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Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
No Google PC, Think Google Video  —  The speculation about Google announcing a Google Cube, which has been summarily dismissed by David Krane, Google's PR big cheese on his blog.  So what will Larry Page talk about during his Friday keynote at the CES?  A reliable source of mine pinged …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google denies Google PC reports  —  Google has denied reports that it is working on a low-price personal computer or a "Google Cube" that would link up a user's PC, TV, set-top box and cell phone.  —  "We have many PC partners who serve their markets exceedingly well and we see no need to enter that market …
CNET News.com:
Internet search meets the gadget  —  news analysis In a first for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, Google co-founder Larry Page and Yahoo CEO Terry Semel will deliver separate keynote speeches in Las Vegas this week.  —  At first blush it may seem odd that two giants of the Internet …
Discussion: PaidContent.org
Mike Musgrove / Washington Post:
Electronics Show Moves Beyond Gadgets  —  The Technology Driving Hardware Will Get More Attention in Las Vegas  —  The International Consumer Electronics Show, which opens this week in Las Vegas, has always been about the gadgets.  —  The VCR and DVD players were introduced at CES.
Discussion: IP Democracy
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Sinead Carew / Reuters:
Expo-Crown Castle's Modeo aims TV at gadgets, cars
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
HP expands digital-entertainment offerings
Discussion: PaidContent.org and TechSpot
Patrick Breitenbach / Werbeblogger:
The case Heidi and Guenther K.  —  On a snowy Christmas morning I checked my email and discovered among the usual heap of spam, one message that caught my attention.  Entitled "Markenrecht" (which translates as "branding rights") it appeared to be sent by none other than Guenther Klum …
Discussion: Naked Conversations
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Lino / logic is not obsolete:
The beauty and the blog  —  Preamble  —  This is a loose translation/summary of the (legal) differences between Heidi Klum(s father) and the german 'Werbeblogger' weblog.  I will mainly stick to this continously updated post and the comments and trackbacks there, but I might add translations or summary of other sources.
Matt Cutts:
Feedback on Bigdaddy data center  —  About a month ago I alluded to a data center called "Bigdaddy" that people could check out as a preview.  We're ready to collect feedback on the Bigdaddy data center now.  Let's start with some Q&A.  —  Q: Why are you giving this a name?
Tony Walsh / secretlair.com:
Hidden Virtual-World Prison Revealed  —  tagged Culture Design Internet Law On the Screen Other Space Second Life Virtual Reality Watchdog  —  Nimrod Yaffle, a resident of the virtual world Second Life, has revealed details of a bizarre and dark prison Second Life's maker Linden Lab is now using to lock up criminal avatars.
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Misbehavior in Second Life game punished by exile to "the corn field"
Discussion: Jarrett House North
Kevin Newcomb / ClickZ:
Paid Search to Grow 41% With Google Leading the Way  —  Paid search is expected to generate more than $14 billion globally in 2006, with Google leading in growth and market share, according to a new Piper Jaffray report.  —  The paid search industry, which generated an estimated $10 billion globally …
Google Blogoscoped:
Google Braille Logo  —  Google put up a very interesting colored Braille logo today, celebrating the birthday of Louis Braille on January 4th, 1809.  This is one of the more brave logos for Google because it distorts the letters to the way you can't read them anymore (without knowing Braille, that is).
Discussion: InsideGoogle and adfreak
Rossignol:
Korea  —  With the kind permission of the editor of PC GAMER UK, Mark Donald, I am reproducing the text from my account of a trip to South Korea in April 2005.  It's an in-depth look at the Korean gaming culture, charting both its wonders and its problems as I encountered them.
Discussion: Kotaku, Joystiq and GameSetWatch
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Followup to Chinese thing, off to CES  —  Working in a big company is interesting cause there are lots of moving parts.  Tracking them all down is difficult, especially when you have a full day of meetings and other things to do and when the stakeholders of the decision you're trying to find …
Reuters:
Yahoo options in demand amid Microsoft speculation  —  CHICAGO/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Many option investors are betting on more gains in the shares of Web media company Yahoo Inc. amid speculation of a tie-up with Microsoft Corp. and high hopes for continued growth in Web advertising.
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
What About EMI's Copy-Protected CDs?  —  It was thanks to the work of independent security researchers that the security risks in Sony-BMG's copy protected CDs were discovered.  But what about the copy-protected CDs being sold by EMI labels (including Virgin, Capitol, and Liberty Records) …
Discussion: Techdirt

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