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CES coverage begins today!

Good late morning everyone! I've spent my time scouring the 'Net for you this morning gathering all of the preview stories of CES! Our coverage begins tomorrow morning with a recap of Steve Ballmer's keynote address tonight (oh, Bill Gates, we will miss you...), and continues until the show ends on Sunday! So stay tuned to Byte-Sized every night for a daily recap of the big news and, of course, coolest gadgets coming out of CES!

Here are your CES stories:
CNet has an entire page dedicated to coverage -- take a look for video and all the early buzz.
Digital Trends, as always, has some great CES coverage to check out.
SFGate's Tech Chronicles blog check out all the cool electronics before they hit the floor.
And of course, USAToday wraps up Macworld and previews CES in this story.

And here are some of the day's big headlines:
An FCC official has randomly decided that online gaming is a leading cause of college dropouts. This isn't just placing the blame generally on the gaming industry, she is specifically targeting World of Warcraft, the best selling and most-played online gaming series, like ever. SO much so that it has been spoofed as a wicked funny car commercial and as a full episode of geek-tastic The Big Bang Theory (how much more could I love Sheldon?).

So, you'd think that was the most ridiculous story of the day. Until you read this one...

OK, so I'm not the most even-tempered person ever -- but who wouldn't start fuming in indignance at this news? The gov't fancy-schmancy program to let the 10 people in the US who don't have a digital TV or haven't heard of the conversion to digital TV has run out of money. As in, it's spent over $1 B dollars on specialized TV commercials and awareness programs and is now flat broke and unable to make good on its promise to help consumers (apparently there are more than 10) convert their TVs to digital. Now, I've written on this in the past here, so it's clear I mean no disrespect -- but come on people! This has literally been *years* in the making... and it's your tax dollars at work. As if that means anything anymore. Gah. Thus concludes my rant of the day... now back to your regularly scheduled programming...

Some good news, please? OK how about this:
Shake it ... sh-Sh shake it like a Fujifilm piiiiicture... OK, not quite what Andre 3000 wrote, but the concept applies -- Fuji is filling the instant-gratification void left when Polaroid announced it was no longer making its iconic cameras. It's Fuji Instax Mini generates instant card-sized pictures and comes in pink, blue and white! Woo hoo! I've got to get one of these to try out...

OK, see you all tomorrow when Byte-Sized correspondent Peter Szabo updates you live from the CES floor!






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“CES coverage begins today!”