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Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Google to launch online video store — LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Google Inc. said on Friday the company is expanding into two new fields with an online video store and a computer maintenance service, moves that mark stepped-up challenges to its biggest computer and media rivals, including Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Google CES keynote: a Pack of Video — LAS VEGAS—Microsoft had Justin Timberlake. Yahoo had Tom Cruise and Ellen DeGeneres. Google? Try a robot car and Robin Williams. — Google cofounder Larry Page rode onto the stage at the Google keynote this afternoon at CES on the bumper of Stanley …
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NBA Introduces Current Season Games for the First-Time on the Web — Google Video Store To Show News and Historical Videos from ITN, Charlie Rose Interviews; New Titles Will Be Added Everyday — LAS VEGAS, NV - Jan. 6, 2006 - Live from the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Google Inc. …
Associated Press:
Google Goes for Web Video Gold — LAS VEGAS — Google is upping the ante in the online video gold rush, allowing content owners to set their own prices in a bid to create a more flexible alternative to Apple Computer's pioneering iTunes store. — The upcoming Google Video Store …
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Washington Monthly:
Let There Be Wi-Fi — Broadband is the electricity of the 21st century—and much of America is being left in the dark. — Two decades ago, the chattering classes fretted about economic upheaval rising from Japan and the Asian Tigers. They feared an invasion of cars, microchips …
Mike / Techdirt:
Is Microsoft Blocking MP3s From Verizon Wireless Phones? — from the antitrust-department-calling... dept. — Yesterday we wrote about Verizon Wireless' overpriced, me-too music download offering that would let you transfer songs to your phone if you bought them online (for $1/song) …
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Christopher Price / PCS Intel:
Verizon VCast Music & Its Dirty Little Secret (Updated) — Update: Many are sending in a Verizon claim that MP3s are supported. However, you need to read the statement carefully. The statement says that MP3s are supported provided you use Windows Media Player 10.
Fred / A VC:
Jealousy — The past two post titles might make you think I am starting a series on the seven deadly sins but I am not. — When one company looks at another's business model with envy, they often get upset and start thinking about how to fix the situation.
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Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Apple walks tightrope with budget iBook strategy — How low can they go? — Last year's MacWorld keynote introduced gave us the Mac Mini. Will this year's deliver the iBook Minus? — An Intel-based iBook has been widely trailed to be unveiled next week.
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asahi.com:
Dial-up bar codes let buyers beware — Cellphones—which already serve as cameras, game ports, phone books, calculators, radio/recorders, dictionaries, alarm clocks, schedulers, TV remote controllers, e-mail and voice mail terminals and e-money dispensers—will soon have another function: comparison shopper.
Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Canadian Wireless Software Development Company Now Part of Google — With so much attention on Google's new video service and the Google Pack today, little atttention to the fact that Google has acquired Reqwireless based in Waterloo, Ontario. — According to the National Post article …
Jason McCabe Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
CES analysis: Why I know Google will do an office suite and a desktop OS in 2006. — I got to spend some time with Eric, Larry, and a dozen other journalists yesterday after the amazing keynote. — The story everyone wanted to talk about—and Eric and Larry didn't—was Google …
Christian Lindholm / ChristianLindholm.com:
Yahoo! Go Mobile is live - The most comprehensive mobile internet experience — Yahoo Go Mobile is now live, you can download it here. It was one aspects of the future I mention in my job transfer blog post. In the summer when I was interviewing I saw the proto of Yahoo! …
Peter Rojas / Engadget:
AT&T and Verizon turning to Microsoft for IPTV to the home — This doesn't get all that much attention — at least not yet — but Microsoft isn't placing allits bets on the Xbox 360 or Media Center in the battle to control the living room; they've also been pushing hard toget mixed …
