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More tech news from today:

• HP upgrading Home Server lineup
  Hewlett-Packard announced Monday that it is upgrading its MediaSmart server lineup with new, more powerful hardware and, more importantly, with software support for Macs and improved over-the-Net streaming of users' media files. (A software update will allow users of existing MediaSmart boxes to access some of the new features.)
• LG to debut world’s slimmest TV at CES
  Not content with just making soap opera hair look like watery strands of gold, LG is also planning to trump last year's round of ultrathin LCD TVs by bringing the planet's slimmest LED-backlit LCD TV to Las Vegas.

Here are some interesting links from today:

• Massive Christmas iPod Touch Sales Boost App Store Downloads
  Apple's new iPod Touch appears to have been a huge hit this holiday season with evidence that the high end iPod has seen massive gains in marketshare.

  The first impact was seen in early sales numbers for App Store applications on Christmas day. The #1 ranked App Store application (iFart Mobile) saw a tripling of sales from 13,000 units a day to almost 39,000 units on Christmas day. This growth in sales, however, was not just isolated to the #1 spot and was seen across the entire App Store. Several game developers on TouchArcade.com reported sales boosts of 3x-4x across all titles, even for titles not in the top 100 listings.

• PS3 unable to hold its own against Wii, Xbox 360 this holiday season
  Considering the way that the Wii flew off shelves last month, this next item probably won't come as a shock to anyone. According to the Wall Street Journal, both Nintendo's console and the Xbox 360 trounced the PS3 in holiday sales, with U.S. sales falling nine percent from this month last year. During this same period, sales doubled for the Wii and rose eight percent for the Xbox 360.

This is awesome! Both my desk at work and my desk at home have dual screen setups. Unfortunately, from the conference room or the couch I’m at a disadvantage… I’ve only got my 1920 x 1280 laptop screen (how any of us ever made it on 800 x 600 I don’t know).

Thanks to Lenovo, I won’t have to go multi-monitor-less at remote locations much longer. Their new W700ds Thinkpad comes standard with a 17″ main screen and a 10.6″ secondary pull out screen. Battery life is bound to really suffer but this is still a pretty cool breakthrough.

What do you think about it?

Update: Engadget posted some additional info.

Here are some interesting links from today:

• Firefox Tops Business Security Risk List
  The list this year expanded to include 12 applications, up from 10 last year, due to the increase in vulnerabilities and the popularity of applications such as Skype and Yahoo! Assistant that are often used by employees within an enterprise.

  Five of the top 12 applications with known vulnerabilities include:

  - Mozilla Firefox, versions 2.x and 3.x
  - Adobe Acrobat, versions 8.1.2 and 8.1.1
  - Microsoft Windows Live (MSN) Messenger, versions 4.7 and 5.1
  - Apple iTunes, versions 3.2 and 3.1.2
  - Skype, version 3.5.0.248

• YouTube Finally Embraces HD
  YouTube has just launched a new portion of its site dedicated to HD content, allowing users to easily browse through what is now the largest archive of high definition content on the web. The move has been a long time coming – in the last few weeks the site has been gradually building up to a large scale HD launch with the introduction of a 16:9 video player and the ability to watch HD on selected videos, but until this point it has been difficult to separate the HD content from videos encoded at YouTube’s normal resolution.

In recent tech news:

• Comcast expands ultra-fast Internet service
  Comcast Corp. says its new ultra-high-speed Internet service will be coming over the next several weeks to Chicago, Atlanta, Baltimore and Ft. Wayne, Ind.

  Comcast says the next-generation Docsis 3.0 technology will include some of the fastest speeds available today, including a tier with download speeds of up to 50 megabits per second.

• SMS Text Messaging for Gchat
• Pastebud Brings Copy and Paste to the iPhone
  Pastebud, a bookmarklet/webapp combo that works around the lack of a copy or paste function in the iPhone and iPod touch, has just gone live. And it's surprisingly elegant and painless, with a few small hitches.