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Project Natal was first previewed at the E3 show last year. It’s a gaming control system that lets players use full-body gestures, like a kick or a punch, to interact with the action on screen. It employs a 3D camera to track body movements and then translates them into actions on the screen. Bach called it “the culmination of years of research.”
He talked about Xbox, Xbox Live, and Project Natal, and said that the company has now sold 39 million Xbox 360’s; and more than 500 million Xbox games have been sold for a total of over #20 billion in revenue.
He said the company made a lot of progress in search with Bing, which he said now has 11 million new users, with new features such as maps and PhotoSynth. He announced that Bing will become the default search engine and MSN the new default home page on HP PCs.

He said Ford will be announcing its support for the next version of Sync, and that Fiat has sold 1 million cars with the Eco:drive software. And he said Microsoft and Kia are doing Uvo, a car platform that will be launched later in the year. He said the Zune is getting great reviews

In Mobile, he said there are new and exciting Windows phones coming to market every month, but said the company would have more to talk about Windows Mobile next month at the Mobile World Congress show.

And of course, he talked about how Windows 7 has been very well accepted. He said Windows 7 was the work of 3,000 Microsoft engineers, 50,000 partners, and 8 million beta tests. He said Windows PC sales were up more than 50 percent year over year; and that Windows 7 was the fastest selling OS in history. He said there are more than 1400 Windows 7 models out, and more than 4 million Windows applications, including 800,000 specifically written for Windows 7.

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“2010 is going to be a landmark year for all Xbox customers,” thanks to Project Natal, lots of new games and an online retro arcade service, said Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft’s Entertainment & Devices Division, who followed Ballmer on stage.

Project Natal was first previewed at the E3 show last year. It’s a gaming control system that lets players use full-body gestures, like a kick or a punch, to interact with the action on screen. It employs a 3D camera to track body movements and then translates them into actions on the screen. Bach called it “the culmination of years of research.”
He talked about Xbox, Xbox Live, and Project Natal, and said that the company has now sold 39 million Xbox 360’s; and more than 500 million Xbox games have been sold for a total of over #20 billion in revenue.
He said the company made a lot of progress in search with Bing, which he said now has 11 million new users, with new features such as maps and PhotoSynth. He announced that Bing will become the default search engine and MSN the new default home page on HP PCs.

He said Ford will be announcing its support for the next version of Sync, and that Fiat has sold 1 million cars with the Eco:drive software. And he said Microsoft and Kia are doing Uvo, a car platform that will be launched later in the year. He said the Zune is getting great reviews

In Mobile, he said there are new and exciting Windows phones coming to market every month, but said the company would have more to talk about Windows Mobile next month at the Mobile World Congress show.

And of course, he talked about how Windows 7 has been very well accepted. He said Windows 7 was the work of 3,000 Microsoft engineers, 50,000 partners, and 8 million beta tests. He said Windows PC sales were up more than 50 percent year over year; and that Windows 7 was the fastest selling OS in history. He said there are more than 1400 Windows 7 models out, and more than 4 million Windows applications, including 800,000 specifically written for Windows 7.

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Subaru Tecnica International (STI) today revealed the Subaru Impreza R205, a special performance version that will go on sale in Japanese dealerships today. The car is based on the Impreza WRX STI but obviously adds exclusive equipment at both the interior and the exterior.

The car is powered by the 2.0-liter horizontally-opposed 4-cylinder DOHC 16-valve turbocharge engine that develops 320 PS at 6,400 rpm and 431 Nm of torque at 4,000 rpm. It is mated to a 6-speed manual transmis… (read more)

Here’s a great little letter from Katana Capital (via PragCap) presenting the strongest argument for why this current rally can’t or won’t be anything like the great rally we saw in the 80s.

The bottom line then is that the macro drags were horrible — interest rates were sky high, for example — but the world was full of tailwinds. Now interest rates are 0%, but there are all kinds of numbers, from government spending to household spending to demographics that are getting worse.

