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LG Cloud Has Official Launch Date [LG Users Looking Forward To LG's Entrance...

Whether you follow the cloud services market in general, or you’re an LG device user that’s been looking forward to LG’s entrance into the cloud services race, we’ve got very good news for you today,...

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RIM May Have Involvement In The “Wake Up” Campaign, Say Reports [Reports...

Last week, we started getting word about the “Wake Up” campaign, in which a busload of folks dressed in black took up positions outside an Apple Store in Australia holding banners that read “Wake Up”...

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Microsoft Looks To Make Windows Phone Marketplace Better [Microsoft Announces...

With Windows Phone starting to make some gains into the mobile phone market, albeit very slow gains, it’s not surprising that Microsoft is looking to get some polish on the product. And they’re looking...

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Apple May Be Planning Mobile Data Service For 2012 [Reports Suggest Apple May...

A new report has emerged suggesting that Apple may be getting a bit fed up with all the dancing it needs to do with carriers and instead offering up its own wireless plan. What’s more, it may be in...

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Sony Halts IPTV Plans For Surprisingly Obvious Reason [Sony's Plans To Bring...

If you’ve been glaring and muttering at your Internet bill lately, you may rest assured that you’re not at all alone. In fact, Sony has just announced that its own plans to bring out a new IPTV service...

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Amazon Planning To Make Their Own TV Show [Amazon Looking For Scripts To Make...

Like Netflix and Hulu before them, it looks like Amazon will be also attempting to create their own original TV series for their Amazon Prime Instant Video streaming service. The online retail giant...

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YouTube Plans Nine Figure Marketing Support For Original Channels [YouTube...

We’ve heard here previously about YouTube’s plans to bring out more professional original content, and the the big budget looking to go into such an endeavor. With names like Stan Lee and Felicia Day...

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Apple Television Won’t Come This Year, Say Reports [Apple Television Plans...

For those of you out there who, like me, were hoping that the introduction of the Apple television, still known by many names including iTV and iPanel, would shake up the home theater world as we knew...

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Netflix Working On Another Big Show Revival [Following Word Of An Arrested...

Netflix, perhaps seeing the writing on the wall that most of the content providers out there want way too much money for their product to make it economically feasible to continue, has been doing...

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iOS & OS X Safari Breach to Cost Google Millions in Fines According to New...

Google is again in trouble with the law and the Search giant could soon be fine “more than $10 million dollars” for its recent privacy breach that affected Safari users on iOS devices and OS X...

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Google To Put Big Bank Behind Machinima, Say Reports [Google Looking To...

If you’ve got a Roku box or the like, or you’re just interested in finding places to watch video online, then you may well be one of the billion-plus views a month over at Machinima. And pretty soon,...

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Xbox Live Boosts Streaming Capability In Multiple Countries [Xbox Live Gold...

Microsoft’s aspirations of turning the Xbox 360 into a full home entertainment platform may have been dealt some setbacks in recent months, but one thing’s for sure: they’re not going to just accept...

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TiVo’s Spring Update Focuses On Streaming Content [TiVo's Newest Update Looks...

You’ve really got to hand it to TiVo. Nothing would come out of them for months at a time and then they start turning up the heat a bit, bringing out new products, and now, new services. They’ve...

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Instacanvas Enables You To Buy & Sell Your Favorite Instagram Photos [Get An...

There are plenty of places online where you can sell things. In this case I am getting to the ability to sell your images. More specifically, the ability to sell your Instagram images. And perhaps more...

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iOS 6 Features End To Google Maps, Say Reports [The Strange Alliance Of...

If anyone else ever thought it strange, as I did, that Apple’s go-to mapping function in iOS was Google Maps, despite the fact that Apple and Google have been at each others’ throats for years in terms...

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Netflix Recovers From Previous Reputation Losses, Says Survey [After A String...

Let’s face it, folks, 2011 was not Netflix’s year. With a series of misadventures better suited to an 80s movie involving wacky college kids and their evil dean, topped off by the fact that they made...

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Ashton Kutcher Spotted in Steve Jobs Character [Filming for Jobs: Get...

Apple’s iconic co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs passed away last October, a day after the company led by Tim Cook unveiled the fifth-generation iPhone. His life, at least the part that was hidden from the...

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Siri Gets Update, Stops Recommending Other Phones [Recent Updates Change...

Just a couple days ago, our own Kevin Schram filled us in on a bit of an unexpected debacle for Apple: when users asked Siri just which smartphone was the best ever, Siri took them literally–a bit too...

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iPhone To Get Chrome Browser This Year, Say Reports [Google's Browser Of...

Anyone else having a “don’t cross the streams” moment? Reading that headline might have given you one. It certainly gave me one, and I wrote it. But the reason I’m having such a thoroughly cinematic...

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Apple, Disney Working On ESPN On Apple TV [Disney & Apple In Talks To Bring...

There’s good news ahead for sports fans, as the word is that Disney is looking to get the ESPN app–WatchESPN–onto Apple TV set-top boxes. But the news is not all good, as it turns out, and the addition...

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Microsoft Bulks Up Entertainment Apps Profile With New Offerings [Microsoft...

