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  • January 2008

    • Uneasy Lies the Yahoo That Wears Crown

      New York Times  |  Jan 14, 08 2:52 PM CST

      Uneasy Lies the Yahoo That Wears Crown

      (Newser) - With Google, Facebook, and MySpace gnawing at its top-dog status, Yahoo is reinventing some foundation applications to make them appeal to a new generation of users, reports the New York Times . First step? Turbocharging Yahoo Mail to make it more a communications hub and less a post office, a prototype Yahoo demo'd at the Consumer Electronics Show last week. More »

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      Google  • Yahoo  • Facebook  • MySpace  • Jerry Yang  • web traffic  • Consumer Electronics Show  • web portal  • Yahoo Mail

    • Tech Doldrums Coming in '08

      ABC News  |  Jan 11, 08 3:57 PM CST

      Tech Doldrums Coming in '08

      (Newser) - Expect a tech recession this year, says Michael Malone of ABCNews.com. He predicts a failure by Apple to produce any new blockbuster products, forcing it to compete on price and distribution—“not its greatest strengths”—and a “major stumble” by Google, for which he cites the recent exits of various senior execs. More »

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      technology  • gadget  • Consumer Electronics Show  • Panasonic  • Plasma TV

    • TV Content Stars at Vegas Show

      New York Times  |  Jan 10, 08 9:23 AM CST

      TV Content Stars at Vegas Show

      (Newser) - Televisions were all over the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, including some of the biggest, thinnest ones around, showing the crispest pictures ever, the New York Times reports. But exhibitors' focus was much more on what viewers will be seeing on those TVs, with several manufacturers unveiling deals with media and Internet outlets to put content on its sets.  More »

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      television  • technology  • NBC  • Las Vegas  • consumer electronics  • HDTV  • Consumer Electronics Show

    • AT&T Considering Online Filtering

      New York Times  |  Jan 9, 08 6:40 AM CST

      AT&T Considering Online Filtering

      (Newser) - AT&T and several partners are considering means of implementing network filtering technology that would block the transfer of copyrighted media, according to a recent panel at the annual Consumer Electronics Show. The technology would allow an ISP to continuously scan for material that appears to be copyrighted. Privacy groups have long expressed concern regarding such methods of data surveillance. More »

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      AT and T  • Consumer Electronics Show  • packet filtering

    • Departing Gates Plays Tired Tune at Vegas Show

      New York Times  |  Jan 8, 08 12:56 PM CST

      Departing Gates Plays Tired Tune at Vegas Show

      (Newser) - Bill Gates' last speech to the Consumer Electronics Show as Microsoft chairman left the audience underwhelmed, New York Times blogger Saul Hansell reports. Gates had few exciting new developments to report and instead chose to speak of the "digital decade"—hardly breaking news for the audience at a showcase for cutting-edge electronics.  More »

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      Microsoft  • Apple  • Bill Gates  • Xbox  • Consumer Electronics Show  • MSN

    • Gates: Vista Is ‘Very Successful’

      Seattle Post-Intelligencer  |  Jan 7, 08 3:40 PM CST

      Gates: Vista Is ‘Very Successful’

      (Newser) - On his way out the door, Bill Gates is defending Windows Vista, the OS that has failed to woo consumers away from Microsoft's older Windows XP. "I think a lot of people would say it was the best new product of the year,” Gates said in an interview with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer before his speech last night at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. More »

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      Microsoft  • Bill Gates  • Microsoft Vista  • Consumer Electronics Show

    • Gates Rocks (on His Way) Out

      Wired  |  Jan 7, 08 8:08 AM CST

      Gates Rocks (on His Way) Out

      (Newser) - Bill Gates kicked off a Consumer Electronics Show for the last time as Microsoft CEO last night, announcing a major deal with ABC/Disney and MGM to distribute content via Xbox sets. He also unveiled an exclusive internet deal with NBC to broadcast video from the 2008 Olympics that he said will “let us illustrate why TV is going to be very different" online. More »

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      Microsoft  • Bill Gates  • Consumer Electronics Show  • partnership

    • HD DVD Not Dead Yet: Toshiba

      Reuters  |  Jan 7, 08 6:24 AM CST

      HD DVD Not Dead Yet: Toshiba

      (Newser) - Toshiba executives claim the company's HD DVD platform hasn't yet lost the heated format war, despite the recent announcement from Warner Bros. that the studio will release film titles exclusively in the rival Blu-Ray format. Backers of the HD DVD format will exhibit their wares at the Consumer Electronics Show. More »

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      HD DVD  • Blu ray  • Consumer Electronics Show  • Toshiba

    • Electronics Show Struggles to Green Up

      Washington Post  |  Jan 5, 08 10:27 AM CST

      Electronics Show Struggles to Green Up

      (Newser) - The massive Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which kicks off Monday, is trying to beat its seriously "ungreen" rep by buying carbon offsets for the equivalent of 2.3 million gallons of gasoline it takes to power the extravaganza, the size of 35 football fields. It will also showcase energy-saving products, TVs with fewer toxic chemicals, and recycled cellphones, the Washington Post reports. More »

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      environment  • carbon footprint  • Consumer Electronics Show

    • Intel Bails on Kid Laptop Project

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jan 4, 08 7:51 AM CST

      Intel Bails on Kid Laptop Project

      (Newser) - Intel has dropped out of its uneasy partnership with the "One Laptop Per Child" global nonprofit program, designed to put inexpensive computers in the hands of millions of children in developing countries. Intel has been feuding with project founder Nicholas  Negroponte, an MIT professor on leave who developed the inexpensive XO computer that's the program's first machine, reports the Wall Street Journal. More »

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      Intel  • MIT  • Consumer Electronics Show  • One Laptop Per Child  • Nicholas Negroponte  • XO

    • Wireless Tech to Cut HDTV Cord

      Associated Press  |  Jan 3, 08 11:04 AM CST

      Wireless Tech to Cut HDTV Cord

      (Newser) - Electronics companies are finally going to get rid of that ugly cord running from your lovely HDTV to its cable box. At least three different wireless high-definition technologies will be duking it out beginning Monday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and manufacturers promise you’ll be able to buy them by next Christmas, the AP reports. More »

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      television  • Wi-Fi  • wireless  • HDTV  • Consumer Electronics Show  • wireless technology  • MPAA  • WirelessHD  • cable box

    • Cars Get Gadgety Makeovers

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jan 2, 08 1:42 PM CST

      Cars Get Gadgety Makeovers

      (Newser) - Cars could be the next must-have gadget, the Wall Street Journal reports, with Ford making Microsoft's Sync system standard issue on many models just a sign of things to come. Bringing the comforts of the digital age to the road will be a major theme of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, set to open Monday in Las Vegas. More »

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      Microsoft  • auto industry  • gadget  • Consumer Electronics Show

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