Top Items:
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Microsoft's Bach on Courier, Natal, tablets, and phones — LAS VEGAS—Ahead of Microsoft's keynote on Wednesday, I had a chance to sit down with Entertainment and Devices head Robbie Bach to get his thoughts on some of the hottest topics in tech. — I tried (albeit with only mixed success) …
RELATED:
Dylan F. Tweney / Gadget Lab:
Microsoft Touts Home Entertainment at CES Keynote — LAS VEGAS — Microsoft detailed plans for XBox 360 enhancements, a new gesture-driven interface for the XBox, and a new tablet-style Windows PC tonight at a keynote presentation kicking off the Consumer Electronics Show here.
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
CES: Steve Ballmer Keynote — Steve Ballmer is delivering his annual state-of-Microsoft address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas tonight — the second he's given since taking over duties for former CEO Bill Gates. If it's anything like last year's, it will offer a broad overview of Microsoft's …
Discussion:
BetaNews, TechFlash, CNET News, InformationWeek, The Microsoft Blog, Digits, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, CrunchGear and Boy Genius Report
Scott Moritz / TheStreet.com:
Exclusive: Apple's Tablet Has No Intel Inside — Stock quotes in this article: INTC , AAPL , MSFT , DELL — CUPERTINO, Calif. (TheStreet) — Apple (AAOL Quote) is throwing a glamorous Tablet party and chip partner Intel (INTC Quote) isn't invited. — With production time of its Tablet approaching …
RELATED:
John Brownlee / Cult of Mac:
Rumor: Apple employee says Tablet UI has “steep learning curve” — While it probably won't encompass a 3D interface, there's been enough background murmurings about the method users will employ to interact with Apple's forthcoming tablet to expect something new. What that “new” is?
Discussion:
BaltTech, I4U News, GottaBeMobile.com, Edible Apple, MacRumors Page 2, TUAW and techeblog.com
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Apple tablet: $340 in parts? — With manufacturing costs, Apple could build the thing for less than $350, says an analyst — Sports Illustrated on a tablet. Source: Time Inc. — Here's a neat trick. In a report to clients Wednesday, Susquehanna Financial's Jeffrey Fidacaro published …
John Martellaro / The Mac Observer:
How Apple Does Controlled Leaks — Monday's article at the Wall Street Journal, which provided confirmation of an Apple tablet device, had all the earmarks of a controlled leak. Here's how Apple does it. — Often Apple has a need to let information out, unofficially.
Discussion:
9 to 5 Mac, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, NBC Bay Area, Gawker, Edible Apple, MacRumors, EverythingiCafe, Communications …, Daring Fireball and Gizmodo
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
AOL Lusts for the Brad Pitt of the Blogosphere (and His Company) — AOL is interested in buying the world's largest tech blog, Mashable, we hear from a source at the internet conglomerate. And in fact the two sides have been talking, people outside AOL have whispered to one another, and to us.
Discussion:
paidContent, The Next Web, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Silicon Alley Insider, WebProNews and Beet.TV
Taimur Asad / Redmond Pie:
Where to Watch CES 2010 LIVE Stream — The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2010) kicks off tonight with keynotes by Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft and Robbie Bach, President of Entertainment & Devices Division. Their keynotes like always will be streamed LIVE all the way from Las Vegas …
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
AT&T finally goes Android, confirms Dell, HTC and Motorola on board — We're at the AT&T presser here at CES, but it looks like we know what to expect: the carrier just announced that it's launching five new Android devices in the first half of 2010, including devices from Motorola, Dell, and HTC.
Discussion:
Computerworld, AT&T, Tech Trader Daily, L.A. Times Tech Blog, internetnews.com, PC World, BusinessWeek, mocoNews, SlashGear, Switched, FierceWireless, PhoneNews.com, MobileCrunch, BetaNews, Digits, FierceMobileContent, Wall Street Journal, Maximum PC, techblog.dallasnews.com, eWeek, ReadWriteWeb, Silicon Alley Insider, Gizmodo, techeblog.com, Technologizer and DVICE, Thanks:mrinaldesai
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Pandora Partners With Pioneer On Internet Radio For Cars — Streaming music provider Pandora has struck a deal with electronics manufacturer Pioneer that will connect the internet radio service to users' cars. The companies announced the deal at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Discussion:
Wall Street Journal, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, PC World, CNET News, Mashable!, Electronista, The Next Web, WebProNews and Engadget
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Netflix Bends To Warner Bros., Won't Rent DVDs For 28 Days After They Go On Sale (NFLX) — This will please the movie industry: Netflix has agreed to a 28-day window before it rents Warner Bros. DVDs and Blu-ray discs after they go on sale. The idea is that this will allow Warner Bros. to sell more discs …
Discussion:
Mashable!, Gizmodo, CNET News, paidContent, NewTeeVee, Reuters, Electronista, Engadget and WebProNews, Thanks:bobcaswell
RELATED:
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook's iPhone App Finally Gets Push Notifications, Contact Syncing — Well, with Joe Hewitt famously no longer working on the Facebook iPhone app, it took a little bit longer than some expected, but today a new version finally hit the App Store with a much requested new feature: Push Notifications.
