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Physical media such as CD and DVD is very slowly but surely being replaced by digital formats. Whether it’s streaming or downloads, physical is the [...]
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If you were hoping to purchase the nook ereader from Barnes & Noble for the holiday gift giving season, hopefully you did it before now.
According to the New York Times , Barnes & Noble has sold out of the initial productions runs of the [...]
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Skype has finally been sold off from beleaguered auction house eBay, though they will retain a 30 percent stake in the company.
Skype, a leader in the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) business, was purchased in Oct. 2005 by eBay in a [...]
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YouTube has announced it will offer automated video captioning for clips. It will serve as an accessibility tool for hard-of-hearing viewers, but could also make clips easier to find.
The site already allows manual captioning, but most clip uploaders don’t take advantage simply because of [...]
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Sony unveiled plans for a digital download store to sell music, videos and books just like Apple’s iTunes. What the company forgot to mention is that the digital download space is already too crowded.
The [...]
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City-wide Wi-Fi networks which offer wireless Internet connectivity for free to all residents who want it have pretty much failed to succeed across the United States so [...]
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The launch of popular music streaming service Spotify has already been delayed once in the U.S.A., and now it may be delayed even more due to the record labels not liking the business model.
Spotify is a music streaming service that has [...]
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The rumors of the Apple Tablet have now reached a level of surrealism that makes you think someone from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks is running the show. At any moment the Little Man from Another Place is going to [...]
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A problem with the Federal Aviation Authority’s computer system has caused widespread delays and cancellations. The agency stresses there is no security or safety risk stemming from the glitch.
The problem affects the automated process by which flight plans are added to the [...]
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In the last month, Facebook has overtaken sites like ESPN, ABC and CBS to become the number three video site on the Web.
Just a short month ago, Facebook was in tenth place [...]
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Email is currently one of the key elements of the Internet. And sending and receiving email is usually one of the first things we learn [...]
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Microsoft announced today that it has officially begun work on Internet Explorer 9.
In a completely unsurprising announcement, Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft’s Windows and Windows Live division, today announced at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC), that development ...
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It seems some big name online retailers thought it would be okay to trick consumers into giving their credit card information to third-party vendors. The United States Senate is letting them know they thought wrong.
The U.S. Senate Committee on [...]
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Google is scheduled to give the first public demonstration of its forthcoming Chrome operating system tomorrow. Here are some of the questions which could be answered by the event:
What’s the selling point? Is it speed? Price (or lack of it)? The [...]
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Twitter is a massively popular social networking and micro-blogging site that has gained an inordinate amount of headlines and copy over the past year or so. But [...]
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A new update has gone out for Palm’s webOS, and for once it does not include iTunes syncing.
Ever since Palm released the Palm Pre, the company has been touting the fact you could sync the phone with your iTunes library. [...]
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At least one of the newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has begun to outline how it expects readers to begin paying for the news.
According to the Guardian , the News International owned newspaper [...]
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Unfriend – to remove a contact on a social networking site – has been named the word of the year by staff from the New Oxford American Dictionary. Its editors say several tech-related words were considered for the honor.
As somebody who [...]
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Verizon’s commercials ridiculing AT&T’s 3G coverage may have sparked a lawsuit, but the company stands by the campaign saying the, “ads are true and the truth hurts.”
It all started with Verizon’s ad with the slogan, “There’s [...]
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Bullying has been around for generations and will likely remain a problem for generations to come. The problem is it evolves over time, with playground bullying first moving to mobile phones and email [...]