Filed under: Laptops Look, we hate to be crude — after all, you won’t find any bigger proponents for bulking up the breast cancer research fund than the team here at Engadget — but Toshiba might have a tough time selling its latest Portégé M800. We mean, just look at it. We’re not exactly sure how it gets off calling this thing “pink,” but the 13.3-inch machine will be sold (or just stocked) exclusively at Best Buy Canada for $799.99.

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Toshiba reveals "pink" Portege M800 to help with breast cancer, probably won’t sell any

Earlier this evening, something with the proposed price of $899 appeared on Apple’s product lists, causing certain parts of the internet to cry out that perhaps a low-end MacBook was in the works.

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Apple’s $899 Product Might Be LED Display Rather Than Ultra-Cheap MacBook [Rumor]

The Consumer Electronics Association, which runs the CES conference each year in Las Vegas, has never had an offical blog partner. But they do now, and it’s AOL’s Engadget : “The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) selected Engadget as the Official Blog Partner of the 2009 International CES to be held January 8-11, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada,” AOL says in a press release.

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Memories Of Gizmodogate: CES Names Engadget As Official Blog Partner

Filed under: Laptops Toshiba’s never been one to really pump out laptops with oodles of sex appeal (a few Portégé machines notwithstanding), and its latest two are decidedly drab. Aimed squarely at business users, the 15.4-inch Satellite Pro S300 and the 14-inch Satellite Pro S300M (shown after the break) both include a 2-year warranty, support for docking, a business card reader, a USB Sleep-and-Charge / eSATA combo port and face recognition software. As for the S300, you can snag it with your choice of a Core 2 Duo CPU, up to 3GB of DDR2 RAM, a 160GB 5,400 RPM hard drive, dual-layer DVD burner, WiFi / Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, Intel’s GMA4500MHD graphics, a built-in webcam / microphone and a 9-cell battery pack; the S300M gives you pretty much the same options but with a smaller screen and chassis.

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Toshiba launches Satellite Pro S300 / S300M laptops

For those of you aspiring to be the next Satellite Radio Raheem, here’s a few newly leaked photos of the upcoming Sirius SUB-X2 Boombox.

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Sirius Coming Out With New Satellite Radio Boombox [Sirius XM]

Flip Mino , one of the best cheap camcorders money can buy, can now be personalized to your heart’s delight. The new Flip site allows you to choose from hundreds of pre-made designs, upload your own image, or make a one-of-a-kind pattern using their awesomely trippy pattern generator to be printed on the camera’s shell.

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Flip Mino Now Available With Fully Customized Paintjob [Flip]

I had a phone call late last week with a semantic startup called Siri that was spun out of SRI International (the birthplace of the computer mouse and the LCD screen, among many other important technologies). Most startups are willing to talk about their products “off the record” but this one wouldn’t divulge much beyond the fact that they’ve raised $8.5 million in Series A funding from Menlo Ventures and Morgenthaler . What we do know is that the company was incorporated in December 2007 with the goal of commercializing aspects of the CALO cognitive learning system, which receives heavy funding ($200 million plus) from the PAL arm of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency , a supporter of research in a broad range of technologies that could potentially benefit the Department of Defense.

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Stealth Semantic Startup Raises $8.5 Million, Won’t Tell Us Anything

A couple days ago, we posted some leaked screenshots of Brightcove 3, the completely gutted and rebuilt Web video platform from Brightcove that is launching on Tuesday. I was able to catch up with Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire, who gave me an update on the company and took me through all the changes in the service. Brightcove is a Web video publishing platform that has raised $91 million and boasts hundreds of major media brands as its customers, including Dow Jones, Showtime ( Dexter , The Tudors ), Lifetime, AMC ( Mad Men ), Time magazine, and the New York Times

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Brightcove Is Already Streaming “Several Hundred Million” Videos A Month. Now Comes Brightcove 3.

Meebo has disclosed that 11 more sites have committed themselves to integrating Community IM , its forthcoming out-of-the-box service that adds Facebook Chat -like instant messaging capabilities to the bottom of any website.

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11 More Sites Plan to Add Meebo Community IM

In the past, when Apple has been on the eve of releasing new notebooks or desktops, Microsoft has let that event pass. Maybe the company would make a spokesperson available to react to the announcement, but that’s about it

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Updated: Want proof that Microsoft is feeling threatened by Apple?