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Boxee Beta Set For December 7th Private Trial Release
Boxee Beta Set For December 7th Private Trial Release
Boxee has officially been announced for a private beta release on December 7th 2009. The program is capable of streaming TV and movies to HDTV's with a remote content option much like those featured on Hulu and ... Read >
Game Boy inducted into National Toy Hall of Fame

Game Boy inducted into National Toy Hall of Fame

Over the past eleven years, The Strong Museum of Play has been busy establishing a National Toy Hall of Fame, to help us remember exactly ... Read >


And here you thought your home theater was ‘da bomb’

And here you thought your home theater was ‘da bomb’

As more and more of us are rejecting the sometimes horrific experience of going out to the theater to watch movies many people are deciding ... Read >


Verizon Wireless Announces Prepaid Data Plans With USB760 Modem

Verizon Wireless Announces Prepaid Data Plans With USB760 Modem

Verizon Wireless today announced new prepaid data plans that they hope will help draw in new customers looking for a simple plug and play cellular ... Read >


Gamers jumping ship from Xbox 360 to PS3, says analyst

Gamers jumping ship from Xbox 360 to PS3, says analyst

Games industry analyst Nick Williams believes that more and more gamers are planning to switch from Xbox 360 to PS3 over the coming Holiday season. Williams ... Read >


Valve: Brits are too quiet in online games

Valve: Brits are too quiet in online games

A recent CVG interview with Valve produced an interesting comment regarding online gaming etiquette: apparently, British gamers are "notorious non-talkers." Valve's Chet Faliszek has urged British ... Read >


Sony Updates VAIO P Line With Windows 7, New Atom Processors

Sony Updates VAIO P Line With Windows 7, New Atom Processors

The ultra-high end Sony Vaio P netbook line has just been updated in the US with Windows 7, including both Home Premium and Professional options, ... Read >


Google’s Sesame Street Celebration Continues- but isn’t Cookie Monster now Veggie Monster?

Google’s Sesame Street Celebration Continues- but isn’t Cookie Monster now Veggie Monster?

Google updated the Google Doodle again today, continuing the celebration of Sesame Street's 40th anniversary with a logo featuring Cookie Monster. The sight of the familiar ... Read >


The Spin Fails Here: Day One At #Media140 Sydney

At the last minute I made the decision to fly up to Sydney to attend Australia's first Media140 conference. I mostly needed a break away ... Read >


Verizon Gets Blackberry Curve 8530 On November 20th, $99 Price

Verizon Gets Blackberry Curve 8530 On November 20th, $99 Price

The Blackberry Curve 8530 is set to be released by Verizon Wireless on November 20th, adding to the slew of new devices the company plans ... Read >


ViewSonic VMP70 Media Player Is Less Than $100 Even With 1080P Output

ViewSonic VMP70 Media Player Is Less Than $100 Even With 1080P Output

The ViewSonic VMP70 Media Player is yet another box in the quickly becoming crowded world of "direct connect" media players, however it does have have ... Read >


No Doubt suing Activision over ‘Band Hero’ appearance

No Doubt suing Activision over ‘Band Hero’ appearance

Californian band No Doubt appears in Band Hero, the latest entry in Activision's long line of Hero videogames. However, all is not well in the ... Read >


Modern Warfare 2 predictably smashes pre-order records

Modern Warfare 2 predictably smashes pre-order records

Modern Warfare 2 drops in stores next week, and is set to be the BIGGEST GAME EVAR. Okay, you probably hear that a lot, but for once, ... Read >


800 to be Cut In New Round of Microsoft Layoffs

800 to be Cut In New Round of Microsoft Layoffs

Microsoft employees got an unwelcome surprised this morning when the computing giant launched a refresh round of layoffs. 800 positions across Microsoft's global workforce will be ... Read >


Open Mobile Summit: T-Mobile Discusses Continued Investment In Google Android

Open Mobile Summit: T-Mobile Discusses Continued Investment In Google Android

T-Mobile USA Chief Technology and Innovation Officer Cole Brodman spoke at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco today and he focused his message on ... Read >


Another brilliantly stupid idea of Twitter Lists – Country Lists

Another brilliantly stupid idea of Twitter Lists – Country Lists

It has only be a few days since the roll out of the Twitter Lists and while most of the social media mavens are getting ... Read >