It’s a point that’s been made before, but you don’t hear the bulls — and we’d particularly like to hear from James Grant, as it’s obvious that a lot of his current thinking is informed by the 1980s — address these differences.

Definitely worth a quick read.

094Q letter 1982 vs 2010 section-1 –

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“2010 is going to be a landmark year for all Xbox customers,” thanks to Project Natal, lots of new games and an online retro arcade service, said Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft’s Entertainment & Devices Division, who followed Ballmer on stage.

Project Natal was first previewed at the E3 show last year. It’s a gaming control system that lets players use full-body gestures, like a kick or a punch, to interact with the action on screen. It employs a 3D camera to track body movements and then translates them into actions on the screen. Bach called it “the culmination of years of research.”
He talked about Xbox, Xbox Live, and Project Natal, and said that the company has now sold 39 million Xbox 360’s; and more than 500 million Xbox games have been sold for a total of over #20 billion in revenue.
He said the company made a lot of progress in search with Bing, which he said now has 11 million new users, with new features such as maps and PhotoSynth. He announced that Bing will become the default search engine and MSN the new default home page on HP PCs.

He said Ford will be announcing its support for the next version of Sync, and that Fiat has sold 1 million cars with the Eco:drive software. And he said Microsoft and Kia are doing Uvo, a car platform that will be launched later in the year. He said the Zune is getting great reviews

In Mobile, he said there are new and exciting Windows phones coming to market every month, but said the company would have more to talk about Windows Mobile next month at the Mobile World Congress show.

And of course, he talked about how Windows 7 has been very well accepted. He said Windows 7 was the work of 3,000 Microsoft engineers, 50,000 partners, and 8 million beta tests. He said Windows PC sales were up more than 50 percent year over year; and that Windows 7 was the fastest selling OS in history. He said there are more than 1400 Windows 7 models out, and more than 4 million Windows applications, including 800,000 specifically written for Windows 7.

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Tareq and Michaele Salahi, the fame-seeking Virginia couple who entered the White House State Dinner uninvited last November, will host a night of partying at Pure Nightclub at Las Vegas’ Caesars Palace on Jan. 16.

The Salahis are reportedy being courted to front their own reality series on Bravo.

If you want to rock your MP3 tunes old school style, the new Rad Blaster is for you. The Rad Blaster is shaped like the boomboxes of yesteryear, only in miniature size. And I mean miniature – this thing is tiny.

Though small, the Rad Blaster has built-in speakers so you can share the tunes with your homies on the block. You can play your own music or record your dope rhymes directly into the Rad Blaster.

This thing is also a flash drive/thumb drive, so you can store all your important files on it, though taking the Rad Blaster into a business meeting is probably not recommended unless you happen to work at a hip hop music studio.

You can pick one up for $59.99 at Suburban Toys.

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As part of the study, the researchers forecasted the life expectancy for a typical 18-year-old from 2005-2020 based on past trends in smoking and BMI. They found that declining smoking rates would add to that 18-year-old’s life expectancy by 0.31 year over this period, while rising obesity rates would hold it back by 1.02 years, resulting in total in a reduced life expectancy of 0.71 years from these two factors.

The study did not take in account other factors that might affect life expectancy, such as advances in medical care. Life expectancy might still rise overall because of such factors, but the rate of rise will likely be slowed by the increases in obesity.

If all U.S. adults became nonsmokers of normal weight by 2020, life expectancy would shoot up to 3.76 years, the researchers estimated.

“The hypothetical scenario of having everyone a non-smoker of normal weight may be unachievable. But these results show the dramatic toll that both smoking and obesity can have on both the length of life and the quality of life,” says Rosen.

Obesity contributes to the development of several chronic diseases, from cardiovascular disease to cancer. In fact, a recent study found that more than 100,000 cancers in the US each year are linked to excess body fat.

“Public health efforts to discourage smoking have worked, and a similar effort could help turn around obesity rates,” Rosen says.

