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Washington Monthly:
Let There Be Wi-Fi — Broadband is the electricity of the 21st century—and much of America is being left in the dark. — Two decades ago, the chattering classes fretted about economic upheaval rising from Japan and the Asian Tigers. They feared an invasion of cars, microchips …
Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Google to launch online video store — LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Google Inc. said on Friday the company is expanding into two new fields with an online video store and a computer maintenance service, moves that mark stepped-up challenges to its biggest computer and media rivals, including Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo.
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Associated Press:
Google Goes for Web Video Gold — LAS VEGAS — Google is upping the ante in the online video gold rush, allowing content owners to set their own prices in a bid to create a more flexible alternative to Apple Computer's pioneering iTunes store. — The upcoming Google Video Store …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Google CES keynote: a Pack of Video — LAS VEGAS—Microsoft had Justin Timberlake. Yahoo had Tom Cruise and Ellen DeGeneres. Google? Try a robot car and Robin Williams. — Google cofounder Larry Page rode onto the stage at the Google keynote this afternoon at CES on the bumper of Stanley …
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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
The word-of-mouth killer product of CES — VIC GUNDOTRA GADGET ALERT!!! — I asked dozens of people "what did you see at CES that you'd spend your own money on?" I also asked "what was the coolest thing you saw?" — Most people stammered on both answers, but yesterday I started hearing …
Paul Boutin / Engadget:
Backstage at the Google press conference — The realaction was in the green room last night. Onstage, Robin Williams had zapped audience members who challenged LarryPage with questions at the company's keynote. But Larry and GoogleCEO Eric Schmidt faced the world's toughest tech journos …
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Jason McCabe Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
CES analysis: Why I know Google will do an office suite and a desktop OS in 2006. — I got to spend some time with Eric, Larry, and a dozen other journalists yesterday after the amazing keynote. — The story everyone wanted to talk about—and Eric and Larry didn't—was Google …
Henry Blodget / Internet Outsider:
$500. $600. $2,000. Do I Hear $10,000? $0? — Yes, the Google price target brouhaha is reminiscent of the 90s—and not just with respect to dotcom stocks. The Dow, too, was the subject of a few heroic hypotheses in those days (Dow 36,000, Dow 100,000), utterances that, in hindsight …
Barb Dybwad / Engadget:
Microsoft blocking MP3s on Verizon Wireless phones? — So there seems to be some fallout from Verizon's music downloadservice — users who choose to "upgrade" their handsets to support the Verizon Wireless music store aredoing so at a tradeoff: you'll no longer be able to play MP3s on your phone.
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Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Apple walks tightrope with budget iBook strategy — How low can they go? — Last year's MacWorld keynote introduced gave us the Mac Mini. Will this year's deliver the iBook Minus? — An Intel-based iBook has been widely trailed to be unveiled next week.
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asahi.com:
Dial-up bar codes let buyers beware — Cellphones—which already serve as cameras, game ports, phone books, calculators, radio/recorders, dictionaries, alarm clocks, schedulers, TV remote controllers, e-mail and voice mail terminals and e-money dispensers—will soon have another function: comparison shopper.
Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Canadian Wireless Software Development Company Now Part of Google — With so much attention on Google's new video service and the Google Pack today, little atttention to the fact that Google has acquired Reqwireless based in Waterloo, Ontario. — According to the National Post article …
Christian Lindholm / ChristianLindholm.com:
Yahoo! Go Mobile is live - The most comprehensive mobile internet experience — Yahoo Go Mobile is now live, you can download it here. It was one aspects of the future I mention in my job transfer blog post. In the summer when I was interviewing I saw the proto of Yahoo! …
