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2:20 PM ET, January 7, 2007

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Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
SlingCatcher Is Real!  —  A few months back, I stumbled upon some patent applications by the Krikorian brothers (AKA Sling Media founders and execs) that alluded to a device designed to receive broadcasts — as opposed to the Slingbox which broadcasts your home television signals.
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Kenneth Li / Reuters Blogs:
Sling Media chief: I see "dead bodies"  —  Sling Media rocked the media industry two years ago with the Slingbox, a television set top gadget that let viewers "place-shift" or view their cable, satellite TV or shows from digital video recorders from just about any wirelessly connected device outside of the home, anywhere.
Paul Kapustka / GigaOM:
Sling to Debut PC-to-TV Box at CES  —  Friday afternoon at Sling Media's HQ in San Mateo, we got a look at a prototype for one of the first entrants in the bring-Internet-video-to-the- TV race: The SlingCatcher, a sort of Slingbox-in-reverse that should hit the retail shelves sometime this summer, priced at $200 or less.
Discussion: Engadget HD and BuzzMachine
Nick / Rough Type:
The new new journalism  —  I have seen the future of journalism and his name is Andy Abramson.  —  I happened to be looking at Techmeme last night, and I saw that the lead story - at the very tippy top of the heap - was a piece by Abramson, from his blog VoIP Watch.
Discussion: Glass House
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Technology Evangelist:
Ask your questions at CES  —  We're experimenting with getting your audio and video into our daily netcasts.  Being the tech junkies we know you are, you probably have about 40 different RSS feeds with all the CES info available on the web.  With all that info you probably have a lot …
Discussion: LIVEdigitally
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Bubble, Bubble, Bubble  —  The startup ranks are starting to thin.  We've added three companies to the TechCrunch DeadPool in the last week (Raw Sugar, FilmLoop and Browster).  Even Google got into the spirit of things when they shut down Google Answers at the end of the year.
Michael Gartenberg:
Bloggers at CES  —  Interesting to see how many bloggers are covering CES.  Far too many to link to here.  It will be interesting to see how different folks see the show through their eyes.  It's also going to be interesting to see how folks differentitate themselves in terms of coverage.
Discussion: Engadget and Scripting News
Gizmodo:
Fastap On Major US Carrier Fall '07  —  Even though Fastap's been around for a while, no major carrier—don't kid yourself Alltel—has it.  Digit Wireless tells us besides launching on a major Mexican carrier next week, a major US carrier has plans to deploy a Fastap phone this Fall.
Discussion: Mobility Site and Crave RSS
John C. Welch / InformationWeek:
Review: Mac OS X Shines In Comparison With Windows Vista  —  Amid the hype surrounding the release of Windows Vista, Mac users are taking solace from the fact that OS X is still a champ on many fronts.  Here are some reasons our reviewer John C. Welch opts for Apple.
Discussion: robhyndman.com and Slashdot
John Markoff / New York Times:
Attack of the Zombie Computers Is a Growing Threat, Experts Say  —  In their persistent quest to breach the Internet's defenses, the bad guys are honing their weapons and increasing their firepower.  —  With growing sophistication, they are taking advantage of programs that secretly install themselves …
Discussion: Boing Boing, Spamroll, digg and Slashdot
Smaran / TorrentFreak:
24 Season 6 Leaked on BitTorrent  —  Episode 1 of the highly anticipated 6th season of "24″ has been leaked onto BitTorrent.  For those unlucky chaps who don't know, 24 is the wildly popular TV show that has fans the world over dying for each new episode.
Discussion: MYBLOG by Ouriel
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Jackson West / NewTeeVee:   To Watch This Weekend: Leaked Episodes of 24
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Nikko's R2-D2 Skype callin' and media playin' oddities  —  It's hard to tell if this is some sort of elaborate hoax or just hasn't hit the wires yet, but a certain nikkor2d2.com purports to detail some rather decked RC R2-D2 bots, and who are we to stand in the way of awesome?
Julie Jacobson / The CE Pro Weblog:
[CES] Niveus to Show Dual-Tuner CableCard Receiver (OCUR) for Vista Media Center  —  Niveus Media, purveyor of high-end Media Center PCs, is showing at CES 2007 (Sands 71413, and Venetian 205) an external CableCard receiver that accommodates two CableCards for use with Vista PCs.
Discussion: TiVo Lovers and PVR Wire
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Robert McLaws / Windows-Now.com:
Exclusive: Windows Vista Digital Cable Tuners
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Verizon to Announce Plan for TV Shows on Cellphones  —  Verizon Wireless is expected to announce on Sunday that it will offer full-length programming to its cellular subscribers from several major television networks, according to people apprised of the deal.
Ubergizmo:
Matsunichi updates Photoblitz line  —  CES Unveiled - Just in case you were wondering why on earth would you want to part with your hard earned money for a digital picture frame, Matsunichi decided to take a step forward by introducing a bunch of features in its range of digital picture frames that are bound to tempt your wallet.
Discussion: PVR Wire
Scott Martin / Red Herring:
iPhone Gets Macworld Hang-Up  —  Report says Apple's iPhone not likely to make debut at Macworld.  —  Apple Computer fanatics have waited months for the chance to watch CEO Steve Jobs launch his company's much-anticipated music-playing cell phone at Macworld on Tuesday.  But now they might have to wait a bit longer.
 
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Ross Miller / Joystiq:
Xbox 360 hits 10.4 million, announces IPTV [update 2]
Peter Rojas / Engadget:
Nokia N800 specs
Jeremy Toeman / LIVEdigitally:
10 More CES Tips  —  Woke up this morning about 45 minutes …
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Steve O'Hear / The Social Web:
Virtual land owner challenges press freedom in Second Life
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Zephyr's HDMI port and new HANA scaler: up close and personal
Anything But iPod:
SanDisk Video Player & Flash Player to be Announced at CES 2007
Discussion: Tech Digest and Engadget
Jason Clarke / Download Squad:
Any Video Converter  —  When you start dabbling with video files …
Gizmodo:
CES First Blood: We're Inside
 

 
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
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