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5:00 PM ET, January 7, 2008

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Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
This Video Makes Bill Gates Look Cooler Than Steve Jobs  —  OMG, I can hear the fanboys battling already.  Here's a video from last night's CES 2008 keynote, Bill Gates' last for the foreseeable future.  And I know its scripted, edited and contrived, but I'm sold: The man is a cool geek.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
The Truth That Dare Not Speak: The CES Keynote Sucked  —  Another year and another keynote speech at CES tops the headlines on Techmeme.  The team over a CrunchGear did a good job under the circumstances live blogging Bill Gates and others from Microsoft as they spoke on stage …
Ronald Grover / Business Week:
Apple Closes In on Hollywood  —  Steve Jobs is negotiating with the big studios to offer more movies for sale and rental on iTunes, but both sides will have to give a little  —  It has been Hollywood's worst-kept secret: Steve Jobs is starting to win over the film industry.
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John Siracusa / Ars Technica:
MWSF 2008 keynote bingo  —  Ah, winter in San Francisco: the time of year when a young man's fancy lightly turns to keynote bingo.  What's that, you ask?  You haven't played?  Oh, but you must.  Peruse last year's edition to learn the rules and internalize the philosophy.
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
CES: Yahoo's Jerry Yang Talks Up Yahoo! Go!  3.0, Letting Any Developer or Advertiser Build “Widgets”  —  Yahoo's (YHOO) CEO Jerry Yang comes out in khaki's and a blue polo shirt.  —  “We're ready and excited about what the next phase of the Internet has to offer.”
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Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley's blog:
Yahoo heats mobile platform war, may “open” portal
Discussion: eWEEK.com
Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
SlingCatcher gets a realease date, sort of  —  LAS VEGAS—A lot has happened since we first saw Sling Media's SlingCatcher set-top box at CES 2007.  —  Two new Slingboxes have debuted, as well as a handful of product updates from the company.  Oh, and of course, the company was purchased by EchoStar for $380 million.
Discussion: DSLreports
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
CES: DISH Freezing Prices On Most Packages; HD Count To 100 …
Discussion: Engadget
BBC:
Clarkson stung after bank prank  —  TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has lost money after publishing his bank details in his newspaper column.  —  The Top Gear host revealed his account numbers after rubbishing the furore over the loss of 25 million people's personal details on two computer discs.
Jon Healey / Bit Player:
CES: A cable box to love  —  Panasonic today showed off two of the first fruits of its collaboration with Comcast, the nation's largest cable operator.  One was a new line of plasma HDTVs that have what amounts to a built-in cable converter box.  Unlike the current CableCard-equipped TVs …
Discussion: CNET News.com and Reuters
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Is Clearly Up To Something Big Around Music  —  There have been rumors that Yahoo Music is preparing to launch a big new product sometime soon.  And when I read this overview of a presentation given by Yahoo Music's VP of Product Development Ian Rogers last month it basically confirmed it for me …
Daniel Langendorf / last100:
Sony releases updated Mylo personal communicator; adds Skype capability to PSP  —  I don't get the Sony Mylo, but then again, I'm not a 14-year-old girl.  —  Sony introduced at CES 2008 a successor to the first Mylo called the Mylo COM-2, which addresses many shortcomings of its predecessor released in September 2006.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
CES: Panasonic's Toshihiro Sakamoto Unveils 150-Inch Plasma Display; Unveils Deal For YouTube Content On TVs  —  Monday morning's keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas comes from Toshihiro Sakamoto, President of Panasonic AVC Networks.  —  Here are some bullet points from his keynote:
Paul Buchheit / FriendFeed Blog:
Another new FriendFeeder!  —  There are a handful of websites that I leave open in my browser all of the time: FriendFeed, Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Reader.  These sites all have something in common — something we're really excited about.  But before I explain the connection …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: Mozilla Secretly Launches A Viral Campaign For Firefox  —  Mozilla has quietly launched a new viral campaign in support of Firefox, complete with song (YouTube TC exclusive above) and some fighting words against Internet Explorer.  —  The main part of the campaign is a site …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Ten Common Objections to Social Media Adoption and How You Can Respond  —  Steve Outing wrote a very good article at Editor and Publisher on Friday about the need for cultural change inside the newpapers around the US (found via the wonderful CyberJournalist.net).
Discussion: E-Media Tidbits
 
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
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Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and Engadget
Tim Lee / Techdirt:
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Discussion: Between the Lines
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
SanDisk's New 12GB microSDHC Card Is World's Largest, Jumping to 16GB This Summer
Discussion: Gadget Lab
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Pluck on The Block; Sale Could Fetch Around $75 Million
Discussion: WebProNews, PDA and Mashable!
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Scoop: Live Videocaster Mogulus Nails Second Round of Financing
 Earlier Items: 
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Flickr to Authenticate OpenID - Is This The Yahoo! CES Announcement?
Arik Hesseldahl / Byte of the Apple:
Meet Apple's Newest Director: Andrea Jung
Discussion: HipMojo.com and CNET News.com
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
FACEBOOK DUMPS SECRET CRUSH APPLICATION OVER SPYWARE CLAIM
Richard Thurston / CNET News.com:
Microsoft admits Office 2003 ‘mistake’
Janet Adamy / Wall Street Journal:
McDonald's Takes On A Weakened Starbucks
Barb Dybwad / Engadget:
Alienware curved display rocks Crysis at 2880 x 900
Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Investors Said to Seek a Takeover of CNet