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Charlie Kindel / cek.log:
Windows Home Server — I am writing this from the Windows Home Server blogger's lounge in the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. Bill Gates just finished up his CES 2007 keynote where the product I have been slaving over for the last 3 years was finally formally announced to the world!
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Unveils Wave of New Products and Services at CES — Bill Gates and Robbie Bach hit play on new releases from Windows Vista, Xbox 360, Microsoft TV and more. — Speaking at the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates …
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Between the Lines, PaidContent, IP Democracy, Don Dodge on The Next …, GigaOM, Engadget, Seeking Alpha, Lost Remote, Reuters Blogs and Vecosys
Jesse D. Lewin / Microsoft 10:
Windows Home Server will live in your closet, simplify your life — A show of hands: Who here among us is storing all of their important data (media and otherwise) in a safe location where it's constantly accessible, as well as backed up to prevent loss? Not a lot of hands here at the 10 HQ, and probably not many of the rest of you.
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Guardian Unlimited, Business Filter, InsideMicrosoft, Dana Epp's ramblings …, Ensight and digg
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Newsmaker: Gates sees a home server in your future — newsmaker LAS VEGAS—Having helped get PCs into most American's homes, Bill Gates now wants people to bring in a server. — As part of his keynote address Sunday at the annual Consumer Electronics Show, Gates is showing off Windows Home Server …
John Markoff / New York Times:
Microsoft and Ford Combine Products — Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, is using the Consumer Electronics Show here to highlight several new consumer-oriented products and to unveil a partnership with the Ford Motor Company to build Microsoft technology into several Ford models.
Microsoft:
Bill Gates: 2007 International Electronics Show — 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show — BILL GATES: Well, good evening. I've always loved coming back from Christmas vacation, you're nice and relaxed, and you come right into the most managed environment ever …
Ryan Block / Engadget:Windows Home Server, everything you need: features rundown, screens, hands-on
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Microsoft and pals impose will on digital living room; 'IT' won't work
Nathan Weinberg / InsideMicrosoft:EXCLUSIVE: Windows Home Server In Detail
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Phoenixlinden / Official Linden Blog:
Embracing the Inevitable — In 1993, NCSA released their liberally licensed, but proprietary, Mosaic 2.0 browser with support for inline images arguably heralding the start of the web as we know it today. In an act of either acceptance of the inevitable or simple desperation …
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The Social Web, Quick Online Tips, Open Sources, Second Life Herald, Terra Nova and digg
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David Kirkpatrick / Fortune:
Second Life to go open source — The creator of the burgeoning 3D virtual world expects it to grow even faster with outside programming help, David Kirkpatrick reports in a Fortune exclusive. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — Aiming to take advantage of its already-impressive momentum …
John Markoff / New York Times:
A Personal Computer to Carry in a Pocket — The world of desktop computing is finally going mobile, and the shift can be seen in the explosive growth of wireless data for cellular carriers. — To handle functions from text and instant messaging to mobile MySpace and ESPN, computer users are increasingly turning to the cellphone.
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John Markoff / International Herald Tribune:
War for the '4th screen' — SAN FRANCISCO: For functions from e-mail and instant messaging to mobile MySpace and ESPN, computer users are increasingly turning to the "fourth screen" — the one on their cellphones — which is evolving to adopt more characteristics of the three previous generations of screens …
Tina Wood / Microsoft 10:
You heard it People! Carbon is real! — You heard it from the mouth of Microsoft "Carbon" is official. Now xbox lovers can enjoy episodes of their favorite television shows from the comfort of their wireless 360 controllers. They've added television into the menu in your dashboard.
Lee Odden / Online Marketing Blog:
Interview: Amanda Watlington on Second Life and Blogs — Spotlight on Search - Interview with Amanda G. Watlington, Ph.D., APR of Searching for Profit — I first bumped into Amanda Watlington via AIM, (Association for Interactive Marketing) and then in person at a WebmasterWorld Pubcon conference several years ago.
Yahoo! Search blog:
Mobile Search: Yahoo! oneSearch launches — If you've been following the news from CES 2007, you may have heard about the new Yahoo! mobile search on Yahoo! Go 2.0. What's so new about mobile search, you might ask? I'm here to break it down for you. — First things first.
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Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:
Sling receiver and a Palm player coming soon — Wow, I barely got off the plane here in Vegas and already the Sling folks are...well....slinging the news on their new products. Yesterday while I was packing, Zatz Not Funny reported on the SlingCatcher product.
Matthew Creamer / AdAge:
Ad Age Agency of the Year: The Consumer — John Doe Edges Out Jeff Goodby — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Stop me if you've heard this one before. A pair of Maine theater geeks decide to film an experiment in which a certain mint is dropped into a bottle of a certain no-calorie soft drink, unleashing a foamy geyser.
Eliot Van Buskirk / Wired News:
Who's Killing MP3 and iTunes? — Everyone knows the MP3 format is used by more devices and people than any other file-based digital-audio format. Most also know that record labels prefer DRMed alternatives such as the ones sold by Apple's iTunes, because they make it harder for people to share music.
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Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
GOOGLE VIDEO RUNNING COMMERCIALS — Boing Boing noticed that Google Vidoe now includes commercial interruption in some clips. Check out this Charlie Rose clip: — As you'll notice, when the video plays, two blue squares appear in the progress bar. When the video reaches the blue squares …
Aaron / Big Nerd Ranch Weblog:
PagePacker makes pocket-sized books — I often wander around without a computer, so I needed a nice easy way to print important bits into little books of information that I could carry around in my pocket. Chad Adams figured out a brilliant technique of cutting and folding pieces of paper into little books and called it PocketMod.