Microsoft’s quest to turn the Xbox 360 into a fully-featured home entertainment device continues apace as reports hit of new entertainment apps coming online for the Xbox 360, giving users access to a...

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Apple Seeks Dismissal Of Siri Class-Action Suits [Apple Looks To Dismiss...

Apple has been recently seen as the center of a variety of lawsuits, though for the most part, many of those lawsuits are either instigated by or against other corporations, and commonly over patents....

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Nvidia Brings Cloud Gaming To Users With Combination Of Gaikai & GRID...

Cloud gaming, in recent days, has been gaining a lot of ground. But one unlikely growth position for cloud gaming comes from Nvidia, whose recent GRID card is allowing them to strike a deal with Gaikai...

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Brazilian Clothing Store Hangers Feature Unusual Measure To Tell Customers...

Not many know this, but I got my bachelor’s degree in marketing. And I only wish I’d thought of this first, because as a marketing tool, it’s an absolute masterpiece. C&A stores in Brazil have...

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HBO Go To Hit Xbox 360 & Roku Systems Today, Says Time Warner [HBO Go Should...

Microsoft’s ambitions to make the Xbox 360 a paywall-laden home entertainment experience carry on apace, and though I know we literally just said that eight days ago, they’re still carrying on with the...

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Aaron Sorkin Details Steve Jobs Biopic Progress, Reveals Steve Wozniak...

Apple fans are probably well aware by now that Steve Jobs, the late co-founder and former CEO of the company, will be the subject of not one but two distinct motion pictures. One of them is an...

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‘jOBS’ Biopic Starring Ashton Kutcher to Film In Steve Jobs Childhood Home...

Yesterday, a Reuters report revealed some of Aaron Sorkin’s writing plans for the official Sony Steve Jobs project, and today we’re looking at a full press release from that independent movie studio...

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$15 Billion Privacy Class Action Targets Facebook on IPO Day [Facebook Gets...

Today was supposed to be a glorious day for Facebook, the day the company finally went public. Facebook’s IPO was scheduled for Friday, May 18, and while the company managed to raise a bucketload of...

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YouTube Turns Seven, Posts New Milestone [YouTube Celebrates Its Seventh...

YouTube today celebrated its seventh anniversary, and in the process, released an alarming new statistic about use. Of course, there were also some substantial other statistics that could be drawn from...

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Hulu Looks To Add New Original Show To Summer Lineup From A Familiar Name...

Hulu’s got some big plans for summer, so your own summer plans may want to change to reflect this. There’s already plenty to watch on Hulu, and they’ve got it in mind to bring out some more new stuff...

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Roku Gives Access To Dish Network Programming Without A Dish, With A Catch...

Roku, one of the primary competitors out there in the set-top box stakes, is bringing you a little something extra in its programming lineup. But this delightful extra offering of international...

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FCC’s Plans For A “Backdoor Rule” May Give Hulu, Netflix An Edge [With...

Interesting news emerges this morning, folks, as a report from the FCC may well be some terrific news for streaming services like Netflix and Hulu. The FCC is considering the institution of a “backdoor...

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Gigabit Squared Plans To Bring Gigabit Fiber Networks To Ohio [New Ohio...

Boy, what a difference a year makes, huh? Seems like only about last year around this time we were talking about Google’s attempts to bring gigabit fiber internet service to the masses, at least,...

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Apple Employees With Restricted Stock Units Get Dividends, But Not Tim Cook...

One of the things Tim Cook changed when after becoming Apple’s CEO was the company’s policy on dividend payments. Under Steve Jobs Apple did not pay dividends to stock holders for quite a while even...

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Google Bar Tweaks Make Things Easier For Those With Multiple Google+ Pages...

Sometimes the big changes and new features are the most exciting, but on the flip side, sometimes it is the small additions and tweaks that arrive as the most welcomed. Granted, the smaller tweaks are...

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Bing Maps Gets Live Traffic & Geocoding Courtesy Of Nokia [Nokia Maps Traffic...

The Microsoft and Nokia partnership is nothing new, in fact we have seen quite a bit from that partnership with Windows Phone. And well, it looks like that partnership has moved beyond phones. In this...

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BBC iPlayer System To Hit New Venue In Coming Weeks, Say Reports [The BBC's...

For those of you out there with BBC iPlayer on one device or another, you’re probably enjoying it. There’s quite a bit of good material on the BBC, especially stuff like Top Gear and Doctor Who. Hard...

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Netflix’s Impact On Studios Unclear [At The 2012 Cable Show, Netflix's Chief...

These days, when people think about home entertainment providers, their thoughts are a lot more likely than they used to be to turn to the Internet. And while Netflix may not be front and center on...

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Facebook to Buy Opera & Turn It Into Its Own Facebook Browser? [New Report...

Watch out, Google, as Facebook may soon join you in the current browser wars, and that’s not something you want, is it? The word on the street is that the Social Network is interested in acquiring...

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jOBS Movie Project Moves On, Casting Call Posted on Craigslist [Ashton...

Steve Jobs fans already know by now that there are two distinct movies based on his life in production. Sony, which purchased movie rights for Walter Isaacson’s official Jobs biography and hired Aaron...

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