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Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:
HP's Windows 7 Slate Device Revealed by Steve Ballmer — It's not Courier, but HP's rumored slate PC is here, now. Steve Ballmer and his hardware specialist Ryan Asdourian just showed it off, and man is it cute. Updated with VIDEO — Update:Adrian just spotted this official video:
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Dylan F. Tweney / Gadget Lab:
Microsoft Touts Home Entertainment at CES Keynote — LAS VEGAS — Microsoft detailed plans for XBox 360 enhancements, a new gesture-driven interface for the XBox, and a new tablet-style Windows PC tonight at a keynote presentation kicking off the Consumer Electronics Show here.
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Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
CES | Project Natal launch confirmed for 2010 holidays — The Project Natal add-on for Xbox 360 will be released in time for the 2010 holiday season, a Microsoft executive announced Wednesday. — Robbie Bach, president of the Entertainment and Devices Division, confirmed reports earlier Wednesday …
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Microsoft's Bing To Be Default Search Engine On HP PCs Worldwide — That rumored Apple-rival slate isn't being unveiled, but Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer is announcing some minor pieces of news during his keynote this evening at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Highlights:
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
CES: Steve Ballmer Keynote — Steve Ballmer is delivering his annual state-of-Microsoft address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas tonight-the second he's given since taking over duties for former CEO Bill Gates. If it's anything like last year's, it will offer a broad overview of Microsoft's …
Scott Moritz / TheStreet.com:
Exclusive: Apple's Tablet Has No Intel Inside — Stock quotes in this article: INTC , AAPL , MSFT , DELL — CUPERTINO, Calif. (TheStreet) — Apple (AAOL Quote) is throwing a glamorous Tablet party and chip partner Intel (INTC Quote) isn't invited. — With production time of its Tablet approaching …
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
AT&T finally goes Android, confirms Dell, HTC and Motorola on board — We're at the AT&T presser here at CES, but it looks like we know what to expect: the carrier just announced that it's launching five new Android devices in the first half of 2010, including devices from Motorola, Dell, and HTC.
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John Martellaro / The Mac Observer:
How Apple Does Controlled Leaks — Monday's article at the Wall Street Journal, which provided confirmation of an Apple tablet device, had all the earmarks of a controlled leak. Here's how Apple does it. — Often Apple has a need to let information out, unofficially.
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
AOL Lusts for the Brad Pitt of the Blogosphere (and His Company) — AOL is interested in buying the world's largest tech blog, Mashable, we hear from a source at the internet conglomerate. And in fact the two sides have been talking, people outside AOL have whispered to one another, and to us.
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Boy Genius Report:
Sprint 3G/4G Overdrive mobile hotspot gets official — What, you don't remember? For all you road warriors out there, the new Sprint Overdrive sure seems like a no brainer. In addition to offering up Sprint 3G's network a la MiFi style, the Sierra Wireless-crafted Overdrive …
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Samsung to launch app store that lets you tweet from your TV — Electronics maker Samsung announced today that it's getting into the app store game — but it's thinking beyond the smartphone app stores that seem so hot right now. Instead, the company says you should be able to download …
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Andrew Munchbach / Boy Genius Report:
T-Mobile gets U.S. exclusivity on HTC HD2 — For those of you who can't get enough pixels in your pocket, we've got some good news for you. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in his CES keynote, has announced that the HTC HD2 will arrive Stateside exclusively with T-Mobile.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Netflix Bends To Warner Bros., Won't Rent DVDs For 28 Days After They Go On Sale (NFLX) — This will please the movie industry: Netflix has agreed to a 28-day window before it rents Warner Bros. DVDs and Blu-ray discs after they go on sale. The idea is that this will allow Warner Bros. to sell more discs …
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Phone Arena:
More info about the Verizon Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus — Published on: Today by PhoneArena Team — A leaked Verizon document reveals detailed specifications about the carriers upcoming Palm Pre Plus and the Palm Pixi Plus models. The Pre Plus will come with 16GB of internal memory …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook's iPhone App Finally Gets Push Notifications, Contact Syncing — Well, with Joe Hewitt famously no longer working on the Facebook iPhone app, it took a little bit longer than some expected, but today a new version finally hit the App Store with a much requested new feature: Push Notifications.
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AppleInsider:
Google Nexus One teardown photos reveal ‘thoughtful’ design — A teardown of Google's new custom-designed Nexus One handset found no major surprises in the straightforward smartphone, though its ease of disassembly was called impressive. — As usual, iFixit wasted no time to get inside …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
i/o Ventures - A Work/Cafe Incubator Launches In San Francisco — A small group of high profile startup executives are preparing to launch their next venture - a workspace incubator and angel investment fund called i/o ventures that aims to help new startups get a start with some initial capital and a cool place to work.
David Carnoy / Crave: The gadget blog:
CES: Look out, Chumby: Here comes the Sony Dash — The Sony Dash is due out in April for $199.99. — LAS VEGAS—If you've been following Chumby Industries at all, you know the company was more interested in licensing out its Internet mini apps than making actual hardware devices.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Oneforty Launching Its Premium Twitter App Store In Alpha Next Week — When we first wrote about Oneforty, the “App Store for Twitter” in September, founder Laura Fitton told us that plan was for the service to be a full-fledged e-commerce platform eventually. That will start happening next week, we've learned.
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Pandora Partners With Pioneer On Internet Radio For Cars — Streaming music provider Pandora has struck a deal with electronics manufacturer Pioneer that will connect the internet radio service to users' cars. The companies announced the deal at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Sharp unveils quad-pixel technology for TVs with a trillion colors — If you didn't think your flat-panel TV could display colors properly, get ready for this. Sharp is unveiling a new technology that allows it upcoming TVs to display a trillion colors. — The quad-pixel technology sounds simple.
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Why Buy a Standalone Box When Vudu Has Apps Already On the TV? — Take that, Boxee Box! Take that, Roku Player! Sure, those companies are adding lots of content to their broadband set-top boxes through channels or apps developed by third-party content partners.
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Tim Moynihan / PC World:
CES 2010: New Sony Cyber-shots Full of Surprises — LAS VEGAS — With a handful of new Cyber-shot camera announcements at CES 2010 today, Sony became the first company to offer TransferJet-capable devices for wireless peer-to-peer sharing between cameras, laptops, and other devices.
