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I like shopping for gadgets as much as the next technonerd–more so, probably–but I don’t plan to rush out to the mall on Black Friday. I like to do my splurging on my own schedule, thank you very much. Besides, I’m too young to be crushed to death by a stampede of ...
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Run in a virtualized machine, Google’s Chrome OS feels pretty much like Chrome-the-browser–which makes the whole exercise kind of pointless, since it’s a lot harder to install and run a virtualized OS than a browser. But now f0lks are trying Chrome OS as a native, ...
Computing
Google Chrome OS
Last week, Microsoft brought Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm and the Zune Marketplace to Xbox Live. And it’s been a rousing success! According to Microsoft, at least.
The company says nearly two million people signed into Facebook from Xbox Live in less than a week since the feature ...
Gaming
Xbox Live
Xbox 360
Zune
As I mentioned earlier today , I recently discovered that I was a newly-inducted member of something called SavingsAce, a discount club that had begun charging me $25 a month. I called it, canceled, and got my twenty-five bucks back. I also asked how I came to be a member, and the rep told me ...
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Use Bing, spend extra money.
Remember Joost? It’s been sold.
More on “the Google phone.”
Vudu movie service gets Wikipedia.
It’s war: Amazon vs. Wal-Mart.
More publishers talk Google withdrawal.
Google explains offensive image result.
Google and Tivo ...
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Apple has a bit of a quality assurance problem on its hands, according to press reports. Several publications are reporting that the new iMacs based on Intel’s Core i7 platform are inoperable out of the box, and some have even appeared with cracked LCD screens.
While the cracking issue ...
Computing
iMac
LCD
technologizer.com - 15 hours ago
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There’s almost no such thing as “enough” in
the world of tech. But Amazon’s Kindle e-reader ,...
which can run for two weeks on a charge, surely has enough battery life. But the two-week figure only applies if you shut off the ...
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More Power, PDF for the Kindle
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Over at Cnet, Greg Sandoval has blogged about the post-purchase online marketing tactics that the U.S. government is currently investigating. These are the discount offers you get at checkout that involve you agreeing to a monthly charge that’s explained only in fine print . The ...
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Apple has the opportunity to fast track submissions from its iPhone App store development partners. Partners that follow best practices should be given the benefit of the doubt to accelerate the screening process.
Earlier today, my colleague Harry McCracken wrote about a BusinessWeek ...
Phones
iPhone
The Entertainment Software Association is jumping for joy today over President Barack Obama’s acceptance of video games as an educational tool. As part of a bigger plan to boost education in science, technology, engineering and math, two game design competitions were announced, and the ...
Gaming
Playstation
One of the most impressive demos I’ve seen in the last couple of years–although I’ve seen it only in the form of online video, not in person–is Swype , a form of QWERTY input for phones that was unveiled at last year’s TechCrunch50 conference. It lets you enter ...
Phones
Verizon
QWERTY
Nobody likes being compared to a misfit toy . So it’s not surprising that a couple of new iPhone ads feel like indirect responses to Verizon’s recent iPhone/AT&T attack ads ( here they are in a John Paczkowski post at All Things Digital ).
Unlike Verizon and AT&T’s ...
Phones
Verizon
iPhone
Windows Mobile: not so bad.
Tweet, or we’ll arrest you.
Worm attacks jailbroken iPhones, Touches
Drobo adds two new versions.
Apple touts Black Friday sale.
iMacs: faster than Mac Pros.
Extended eBay outage? How nostalgic!
. Bing censoring Chinese-language searches?
Wii ...
Phones
Windows Mobile
BusinessWeek’s Arik Hesseldahl scored an interview with Apple marketing honcho Phil Schiller, focused on the wildly popular , ever-controversial iPhones App Store. It’s a good read and I’m glad Schiller feels the need to address the topic in public. It’s completely true ...
Phones
iPhone
It’s just a rumor, but a fascinating one: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. is supposedly talking to Microsoft about some sort of deal that would involve Microsoft giving News Corp. a boatload of cash to block Google from indexing its news sites , so Microsoft’s Bing could step in ...
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As part of its retooling as it becomes an independent company (again!), AOL is unveiling a new logo . It dumps the triangle that has been part of the corporate identity since the company’s glory days, and spells the name “Aol”–upper and lower case, with a period. ...
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What’s the most wrongheaded conclusion anyone ever came to concerning computers? I covered two of the most legendary ones–”There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home,” “640K should be enough for anybody,” and “I think there is ...
Computing
Laptops
Back in the early 1980s, it wasn’t a given that a family needed a home computer–or even that they knew exactly what a home computer was. So ads for PCs and related products made sure to show happy families crowded around the computer. Sometimes eerily happy families.
To celebrate ...
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Computers: The Heart of the 1980s Home Familiar
holiday tales tell of a time in the late...
19th century when loving families would gather around the hearth to sing songs, read Dickens, and roast chestnuts. But by the early 1980s — if you ...
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A 1980s Home Computer Family Celebration
When Roku introduced its Internet TV box in 2008 , it offered a grand total of one content source–Netflix–and was in fact sometimes called the Netflix Player. Then it began adding options: Amazon Video on Demand and Major League Baseball . Tonight, it’s announcing that it ...
