In an industry where speculation, guesswork, and leaked information form the bulk of the stories generated in the news, this week in technology pretty much took the biscuit.

Andy Abramson’s sticking his neck out there with a mighty big rumor on his blog that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is about to step aside as its day to day operations head to make room for Bill Clinton.

Video and other entertainment on demand for Intel Viiv-based PCs emerged as a new digital entertainment service partnership from CES 2006.

Google will probably sue the makers of the Googolboard – similar name, similar color-scheme.

Mike Bazeley of the Mercury News covers the expected new products from Google today.

Both Internet players have new products ready to roll for mobile devices, with Google making another mobile-centric deal while Yahoo debuts its Go service.

The Hispanic online community is a demographic that shouldn’t be ignored by the online marketer. In fact, this demographic is one of the fastest growing and most earnest groups of Internet users, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB).

Though much has been made of contextual advertising and the text-based ads it delivers, marketers prefer graphical advertising by an overwhelming margin.

Probably the hottest thing on the Internet right now, that drives ad revenues and many other things floating around the web, are the social communities. These communities, descended from the chat rooms, continue to culminate in Flickr groups and MySpace groups. But with all this warmth, love and friendship, is there a dark side?

From the press release…

The nascent video download market Apple has tried to develop with iTunes and the video iPod could mean paying Burst some serious technology licensing fees.

Just like any other big tech convention, cool announcements always float out that make everyone giddy like children and this is no exception. DirectTV announced they would be pairing up with software goliath Microsoft to put the digital television service in the Xbox 360.

A new Google subdomain replete with the software packages comprising Google Pack went online today and offers Windows PC users nearly everything they need to make their computers very useful.

Well kind of live. Engadget is “Barry Schwartzing”* Terry Semel’s keynote speach.

Nobody can say Google doesn’t have a sense of humor. But they might be able to say Google doesn’t have a sense of fashion. At least at the Google Store, they have something for everybody, like

Rubel reports Jonathan Schwartz, President and COO of Sun Microsystems is a big fan of blogging.

Shel Israel talks about the disruption of his own business:

This was written in January of 1990, but is still meaningful today, though we do have better debugging tools now. This was originally published in the Boston Computer Society’s PC Report.

The scenario: A limited budget and more limited knowledge of coding and SEO make choosing a shopping cart software for a website a frustrating task. If you have no idea what I’m talking about then you needn’t read the rest of this article. Enjoy your customizable open source build from the ground up world. If this is your predicament, welcome to the club and read on.

I have been invited to try the public beta of Newsvine, a news aggregation/citizen journalism hybrid.

Google’s not the only search company with something to announce at CES today.

After purchasing a small technology firm based in Waterloo, Ontario, Google has decided to expand its presence by adding more staff in Waterloo.

Yet another telecom CEO, this time Verizon’s Ivan Seidenberg, sees the need for content providers like Google and Microsoft as well as consumers to pay for the network.

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