Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel to bring out chip for lower-cost thin laptops  —  Intel will bring out a new Core-architecture processor for lower-cost ultra-thin laptops later this year, according to Intel sources at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.  —  The processors will distinguish themselves by targeting …

Tim O’Reilly / O’Reilly Radar:
Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles  —  I spent a lot of last year urging people to work on stuff that matters.  This led to many questions about what that “stuff” might be.  I’ve been a bit reluctant to answer those questions, because the list is different for everyone.

Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
TrueMotion’s Way-Better-Than-Wii Game Controller  —  I’m still mulling over everything I saw at the Consumer Electronics Show, but I know what my sleeper hit is: Sixense’s TrueMotion game controller, which I saw demoed at the meeting room of chipmaker Analog Devices, which supplies some of the technology the controller uses.

Times of London:
Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches  —  Physicist Alex Wissner-Gross says that performing two Google searches uses up as much energy as boiling the kettle for a cup of tea  —  Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount …

Greg Kumparak / CrunchGear:
Look out, Microsoft Surface - the iTable might just trump you in every way  —  Who would have thought that one of the coolest things we’ve seen at CES would be hidden in a 10×10 booth at the very back of the South Hall?  Like a diamond in the rough, there […]

Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
A Software Populist Who Doesn’t Do Windows  —  THEY’RE either hapless pests or the very people capable of overthrowing Windows.  Take your pick.  —  In December, hundreds of these controversial software developers gathered for one week at the Google headquarters in Mountain View …

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
RIP Good Times.. Hello GREAT Times!  The Richter Scales Debut Another Instant Classic  —  Last night, The Richter Scales brought down the house at The Crunchies for the second year in a row with a brand new song.  The song depicts a hilariously overoptimistic startup and pokes fun …