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Merck has said it will cut some 16,000 jobs as part of its merger with Schering-Plough. But a few months after the merger, it’s still not clear exactly where those jobs will come from. The company’s CEO, Dick Clark, shed a bit of light on the subject today.

Speaking at an event hosted by Goldman Sachs, Clark said Merck will “obviously eliminate some of the duplication” in the company’s sales force as part of the integration with Schering. He also suggested that the company will look at outsourcing some of its sales work, in order to be more flexible for product launches.

Clark also brought up manufacturing. Over the past several years, Merck went from 40 plants down to 25 plants — but after the merger, Merck now has 96 manufacturing plants, Clark said. “I think there’s an opportunity there, just off the top of my head,” he said.

And a little more: “There’s still a lot of duplication, not only in sales force, but in marketing organizations and corporate organizations, and issues like that,” he said. He also mentioned that “the number of research sites you need” is “something that has to be looked at.”

For more, you can sign in here to listen to an archived version of the talk.

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Aren’t you oversimplifying this?

Yes. That’s the whole point.

—From the Steve Krug’s new book, Rocket Surgery Made Easy

The Street has learned, by way of an analyst who talked to Apple’s design manufacturing partners, that Apple won’t be using Intel on their upcoming tablet. Instead, they’re going to use chips designed by PA Semi, their own chip foundry.

It’s basically what everyone thought since Apple bought the chip company—since there haven’t been any products out yet that have used the chips. It’d be interesting to see what PA Semi comes up with for the tablet; since Apple can dictate exactly what hardware they want, it’ll definitely be more optimized than just using an Intel solution. [The Street]

After suffering a 36 percent drop in U.S. sales last year, Chrysler today announced that it has named individual advertising agencies to manage Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and its Ram Truck brands.

“To establish a distinct identity and build upon the current brand equity, it is important that the Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram Truck brands retain individual agencies that fit with the brand direction. This includes helping to further identify each of the brand’s specific values and culture. Individual agencies also will enable us to deliver unique ideas and broaden our reach to existing and potential customers,” said Olivier Francois, President and CEO, Chrysler Brand and Head of Marketing, Chrysler Group LLC. “We have completed a thorough search and have selected these specific agencies to communicate the true essence of our vehicle portfolio.”

Dodge has been assigned to Wieden + Kennedy, a Portland, Oregon-based agency responsible for Nike’s “Just Do It” campaign.

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Press Release:

Chrysler Group LLC Announces Advertising Agencies of Record for the Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep® and Ram Truck brands

– Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep® and Ram Truck brands to have individual agencies to re-establish identity and enhance reputation in the automotive marketplace

Auburn Hills, Mich., Jan 6, 2010 – Chrysler Group LLC announced today that it has named individual advertising agencies to manage the Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep® and Ram Truck brands. The announcement comes as the contract with BBDO Detroit, the company’s current agency, ends this January.

The following agencies will lead the advertising development for each of the brands:

* The Chrysler brand has assigned, Fallon, a Publicis Groupe agency, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as its creative agency of record
* The Dodge brand has assigned Wieden + Kennedy, a Portland, Oregon-based agency, as its creative agency of record
* The Jeep brand has assigned GlobalHue, a Southfield, Michigan-based independent agency, as its creative agency of record
* The Ram Truck brand has assigned The Richards Group, a Dallas, Texas-based independent agency, as its creative agency of record

Last month, Chrysler Group also announced that UM will be the company’s new agency of record for media planning and buying, as well as retail advertising trafficking for the Ram Truck, Dodge, Chrysler and Jeep brands in the U.S., Canada and Mexico and Meredith Integrated Marketing will manage CRM initiatives for both the U.S. and Canada.

– By: Stephen Calogera

Si en los meses recientes has visto cada vez más noticias en televisión y en Internet acerca de los piratas somalíes que asolan las costas de África, ahora la industria automovilística no es la excepción a la regla, ya que el más reciente “golpe de mano” dado por los piratas, incluye un carguero en donde se transportaban 2.400 coches de Hyundai y Kia, las dos mayores marcas coreanas.

