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1:10 AM ET, January 8, 2008

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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.
Discussion: Bit Player and Pulse 2.0
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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.”
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Flickr to Authenticate OpenID - Is This The Yahoo! CES Announcement?  —  Rumors abound that Yahoo! will make a major announcement about OpenID today at CES.  It looks like at the very least you'll be able to use your Flickr user page URL to log in anywhere that supports OpenID login.
Discussion: Geek Speaker
Miguel Helft / Bits:
Yahoo's Quest to Open Up
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:   Yahoo! Life! and Go 3.0 Announced at CES - is Yahoo! Back in '08?
John / John's Blog:
my new job at mozilla  —  Sometimes in life, you find an opportunity to make a difference in something you care about, and it feels like, even though you didn't know it at the time, that the last few years have really just been practice, giving you the background, skills and ability to really help.
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Mitchell / mitchell's blog:
Mozilla Corporation CEO and Chairman  —  2007 has been another year of extremely high growth for Mozilla and thus for the Mozilla Corporation.  The number of Firefox users has grown to approximately 125 million.  Mozilla's mindshare in the industry continues to grow.
Financial Times:
Paramount in HD-DVD blow  —  Paramount is poised to drop its support of HD-DVD following Warner Brothers' recent backing of Sony's Blu-ray technology, in a move that could sound the death knell of HD-DVD and bring the home entertainment format war to a definitive end.
Discussion: BetaNews
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Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Paramount following Warner out the HD DVD door?
Discussion: Gizmodo, Engadget HD and Digg
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
No Blue Skies For Blu-Ray
Discussion: Gizmodo
Spencer Reiss / Wired News:
Q&A: Author Nicholas Carr on the Terrifying Future of Computing  —  Nicholas Carr is high tech's Captain Buzzkill — the go-to guy for bad news.  A former executive editor of Harvard Business Review, he tossed a grenade under big-budget corporate computing with his 2004 polemic Does IT Matter?
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Carolyn Duffy Marsan / Network World:
The IT department is dead, author argues
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Live from Intel's CES press event  —  Well here we are folks, back for more at Intel's sprawling CES press event.  The room is teeming with people right now, and the mood is thick with Penryns and MIDs.  We'll see if it all works out like we hope.  Stay tuned!  —  4:27PM PT - We're seated, we're ready.
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Scott Ard / ZDNet:
Intel CEO sees Net boosting consumer electronics
Discussion: CNET News.com
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.
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Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
What to Expect at Macworld  —  While CES is raging in Las Vegas …
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).
Rupal Parekh / AdAge:
Ogilvy to Layoff Between 50 and 100 Staffers  —  New York Office Feels Pinch as Clients Shift Spending  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — WPP Group's Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide is readying a layoff of between 50 and 100 staffers in New York this week, according to executives familiar with the matter.
Claudia H. Deutsch / New York Times:
Xerox Hopes Its New Logo Doesn't Say ‘Copier’  —  Still think copier when you hear the name Xerox?  —  The company knows that you do.  And it is sick of it.  Good grief, Xerox doesn't even make stand-alone copiers any more.  —  These days, Xerox gets most of its revenue from machines …
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Obama Effect: ABC News Claims 1M Downloads Of Facebook App  —  ABC rang in huge Nielsen numbers for its ABC News/Facebook debates Saturday night.  But we're more interested in the fact that ABC is claiming that more than a million Facebook users have downloaded ABC News' U.S. Politics application.
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Mitsubishi's 65-inch laser TV prototype spotted  —  There's pretty much exactly zero info on how this thing works yet — or even how well it works, the unveiling is in a few minutes — but the photos below do indeed depict Mitsubishi's newfangled laser TV, and we thought you might like to have a look.
Discussion: I4U News
 
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
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Discussion: Crave, Engadget and TheFeed
Brian Clark / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
CES 2008: The Belly of the Beast
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Back from the dead: CompUSA assets snapped up by TigerDirect
Discussion: Kotaku, Valleywag and Digg
Larry Larsen / Channel 10:
Bill's Last Day: The CES Keynote video
Reuters:
Matsushita's Panasonic, Google to work on Internet TVs
Discussion: VoIP Blog
Christina Warren / Download Squad:
Pandora forced to pull the final plug on UK service
Discussion: TechCrunch and Mashable!
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
eBay Strikes Back, Sues For Frivolous DMCA Takedowns
 Earlier Items: 
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
First Shots Under The Hood of the Chevy Volt Hydrogen
Mike Fahey / Kotaku:
Nintendo Torpedoes The Wii Grey Market
Discussion: CNET News.com and Digg
Saul Hansell / Bits:
The Problem With CNet: No One Wants to Buy It
Matt Croydon / Postneo:
Google apps for your newsroom
Saul Hansell / Bits:
No More New Things From Microsoft
Reginald Braithwaite / raganwald:
A programming language cannot be better without being unintuitive
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Is Clearly Up To Something Big Around Music
Ronald Grover / Business Week:
Apple Closes In on Hollywood