To reduce your risk of being excessively overweight, the American Cancer Society recommends balancing calorie intake with physical activity. Eat at least 5 servings of fruit and vegetables every day, choose whole grains over processed grains, and limit red meat. Adults should engage in at least 30 minutes of moderate or vigorous physical activity 5 days a week or more.

If you smoke, the American Cancer Society can help you quit. Call 1-800-ACS-2345 for information on counseling and other services that can help you quit for good

“Even modest weight loss and reductions in smoking at the individual level can have substantial effects on population health,” the researchers write.

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LiLo wasn’t kidding when she promised fans a year of “Lohan Mayhem” in 2K10. The actress’ New Year got off to a rocky start after she punched a man for flirting with her kid sister. Lohan was enjoying her holidays on a yacht off the coast of St. Barts with her 16-year-old sister Ali, but the vacation took an ugly turn after the 23-year-old confronted a man who got too close to young Ali during a night out at a local club, Britain’s Daily Mail said Thursday.

“Lindsay repeatedly warned the guy to leave Ali alone. When he didn’t, she viciously punched him. Bodyguards arrived quickly to stop the fight and Ali returned to the boat,” says a spy.

Early Monday morning, Fame Pictures snapped exclusive photos that show Lindsay and Ali crying aboard a yacht while talking on their cell phones.

Note to Dina: This is what happens when you leave your teen daughter in the custody of your f’d up firstborn.

	Think CEO Richard Canny talks about Indiana plant deal, electric car plans for the U.S. American-built Think vehicles will roll out in early 2011.		Video: Former Earthrace biodiesel boat nearly sunk by Japanese whalers Who knew it would end like this?
	Volkswagen Passat EcoFuel squeaks past Prius as greenest car in Europe It was close, but not a tie.	Other news: EESTOR gets a bad rap (actually, it’s kind of good) New Delhi 2010: Chevrolet e-Spark, an electric car for the average Indian car buyer Rumormill: Aston Martin could build hybrid Lagonda, all-electric Cygnet

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One of the most anticipated arrivals in the supercar world this year, the Devon GTX, has been scrapped due to several reasons, most of them out of the control of Devon. According to Piston Heads, the Devon GTX is no longer partially because of Chrysler’s decision to kill Viper, on whose platform the GTX is based. The other main reason is the cost of the car.

"The Viper platform being discontinued and the inability to amortize tooling costs are the key reasons," Devon sa… (read more)

In the past seven weeks, more than 2 million people have downloaded the beta for Microsoft Office 2010. That’s a whopping 40,000 downloads per day. It’s a record breaking pace, surpassing the beta release for Microsoft Office 2007.

It begs the question: In the face of so many free options, why are people so loyal to Microsoft Office?

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There are a few possible reasons:

Microsoft has a locked in user base. It is an enterprise standard. As the story goes, no one has ever been fired for buying Microsoft.

As one person replied to the question on Aardvark: “A lot of the free options simply aren’t suitable for corporate use. You are basically out of luck if your free-no-guarantees Google Docs spreadsheet disappears. The free products do not have the complex formulas, interconnecting tables and client data that comes with Microsoft Office.”

Another person stated on Aardvark: “That is because it is the most accepted office package. Try doing business without the capability. I had to purchase it just to be able to work at home instead of extended office hours. Now I am loading Open Office on all computers I repair and send out. I also think Google is going to do a large bite into Microsoft business.”

How long will the loyalty last?

This is where we wonder about how the events over the past few days may affect the future of Microsoft Office. Google is coming on strong with it’s Nexus One. Couple that with its big push into the enterprise and you have to wonder what Microsoft is going to do to counter Google’s undeniable momentum.

We are still waiting Windows Mobile 7. LG did let it slip at CES yesterday that Windows Mobile 7 will be available later this year. The Microsoft Office Web Apps are in beta with limited usability. The full-featured version will be available in the Spring. It will require a Sharepoint server. The free edition will only allow you to view documents.

Enterprise 2.0 applications are a whole other issue. Its user interfaces are web-oriented and mobile-friendly. This new breed of applications will be increasingly enticing to Office customers.