El carguero, botado como “Asian Glory“, iba de camino hacia Arabia Saudita después de partir desde Corea del Sur, transportando 2.405 coches. Aunque no todos son de las marcas coreanas antes nombradas, ya que hay aproximadamente 15 de ellos que son Mercedes-Benz.

Por desgracia, no solamente los coches fueron secuestrados, sino que 25 miembros de la tripulación quedaron en poder de los piratas. Y volviendo a la suerte de los coches, ni Hyundai ni Kia se preocupan mucho al respecto, ya que los coches ya estaban pagados y asegurados. La responsabilidad ahora parece que será del distribuidor de los vehículos, encargado de transportarlos a sus puntos de venta, una compañía llamada Eukor Car Carriers Inc.

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It’s one thing to speak from a position of ignorance, but admitting it and still then taking a strong position? That’s something special. U2’s Bono kicked off quite a firestorm by insisting that having ISPs monitor everything was a good way to deal with unauthorized file sharing online, citing China’s success with internet censorship (failing to realized that it hasn’t been that successful in reality). This resulted in widespread criticism of Bono and it appears that Nirvana’s bass player, Krist Novoselic, has stepped up to defend Bono (found via Karl Bode). But what’s stunning about Novoselic’s “defense” is that he flat out admits he doesn’t really understand the details and still defends Bono:

I’ll admit that I’m not up to speed on having ISPs regulate copyrighted material, but here’s why I agree with Bono on the idea of compensation for content providers

So he doesn’t understand the issue, but he supports Bono’s position anyway? Yeah, that’s reasonable. And the worst part is the end of that sentence. It implies that some people out there don’t support compensation of content providers. That’s silly. Everyone supports the compensation of content providers — they just don’t support that compensation coming from some sort of involuntary tax put on internet connections. Assuming that being against ISP tracking and payments means that there’s no other way for content providers to get paid is simply wrong.

The rest of his post is interesting, but either pulls out some old canards or is self-contradictory. For example, he confuses “value” with “price” by warning that music can’t be worth nothing. Yet, at the same time, he goes on and on about how great things like YouTube and Twitter are for promoting his music — while also wishing they would pay him for promoting his music. He never seems to put two and two together to realize that by promoting music and bands, a fan base is built up that helps an artist make more money — and YouTube and Twitter are doing this for free. Prior to the internet becoming mainstream, if a musician wanted to communicate with fans, it was an expensive and time consuming direct mail process. Now Twitter has made that free for bands. Before, if a band wanted to get fans to see its videos, it had to hope it could get them on MTV. Even after the internet came about, communicating with fans was still expensive and time consuming, as was posting videos. Twitter and YouTube have made these things much easier, faster and cheaper for bands. And he’s complaining?

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It’s Wednesday, which means that there’s going to be another exciting episode of TUAW TV Live this afternoon!

Not.

Coming back to reality after a few weeks of semi-comatose holiday “time off,” your host set up an appointment with a client right at the same time as the weekly Ustream show. It won’t happen again, since that time is now blocked off in iCal in bright, shiny red. This week’s show, however, is going to happen on Thursday, January 7th, at the regularly scheduled time (5 PM ET).

If you’d like to watch one of the previous episodes, head over to http://ustream.tv/TUAW and you can pull up the fun from either the December 23rd or the December 30th shows.

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As much as BoomTown likes a good computer tablet face-off, sources with knowledge of the situation said that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will not be whipping out the secret “Courier” slate PC that the company has been noodling on in his keynote speech opening the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas tonight. Instead, he will be showing off a new Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) slate that runs Microsoft software.

Last night, the New York Times reported that the software giant would do so in a blog post titled: “Microsoft and H.P. to Reveal Slate PC Ahead of Apple.”

Apple will be launching its much-heralded slate at an event in San Francisco on January 27, as All Things Digital has previously reported.

The Apple (AAPL) device is garnering the expected flood of hype, of course. So, don’t expect Ballmer to pointlessly go against the tide on this particular tsunami, thereby painting its slate efforts as also-ran.

Instead, his speech is more likely to focus on its new Windows 7 operating system, cloud computing, portable and mobile devices and Microsoft’s “software plus services” motto.

