E-readers’ high prices may hinder adoption
Tech holiday gift checklist: LCD TV — maybe. New BlackBerry or iPhone — possible. E-reader — are you kidding?
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Women on top: Female execs rise in porn biz
Joy King laughs at the stereotype of the porn king as a skeevy guy in gold neck chains, a paunch and the sunglasses Elliott Gould wore in “Ocean’s Eleven.”
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10 Ways To Trick Out Your Netbook for Free
Netbooks are all the rage at the moment, with Asus predicting that it will sell 5 million of its Asus Eee PC netbooks by the end of this year. However, one of the tricky aspects of netbooks is that they have much more limited hardware resources than larger, traditional notebooks.
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Ahead of the Bell: Research in Motion falls
Shares of Research in Motion Ltd. declined in premarket trading after the BlackBerry smart phone maker cut its third-quarter profit and sales forecasts, citing the effect of the strong dollar and the weak U.S. economy.
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PlayStation 3 Gets Flashy, Amongst Other New Things
Scheduled to hit the PlayStation 3 console last week, v2.53’s only additional feature is full-screen support for Adobe Flash in the console’s Internet browser.
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Everything you always wanted to know about Google… (Ouriel Ohayon/TechCrunch)
Ouriel Ohayon / TechCrunch:Everything you always wanted to know about Google… …But were afraid to ask. This is the title of this very interesting 34-slide presentation on Google prepared by FaberNovel, a french consulting firm. It is hard to realize the real nature of this just 10 years old giant given the number … [...]
Twitter CEO: The revenue’s coming soon, but I won’t tell you how (Rafe Needleman/Webware.com)
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:Twitter CEO: The revenue’s coming soon, but I won’t tell you how — At a Churchill Club event in San Francisco on Tuesday, Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams brushed off—again—criticisms that the company is slow to turn on its revenue-generating engines.
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It’s Safe to Colonize The Moon Now, Japan Has Demonstrated That It’s Possible To Make Beer In Space
The extra-terrestrial beverage was the result of a five-month mission during which barley was grown for the first time in a Russian laboratory on board the International Space Station (ISS).
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Announcing the Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack … (Mike Nash/The Windows Blog)
Mike Nash / The Windows Blog:Announcing the Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Customer Preview Program (CPP) — Hi, Mike Nash here. In late October I announced the Beta of Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 - beginning with a small group of Technology Adoption Program [...]
A YouTube for All of Us (YouTube Blog)
YouTube Blog:A YouTube for All of Us — As a community, we have come to count on each other to be entertained, challenged, and moved by what we watch and share on YouTube. We’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to make the collective YouTube experience even better, particularly on our most visited [...]
Yahoo shares climb on hopes for $30B takeover bid
Yahoo Inc.’s stock rallied Tuesday on a report that AOL’s former chief executive believes he can raise enough money in a worsening recession to buy the struggling Internet company for as much as $30 billion.
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Apple updates antivirus version numbers, security savants lose grip on reality
When the concepts of “antivirus” and “Mac OS X” approach each other in the blogosphere, the usual outcome is more heat than light.
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Former AOL Chief Seeks Funds for Yahoo Deal (Jessica E. Vascellaro/Wall Street Journal)
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:Former AOL Chief Seeks Funds for Yahoo Deal — Former AOL Chief Executive Jonathan Miller is trying to raise money to purchase a portion or all of Yahoo Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. — Mr. Miller has been talking to private equity investors and sovereign [...]
Nokia upgrades mapping and messaging services (Marguerite Reardon/CNET News)
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:Nokia upgrades mapping and messaging services — Nokia has released new versions of its mapping and navigation service along with a new messaging service in an effort to build out its mobile services. — The upgraded Nokia Maps offers new features, such as high-resolution aerial images and 3D landmarks.
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Developers Can Now Issue Free “Promotional” Copies of iPhone Apps (Arn/MacRumors)
Arn / MacRumors:Developers Can Now Issue Free “Promotional” Copies of iPhone Apps — Apple has finally started allowing developers to issue free promotional copies of their iPhone applications. Once an application has been accepted to the App Store by Apple, developers can issue up to 50 promotional codes.
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