Trends
Google to Offer Video Downloads, Software That Rivals Microsoft's
WSJ Online*
The plot thickens with a thin eBooks device
USA Today
Gates Pitches CES Crowd on Vista's Content Handling
eWeek
Online Media M&A Market Made Big Jump in 2005
Internetnews.com
Why Vongo And The PC Media Center Don't Play Well Together .... Yet
paidContent.org
M&A Scorecard: January 2006
FOLIO: Magazine
Washington Post to Launch Radio Station
AP via Yahoo! Finance
New media to take full control in 2006
Hollywood Reporter
Talk of Journal sale doused
The Deal
Album Sales Shift Back to a Decline
The New York TImes*
CXO Media suspends publication of ‘CMO’ magazine
BtoB Online

Best Practices
Future Of Television Is Self-Service, P2P Distributed Media Consumption
Robin Good
Writing And Blogging: Not Necessarily The Same Thing
Blogcritics

Cool Tools
Microsoft-powered Treo debuts
CNET News
Commoca, Inc. Launches openTouch(TM) Analog and VoIP Touch Screen Phone with Online Access
BusinessWire

Deals, Partnerships & Sales

BitPass Acquires Yaga
PR Newswire
Palm Licenses Picsel PDF Viewer for Treo 700w From Verizon Wireless
BusinessWire
Wolters Kluwer to acquire ProVation Medical
MarketWire via WGMS

Products, Markets & People
Leadership Directories Launches Leadership Profiles on Demand
eMediaWIre
Elsevier Launches Mosby's Nursing Consult
PR Newswire via Chron.com
Answers.Com Celebrates First Birthday, Readies Natural Language Questions and More in 2006
PR Newswire
Mary Berner Quits Conde Nast Publications
AP via Yahoo! News