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Fred / A VC:
What My Kids Tell Me About The Future of Media — I was reading a Goldman Sachs research report on the radio business on the plane back from Australia. I came across this chart of EBITDA multiples versus EBITA growth rates for various media categories. — There's not a ton of insight …
Franklin Paul / MediaFile:
Toshiba, defiant, says HD-DVD, down, not out — Breaking new records in press conference brevity, Toshiba's CES presentation speed through why its TVs are the best and not a whole lot of detail on the fate of its HD DVD format after Hollywood's biggest studio Warner Bros decided to back Sony's Blu-ray exclusively.
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Amit / Digital Inspiration:
How Techmeme Homepage Changes Over Time - Video — It's amazing to see how blog stories make it to the Techmeme homepage, stay there for a couple of minutes (or hours) and then get replaced by fresh news. — The following video clip captures 50 hours of Techmeme activity and replays it in 50 seconds.
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Information overload in the Facebook-ABC presidential debates? — MANCHESTER, N.H.—It sounded like a good idea at first: Let Internet users be part of, virtually speaking, the Democratic and Republican presidential debates on Saturday evening by posting comments on a special Facebook message board.
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Amazon launches software downloads — Online retailer Amazon has launched a software download section. And when we say launched, we mean, they've built a software downloader application which you can currently use to download a handful of products from TurboTax.
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Nathan Weinberg / InsideMicrosoft:
Exclusive: Windows Mobile 7 To Focus On Touch and Motion Gestures — Microsoft is currently developing Windows Mobile 7, the first revolutionary change to its mobile device operating system. Recently, I was given a document by a source inside Microsoft that details the touch and gesture plans for Mobile 7.
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:
CES Live: LG announces mobile digital TV — LG Electronics kicked off the press conference day at CES, bright and early at 8 am. Its newest offering: digital TV while you're on the move. That means you can watch TV while driving. More on that to come. — The South Korean electronics giant has had a good ride in North America.
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Charlie White / Gizmodo:LG MPH TV-Everywhere Coming to North America in 2009
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Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
The Five Members of the Techmeme Family (so what are you?) — I've been an avid follower of Techmeme since Dec 2005, when Scoble evangelized it to me while I was working in Santa Clara at HDS. Ever since, I've been watching with great interest on how it changed, evolved, and content was added to it.
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PC World:
Samsung Shows OLED and Quad-HD TVs at CES — Announcements include ultrathin 14- and 31-inch OLED TVs and a prototype with four times the definition of most HD sets. — Recommend this story? — LAS VEGAS — Samsung Electronics is unveiling here today two ultrathin TVs and a prototype LCD TV …
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Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:
CES Live: Panasonic, Sharp and Toshiba start recycling program — Panasonic threw down the first green gauntlet of the day. — The company announced that it will team up with Sharp and Toshiba to create a joint venture recycling company to provide recycling services for all of the companies' products.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:CES: Panasonic, Toshiba, Sharp In Venture On Recycling
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Pioneer's 50-inch plasma is thinner than an iPhone — In case you missed the presser, Pioneer just announced a 9mm thin, 50-inch Plasma. That's right, thinner than an iPhone and 50 freakin' inches across the diagonal. We won't see these in 2008 however, it's just a glimpse of the future.
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:
CES gadgets: Netgear shows 15 new networking products for an “all access” home — According to International Data Corp., there are 34.4 million homes with computer networks now. Of those, 12.4 million have Internet access for non-PC devices in the living room, such as game consoles.
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
Sharp Announces New TVs With Aquos Net Widgets/Services — We're here, baby. The conference starts at noon PST. Until then, were just chewing away at our Venetian boxed lunches while scoping out Sharp's 20mm, 100,000:1 contrast LCD we saw back at IFA. We still want one. Hit the jump for updates.
Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear:
CES 2008: Samsung HT-X810 self-contained, wall-mountable speaker system — Product Name: Samsung HT-X810 Home Theater Sound Bar — Description: A wall-mountable speaker system — In-store date: MAy — Site: Samsung home theater — Why it's cool: Look at it! That's 99 percent of the reason why it's cool.
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Samsung intros BD-P1500 Blu-ray player, BD-UP5500 combo player — Hard to believe that CES 2007 was the venue at which Samsung launched its second-generation Blu-ray player, as just 12 months later we're staring the fourth-gen unit right in the face. Coming this May, the BD-P1500 …
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Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:
CES Live: Pioneer shows off razor-thin plasma TV — The battle of the display claims has begun. — Pioneer Electronics has some stirring claims. Its newest Kuro brand plasma TV is merely 9 millimeters thick, or thinner than a cell phone and thinner than last month's Wired magazine.
Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:
Fujitsu's Fabric PC and Three Other Forward-Looking Concepts — Fujitsu just unveiled a few futuristic concept gadgets, the most interesting of which is probably a fabric laptop. Sure, there's no word on just how they'll make a computer that's “soft, pliable, and can comfortably be carried …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:Fujitsu intros a handful of concept designs at CES 2008
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