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Intel: 4th generation Ultrabooks will require touch and will retail for $599 by end of 2013 — Today at its CES event, Intel made the claim that by the end of 2013, the market will enjoy the presence of $599, touch-enabled Ultrabook laptops. The company also stated that the devices will be required to support touch input.
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Engadget, Ars Technica, Inquirer, MacRumors and VentureBeat
| Kyle Wagner / Gizmodo: |
Intel's New Chips: Everything You Need to Know — Intel's talking about its new stuff today at CES. Some of it's new, some of it we've heard before. But we'll let you know everything important that goes down today. — Here's the quick version of everything Intel will be talking about today … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
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| Matt Buchanan / BuzzFeed: |
Why We're Not At The Biggest Tech Show In The World — Because it's not the most important event in technology anymore. The two trends that killed CES. For a long time, the Consumer Electronics Show, which began in 1967, was the Super Bowl of new technology.
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TechCrunch, AllThingsD, NYT Bits, iPhone Hacks, Slate and New York Times. Tweets: @joshuatopolsky. See also Mediagazer
| Mat Honan / Wired: |
CES Is the World's Greatest Hardware Show Stuck in a Software Era — LAS VEGAS — Thousands of companies will roll out millions of products at CES this week. Lights will blink. Glass will shimmer. Screens will illuminate and speakers will reverberate.
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digitaltrends.com, Guardian, Quartz, The Verge, InvestorPlace and parislemon
Tweets: @zpower, @intlces and @joshsternberg
| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
The new guard: Look at who is buying technology companies now — A few days ago, I pointed out the inevitability of the Internet and how it was going to play an increasing role in the companies that have traditionally not been classified as technology companies.
Tweets: @joshuamcclure and @hunterwalk
| John Shiffman / Reuters: |
Chinese man pleads guilty in $100 million stolen software sting — (Reuters) - In a case U.S. officials say is the first of its kind, a Chinese businessman pleaded guilty Monday to selling stolen American software used in defense, space technology and engineering - programs prosecutors …
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Gizmodo, CNET, The Register, Bloomberg and The Verge
| Don Clark / Digits: |
Microsoft's Ballmer Makes Cameo at Qualcomm Opening Keynote — A symbolic changing of the guard at the Consumer Electronics Show featured a surprise appearance by the old guard-Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, who helped Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs kick off his first-ever opening keynote at the show.
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Consumers pay the hidden costs for the ‘free’ app ecosystem — Can mobile developers find a way to make paid apps work at scale? — Time is money, and apps don't last forever. You're never going to get back the hours you spent Oinking that hip record shop in Williamsburg or Stamping the bars with the best absinthe martinis.| Ryan Tate / Wired: |
In Apple's War on Taxes, Surrender Costs $28 Billion — With the U.S. Senate reportedly finishing an investigation into how Apple and others dodge taxes, and with Apple fighting for an officially sanctioned tax holiday, it's worth taking stock of Apple's tax liabilities.
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| Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter: |
Nancy Tellem: Why Microsoft's Looking for TV Hits on XBox Live (Q&A) — The entertainment and digital media president on why she left CBS, how she'd handle Angus T. Jones and why she's not into violent entertainment: “I don't like blood.” — Nancy Tellem, who had been a consultant … | Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Samsung tries to do it all with new Smart TV interface, lets older sets upgrade with Smart Evolution Kit — Smart TVs universally have horrible interfaces, and it seems like Samsung knows that its prior efforts haven't been up to par. The company has shown off its new user interface …
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The Verge, Softpedia News, The Next Web, The Next Web, Mashable!, GigaOM, Business Insider and Electronista
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Cisco introduces ‘videoscape unity’ to manage the future of video everywhere — Cisco is the world's networking giant, and today it showed what it is doing to make sure that it can provide the plumbing for the explosion of video on live TV, paid services, and the wide-open Internet.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Ten Companies (Including Logitech) Team Up To Create The Internet Of Things Consortium — Your Internet-connected devices may be getting more cooperative, thanks to group of startups and established players who have come together to create a new nonprofit group called the Internet of Things Consortium.
