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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   |  9 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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