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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 …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
No More New Things From Microsoft — In an era when the vanguard of technology is creating smart devices for entertainment and communications, Bill Gates, the outgoing chairman of Microsoft, had little that was interesting or innovative to show off in his last annual keynote at CES in Las Vegas on Sunday.
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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Techland, GigaOM, The Technology Chronicles, Gearlog, mocoNews.net, PC World and paidContent.org
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Jerry Yang offers sneak peak of Yahoo's future: Life! — Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang made his inaugural CES appearance, outlining how he plans to evolve his company ahead of the curve and to become an indispensable starting point for consumers' Web experience, which has become richer and more complex over the last decade.
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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Silicon Alley Insider, CNET News.com, Infinite Loop, Epicenter, MacRumors, Electronista and MacDailyNews
Arik Hesseldahl / Byte of the Apple:
Meet Apple's Newest Director: Andrea Jung — Word from Apple HQ is that the company has elected a new director: Andrea Jung (Apple's press release spells her name “Yung") who is Chairman and CEO of Avon Products, the $8.7 billion (2006 sales) cosmetics concern. Jung is an interesting choice.
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Intel:
Intel Unveils 16 Next-Generation Processors, Including First Notebook Chips Built on 45nm Technology — New Transistor Design, Manufacturing Capabilities will Also Power Mobile Internet Devices — INTERNATIONAL 2008 CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW, Las Vegas, Jan. 7, 2008 …
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.
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Techdirt, WebProNews, TECH.BLORGE.com, Computerworld Blogs, F-Secure Antivirus …, The Register and Digg
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 …
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mathewingram.com/work, Lefsetz Letter, FISTFULAYEN, Changing Way, David's blog and ReadWriteWeb
Matt Croydon / Postneo:
Google apps for your newsroom — I like to think that I'm pretty good at recognizing trends. One thing that I've been seeing a lot recently in my interactions with the newsroom is that we're no longer exchanging Excel spreadsheets, Word files, and other binary blobs via email.
Reginald Braithwaite / raganwald:
A programming language cannot be better without being unintuitive … —David MacIver, via In Defence of (0/:l)(_+_) in Scala — Or as Jef Raskin put it: … —Jef Raskin, Intuitive Equals Familiar — Complaining that a programming language “Violates the Principle of Least Surprise” …
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
FACEBOOK DUMPS SECRET CRUSH APPLICATION OVER SPYWARE CLAIM — This post was updated at 12:10 PM ET to include comment from Zango. — Good riddance: Facebook has banned the “Secret Crush” application due to its affiliation with a notorious spyware manufacturer.
Saul Hansell / Bits:
The Problem With CNet: No One Wants to Buy It — Andrew Ross Sorkin reports in this morning's New York Times that an investor group has amassed a stake in CNet Networks and wants to put pressure on its management by electing new board members. — We've seen this script before in many industries.
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).
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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 …
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 …
