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The NYT article, "As Gadgets Get It Together, Media Makers Fall Behind," discusses the big theme at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas--convergence.
Interesting for object makers, it discusses the crucial role that services must play (without focussing on iPod/iTunes).

For once, the visionaries were right. Video is popping up on cellphones, iPods, TiVo's and Web sites. And as for blogs, photo-tagging sites like Flickr, podcasts and the rest of the bubbling digital stew, it's clear that lots of media are coming together in lots of devices in lots of ways.
Yet for all the time that media executives - from the towers of Sixth Avenue to the back lots of Burbank - had to prepare for convergence, they are now scrambling to figure out what to do about it.