The Mobile Phone Orchestra (MoPhO) from The Stanford University Center for Computer Research (CCRMA) playing “Stairway To Heaven” on their iPhones at The Crunchies 2008, a web industry awards ceremony held in San Francisco via the Laughing Squid. Cool!

I have been using BlueAnt’s Z9i Bluetooth Headset on my iPhone 3G and Blackberry for about six months now. I liked it better than the Jawbone 2 I also own. Now BlueAnt has introduced its newest Bluetooth headset, the Q1 at CES.

The new BlueAnt Q1, will be released in late March, will feature dual microphones for noise reduction that cancel out direct 10mph winds according to the company. Like the V1, users can control the headset with their voice using the BlueGenie Natural Voice Interface, capable of adjusting volume up and down just by saying “volume up” or “volume down.”

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Sling Media co-founders Blake and Jason Krikorian, as well as Sling Media Entertainment Group President Jason Hirschhorn and Chief Creative Officer Ben White, are all leaving the company, just a little over a year after its acquisition by Echostar for $380 million.

Question is what does this mean to the future of the Sling products? Sling recently announced at Macworld that SlingPlayer for iPhone and Mac support for latest SlingPlayer 2.0 was coming.

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Seems the biggest news out of CES this year is from Palm. Who would have thought it was possible? Palm has introduced the Palm Pre and it looks like a nice smartphone. Will it be enough to save Palm from death is still the question.

Gizmodo has a nice preview with lots of pictures. Check it out here.

Macworld Magazine presents their annual “Best of Show” awards highlighting a number of products showcased on the expo floor. These are the products that thrilled and impressed the editors.

This year, they chose nine products worthy of receiving a Macworld Best of Show award. See the winners after the jump.

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With the release of Media Composer 3.0, Avid has completely rebuilt its flagship video-editing software from the ground up for Apple’s OS X 10.5 Leopard and is the first software-editing tool Avid has shipped without the need for proprietary hardware.

Read the review at Macworld.com.

Ecamm Network introduces the world’s first Bluetooth webcam the BT-1 Wireless Webcam that will sell for $149.99 and will be available in late Q1 2009.

Integrating advanced technologies, the BT-1 streams H.264 video and AAC audio, taking advantage of Mac OS X’s rich multimedia capabilities with freedom from wires.

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Ocarina played by someone who has talent (see video). Ocarina, $0.99 [iTunes link] is the an instrument you play on the iPhone by blowing into the mic and fingering the touch screen.

IBM announced at Macworld 2009 Lotus Notes 8.5 and update that features integration with social calendaring Web sites. The company also released a beta version of Lotus Symphony, a free productivity software suite that includes document, presentation, and spreadsheet capabilities.

Symphony supports OpenDocument Format (ODF) and can export files in PDF format as well. The software is based on OpenOffice.org, but uses IBM Lotus technology as well. The software was released initially for the Windows in May 2008.

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Livescribe demonstrates its Pulse smartpen and Livescribe Desktop 1.0 for Mac now in public beta at Macworld Expo.

Pulse smartpen captures your handwriting while simultaneously recording audio, syncing the two so that users can tap on text to replay what was recorded at the moment they wrote it. The desktop software (Mac and Windows) transfers notes and audio recordings captured with to a computer via a USB docking station.

According to ars technica, Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit has announced two new applications “as part of their long-term commitment to connect Mac users to Microsoft software and services.”

The two applications are the Microsoft Document Collaboration Companion for Mac Beta and Entourage for Exchange Web Services (Entourage EWS). The Document Collaboration Companion provides Mac Office users ways to… well, collaborate with both Mac and PC users online. According to Microsoft, it uses a Cocoa-based application that provides easier downloading/uploading capabilities to SharePoint Products and Technologies and Office Live Workspaces. The collaboration software will be available as a private beta in February and a final release later this year.

The second app, Entourage EWS, provides a “significant improvement to Entourage 2008″ that will allow users to sync their Entourage Tasks, Notes, and Categories with Exchange. This will be available as a public beta later this month, and the final release will be available for free sometime in 2009 for Office 2008 users.

Read the rest on ars technica.

The 17-inch MacBook Pro went unibody today matching the revamp of the rest of the MacBook family. There is a “matt” screen option and Firewire 800, but the battery is non-removable. Apple claims a five year lifespan and up to 8 hours on a charge. Replacement must be done by Apple at the cost of $179.

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Apple announced today updates to their iLife and iWork application suites. See the iLife ‘09 tutorials and iWork ‘09 tutorials.

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Watch Philip Schiller, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, unveil Apple’s latest innovations at Macworld 2009. See the video-on-demand event right here, exclusively in QuickTime and MPEG-4.

Apple VP Phil Schiller has announced today that Apple has negotiated deals with the major labels to allow DRM-free downloads to the US iTunes Store.

Beginning today, 8 million of the iTunes Store’s 10 million songs will be offered without DRM as iTunes Plus ACC 256kbp; the entire catalog is expected to go DRM-free by the end of Q1 of 2009. Flexible pricing and iPhone downloads over 3G are also part of the revamp.

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Phil Schiller, Apple Senior VP of Worldwide Product Marketing filling in for Steve Jobs today at Macworld keynote has announced new iLife ‘09, iWork ‘09, iWork.com, New 17″ MacBook Pro and iTunes goes DRM-free with flexible pricing. See the details after the jump.

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Marketcircle makers of the organization and business-management app, Daylite had announced back in June that it planned a mobile version for the iPhone. That program hasn’t arrived in the App Store just yet, but Marketcircle has taken a big step toward delivering on that promise—it’s demoing a version of the iPhone app, dubbed Daylite Touch, at this week’s Macworld Expo. See more at Macworld.com