$199 XBox 360 Arriving At WalMart For One Day Only With $100 Giftcard Purchase

$199 XBox 360 Arriving At WalMart For One Day Only With $100 Giftcard Purchase

Oh Walmart how we love your ridiculous electronics sales, especially when they blow away the competition with such ridiculous offers as the $199 Microsoft Xbox ... Read >


Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina Launches Senate Bid

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina Launches Senate Bid

San Diego, CA (AHN) - Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO who served as campaign adviser to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in last year's presidential ... Read >


Amazon to help you be a spammer while painting a bullseye for the FTC

Amazon to help you be a spammer while painting a bullseye for the FTC

One of the big topics today that I have picked up from my morning reading is the news that Amazon is going to help you ... Read >


Black Friday Comes Early For Sharp HDTV Buyers Thanks To WalMart

Black Friday Comes Early For Sharp HDTV Buyers Thanks To WalMart

Black Friday 2009 falls on Friday November 27th this year, unfortunately for many retail locations WalMart didn't get that memo, instead they're offering the 42" ... Read >


ATI TV Wonder USB Digital HDTV Tuner For $19.99

ATI TV Wonder USB Digital HDTV Tuner For $19.99

Forget Black Friday Deals, Woot is currently selling the ATI TV Wonder USB Digital HDTV Tuner for a very low price of $19.99. With this ... Read >


Chinese MMO will check your gender for you
Chinese MMO will check your gender for you
Chinese MMO King of the World has introduced a new Gender Identity System in a bid to stop male players playing as female characters, or vice versa. According to MMOsite, the game will use a webcam to ... Read >
It’s a see-through future according to Microsoft
It’s a see-through future according to Microsoft
Back in July Microsoft made some waves in the tech blogosphere with its video that showed what they thought computing might be like come 2019. Well that old story looks like it might just have been the ... Read >
Brian May had hair demands for LEGO: Rock Band
Brian May had hair demands for LEGO: Rock Band
Queen guitarist Brian May had only one demand when signing up for LEGO Rock Band (aside from receiving a stack of money): that developer Traveller's Tales get his famous perm right. As you can see above, they got ... Read >
Admit it guys, women are better at troubleshooting gadget problems than you are
Admit it guys, women are better at troubleshooting gadget problems than you are
A U.K. tech and gadget help line, appropriately called Gadget Helpline, did a study of 75,000 calls to their service recently and found that there's a huge gender gap in how men and women approach problems they're ... Read >
Would you spend $30 on an app to decode your baby’s cries?
Would you spend $30 on an app to decode your baby’s cries?
This kind of seems like one of those things that sounds crucial when you're expecting a baby, but after five minutes with an actual baby, you realize it's probably totally pointless. If you've ever dealt with more than ... Read >
Repeat after Nintendo: there is no Wii HD
Repeat after Nintendo: there is no Wii HD
Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime has, once again, categorically denied that Nintendo is planning a high-definition version of its Wii console. The Wii HD rumor has been doing the rounds for what feels like about 643 years ... Read >
Early Windows 7 Sales Eclipes Vista By 234%
Early Windows 7 Sales Eclipes Vista By 234%
The NPD Group have released early numbers for Windows 7 sales and they show that the new operating system is performing over two times better than the companies last OS, Windows Vista. Those numbers according to the ... Read >
Could Facebook breath new life into Instant Messengers?
Could Facebook breath new life into Instant Messengers?
For as long as I have had a connection to the Web and the very first instant messenger, formerly known as ICQ, I have had an IM window open on one of my monitors. Whether it be ... Read >
Age May Not Weary Them, But Do The Years Condemn The Old To Media Negativity? #Media140
Age May Not Weary Them, But Do The Years Condemn The Old To Media Negativity? #Media140
Among the doomsayers and Luddites at Sydney's Media140 conference (see my earlier review here) this week there were some positive people, some on stage, but more again in the audience. Without the benefit of actually undertaking a ... Read >
LG GW620 “Eve” Arrives In Canada Through Way Of Rogers
LG GW620 “Eve” Arrives In Canada Through Way Of Rogers
The LG GW620 may not be getting the press received by the Motorola Droid or for that matter even the HTC Droid Eris, but it's still a great Google Android based Smartphone and with it's Qwerty keyboard ... Read >