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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 …
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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 …
James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:CES Wrap up- where oh where was Android?
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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.
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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.
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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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.
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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Microsoft:
Q&A: New Ads Explain, “It's Everybody's Business” — Advertising General Manager Gayle Troberman talks about Microsoft's latest campaign, where leading executives explain how enterprise software empowers people to make an impact. — A new wave of advertising from Microsoft launched this week …
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 …
InfoWorld:
Study: Half of developers plan to work on SaaS in '09 — More than half of all developers worldwide on average are expecting to work on SaaS (software as a service) applications within the next year, according to a new survey by Evans Data Corporation. — The highest percentage …
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Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Microsoft in no hurry to upgrade Xbox — Microsoft will rely on its Xbox 360 game console for longer than the previous version because it's getting harder to persuade consumers to upgrade, the head of the company's entertainment unit said. — The world's largest software maker will focus …
Emily Nussbaum / New York Magazine:
The New Journalism: Goosing the Gray Lady — What are these renegade cybergeeks doing at the New York Times? Maybe saving it. — On the day Barack Obama was elected, a strange new feature appeared on the website of the New York Times. Called the Word Train, it asked a simple question …
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