While he might talk about a range of products related to Microsoft (MSFT) and there will be multi-form hardware shown, including multi-touch, tablet-type devices, there will be no grand showing of the one called the Courier, which Microsoft is reportedly working on with HP.

Hence the possible confusion over the PC slate.

Now, please go back to gushing over the Apple iSlate ad nauseum!

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Gov. Pat Quinn today announced that Michael J. McCotter, a 37-year law enforcement veteran, has been named to the recently announced position of Chief Public Safety Officer at the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC).

McCotter, whose experience includes a number of high-ranking positions in the Chicago Police Department, will evaluate and oversee implementation of IDOC’s statutorily-sanctioned meritorious good time and electronic home-detention programs.

“Mike McCotter is an experienced law enforcement professional and public safety expert whose responsibilities will include reviewing and improving implementation of the meritorious credit and electronic home-detention programs.

My mandate to the Illinois Department of Corrections is and always has been that the public’s safety comes first and that’s also Mike McCotter’s top priority,” said Gov. Quinn.

In addition, Governor Quinn named Sean Vinck, Chief of Intergovernmental Affairs for the Office of the Governor of Illinois, as a special administrator for IDOC and named Mark S. Prosperi, a former Assistant United States Attorney, as Public Safety Liaison Officer for the Office of the Governor.

These appointments are part of Governor Quinn’s plan to overhaul IDOC’s meritorious credit program, which has been in existence since 1978, and is undergoing a comprehensive evaluation headed by criminal justice expert Judge David A. Erickson.

A review of IDOC’s electronic home-detention program is also underway.

A top-level executive with the Chicago Police Department, McCotter brings nearly four decades of experience to his new position.

At the Chicago Police Department, McCotter served as a Chief of Patrol, Deputy Chief of Detectives, Commander of Special Events and as a District Commander.

He has also participated in professional training sessions with the FBI, United States Secret Service, Homeland Security and other law enforcement agencies. (Background Information).

“I am happy to accept Governor Quinn’s appointment and look forward to working at the Illinois Department of Corrections,” said McCotter.

Governor Quinn has designated Sean Vinck to be a special administrator for IDOC, where his primary task will be to assist in the day-to-day management of the agency.

He will report to Gov. Quinn and Jerome Stermer, Quinn’s Chief of Staff.

Vinck will retain his position as Chief of Intergovernmental Affairs for the Office of the Governor. (Background Information).

As Public Safety Liaison Officer for the Office of the Governor, Mark Prosperi will also assist in the oversight, coordination and implementation of the meritorious credit and electronic home-detention programs.

In this recently announced position, Prosperi will work in the Office of Governor’s General Counsel.

A former Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago from 1991 through 2007, Prosperi was also a member of the Chicago Strike Force for the United States Department of Justice.

His former positions include: Chief of the Narcotics and Gangs Section; Deputy Chief of Special Prosecutions Section; Deputy Chief of the Organized Crime Section; and a U.S.A. coordinator for Great Lakes Region, Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. (Background Information).

The Illinois Department of Corrections was established in 1970.

When IDOC began, Illinois only operated seven adult facilities. Since that time, stricter laws have resulted in increased sentencing and longer terms.

To address this steady increase in the inmate population, the agency today operates 28 adult correctional centers as well as various work camps, boot camps and eight adult transition centers. IDOC’s recommended budget is $1.28 billion for Fiscal Year 2010.

The agency employs approximately 11,000 employees and is responsible for the management of 45,000 adult inmates.

In Illinois the rate of recidivism, a tendency to relapse into criminal behavior, were 51.3 percent in fiscal year 2009 and 47 percent of DOC inmates serve six months or less.

For more information on IDOC, please visit: idoc.state.il.us.

