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WINDOWS   |  3 comments

Streaming Video? Forget Myka or Roku and Get Windows 7

We already know Netflix users are begging for easier ways to get streaming video to their TVs--Xbox, PS3, Roku, and Blu-ray players apparently aren't simple enough solutions. Instead, more and more people watch TV and film on their ...READ»

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ART   |  2 comments

Artist Matthias Manner Turns IT Junk Into IT Monsters

Manner's sculptures look like the misbegotten offspring of computer-junk and deep-sea crustaceans.READ»

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AUTODESK   |  Comment

How the IT Sector Can Become a Legitimate Climate Solutions Provider

The IT industry has long enjoyed a reputation as a "clean" industry, representing significant GDP growth relative to its greenhouse gas footprint (for example, see "Earth Calling: The Environmental Impacts of the Mobile ...READ»

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APPLE   |  Comment

Undead Tech: Apple's TV Macintosh

This week we've seen the new 27-inch iMac compared to a television, and we've watched Windows 7 get all TV-happy with in-home streaming. But it was in over a decade ago that Apple ventured to show us how TVs and PCs would eventually ...READ»

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BOOKS   |  3 comments

Booksellers Say Wal-Mart/Amazon Price War Is Anticompetitive

Earlier this week I reported that Sears seemed to have won the book price wars started by Wal-Mart by giving away books essentially for free. At the time, I speculated that the move might actually have positive ramifications for ...READ»

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BING   |  3 comments

Bing Adds Real-Time Twitter and Facebook Updates. When Will Google Step Up? [Update: Google Stepped Up!]

Update: Marissa Mayer, Google's Vice President of Search Products and User Experience, has just announced that the search giant has "reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results." Bing has won what ...READ»

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Does the Kindle Make Good Brain-Food?

Do we learn differently from electronic paper than real books? The New York Times set out to understand the question by polling a group of experts. Does e-paper make it harder to focus? Harder to think and learn? "Initially, any ...READ»

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WAL-MART   |  Comment

Wal-Mart Hacked: Is Credit Card Data Safe?

Source code for Wal-Mart's point-of-sale computer system was hacked and siphoned into Eastern European computers in 2005 and 2006, Wired.com reported today. The scale of the attack calls into question whether major retailers have been ...READ»

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GE   |  2 comments

Comcast Denies Reports It's Buying NBC-Universal

Will the cast of 30 Rock soon be making fun of a new corporate overlord? M&A bankers for General Electric may have reached a deal Tuesday to sell NBC-Universal to Comcast, reports TheWrap. Both companies have denied any ...READ»

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SELFMAN   |  5 comments

Self-Healing Web Apps Make Scaling Easier

The SELFMAN project, an initiative among seven European universities, seeks to build Internet applications that manage, tune, and fix themselves. And they're not too far down the road. When these apps do arrive, they'll make ...READ»

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FACEBOOK   |  1 comment

How to Make the Best Damn Facebook Notifier for Mac

Facebook just released their first experimental desktop app. It's a menu-bar add on for Mac OS X called "desktop notifications," but once it's installed, it does more than notify--but not much more. You can update your status, as well ...READ»

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IPHONE   |  8 comments

Is Motorola's Android Phone for Kids?

Today Motorola released its first Android device: the Cliq for T-Mobile. And while most Android comparisons run right to the iPhone, this thing looks more poised to steal teen approval from the Sidekick. Inside, it sports the same ...READ»

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What's So Hard About Augmented Reality, Anyway?

Yesterday I posted about Nokia's anemic vision of augmented reality. And while we should all hold the world's largest phone-maker to a high standard when it comes to technology like AR, it's worth discussing why the future of these ...READ»

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IPOD   |  5 comments

Apple Fast Becoming iPod, Inc.

In 2007, Apple decided it would drop the "Computer" from its corporate title and become simply Apple, Inc. At the time the change seemed semantic or aesthetic, depending on your outlook. But the move proved more prescient this morning ...READ»

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Nine Killer Features in iTunes 9

Today Steve Jobs made a grand reappearance on the Apple stage to introduce iTunes 9 at Apple's Rock 'n Roll event in San Francisco. So what's new? 1) iTunes LP is a new incentive for full-album purchases: you get images, ...READ»

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INTERACT 2009: 12th IFIP Conference on Human Computer Interaction

Many people spend more waking hours with their computers in a given day than they do with their families or friends. Ever wonder exactly how that relationship works? For the folks at INTERACT, that’s the driving question. ...READ»

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APPLE   |  2 comments

Get the Speed of Apple "Snow Leopard" Without Buying a New Mac

Apple just announced that it's next update to OS X, dubbed Snow Leopard, will ship on Friday. That's great news if you own an Intel Mac, but if you own an older machine, you're out of luck--version 10.6 won't support PPC Macs. But ...READ»

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APPLE   |  Comment

Apple Snow Leopard To Ship August 28

After a period of downtime early Monday morning, Apple has reinstated their online store with one seminal addition: the ability to preorder Mac OS X, dubbed Snow Leopard, for shipping on August 28. Unlike most major revisions to the ...READ»

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FACEBOOK   |  Comment

Facebook Plans 50% Expansion

Facebook is planning to expand its 1,000-person ranks by 50%, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg in an interview with Bloomberg. The company is using the dismal economic times as a bartering chip, picking up engineers and executives on ...READ»

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Seven Signs of Our Times Online

This isn't your usual August. With enough political issues smoldering to fill a decade of American history, the vacation month has turned into a morass of issues that boggles the mind. Here are seven articles that went viral this ...READ»

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Posterous Makes iPhone Photoblogging Ingenious

There are plenty of ways to blog a cat, and nearly all the tools out there work fine. But make no mistake: there's a blogging arms race going on.Arguably the three most advanced contenders--slick, free Web 2.0 tools with ...READ»

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JOBSPICE   |  3 comments

The Solution to Your Resumé Nightmare

Every idea has its time, and with the unemployment rate rising, JobSpice is right on schedule. Think of it as Google Docs for your resumé: it's an online service that makes creating and distributing resumes easy, without the hassle ...READ»

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GOOGLE   |  Comment

Google Scripts Help Automate Apps, Premier Edition Only

Automation is the dream of every work-laden computer user, and scripting languages can make those dreams come true. Now Google is releasing its own scripting language for its online apps called Google Apps Script. It seems mostly ...READ»

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To Combat iPhone, Microsoft Unleashes Slowness, Confusion

Microsoft will use one version of its Windows Mobile operating system to combat Android sales, and another version against the iPhone, According to Digitimes. The hare-brained two-tier strategy won't roll out until October, when ...READ»

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FLICKR   |  2 comments

Flickr Removes Obama-as-Joker Photo

It's rarely a good PR move when a social Web site decides to remove a politically-charged image--the InterWebs get angry. One such case came to light today: A Photoshop mockup of President Obama as the Joker from The Dark Knight, ...READ»

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