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We’re live from the CES 2010 keynote, featurin’ good ol’ Steve Ballmer! We’ll keep the live blog flowing as long as Verizon doesn’t crumble under the weight of a thousand bloggers. Check out the live blog after the jump.

Every day I troll SEC Form D Filings to discover new startups, fundings and investments. I put everything I find into CrunchBase. For everyone else I give you the daily digest, a quick hit of the latest and greatest SEC Form D filings in the TechCrunch sphere:

Lagotek - Wireless Home Automation
Pinch Media - Mobile Analytics & Monetization
Space Pencil - Stealth Web Analytics
Precursor Energetics - Stealth

Mad Catz isn’t actually known for being subtle, but this is a bit much even for them.

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Mad Catz Cyborg R.A.T. is the ugliest mouse known to man

For all of you waiting for mobile data networks to catch up to broadband speeds on cable and DSL, the first 4G/LTE network has arrived . . . in Sweden. TeliaSonera launched the first two cities of its 4G network, which promises wireless download speeds of up to 100 megabits per second (yeah, right) using equipment from Ericsson and Huawei.

So if you live in Oslo or Stockholm, you get to try it out. Everyone else is out of luck. TeliaSonera says it will roll out the 4G service to 25 cities in Sweden and Norway in 2010. But you know how these things go. The full rollout may take longer because they are still trying to follow the instructions on how to put it together. They are pretty sure they are missing some bolts. (We’ve all been there).

For the rest of us, the wait will be even longer. Mobile carriers in the U.S. are struggling under the weight of soaring Web phone data usage. Their 3G networks can hardly keep up (cough, AT&T). Verizon is supposed to launch 4G/LTE service in the U.S. next year, and AT&T won’t offer its version of 4G until 2011.

Until then, I suggest you move to Oslo.

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The “WiFi Body Scale” from French company Withings records your weight and BMI and automatically uploads it to a secure website, which would be a lot easier to make fun of if it weren’t for Wii Fit , which does that stuff but doesn’t upload it anywhere.

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Your “weight” for an internet-connected scale is over! Get it?

I’ve heard good things about The Jay Leno Show recently, which might be why he’s improving NBC’s TiVo stats. Previous seasons NBC saw nearly 70% of its viewers timeshift during the 10 p.m. time slot

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Jay Leno really is helping NBC at the 10 p.m. time slot

Seems our compatriots across the sea will have the Amazon Kindle as soon as next week. “Reliable sources” have confirmed that the publishers involved signed non-disclosure agreements, adding weight to our previous suspicions that the e-book reader would be available in Britain this fall.

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The Queen’s Digital English: The Kindle is coming to the UK

Solar energy is being used in a number of applications already, but carports are something new. Japan-based Sankyo Tateyama Aluminium has begun selling carports [JP] with solar power generation systems installed on their tops

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Japanese company sells carports with solar panel roofs

I’m sure we’ll be hearing more about this soon, but it looks like someone ate Pentax’s cake today by releasing some details about the upcoming K-x camera , an entry-level DSLR with HD video capability. There are a couple pics and all the vital statistics, but no samples of video or anything like that. Here’s Pentax’s summary (there’s more at PhotoRumors): • High resolution 12.4 megapixel CMOS image sensor features sensor-shift Shake Reduction for stabilized image and video capture up to 4 stops max.

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Pentax K-x leaked: 12.4 megapixels, HDR mode, 720p video at 24FPS

AMD just revealed a processor for their “Mainstream Desktop Platform” that will be going for less than a bill. There are cheap processors out there already, but this is a full-featured, quad-core 45nm part, not some cut-rate piece of garbage. Sure, the Athlon II X4 620 isn’t going to set any speed records, but it’s part of the excellent AMD ecosystem

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AMD busts out a sub-$100 quad-core processor