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  Demo 09: Where start-ups show off

  roundup The high-tech confab puts cutting-edge companies in front of A-list venture capitalists and journalists. Here's this year's crop.
  • Touch-screen Netbook with detachable keyboard
  • BitGravity shows off inexpensive HD live-streaming
  • Smartycard to kids: Do well, get stuff

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  White House ditches YouTube over privacy

  Responding to complaints by privacy activists, the White House has quietly moved away from using YouTube videos on the president's official home page.

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• More people renting DVD and Blu-ray Discs?

  Overall sales of DVD and Blu-ray Discs were down big in the fourth quarter of 2008. That portends a larger trend of consumers renting movies rather than buying them.
  • Why renting Blu-ray movies makes perfect sense

  (Posted in Crave by David Carnoy)

• Melinda Gates admits to having iPhone envy

  In a recent interview with Vogue, Melinda Gates says that the Gates children aren't allowed to have iPods or iPhones--but she "acknowledges the inevitable lure of the forbidden fruit."

  (Posted in Crave by David Carnoy)

• NASA hacker judicial review date set

  A high court judicial review of Gary McKinnon's case will be held in early summer.

  (Posted in Cutting Edge by Tom Espiner)

• Labels sizing up Web 2.0 music services

  Labels say they are encouraged by the progress of services like Lala and YouTube but are frustrated by the performances of companies such as Imeem and SpiralFrog.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)

• A new perspective for 3D films at home

  That 3D movie may have looked great in the theater, but the effect just isn't the same on your TV. Dolby thinks it has a start on changing that.

  (Posted in Crave by Erica Ogg)

• Microsoft's Surface to touch 12 markets abroad

  The company expands the commercial market for its Surface computer, which responds to touch and hand gestures, to 12 markets in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
  • Microsoft takes hosted business software overseas

  (Posted in Business Tech by Dawn Kawamoto)

• Appeals court defends online anonymity

  A Maryland appeals court says that judges and lawyers engaged in defamation suits should consider the First Amendment rights of anonymous Web users.

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Stephanie Condon)

• Tech brings hope to those needing kidney transplants

  A new technology to be unveiled at the Demo conference employs complex algorithms to find suitable matches for kidney transplants.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Daniel Terdiman)

• Intel-TSMC tie-up targets Atom chip

  The two companies are collaborating on Atom chip manufacturing, IP, and, system-on-a-chip silicon.

  (Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers)

• Facebook investor lays out why Twitter bid failed

  Peter Thiel tells BusinessWeek why a deal between the two companies wouldn't have worked out. Hint: ponder Facebook's cloudy valuation.
  • VC touts Twitter integrated search, featured users

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• SAP hones eco-sustainability efforts

  Enterprise software giant is trying to align business processes with corporate green IT talk. Plus, it promises to cut its own greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Ford Fusion Hybrid gets soy-based foam seats

  (Posted in Green Tech by Larry Dignan)

• Antivirus apps examine behavior, not signatures

  In the war with online scammers, security vendors like AVG and Damballa are increasingly turning to software that monitors behavior of code rather than its signature.

  (Posted in Security by Elinor Mills)

• Apple gives up a little Internet usage share

  Use of the Mac operating system to access the Web slides a tad, but Apple's iPhone "dominates" the mobile browsing market.

  (Posted in Apple by Steven Musil)
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