Ballmer Talks Windows 7 Beta, Dell Deal At CES

Steve Ballmer didn't drop many jaws with his keynote speech at CES yesterday; for better or for worse, he didn't confirm or deny rumors about Zune phones, deals with Yahoo, or 15,000 layoffs.  Still, Microsoft's CEO got into some interesting stuff, touching on the subjects of Windows 7, search, and a top social network.

Yahoo Announces Partners For Online TV

Yahoo has announced partnerships with consumer electronics manufacturers Samsung, Sony, LG Electronics and Vizo to provide TV widgets to a new line of Internet connected television sets.

Google Adding Geotagging to Blogger

Google's Blogger has addd a feature to the new post editor in Blogger in Draft. Blogger in Draft is a special version of Blogger where they try out new features before they release them to everyone. Kind of like Google Labs. With geotagging, you can add a location to your each of your blog posts, like with time stamps.

Hacker Claims Responsibility For Twitter Hacks

It would be hard to be more embarrassed than the guy caught with his pants down at the ski lift—whose photos are at SmokingGun—but if there’s a contender, it’s “Crystal” at Twitter, whose admin support account was hacked by a standard “dictionary” attack.