Two million downloads is impressive but loyalty is a fickle thing. The real test is still to come.

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It seems that the Japanese continue to try and draw attention towards the Nissan brand, as they’re are preparing  the launch of their new crossover at the Geneva Auto Show. The car is now officially named Juke and will arrive in showrooms in October.

"The Juke will inject some much-needed dynamism into the small car segment, offering European car-buyers an alternative to the traditional, uninspiring small hatchback," the automaker said.

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The fifth stage of the 2010 Dakar Rally competition saw Carlos Sainz move into first place overall. The stage from Copiapo to Antofagasta was won by Volkswagen’s Mark Miller, after Stephane Peterhansel had to stop twice with transmission problems.

"It is obviously very disappointing for the whole team," said X-raid BMW team boss Sven Quandt. "Stephane was driving superbly and then we have this unfortunate mechanical problem.

"This was a new prop … (read more)

The URL shortener ‘wars’ have quieted down lately and everyone was getting accustomed to Bit.ly’s unchallenged dominance in the space. With close to 80 percent market share a few months ago and still enjoying its position as the default shortener on twitter.com, the outcome seemed more than clear. These days, things are looking a bit more diversified and with a number of big players like Google and Facebook rolling out their own services, things are getting interesting again.

TweetMeme, a Twitter aggregator which uses the microblogging service to determine which are the most popular links at any point in time, runs a URL shortener stats page which shows the state of the market based on the links that pass through it. The site got a recent overhaul which also affected the stat tracker so TechCrunch set out to see the state of the market at the beginning of 2010.

Unsurprisingly, Bit.ly still enjoys a solid lead, but its market share seems to have vanished in the past couple of months. While it got as much as 80 percent of the market in summer, it now hovers at 55 to 60 percent. This may seem a bit puzzling at first, as there hasn’t been anything that would affect the market to such a degree, but it turns out that TweetMeme changed the metric it displays, and now shows absolute market share an… (read more)

How significant is the changing of the guard in Japan, where Hirohisa Fujii has just resigned, and been replaced by Naoto Kan?

Joshua Brown at The Reformed Broker argues that it’s very important.

Why? Because Kan appears serious about weakening the yen, and inducing the kind of weak-currency led rally that we’ve seen in the US.

Upon taking office, the strong Yen was one of the first things he addressed: “There are a lot of voices in the business world saying that the dollar around Y95 is appropriate in terms of trade…in cooperation with the Bank of Japan, I will make efforts to…bring the exchange rate to appropriate levels.”

Just a few days into 2010, and the idea that it could be a huge year for Japanese markets is rapidly gaining traction. Byron Wien identified a big year for Japan as one of his surprises. Marc Faber called it the ultimate contrarian bet. The Pragmatic Capitalist also gave four reasons why it offered an excellent contrarian opportunity.

With a new Bernanke-like finance minister in place, it appears the stars are aligning.

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In a new blog entry titled “Why I Had to Call the Police Today,” Everyone’s Favorite Bisexual Attention Whore sounds off on why she enlisted the help of the LAPD after Nicky Hilton and Bijou Phillips showed up at her home to remove dogs and clothing. The authorities had to intervene when the friends of late heiress Casey Johnson arrived at the home of her fiancee, Tila, on Wednesday and began corralling the socialite’s pets and possessions. Tila has taken to the Internet to state her case – and is extremely unhappy about the dogs being taken.

“My Fiance and I had been living together at my house for about a month now, with all of our dogs! 3 Total, and today these ‘mean Girls’ bombarded MY HOME, to try to take the pups away so they can put them to sleep so they can bury the dogs with Casey,” the ex-reality star blogged late Wednesday.

“So sad! I had to call the police because they were getting very violent outside of my house and threatening to break in!” she continued. “They kept kicking my door, pounding on it, and even left scratch marks on my windows and texted that they were going to try to break in from the back side!! I was alone, scared and they left me no choice.”