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Our Favorite Blogs is one of my favorite PCMag stories of the year—and not just because I write it. Unlike our annual "Top 100 Websites" list, we go into the blogs story with an eye toward subjectivity. These aren't necessarily the "best" blogs, they're just our favorites. That leaves ...
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Live Nation and iTunes on Tuesday kicked off a new music program that will provide users access to live audio and video footage from concerts recorded at Live Nation venues.
The offering kicked off today, and currently has recordings from OK Go, Jesse McCartney, Saving Abel, A Fine ...
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Ah, 2007, when online video sites like Joost and Veoh were poised to take over the world. Now, two years later, both have seen their fortunes falter. Adconion Media Group, an ad network, quietly purchased "certain assets" of Joost, the company said in a statement Tuesday. Although the site's ...
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Hulu
Microsoft's mobile app for its Bing search engine is now available for all BlackBerry Curve devices.
Consumers who purchase a BlackBerry Curve 2 (8530) from Verizon will get the Bing app pre-installed, but all other Curve owners should go to m.bing.com/download on their phones to ...
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Yahoo has enhanced its search toolbar to provide more in-depth suggestions when users are typing in a query. The update applies to movies, sports, travel destinations, and stock prices. Type in "Barcelona," and a drop-down menu also provides links for things to do, hotels, and a restaurant ...
Online
Yahoo
Google on Tuesday added the ability to view Gmail attachments while offline.
"Starting today, attachments work just the way you would expect them to whether you are online or offline (with the exception that when you're offline you won't be able to include inline images)," Google wrote ...
Online
Gmail
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Sure, Google's Chrome browser takes the JavaScript speed crown. But there's still one area where it falls short of open-source favorite Firefox, and that's extensions. Google's engineers are hard at work to rectify this shortcoming: Last night on the Chromium Blog , team member Lei Zheng ...
Online
Chrome
Just in time for the holidays, bargain site (and one of Our Favorite Blogs ) Woot.com is language a new user-generated wing. deals.Woot is a social bookmarking version of the site that lets users vote and discuss deals.
Woot describes it thusly, "A place where wooters can share the latest ...
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RIM has unveiled BlackBerry Media Sync 3.0, a PC application that can sync photos in both directions in addition to music. The new app lets users pull files and folders down from the PC to the BlackBerry, and optimize photos for the device along the way (allowing for more storage). It also lets ...
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BlackBerry
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Windows Media Player
I always thought the whole identifying songs in a crowded bar feature was pretty cool, but now the folks at Shazam has another trick up their sleeve--fighting AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria in Africa. Shazam today announced that it has become the first mobile app to join the (RED) campaign, ...
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Perform a Google Image search of Michelle Obama, and you'll get back a nasty little racist photoshop of the First Lady. Google pulled the image last week, on the grounds that its associated site violated malware policies. Now the image is back, but this time its accompanied by a special message ...
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A few weeks ago, I previewed Google Maps Navigation as part of the Android 2.0-powered Motorola Droid . The app still needs work--and it's still in beta--but it's the first completely free GPS app with voice prompts. Now Google has announced that Google Maps Navigation is now available for ...
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A surge in live eBay listings took down the site's full search functionality Saturday, the auction site said in a statement. Service was restored by 5 P.M. Eastern time on Sunday. EBay said it will be issuing full credits for all items affected by the outage.
"The unanticipated technical ...
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eBay
Eric Schmidt wasn't kidding about ramping up Google's small acquisitions. The search-engine giant announced Monday that it has acquired display ad company Teracent.
"Teracent's technology can pick and choose from literally thousands of creative elements of a display ad in ...
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Eric Schmidt
The prosecution will not appeal the case of Lori Drew, a mother accused of concocting a MySpace hoax that resulted in the suicide of a 13-year-old girl.
A judge dismissed Drew's case, and the prosecution has decided not to appeal his decision, effectively ending the case, AP reports .
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If you're like me, you have folders to keep your bookmarks good and organized, but all they succeed in doing is giving you multiple places to dump bookmarks you save and then never look at again. When those bookmark folders and their contents finally get so out of control that you're ready to ...
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LinkedIn formally launched its developer network Monday, and TweetDeck will be among the first to integrate the social networking site into its results. With the launch of the LinkedIn Platform , developers can now access the site's API and incorporate LinkedIn into their business apps and ...
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TweetDeck
Roku this morning announced the addition of the Roku Channel Store , compatible with its line of streaming media players, including Roku SD, Roku HD and Roku HD-XR models. The Channel Store lets users stream content to their television including Pandora, Facebook Photos, Revision3, Mediafly, ...
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As if underpowered cell phones, expensive data plans, and clogged 3G data networks weren't enough to turn people off from cell phone shopping, you can now add slow mobile sites to the list. Web research firm Gomez has issued a report comparing mobile site speeds for over a dozen large retailers ...
