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In the interest of transparency, I should tell you that I’m a longtime TiVo customer and big fan. The company’s empowering and elegant implementation of the DVR totally changed television consumption at the Villa Murrell. And with a lifetime subscription for my TiVo HD, I have a ...
Home Theater
TiVo
You gotta love products that keep getting better even after you’ve bought them. On Tuesday, Amazon told owners of its Kindle e-readers that their devices are suddenly and effortlessly more capable. Courtesy of a silent firmware download, even most earlier Kindles will now support native... ...
Online
Amazon
Kindle
“This is traffic that’s not being monetized to any great degree. It’s akin to a person who drops into town, buys one copy of your newspaper and leaves town again and yet you spend a whole bunch of time building your business around that type of customer. … [Publishers ...
Online
Rupert Murdoch
Bing
Cartocacoethes is the tendency to see the outlines of maps in the world around you, as illustrated by these examples of Accidental Geography. And ambigrams are typographical designs that can also be read upside-down or flipped. Also, the Muppets cover Queen’s “Bohemian ...
Mobile
World of Warcraft
Microsoft
AT&T
Awwwright, geek fight! Nothing like it when rage-filled researchers and acid-tongued academics let fly over some theory or piece of research. You thought Pacquiao-Cotto was bloody.
You’ll recall last week’s announcement by IBM-led scientists that with the help of a Blue Gene/P...
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Hardware
IBM
Perhaps sensing that AT&T was still a little rubber-kneed after getting slammed around by Verizon’s “There’s a Map For That” ad campaign (see “AT&T tries alternate route in map flap with Verizon“), Apple jumped into the ring Monday night with a pair ...
Mobile
Apple
Verizon
AT&T
“Want 2 C Something Hot? Click da’ button, baby!”
— An invitation making its way around Facebook that you should not accept lest you contract a worm
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Online
Awful Library Books, some Atari arcade classics you can play in your browser, and the process of quarter shrinking.
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Gaming
So if Google, as the Aggregator in Chief, is as some publishers believe the bête noire of the newspaper industry, does that make Microsoft look like a white knight? The Redmond behemoth has apparently sensed such an opportunity, because according to the Financial Times (and TechCrunch ...
Online
Microsoft
Bing
In slimming down for its early December spinoff from Time Warner (see “Soon to be single again, AOL starts a crash diet“), AOL is not only planning to shed 2,500 employees, it’s also laying off two of the three capital letters in its logo. After years of service in good times ...
Online
AOL
Here’s a new case for our growing file on social media and law enforcement (see “Facebook Defense gets robbery suspect off the hook“).
First, given the demographics of the GMSV readership, I need to tell you that Justin Bieber is a 15-year-old Canadian pop singer who, despite ...
Online
“I screamed, but there was nothing to hear. I became a witness to my own suffering as doctors and nurses tried to speak with me until they gave up all hope. … I shall never forget the day when they discovered what was truly wrong with me — it was my second birth. All that [...] ...
Other
Expert Labs, a nonpartisan incubator for technology that can help the government tap the expertise of the crowd, and the new Online Media Legal Network, which offers pro bono assistance to online journalists and digital media creators. Also, Pingtest.net and Autocomplete Me.
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Other
Thwarted in its initial efforts to have Verizon’s disparaging “There’s a Map For That” commercials pulled off the air, AT&T is taking its rebuttal to the public with its own new ad.
On Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Batten Sr. in Atlanta allowed as ...
Mobile
Verizon
AT&T
With its divorce from Time Warner becoming official in less than a month, AOL is taking steps to shed some weight.
In one of several moves intended to create a smaller, better focused company after the December 9 spinoff, CEO Tim Armstrong this morning asked for 2,500 employees, or about a ...
Online
AOL
In the latest news from the Land of Mythical Devices, the much anticipated but still unconfirmed Apple tablet will materialize in the second half of 2010, not March as hoped, but it will arrive in two flavors, one with a snazzy OLED display. This update comes to us via DigiTimes, a Taiwan tech ...
Hardware
Apple
OLED
Apple Tablet
“Instead of measuring energy use at the end of each billing period, smart meters will provide this information at much shorter intervals. Even if electricity use is not recorded minute by minute, or at the appliance level, information may be gleaned from ongoing monitoring of ...
Other
The rich annotations of the University of Glasgow Library’s Book of the Month archive; the economics of pinball; and Broadway actor Lin-Manuel Miranda performing an Alexander Hamilton rap at the White House.
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Other
Singularity, here we come. IBM announced today that, with the help of the Lawrence Livermore National Lab and top university scientists, its researchers had reached two important milestones on the way to the day we build machines smarter than ourselves and enter the Post-Human era.
At the ...
Hardware
IBM
As soon as word got out a couple of years ago that Google was cooking up some sort of mobile phone initiative, speculation arose that the search sovereign would get into the handset business with its own Gphone to rival the iPhone. Google discouraged such talk (see “It all depends on what ...
