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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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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 …
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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 …
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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Chris Cardinal / gearlive.com:
CES 2006 Video: TiVo Series 3 Video Interview, First Look — We got some quality hands-on time with the forthcoming TiVo Series 3, TiVo's first HD-capable DVR. The Series 3 unit has some cool new features, including a single-color, two-line OLED LCD display on the front of the unit that shows you what's being recorded on each tuner.
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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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Microsoft's file system patent upheld — update Two patents covering one of Microsoft's main Windows file-storage systems are valid after all, federal patent examiners have decided. — The decision, announced Tuesday by the software giant, effectively ends a two-year saga over the patents …
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John Markoff / New York Times:U.S. Office Joins an Effort to Improve Software Patents
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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.
Victoria Shannon / International Herald Tribune:
Emergency SMS — Our Berlin-based tech reporter, Kevin O'Brien, writes in today's IHT that there's a mobile phone emergency alert system that hardly anyone uses, in part because the phone operators don't want the government to tell them what to do. Several big European carriers …
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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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Chikai Ohazama / Official Google Blog:
Google Earth in a Mac world (PC too) — We feel like proud parents around here. Our eldest, Google Earth for the PC, is officially leaving beta status today, and we couldn't be more pleased. For those of you who downloaded early, upgrade to the latest and discover Google Earth all over again.
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® …
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
The story of PriceGrabber part 1: Grabware — Successful companies can be formed out of the failure of a dream and a side project created for friends and family growing into much more. This is the story of the birth of PriceGrabber.com, a shopping comparison search company that grew …