So AT&T has finished upgrading its 3G footprint to HSPA 7.2, completing the first phase of an effort that will improve connection reliability and at some point later this year or in 2011 raise its maximum 3G data speed to 7.2 Mbps from 3.6 Mbps. Welcome news for long-suffering AT&T subscribers who recently ranked the carrier dead last in Consumer Reports annual survey of wireless customer satisfaction — but only for those in cities where additional backhaul connections have been added to support those higher speeds. And, sadly, for Bay Area and New York City residents, neither of those regions is among them. As AT&T head of operations John Stankey told attendees of Citigroup conference Tuesday, those two cities present particularly challenging density and zoning issues.

“I thought by the time we’d closed 2009 we would be in a better place in New York City than we were,” Stankey said. “But New York City is a little bit of a different animal and it’s a good example of having to scale in this data environment, where not only do we have a lot of capacity issues to deal with but physically there is network equipment and network elements that are needed to be changed out. They just flat-out have hit their capacity levels and we have to replace them with new ones. And as a result of that, those transitions and that work has taken us a little bit longer and it’s been a little dicier than what we had hoped it would be.”

And evidently, the situation is equally dicey in San Francisco.

“Our challenges [in San Francisco] are largely zoning-oriented,” Stankey explained. “It’s a little bit tougher in places in San Francisco to do adjustments to antennas that we need to do in areas like the Financial District, where we had antenna structures that worked really well in a 2G environment. They need to be replaced to support 3G services and it’s just taking time to get the zoning ordinances square to replace those antennas and clean up the portions of the city that we are dealing with.”

Ok. So San Francisco and New York City upgrades are tough going — that’s understandable. They’re both big, tech-savvy markets with high data demands. Still, it’s a travesty that a carrier like AT&T STILL can’t reliably connect calls in either of them when it’s raking in 80 percent more wireless data revenue than it did in 2007 …

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After years of letting myself down I resolved this January to ban from my New Year’s forecast any resolutions to change my ways, to improve my life, to make myself better in any way. And so far I’ve stuck with the regimen. It hasn’t been as easy as you think.

I have spent most of life looking for new beginnings, vowing to start fresh, plotting earnest strategies for self-improvement and multistep plans for personal redemption. I envisioned gateways to transformative landscapes where I would become a shiny new person being all that I could be.

In 2009 I would exercise more, eat fewer cheeseburgers, floss my teeth and give up TV. Starting the first of next month I would keep good records, cook the weekend meals, swap out movies for books and ride a bike to work. Starting next Monday I promised to write stuff after the kids went to bed instead of checking the scores of my fantasy baseball team. And tomorrow I would begin answering each email in a timely and efficient manner, even return phone calls the same day they landed on my answering machine.

Never happened, never has.

Perhaps part of my Start Anew problem is that I am still afflicted with an academic mindset. I secretly long for the days of new school years, new semesters, new books, new teachers. You get to start all over again, clean slate, new grading period. You get to leave poor efforts and past transgressions behind. This time you’re really going to do it, get the most out of your education and your life. Time for renewal, new lease on life, tempus fugit, carpe diem and all that. A do-overs every few months sounds pretty good to me.

It never took long to sag back to normal, of course, but it was nice to have those momentary purges then surges of possibility to make you feel unsullied and resplendent again. Trouble is, life doesn’t work that way. I’ve spent most of my life trying to rise above myself, only to falter and admit time and again I am who I am.

In the process, though, I’ve learned a valuable lesson. There are no fresh new beginnings in life, no corners to turn, no golden arches. Life is a winding road made up of mostly long, gradual bends in that road. I have encountered some sharp turns, and I have emerged from some dark tunnels to bask in happy radiance, but even then there was no clear-cut threshold between before and after . . . and no passageway that delivered me from myself, that made me new. Rare, lightning-strike conversion experiences aside, we just don’t remake ourselves overnight.

That isn’t to say life doesn’t hurl us into foreign, life-changing landscapes or that we can’t change ourselves over time. It’s just that, as a person who has spent years vowing to start making those changes with this new year, or next month or this coming Monday, I learned to stop waiting for the right time to begin.

I’ve also learned that change comes from little steps and unheralded beginnings. I’ll pass up the cheeseburger and fries today, if not tomorrow. Or it might be Thursday already, and I haven’t worked out in two weeks, but I’m not going to wait till next Monday to start that bold new exercise regime — I’ll go on over to the gym now and not fret that a singular workout isn’t part of a much larger strategy to change my life.

