Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
Just in case you’ve been living under a rock (or mounds of year-end spreadsheets — same difference), we reckoned you should know that you’ve but four days left before Super Bowl XLII kicks off from Arizona. Besides the obvious necessities — an HDTV, lots of seating space, a truckload of junk [...]
Google leads, ICANN follows: domain tasters can now eat dirtArs Technica, MA -24 minutes agoGoogle has also moved to make tasting less economic and will refuse to offer AdSense revenue to sites until they have been registered for more than four …
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Well, the rumors are true, the Apple TV “take 2″ update, which was due yesterday, is officially delayed. According to Apple, they are planning to “make the free software download available to existing Apple TV customers in another week or two.” Not a deal-killer by any means, but certainly a temporary [...]
How Many Facebook Users Actually Read the Wall Street Journal? — The fact that the WSJ and Facebook have just partnered on a new initiative to let Facebook users share their favorite news stories, surely demonstrates one of the following: — Facebook is now dominated by 30+ -year old WSJ reading types.Source: Andy Beal’s [...]
Filed under: Displays
The boys and girls at Sony are firing on all (or a few) cylinders today, launching not one, but three new digital photo frames for your digital photo-framing pleasure. All the frames in the new lineup contain 800 x 480 WVGA displays with a Bizarro World aspect ratio of 15:9, and are capable [...]
Hoover’s Redefines Social Networking for the Professional Market …Business Wire (press release), CA -6 hours agoUnlike other social networking services, Hoover’s Connect provides an effective, non-intrusive way for its users to connect to a person through someone the …Hoover's launches professional networking toolComputerworldHoover's, Inc. Tries to Compete With LinkedInProfyHoover’s debuts Hoover’s Connect; roll out coincides with [...]
Merck, Boeing Among Big MoversThe Associated Press -1 hour agoNASDAQ Yahoo Inc., down $1.84 at $18.97 The online search engine operator recorded a 24 percent lower quarterly profit and said it plans to lay off 7 …
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Let’s Trash Yahoo During Happy Hour — Yesterday I was scheduled to appear live on the Happy Hour show on the Fox Business Channel. The show is held at the Bull and Bear bar at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, with customers milling around and drinking. I can’t believe no one has rushed [...]
Etsy’s First Five Years — In early April of 2005, I sat in an orange chair facing an open window. It was nighttime and the lights were off. I was back in Brooklyn after a brief residence in Paris, and I was about to sketch the initial ideas that would become Etsy.Source: The StorqueAuthor: [...]
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Web 2.0 vs. Search Engines: Are Search Engines Becoming Obsolete …Event Planner Spain (press release), Spain -2 hours agoWeb 2.0 continues to generate much attention in the online travel industry. Inquiring hoteliers want to understand the status and future of search engine …
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Recommendations engine Loomia has signed deals with the Wall Street Journal, CNET, and NBC to provide users of those companies’ news websites with recommendations based on what their Facebook friends are reading.Readers of these publications who are also Facebook users with Loomia’s SeenThis? application installed will see a list of recommended news articles like the [...]
Filed under: Wireless
Here’s some up to date 700MHz bidding news for you. Currently, bids on the hotly contested “C” block have risen to almost $4.3 billion, or just a few dollars away from the FCC’s reserve price of $4.6 billion. That number puts us perilously close to triggering the “open-access rule” which pretty much everyone [...]
Filed under: Laptops
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Straight out of Cupertino’s mouth, the MacBook Air is officially shipping. ‘Course, we’d already heard a few reports from early adopters that they had received shipment notifications, but now we can all rest assured they weren’t just dreaming. Brace yourselves, MBA pre-orderers, your wee machine should be on its [...]
King of CaliforniaDVD Talk, OR -1 hour agoEven purchasing a car (or, more accurately, a bucket of bolts with a running engine) becomes a pinnacle of her life, as she accomplishes it all …
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RezStream Hospitality Internet Marketing Announces Partnership …Newswire Today (press release), UK -9 hours agoThe partnership between Vermont Discovery Cruises and RezStream will include search engine optimization, pay-per-click marketing, strategic link-building, …
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