Gizmodo |
September 6th, 2008 |
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Tomorrow night at 10PM, Food Network kicks off Alton Brown's latest TV show, Feasting on Waves, where the Mensa-smart kitchen geek and his crew hop into two 50-foot catamarans and sail around 15 different Caribbean islands in search of quality cuisine, shooting and editing the hi-def episodes right there on [...]
Roam4free |
September 6th, 2008 |
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The Techcrunch 50 blur has already begun and buddy Allen Stern (looking forward to meeting him on Monday) has just saved me a ton of time and energy. The usual thing for me is to collect hundreds of business cards, lose some as usual and spend the flight home sending [...]
NewTeeVee |
September 6th, 2008 |
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I've made no secret of the fact that I don't like Comcast. Using their service, my Internet connectivity is slow, my cable is constantly on the fritz, and the interactive program guide is the definition of clunky. But Comcast - I say this through very gritted teeth, indeed - has [...]
I can't remember where exactly I heard of Fancast. Maybe it was those stupid emails Comcast send out to customers every month. Why? Because Fancast is a Comcast joint. So what is it? It's yet another one of these aggregate portals where you can video content from CBS, FOX, NBC, [...]
MediaShift |
September 6th, 2008 |
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"Nowadays it's essential for journalists to blog," says Professor Mary Quigley to a class of 16 NYU journalism students. The class is titled "Reporting Gen Y (a.k.a. Quarterlifers)," and it's one of the few NYU undergrad journalism classes that focuses on new media. I sit in Professor Quigley's class unsure [...]
Poynter |
September 6th, 2008 |
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Por Amy Gahran. (Texto traducido por Paúl Mena) Nosotros vemos que los hábitos noticiosos de las personas están cambiando rápido, pero ¿exactamente cómo están ellos cambiando? ¿Y cómo pueden los periodistas y las organizaciones de noticias adaptarse, o incluso ir delante de la curvatura? RELATED El articulo en ingles: "Pew [...]
m-Trends |
September 6th, 2008 |
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Ajit Jaokar informed me this week at MobileMonday Amsterdam he is organising the Mobile Web Megatrends conference in the Pacific Film Archive Theater, University of California in Berkeley on September 8. If you're in the neighborhood and/or attending CTIA San Francisco, this will definately be an interesting conference looking at [...]
Gizmodo |
September 6th, 2008 |
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Looks like we've got a legit, actual spy shot of the new iPod nano in its packaging (apparently originally posted by MacNN in an obscured form, it looks like it first got clear in this AppleInsider thread). Thankfully, while it confirms everything we've been hearing about it, it's much, much [...]
New York Times |
September 6th, 2008 |
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From showing you the nearest sushi bar in London to telling you how to say “Where’s the toilet?” in Cantonese, travel apps for the iPhone are proving to be a useful tool.[...]
Wired |
September 6th, 2008 |
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Riding a motorcycle while talking on the phone is just plain dumb. But if you really must take that call, Mr. President, please consider a Bluetooth helmet. Some connected headgear can even tie in to your GPS and MP3 player, pausing tunes for directions on long trips. Might we suggest [...]
New York Times |
September 5th, 2008 |
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I don’t know how any of this stuff works, and I don’t want to pay for it. Yet, I am on the brink of buying an iPhone.[...]
Samsung has announced free recycling for all Samsung-branded consumer electronics in all 50 states, beginning October 1. Samsung has just announced its Recycling Direct, a program that will enable consumers in all 50 states to recycle Samsung-branded consumer electronics devices like televisions, monitors, DVD players, home theater systems, cameras, camcorders, [...]
Consumers remain willing to spend money on consumer electronics -- for replacing older units or buying new ones with more advanced technology -- even though most homes already own those same products, according to a new report from The NPD Group. Although 85% of consumers own DVD players and sales [...]
Wired |
September 5th, 2008 |
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A close look at e-mails supposedly sent by Steve Jobs to customers shows inconsistencies that make it likely that some are fakes.[...]
Gizmodo |
September 5th, 2008 |
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Regulars might remember Adam's similar Photoshop contest a few weeks ago, but these amazing oil-on-canvas paintings were lovingly adorned with Macintosh SEs for a Sweden-only ad campaign all they way back in 1987. Erik Saxen produced these original works (inspired by a number of famous artists) for Apple's marketing, but [...]
Romenesko |
September 5th, 2008 |
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PBS MediaShift "Every single journalism class at NYU has required me to bring the bulky newspaper," writes Alana Taylor. "I don't understand why they don't let us access the online version, get our current events news from other outlets, or even use our NYTimes app on the iPhone. Bringing the [...]
Portfolio |
September 5th, 2008 |
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- Samsung is reportedly considering acquiring SanDisk, sending its shares up to an eight-year high. [Bloomberg]- Apple analyst Shaw Wu is warning that Apple's upcoming "Let's Rock" event could be underwhelming. [AppleInsider]- Web video company Joost is ditching its desktop client in favor of a browser only format. [GigaOm]-Sam Gustin [...]
The Street |
September 5th, 2008 |
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Gary Krakow hopes to see these wireless products next week at the big cell-phone show.[...]
Gizmodo |
September 5th, 2008 |
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The professional bullshit artists and dumbass fleecers over at Monster have devised another way to remove money from the wallets of the ignorant: cleaning sprays. They've released five different sprays for five different types of devices: a camera spray, a cell phone spray, an iPhone spray (Buchanan posits that this [...]
Wireless Week |
September 5th, 2008 |
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An unspecified router glitch on AT&T’s network caused a Web access outage for many Apple iPhone users in the northeastern U.S.[...]
Whenever I go to a conference, I learn a tremendous amount from the people I meet at the show. I really enjoy the impromptu networking which takes place at events as it allows me to learn so much about what is happening in the market. Ironically, I generally learn things [...]
