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The Consumerist is reporting that DirecTV is about to hike prices.

The thing I’m hoping for? That DirecTV and TiVo will finally announced availability of their new DVR at CES this week.

Oh, and companies – Quit it with the upper and lowercase in your company names. It’s annoying.

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Have an Android phone?

Check out Google Goggles. Take a picture of something, and it’ll search it for you.

I have to wonder – are the images being uploaded to the server? If so, are they geotagged, to improved Google’s database?

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Gizmodo has a story about a new tablet that Microsoft is working on.

As far as the software goes, that at least looks interesting, but I really not sure of that hardware.

Between the two screens that will touch each other when the thing closes, the middle bar that looks like it’ll get in the way, and the pen interface that will make you write out URLS… I’m not sure I’m sold.

One would hope that they create a whole new OS for this thing, and won’t rely on Windows Anything for the programming side. There’s just too much baggage there, and with a completely new device they have a chance to break away.

Do I think they’ll do that? Nope. I can hope though.