Today is the day. We can only live in the moment. So I hereby resolve to do what I can today without burdening or diminishing my little victories with delusions of some grand scheme of personal transformation. I’ll just do away with goals. I’m tired of not meeting expectations. It’s really better to live without expectations. Seriously. But that’s a topic for another day. Maybe next week, or the week after.

Kerry Temple is editor of Notre Dame Magazine.

VentureBeat reported last July that Apple would use in-house chips, rather than Intel, ARM or AMD, to power its tablet computer. We were right.

Northeast Securities analyst Ashok Kumar confirmed to TheStreet.com this morning that based on his conversations with Apple’s design manufacturing partners, Intel didn’t make the cut as a parts supplier for the tablet computer Steve Jobs will almost certainly unwrap at a presentation on January 27th.

TheStreet reporter Scott Moritz wrote:

There has been speculation that Intel’s new generation of Atom chips was in the running for the slot, but Apple ultimately chose a processor developed by P A Semi, a chip shop Apple acquired two years ago, according to another analyst familiar with the so-called build plan.

If Apple’s tablet is the revolutionary device for everyman which it has been portrayed as by industry watchers, if it sells 10 million units a year as forecast by analysts, then Apple’s decision cuts Intel out of an important market. The company has locked up the netbook market — in part by defining the devices around Intel Atom processors in the first place — but there’s no doubt that Intel, whose chips power Apple’s desktop and laptop computers, must have lobbied hard to become the supplier for the new product.

With HP and Microsoft reportedly announcing their own tablet at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this evening, during Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s kickoff keynote presentation, there’s still the possibility that Intel chips may power a sizable share of the tablet computer market most pundits seem to agree is about to be born.

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There has been plenty of controversy around which iPhone applications are appropriate for the Apple App Store, including the heated rejection of Google Voice. In this context, it’s almost shocking that Crowded Road’s new Security Cam iPhone app has been accepted to the App Store.

The camera app is pretty questionable on its own. It basically turns your iPhone into a functioning “security and spy camera,” according to its developer. Promoting users to spy on people and take pictures without their knowledge doesn’t seem very socially responsible to me — something that you’d think the Apple guard dogs would have caught onto by now.

Regardless, if you’re looking to get into the security or spy business, the app has some pretty impressive features. Notably, users are able to customize an audio trigger so that the camera will only snap a photo when a certain audio level is reached (perfect for trying to catch Dad sneaking ice cream from the refrigerator at 2 a.m. while you’re asleep upstairs). Other features include a frequency function that lets you set a countdown till a picture is taken, a time and date stamp, as well as a battery conservation option, allowing the iPhone to go into sleep mode until a specific time.

There are other iPhone apps that have similar features, including DSLR Camera Remote. This app lets you use your iPhone to tell your camera when to take a picture from anywhere. The only catch is that the camera has to be connected to a computer to work. DSLR lets users fiddle with preferences, like shutter speed and white balance. You can also look through the camera’s viewfinder remotely and view images after a shot is taken. Whether or not these options will be integrated into Security Cam is unknown.

But until then, kudos to Crowded Road for squeaking this app through Apple’s own tight security. I’m sure app reviewers saw it as a playful tool, though from the picture the company supplied above it seems obvious that it can be used in a work setting when those being photographed have no idea it’s there.

The app will cost just 99 cents for the first 1,000 to download it, and will be bumped up to $2.99 after that. You can purchase it here.

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A small group of high profile startup executives are preparing to launch their next venture – a workspace incubator and angel investment fund called i/o ventures that aims to help new startups get a start with some initial capital and a cool place to work. The company is located in San Francisco.

The four partners include former Aber Whitcomb (former MySpace CTO), Ashwin Navin (former President and Co-founder of BitTorrent and former corporate development exec at Yahoo), Jim Young (cofounder HotOrNot) and Paul Bragiel (cofounder of Lefora and Meetro).

i/o ventures is a 7,000 square foot office building located at 780 Valencia is San Francisco. Most of the space has been fitted for work, with 40+ desks and conference rooms.

