at CES — suspense is building over what sort of action we'll see out of the Google camp at the show.  Australia's Smarthouse cites …
Discussion: iMAndroid
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David Richards / Smarthouse:
EXCLUSIVE: HTC To Launch New Touch Phone Says Telstra  —  Mobile phone Company HTC is set to launch a brand new phone touch phone that will take on the Apple iPhone and the new Pre offering from Palm claims a senior executive of Telstra.  —  The new touch phone has been developed using …
Jonathan Skillings / CNET News:
Seagate replaces Watkins as CEO  —  Disk-drive maker Seagate Technology announced Monday that Chairman Stephen Luczo is now also serving as CEO and president of the company.  —  That spells the end of the tenure of Bill Watkins, who has been with the company for 12 years and has served as CEO since 2004.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Local Advertising Booster Yodle Growing Like A Weed, Raises $10 Million  —  Yodle, the New York-based startup that helps local businesses advertise more efficiently on the web, has secured $10 million in Series C financing in a round led by JAFCO Ventures and joined by Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth, DFJ and Bessemer venture Partners.
The Drama 2.0 Show:
Web 2.0, Revenue Models and Profitability  —  Not only are most of the hottest Web 2.0 startups unprofitable, quite a few lack viable revenue models altogether.  This has led cynics like me to criticize these startups quite harshly over the past several years.
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
To Connect to the Internet, Just Turn on Your TV  —  LAS VEGAS — If there was one overarching theme from the Consumer Electronics Show here last week, it was that absolutely every device in our lives is becoming a computer connected to the Internet.  —  The sleek little Palm Pre phone promises …
Discussion: CinemaTech and digg.com
InfoWorld:
Adobe LiveCycle takes to the cloud  —  Adobe is putting its LiveCycle package for building PDF applications into the cloud.  —  With Adobe LiveCycle ES (Enterprise Suite) Developer Express software, members of the Adobe Enterprise Developer Program can access LiveCycle capabilities …
Discussion: Between the Lines and eWeek
Arn / MacRumors:
Macworld San Francisco 2009 Rumor Wrapup: Winners and Losers  —  After Apple announced that Steve Jobs would be not be giving the 2009 Macworld Expo keynote, analyst expectations about the event dropped dramatically.  —  While Apple did not deliver the expected updates to the iMac and Mac mini …
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
CES: TomTom Sees Halt To Eroding GPS Device Pricing  —  TomTom (TOM2.AS) President Jocelyn Vigreux expects pricing for personal navigation devices to stabilize in 2009 after falling about 30% in 2008.  —  In an interview on Friday with Tech Trader Daily, Vigreux said last year's price declines came …
Discussion: GPS Obsessed and All Points Blog
 
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Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Nortel's Shadow Games
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Web 2.0 Asia:
Yahoo Korea CEO jumps ship to Microsoft Korea
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Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
The Nyko Wand May Be Just as Good as the Wiimote, Or Even Better
Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
TV makers seek depth, adding a third dimension
Hutch Carpenter / I'm Not Actually a Geek:
Karl Rove Is on Twitter
Discussion: Telegraph, Gawker and Guardian
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Shows 57% More Ads Per Keyword In Q4 (GOOG)
Discussion: MarketingVOX
 

 
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Liam Scott / Voice of America:
Reporters Without Borders sues X in France for “complicity in disseminating false information”, after X failed to block a fake video with RSF's logo

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
The Onion, backed by some Sandy Hook families and Everytown for Gun Safety, buys Infowars in a bankruptcy auction, and plans a January 2025 relaunch as a parody

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
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