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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Steve Jobs keynote live from Macworld 2006 — Yes, yes, this post is where all the action's gonna happen for today's live Stevenote-keynote coverage. Bookmark it, refresh it, do your thing — just be sure and come back some time around 9:00AM Pacific / 12:00PMEastern.
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Clint Ecker / Ars Technica:
MacWorld 2006 Live Coverage — This is a live transcript/summary of what's going on at Macworld right now. We will have a more reader-friendly report on today's show shortly. — Please note that this transcript takes place in reverse chronological order. The beginning of the keynote is at the bottom of this page.
Peter Cohen / Macworld:
Macworld Expo Live Keynote Coverage — Please visit Macworld News or the Macworld Expo topic page for more details from the show. — Steve Jobs started his Tuesday presentation with a recap of some of Apple's highlights from the previous calendar quarter.
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Reuters:
AOL buys video search company — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online company AOL on Tuesday said it had closed a deal in December to purchase Truveo Inc., a video search company. — Financial terms of the deal were not provided. — The deal was the largest purchase by the Time Warner Inc. division …
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truveo.com:
AOL ACQUIRES TRUVEO, INC. — AOL Extends Leadership in Video Search with Addition of Truveo's Next-Generation "Visual Crawler" Technology — Truveo's Real-Time Video Index Provides Consumers with Access to the Most Popular, Breaking Video on the Web — DULLES, Virginia - Tuesday …
Jeff Clavier / Software Only:
Search Consolidation Act #1: Truveo goes to AOL — This post initiates a new consolidation series - about the Search market, similar to the one I have been writing about Social Media M&A. With the increasing number of search players, this consolidation is to be expected as large Internet companies …
Mike / Techdirt:
We Sat Around Waiting For Google Video And All We Got Was This? — from the needs-a-bit-of-work-it-appears dept. — Remember the good old days when Google used to "wow" people with their new products? AdSense. Gmail. Google Maps. These were products that took what was apparently …
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Brad Hill / The Unofficial Google Weblog:
Google Video Marketplace: It's Up — The mysterious delay has ended and Google Video Marketplace is a reality. To someextent, Google has mashed together user-submitted content with video licensed by major providers such as CBS and theNBA. So, the long-awaited promise to monetize amateur video content is finally realized.
John Markoff / New York Times:
U.S. Office Joins an Effort to Improve Software Patents — The United States Patent and Trademark Office plans to announce today that it will cooperate with open-source software developers on three initiatives that it says will improve the quality of software patents.
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Kevin Marks / Epeus' epigone:
DRM Groundhog Day — Talking to Tim Bray tonight, I realised I've been blogging about DRM for over four years now. Yet, the arguments recur. — I was going to write a post called 'Tyranny of the Storytellers' when I realised I had said it before in my first week of blogging
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Shelleyp / Burningbird:Debate on DRM — Doc Searls points to a weblog post …
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Henry Blodget / Internet Outsider:
Google: The Bear Case — No one else is writing this piece, so it will have to be me. I should say upfront that I'm not predicting that this will happen (yet), and I'm certainly not making a recommendation. I'm just laying out a scenario that could kick Google in the kneecaps and take its stock back to, say, $100 a share.
Hugh Macleod / gapingvoid:
TOP TEN BLOGGER LIES — 1. I don't consider myself an A-Lister. — No, but I turn up for speaking gigs at all the big conferences anyway. Uh-huh. — 2. I don't care about traffic. — Of course I don't. Even though I'm a freelance consultant, and my blog is my primary way of marketing myself.
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Apple to Sell S.N.L. Skits for iPod Use — "Saturday Night Live" fans looking to watch classic skits from the show may not have to depend on reruns and DVD compilations for long. — Apple is set to announce today that it will sell a limited number of archived "Saturday Night" …
Jan Stafford / searchopensource.techtarget.com:
IP attorney: Why SCO has no case — IT directors shouldn't worry about SCO Group's latest sallies in its legal war on Linux vendors IBM Corp. and Novell Inc., says attorney Thomas Carey. It's just more posturing, or as Shakespeare said, a tale "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
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guildwars.com:
NCsoft, ArenaNet Announce Guild Wars: Factions — Free Player-versus-Player Event to Provide Sneak Peek for Players All Over the World — Bellevue, Wash., Jan. 10, 2006 — NCsoft®, the world's leading developer and publisher of online computer games, announces Guild Wars® …
