Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:Consumers Union to Buy Gawker Blog Consumerist — Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, planned to announce on Wednesday that it had acquired Consumerist.com, a popular blog formerly owned by Gawker Media. — Consumerist is one of several sites Gawker has sold this year …
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Martha C. White / New York Times:Internet Use Grows at Meetings, as Do Challenges — Until recently, travelers attending conferences or trade shows had simple Internet needs. They would check e-mail messages and maybe look up information on the Web or connect to the home office. — Now, meetings are likely to include streaming video and online interaction.
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Sony Electronics Blog:The March is on to CES — Every year at this time, the swirl of the Holiday season – which in my case includes both the business and the family — is compounded by annual preparations here at Sony Electronics for the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Jan. 8-11, 2009.
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David Bunnell / San Francisco Chronicle:Steve Jobs didn’t make the first Macworld, either — Steve Jobs didn’t show up to the first Macworld Expo, which was held in San Francisco in January 1985, one year after the introduction of the Macintosh. He was in the city, but he spent most of his time holed-up at the Union Square Hyatt Hotel …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Ask.com Plays The Google AdWords Arbitrage Game — Ah, Ask.com. Since I wrote their obituary in March, not much has got me thinking they’ll make a comeback. Sure, there was the gimmick of kind of bringing back Jeeves himself. But the spate of “hotels.ask.com” ads I see them running …
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PC World:Wi-Fi Coming to Japan’s Bullet Trains Next Year — Passengers on Japan’s super-fast bullet trains will be able to surf the Web while travelling at 270 kilometers per hour thanks to a new service that will start in March. — NTT Communications will offer Wi-Fi service throughout cars …
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Jenna Wortham / Bits:Losing the Paper Trail With Earth Class Mail — The mail-scanning service Earth Class Mail is opening a new outpost in downtown Manhattan on Wednesday to cater to jet-setters, business travelers, expatriates, nomads and anyone else who is on the road too often to manage their snail mail.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Joie De Vivre: The Europeans Are Out To Lunch — I write this from a hotel room at Newark airport in New Jersey. I’m half way home from a wonderful week in Paris at the Le Web conference where I mingled with 1,700 or so attendees. My mood: jetlagged, sated and cranky. — My week was spent in luxury.
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Stephen Fry:Gee, One Bold Storm coming up…. So here I am. In a hotel room in New York. The writing desk and its view of xth Avenue are all but obscured by:- — 7 x Mini USB cables: 2 of them are the new Micro type that Blackberry has switched to for the Storm only, the rest are standard.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:Report from AlwaysOn Venture Summit: We’re not dead yet! — About 500 people converged this week on the AlwaysOn Venture Summit West at the luxurious Ritz Carlton hotel in Half Moon Bay, Calif. Apparently shell-shocked investors, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs still want to commiserate and await the upturn in a group setting.
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