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We know there was an absolutely stunning amount of stuff going down at CES last week — yet strangely decent nothing that really stood out. Before Macworld officially gets started let’s bring it home with a few of the highlights of the news week you might have missed!

Bill Gates!

• Bill Gates: the exit interview
• Bill Gates: live at his 12th and final CES keynote

Mobile

• New Palm handset teased by Bill Gates himself
• Nokia N95 8GB US! (also, N95 gets red)
• Sony Ericsson announces W760 Walkman slider (hands-on)
• Motorola debuts ROKR E8 (hands-on)
• Hands-on with Mio’s dual-front GPS phone concept
• OpenMoko to unveil consumer-minded Neo FreeRunner (hands-on)
• LG’s Watch Phone: production please?
• Is that Windows Mobile 7?

Portable Media

• Sony’s new mylo (2) now official (with hands-on)
• Sony officially announces Skype on PSP (with ears-on)
• iriver’s new APlayer, Volcano and MPlayer Season II DAPs
• iriver’s crystal ball predicts upcoming PMP sexiness
• Hands-on with iRiver’s new toys
• iriver’s CES teaser site fleshes out Lplayer, Spinn
• Sony’s Rolly music player / robot coming to the US that spring

HDTV / home theater

• Warner goes Blu-ray exclusive!
• Mitsubishi laser TV unveiled
• HD DVD group cancels CES press conference in wake of Warner announcement: daaamn
• Sling announces SlingCatcher (again), SlingPlayer 2.0 with Clip+Sling, and Sling Cable modem (with hands-on)
• Sony XEL-1 OLED slips into US stores
• Pioneer’s Project Kuro: The 9mm thick, infinite contrast 50-inch plasma HDTV (hands-on)
• Hands-on with Pioneer’s extreme contrast concept plasma
• BT Group first to roll out Xbox 360 as IPTV set-top box
• Panasonic gets official with WirelessHD transmission system (plus hands-on)
• Live from Panasonic’s CES keynote (with Gary Shapiro)
• Panasonic’s gigantic 150-inch plasma is official! (with spy shot action)
  
• Texas Instruments shows off DLP DualView technology

Good times

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Orginal post by Ryan Block