Live on the East Coast? Well, just because there’s a storm a-comin’, that doesn’t mean you have to wait for it blindly. Here are some ways to keep tabs on Irene.
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The best ways to track Irene using your computer and phone
Posted by admin on August 26, 2011
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Sony now lets you virtually see TVs in your home before you buy
Posted by admin on August 25, 2011
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Do you ever wonder where the best place to put your TV is? Perhaps it’s better to see if that 120-inch set you fantasize about fits your desired space before you go out and buy it. Throw away that measuring tape and those false dreams — augmented…
Time Warner to buy Slingboxes for high-end broadband customers
Posted by admin on August 24, 2011
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If you subscribe to Time Warner’s $99-a-month Wideband internet service, you’ll soon be able to pick up a place-shifting Slingbox for free.
The $300 Slingbox, which lets you watch and control your TV from afar on a laptop or tablet, ha…
MySpace 3.0 will fight iTunes and Spotify later this year
Posted by admin on August 24, 2011
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Why, oh, why won’t MySpace just die already? Does anybody even care about it anymore? After being offloaded earlier this year by News Corp. to Specific Media, the social network where everybody’s first friend was Tom Anderson is getting a reboot —…
Facebook kills off its Places service
Posted by admin on August 24, 2011
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It was only a few of months ago that Facebook unveiled Places, its way of letting you check in to wherever you were, letting all of your Facebook friends know where you were hanging out. And now they’re killing it off.
Essentially, Place…
Google teams up with ESPN to put sports data right in search results
Posted by admin on August 22, 2011
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If you’re looking for info on your favorite sports teams, Google is working with ESPN to make that a bit easier for you. Now, relevant sports info will show up right within the search results.
For example, if you search for Boston Red So…
Fox’s new 8-day delay on streaming shows pushes people to piracy
Posted by admin on August 22, 2011
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Fox has just instituted an eight-day delay between when a new show airs and when it becomes available online through Hulu. And wouldn’t you know it, people would rather just pirate the shows than wait over a week.
Here are the damning st…
Fox, ABC to pull brand new shows off of streaming sites
Posted by admin on August 16, 2011
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If you’ve become accustomed to catching shows like Modern Family and Bob’s Burgers on sites like Hulu the day after they air, well, I’ve got some bad news for you. Fox and ABC are set to start enforcing an eight-day period between when a show airs and …
Obama joins Foursquare, prepares to earn his badges
Posted by admin on August 16, 2011
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Tech-savvy President Obama’s just checked into Foursquare, the location-based social network that shows where a person’s been at. Hope he didn’t feel too old to earn his “Newbie Badge.”
Okay, technically it’s not Obama’s personal Foursq…
U.K. Prime Minister: Riot in London, get banned on Facebook
Posted by admin on August 11, 2011
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During the London riots — and indeed, all around the world — social media is becoming something of a double-edged sword for authorities as it allows dissenters to connect with one another as easily as it lets you share videos of popcorn bei…
