| Verizon to set up streaming service with Redbox
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 AP - Phone company Verizon Communications Inc. will challenge Netflix and start a video streaming service this year with Redbox and its DVD rental kiosks.
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| Google, Facebook remove content on India's order
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| AP - Google India has removed web pages deemed offensive to Indian political and religious leaders to comply with a court case that has raised censorship fears in the world's largest democracy, media reported Monday. |
| For Facebook 'Hacker Way' is way of life
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 AP - Facebook's billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a hacker.
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| Life under glass: Corning’s vision of the future
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| Yahoo! News - If all the crazy and awesome innovative designs we've seen lately come to fruition, theŕ‚ future is going to be a pretty interesting place. Ifŕ‚ melting buildings aren't your thing though, check out this vision of the future proposed byŕ‚ Corning, makers of … |
| Madonna’s halftime show features glitz, glamor, and controversy
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| Yahoo! News - Unless you've just awoken from a coma or emerged from under a rock, you're probably aware of the rather popularŕ‚ sporting event that was held over the weekend. For those who don't care about the game itself, or theŕ‚ commercials, the halftime … |
| NASA Launches Facebook Game to Test Space Program Knowledge
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| Mashable - How much do you know about the NASA space program, Earthling? |
| Love gone wrong? Go digital to get over an ex
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| AP - You thought you found your one true love online, but now you've been dumped by text or defriended on Facebook without a peep of explanation. Hours of bad TV in your bathrobe haven't helped. Your friends are tired of your whining. |
| Cyberplex unit to pay $4.8 million to Yahoo for poor traffic
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| Reuters - Cyberplex Inc said its debt-laden unit Tsavo Media is required to pay Yahoo Inc $4.8 million for what the U.S. search company called "low quality traffic" from ads on Tsavo-run websites last year. |
| Taiwan smartphone maker HTC sees Q1 revenue lagging
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| Reuters - Taiwan smartphone maker HTC Corp expects to post much lower-than-expected revenue in the first quarter, underscoring analyst views that it will face another weak quarter and an uphill struggle to prove to investors it still retains its innovative touch. |
| Fresh Android Apps for Feb. 6: The Call of Sedona, iDatank, Infected
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| Appolicious - It’s a new week and a new set of fresh Android apps. Find your Zen in The Call of Sedona, explore the dangerous universe with iDatank, and stop spread the disease in INFECTED. |
| As Facebook grows up, it courts Madison Avenue
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| Reuters - About a year ago, when it became clear that taking Facebook Inc public was a matter of when not if, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg went out and poached Caroline Everson, then global advertising head at Microsoft Corp. |
| Android Alternatives to Apple's Siri Personal Assistant
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| ContributorNetwork - When it was announced in October, one of the headline features of Apple's iPhone 4S was Siri, an "intelligent assistant" which answers spoken questions and takes orders given in natural English. It was less like Google's Voice Actions for Android, an app which understands a limited set of specific commands, and more like the computers on Star Trek. |
| Evi attempts to fill Siri void for non-4S users
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| Appolicious - I opted to skip upgrading to iPhone 4S, but that decision cost me access to an app I quite liked: Siri Assistant. With Siri’s much-lauded integration into the 4S, users on aging devices might feel abandoned when it comes to artificial intelligence. Enter Evi; a 99-cent app for iPhone and iPod Touch that aims to fill the void Siri has left. |
| Going mobile: Travel's eventual high-tech future
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| Reuters - Welcome to the airport terminal of the future. |
| TiVo shares appear to be discounted: report
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| Reuters - TiVo Inc is trading at a compelling discount and could be a possible acquisition target by Microsoft or Google, Barron's financial newspaper reported on Sunday. |
| Fresh iPhone Apps for Feb. 6: Vanity Fair Hollywood, Game Your Video, Tank Battalion Blitz, Order Up!! To Go
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| Appolicious - It’s almost time for this year’s Academy Awards, so get primed up for your Oscar ballot with Vanity Fair Hollywood, an app full of information about the nominees so you can make informed picks. After you’re done thinking about the best in Hollywood, you can make videos of your own with effects app Game your Video. In games, we’ve got Tank Battalion Blitz, a top-down tank battling game that includes offline and online multiplayer play. After that, there’s Order Up!! To Go, a time-management restaurant game that uses gesture controls for your cooking. |
| CommVault says will go it alone, despite M&A buzz
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| Reuters - CommVault Systems Inc has managed to skirt rampant consolidation in the fast-growing storage software market, and CEO Bob Hammer is planning to keep it that way. |
| Group seeks to save data on Megaupload servers
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| Reuters - The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Thursday asked federal prosecutors and lawyers for the Megaupload.com file-sharing service to allow users who uploaded material to retrieve it as long as it was not copyrighted material. |