Discussion:
Inside Facebook, Mashable!, All Facebook, ReadWriteWeb, 9 to 5 Mac, PC World, CNET News, VentureBeat, The Next Web, App Advice, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, MacRumors iPhone Blog and Download Squad, Thanks:atul
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
i/o Ventures - A Work/Cafe Incubator Launches In San Francisco — A small group of high profile startup executives are preparing to launch their next venture - a workspace incubator and angel investment fund called i/o ventures that aims to help new startups get a start with some initial capital and a cool place to work.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Sharp unveils quad-pixel technology for TVs with a trillion colors — If you didn't think your flat-panel TV could display colors properly, get ready for this. Sharp is unveiling a new technology that allows it upcoming TVs to display a trillion colors. — The quad-pixel technology sounds simple.
David Carnoy / Crave: The gadget blog:
CES: Look out, Chumby: Here comes the Sony Dash — The Sony Dash is due out in April for $199.99. — LAS VEGAS—If you've been following Chumby Industries at all, you know the company was more interested in licensing out its Internet mini apps than making actual hardware devices.
Scott Moritz / TheStreet.com:
Exclusive: Qualcomm to Power Apple iPhone — Stock quotes in this article: QCOM , AAPL , VZ , T — SAN DIEGO (TheStreet) — Apparently it's bakeoff season in tech, and the latest blue ribbon goes to Qualcomm (QCOM Quote). — Apple (AAPL Quote) has chosen Qualcomm as its chip supplier …
Phone Arena:
More info about the Verizon Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus — Published on: Today by PhoneArena Team — A leaked Verizon document reveals detailed specifications about the carriers upcoming Palm Pre Plus and the Palm Pixi Plus models. The Pre Plus will come with 16GB of internal memory …
Discussion:
SlashGear, Engadget, PreCentral.net, EverythingPre, Maximum PC, Gizmodo and Boy Genius Report
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Samsung to launch app store that lets you tweet from your TV — Electronics maker Samsung announced today that it's getting into the app store game — but it's thinking beyond the smartphone app stores that seem so hot right now. Instead, the company says you should be able to download …
Discussion:
Reuters, The Seattle Times, L.A. Times Tech Blog, CrunchGear, Electricpig.co.uk, SiliconANGLE and Pocket-lint.com
AppleInsider:
Google Nexus One teardown photos reveal ‘thoughtful’ design — A teardown of Google's new custom-designed Nexus One handset found no major surprises in the straightforward smartphone, though its ease of disassembly was called impressive. — As usual, iFixit wasted no time to get inside …
AT&T:
AT&T Upgrades 3G Technology at Cell Sites Across Nation — Software Upgrade Sets Stage for Faster 3G Speeds, Enhanced Mobile Data Performance to Come with Capacity Upgrades Planned for 2010-2011
Kat Hannaford / Gizmodo:
Sony Relents After 11 Years, Launches First SD Card Line-up — Big news from the Sony camp today—they're embracing 1999's flash-in-the-pan fad and have launched their first line-up of SD cards. Hopefully that spells the death of the evil Memory Stick and sliding disinterest in their propriety formats.
Discussion:
Associated Press, internetnews.com, Sony, Maximum PC, BetaNews, Technologizer and Digital Trends
Dick Craddock / The Windows Blog:
A short history of Hotmail — Hi, my name is Dick Craddock and I'm the Group Program Manager for Windows Live Hotmail. “Group Program Manager” is just a fancy way of saying that I manage the team of Program Managers at Hotmail. We have the job of planning each Hotmail release and managing that release from beginning to end.
Andrew LaVallee / Digits:
CES: Honey, I Shrunk the Thumb Drives — Coming soon: flash drives even smaller than the ones you already have. … Lexar Media, a memory-products unit of Micron Technology, is launching a line of what it calls “ultra-portable” USB flash drives at CES. Chief among them is the Lexar Echo ZE …
Discussion:
Hardware 2.0
Cisco Cheng / PC Magazine:
Asus EeeKeyboard PC Doubles as a Net-top — As PC components continue to shrink, Asus has found a way to squeeze them all into a form factor the size of a keyboard. — Post a — LAS VEGAS—As components continue to shrink, PC makers are squeezing them into things that don't look like PCs, but make perfect sense.
Tim Moynihan / PC World:
CES 2010: New Sony Cyber-shots Full of Surprises — LAS VEGAS — With a handful of new Cyber-shot camera announcements at CES 2010 today, Sony became the first company to offer TransferJet-capable devices for wireless peer-to-peer sharing between cameras, laptops, and other devices.
Jason Palmer / BBC:
Pi calculated to ‘record number’ — A computer scientist claims to have computed the mathematical constant pi to nearly 2.7 trillion digits, some 123 billion more than the previous record. — Fabrice Bellard used a desktop computer to perform the calculation, taking a total of 131 days to complete and check the result.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Firefox 3.5.7 fix could ‘goose’ browser upgrades — Mozilla released Firefox 3.5.7 and 3.0.17 on Tuesday to fix a common crash problem and the lack of a prominent suggestion to upgrade. — Firefox is supposed to prominently tell people when a major upgrade is available …
