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Mac users may be more individualistic than PC owners, but new data suggests users of another Apple gizmo--the iPhone--are, on average, much freer with their online spending than their peers. It must be an individualism thing.
Olswang's research, contained in its recent Convergence Survey, ...
Hardware
Apple
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Mac
Net neutrality seems an innocuous concept when you look at it
rationally--but no one seems to do that. Especially not big-name ISPs and
cell-phone providers in the U.S. who are fighting the idea.
The Obama administration has been pushing net neutrality as a good thing for everyone. When ...
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Opera
See that little login window on the top right of this Web page? Mozilla, through Firefox, wants to do away with it--for all the best reasons. Mozilla's plan will simplify how you log into sites because, lets face it, IDing yourself should be easier.
The information comes directly from ...
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Firefox
Mozilla
Wikileaks is currently replaying the events of 9-11-2001 in a very unexpected way: It's releasing in roughly real-time chunks over 500,000 hacked pager messages that were transmitted that day. As a data source its chilling but historically speaking it's fascinating. Wikileaks is usually ...
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Google announced new search-side video and picture advertisements Tuesday, masquerading them as an improvement for users. It "makes sense to provide you with richer types of information in the ads," Google said in its official blog , calling the rich ads "a better search ads experience."
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The cable news networks are having a field day with President Barack Obama's sagging approval ratings--it seems like every politics story you hear begins with the ominous caveat: As the public disapproval of Obama grows...
It's all nonsense, cooked up to milk a fake drama, as the superb ...
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Barack Obama
For the first time ever, every major carrier in the US actually has smartphones worth buying, meaning you don't have to break up to get a good phone. Here's the best phones on each one, along with the best deals. All pricing shown is with a new 2-year contract, and some deals may be ...
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BlackBerry Bold
Just yesterday TiVo was in the news for its user-data deal with Google, but its execs have obviously been far busier than that: Today there's fresh info that TiVo is expanding--it's due to launch a co-branded DVR TV service in the U.K. with Virgin . Back in 2000, TiVo partnered with BSkyB ...
Home Theater
TiVo
FedEx unveils Senseaware, a drop-in sensor for packages that monitors everything from nasty falls to light exposure.
Speed isn't good enough when you're shipping something like transplant supplies for emergency surgery or human organs. You also need to be perfectly sure that what you're ...
Mobile
Micro-video site Vidly (formerly TwitVid.io) has launched its new video commenting feature Vidly Express with the help of a rapper Chamillionaire. As you can see on his Web site , the feature allows users to record a video reply instead of posting one in text. And as you can also see by the ...
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Forget NASA's giant rockets , forget even the Russian Space Agency's vintage but reliable Soyuz vehicles: The future of space travel for you and me (assuming we're filthy rich) is in private hands . Jeff Bezos' and Richard Branson's, actually.
Jeff Bezos' Mystery Blue Origin Rocket
Jeff ...
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Richard Branson
Someday soon Bertrand Piccard is going to throw the switches on his Solar Impulse Foundation aircraft, tug back on the stick and pull it into the air. Then he'll fly it right around the world. The impressive technology demonstrator's just about to take its maiden flight. Let's hope it's not ...
Science
TiVo, everyone's favorite DVR maker, has just signed an agreement with Google to hand over tons of data on its users habits for analysis. The upshot: Advertisements are going to be even more targeted and personal. It's how Internet TV ads will work in the future .
What TiVo gets is raw ...
Home Theater
TiVo
Something to keep in mind as you head home on the busiest travel day of the year:
The more hellish the flight, the more it may actually be worth paying for. That's because airlines with fewer flights and packed cabins are actually slashing rates to stay competitive. (As we've already ...
Online
Google's extending its grip on the digital world in a wholly new and surprising way: It's just brokered a deal with Iraq's authorities to digitize historic artifacts and documents in the country's museums. It's a philanthropic move, don't you know. Google's CEO Eric Schmidt has been touring ...
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Eric Schmidt
DUDE, WHERES THE CASH? Here's what scares Kutcher: "When I have a conversation with someone and they say, 'I'm not worried about monetization yet.' " | Photographs by Jill Greenberg Photographs by Jill Greenberg How Ashton Kutcher is pioneering a new kind of media business, bridging Hollywood, ...
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Construction sites are usually just urban eyesores, but Kooho Jung and Hayeon Kelly Choi have designed a space that could one day make people look forward to neighborhood construction. The Symbiotic Green Wall turns the barrier between construction and the street into a living ecosystem, ...
Other
The numbers are in, and eBooks may very well be the bright spot in book publishing's dim future--but only if publishers can figure out a way to keep the momentum going.
EBook sales accounted for $46.5 million as of the end of September , according to the International Digital Publishing ...
Gadgets
Intel has teamed up with Sprout Inc.--a company heavily involved with social media-based advertising--to launch a new interactive Facebook promotion that's pretty clever, and which might just indicate one possible future for advertising. An oddly disturbing one, at that.
The attraction of ...
Hardware
Intel
Though Apple's iPhone still rules the mobile browsing game, it looks like Google's Android OS--spread over numerous devices now--is beginning to catch up. Admob's stats show its actually overtaken RIM to steal second place. Back in March AdMob's statistics showed quite how dominant the ...