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CNET, AllThingsD and The Verge
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft determines Windows RT jailbreak poses no security threat, applauds hacker for ingenuity — On Sunday, reports surfaced that the Windows RT operating system had been jailbroken to allow the execution of unsigned ARM desktop applications, and Microsoft quickly confirmed it was investigating the claims.| Reuters: |
Galaxy phones power Samsung to record $8.3 billion profit — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics, the world leader in mobiles and memory chips, said it likely earned a quarterly profit of $8.3 billion, as it sold close to 500 handsets a minute and as demand picked up for the flat screens it makes …
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TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Engadget, Pocketnow, Reuters, The Verge, GeekWire and Ars Technica
| Michael Stroh / The Windows Blog: |
Verizon, Sprint to offer new Windows Phone 8 models — There were two big Windows Phone-related announcements today at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas. — First, Samsung said that the ATIV Odyssey will go on sale at Verizon Wireless in the “coming weeks.”| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Sony Xperia Z / ZL: hands-on with Sony's flagship smartphone for 2013 — Sony has made it a habit to introduce new smartphones at CES each year, and this year's announcement of the new Xperia Z continues that trend. The Xperia Z — and the very similar Xperia ZL — is Sony's flagship mobile device … | Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Qualcomm outs Snapdragon 800 and 600: up to 2.3GHz quad-core, 4K video, due by mid 2013 — Having pushed the Snapdragon S4 into an outrageous number of devices last year, it seemed inevitable that Qualcomm would come to CES 2013 with an even more fiery Snapdragon S5.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
As Demand For Tablets, Smartphones And Connected Screens Soars, Pure Play Devices Under Threat, Says Accenture — Attention dumbphones, point-and-shoot cameras and music players: sorry to tell you this, but it looks like your days may be numbered. According to a new survey out from Accenture …
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| B.L. Ochman / AdAge: |
There Are 181,000 Social Media ‘Gurus,’ ‘Ninjas,’ ‘Masters,’ and ‘Mavens’ on Twitter — A Growth Industry: That's Up From Just 16,000 In 2009 — As a public service, I like to periodically check in on the number of self-proclaimed social media “gurus,” “ninjas,” “masters” and “mavens” on Twitter.
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| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Exclusive: A first look at Netflix's test of personalized profiles — Netflix recently started to test personalized profiles with a limited subset of its subscribers, allowing them to create a separate profile for each member of their family. The company has talked about eventually doing …
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| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Mo' money, fewer funds: 182 U.S. VC firms raised $20.6 billion in 2012, most since 2008 — According to a new report from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), U.S. venture capital firms raised $20.6 billion from 182 funds during full year 2012.
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Market Wire, Venture Capital Dispatch, TechCrunch and PE Hub Blog
| Eric Pfanner / New York Times: |
France Rejects Plan by Internet Provider to Block Online Ads — PARIS — In a potential test case for Europe, the French government on Monday ordered a big Internet service provider to stop blocking online advertisements, saying the company had no right to edit the contents of the Web for users.
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CNET, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, AdExchanger, Associated Press, The Verge, Datamation.com and Business Insider
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Tablet PC Market Forecast to Surpass Notebooks in 2013, NPD DisplaySearch Reports — Tablet PC shipments are expected to reach more than 240 million units worldwide in 2013, easily exceeding the 207 million notebook PCs that are projected to ship, according to NPD DisplaySearch Quarterly Mobile PC Shipment and Forecast Report.
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The Next Web and Computerworld
| Alex Fitzpatrick / Mashable!: |
Congressman Demands Investigation of Google FTC Probe Leaks — Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, demanded an investigation of the Federal Trade Commission's role in sharing private information about the Commission's Google probe …
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AllThingsD, CNET and Hillicon Valley
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Ford Launches Open Developer Program To Let Mobile Apps Interface With Its Cars — Our cars have become increasingly connected, but building apps for them has generally involved small private betas and a lot of hand-holding from car manufacturers. The first manufacturer to open up their cars …
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TechCrunch, Wired, The Verge, media.ford.com, DailyTech, LAPTOP Magazine, PC World, USA Today, The Verge, Mashable!, IntoMobile, Gizmodo and GigaOM. Thanks:@fredericl
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Walmart now lets you convert DVDs to UltraViolet digital copies without leaving home — Walmart first launched its disc-to-digital initiative last year, allowing customers to bring a DVD collection to any of the retailer's stores and pay to receive UltraViolet digital copies of their movies.| Thomas Gryta / Digits: |
Verizon Says Buying Out Wireless Venture ‘Feasible’ — Verizon Communications Inc. Chief Executive Lowell McAdam believes the company could pull off the acquisition of its wireless joint venture with Vodafone Group PLC. — In an interview Monday ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas …
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