Anyone can pay to work there for a day or longer at a rate of $150/month/desk (a bargain). The catch is the desks are shared, which means you may be at a different one each day. You keep your stuff in a locker. Electricity and Internet is included.

But the real point of i/o ventures is to incubate startups. They’re taking applications for the first class of startups in their accelerator program. You get space at their office for 4 months (plus another two months if you need it) and $25,000 in seed money. Each of the five companies in each class gives up “around 8%” of their equity for the investments and space.

i/o ventures also providing mentoring from a long list of entrepreneurs and investors who have promised to stop by frequently. I’m one of those mentors, and I plan to work from their offices for a few days each month (I’m not being compensated in any way for this).

The cherry on top is the i/o ventures cafe, a 2,000 square foot retail cafe open to the public. The cafe opens its doors around February 1.

The first batch of startups take residence on March 1. Apply here. You must move to the bay area to be part of the program, and your living expense are your problem. The partners tell me that founders absolutely, positively cannot crash out at i/o ventures because the space isn’t zoned for residential use. They also noted that there are showers at the location, and suggested that they may turn a blind eye, unofficially you understand, to the odd sleeping bag in the office.

The team sent over a few pictures of what the space looks like today (taken by Mike Czupryn). It’s not much to look at today, but you can get an idea for how it may look when it’s finished. There’s also a conceptual drawing that we added to their CrunchBase profile.

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Katy Perry has announced her engagement to British comedian Russell Brand after four months of dating, a rep for the pop star confirmed to Glamour Magazine on Wednesday. According to Katy’s publicist, Brand popped the question in a tent at the foot of a mountain, while the couple was vacationing in India over the holidays.

In an interview for the mag’s February 2010 issue, a smitten Katy opened up about the man she met and almost instantly fell in love with at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2009.

“When I find a partner who is my teammate,” Katy said. “I’m not going to play by any rules, I’m just going to go with my heart. Why wait? I just wrote a song [that goes], ‘They say it’s hard to meet your match, gotta find my other half so we can make a perfect shape.’”

Congrats to Russell and Katy!

Well, with Joe Hewitt famously no longer working on the Facebook iPhone app, it took a little bit longer than some expected, but today a new version finally hit the App Store with a much requested new feature: Push Notifications.

While the 3.0 version of Facebook’s app was great, probably one of the best iPhone apps out there, it, like many other iPhone apps, was only useful when it was actively being used. That is because Apple obviously doesn’t allow third-party apps to run in the background. Sure, the app could be badged with a number when you had new messages, but it didn’t have true notifications.

But with full Push Notification support, the app gets a lot more useful as you can now get notified with a pop-up message or sound when friends do things like comment on your Wall or tag photos of you. This allows you to more passively interact with your Facebook data and jump in to the app only when you want to actively see or respond to something.

A number of other third-party apps actually offered Facebook notification functionality, notably Boxcar (a favorite of mine), but this native support allows for a more tailored experience. For example, you can set notifications for Messages, Wall Posts, Friend Requests, Friend Confirmations, Photo Tags, Events, and Comments with the app.

And Push Notifications aren’t the only new feature of 3.1. There is also a new way to sync your Facebook friends with your iPhone’s address book. This includes replacing contact photos. Pretty nifty.

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If you’re not glued to our live streaming CES coverage, then you’re really missing out. Although the press lounge here is the most inhospitable place on the planet (no water, no coffee, no internet), preventing effective blogging, we’ve been hands-on with LG’s quarter-inch-thick TV and streamed all of Toshiba’s new gear, live and on the spot. Up next we’ll be seeing Sharp around noon (more TVs) and Casio at one o’ clock (hopefully, more high-speed cameras).

You can watch replays like the one above, or just go to CrunchGear and use the main player, which has all the clips we’ve recorded so far. Yes, video quality is low, but this is transmitting live through 3G, guys. Be nice.

Feel free to make suggestions: do you want more of us talking? More close-ups of products? More PR flacks reading press releases? We live to serve, and will cut our CES jib to whatever tailoring you beautiful people think is best.

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