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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.
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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 …

Upcoming Live Webcast — Bill Gates Keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2006 — For the tenth year in a row, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates returns to kick off CES with his vision of the year ahead in consumer electronics.
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Bill Gates keynote at CES (that playtable rocks) — You can watch along. I'm sitting in the Bellagio with a bunch of geeks watching on a video feed. Updates to come. — I heard he won't use any PowerPoint slides tonight. That'll be interesting to see. — 6:45 p.m. Bill just came out.

Rich Content Ranging From Sci-Fi Classic The Fifth Element to Comedy Hit Hitch to Visually Stunning House of Flying Daggers — BD Java Games, Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down and David Lean's Oscar-winning The Bridge on the River Kwai, both on 50 GB Dual Layer Discs, Also Set for Release
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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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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 …
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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.

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?

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 …
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Geeks in Toyland — Lego built a global empire out of little plastic blocks, then conquered the wired world with a robot kit called Mindstorms. So when the time came for an upgrade, they turned to their obsessed fans — and rewrote the rules of the innovation game. — A sneak preview from Wired magazine's February issue.
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We are experiencing technical difficulties — Happy new year everyone! — If you've been watching my personal blog you will have seen that I've actually been back for a while now. The reason I've been quiet on xooglers is that Google legal has asked to talk to me about it …
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Google Blogoscoped

WHY I QUIT ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND GOT A REAL JOB — ... and what I learned from the experience. — I. Why I Took a Job — It has been more than two years since I left my last full-time corporate position. In that span I've started a small business, written a chapter for a book …

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).

Texting record for New Year's Eve — Checking your mobile phone for messages and wishing friends and family a happy new year via SMS has become as much a tradition as Big Ben's chimes. — A record 165m text messages were sent in the UK on New Year's Eve, according to the Mobile Data Association.
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