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American networks might not want to play ball in the U.S., but that isn’t stopping Google from pursuing its television dreams—it just means that other countries may experience the ideal Google TV dream even as the U.S. version languishes in the background, unloved.
By the time Hurricane Irene reached Boston, she was but a mere tropical storm. Her reputation as the most ruthless destructress the East Coast would see in decades had been overblown. She whipped through Boston more like a college freshman the first weekend she’d been away from her overprotective parents: Some trees were uprooted, some [...]
Welcome to your weekly hack update, in which a major company admits its perimeter was breached and someone made off with piles of sensitive data. In this installment: Nokia, the Finland-headquartered mobile device manufacturer, and their online development community.
Apple will buck the trend of bigger screens in the iPhone 5, either sticking with a 3.5-inch display or a slightly larger 3.7-inch screen according to the latest rumor.
How long will Apple’s Tim Cook sit on Apple’s CEO throne? Probably through the midpoint of 2021, according to the board of directors, who made the move last Friday to lock Cook in with one million shares of restricted company stock. Half of those shares are scheduled to vest between August 24, 2016 and August [...]
The New York Post’s Garett Sloane is reporting that a source tells him that Amazon.com will start selling an Android tablet for “hundreds less” than the $499 iPad in late September or October. “Hundreds less?” That’s both a specific claim and a vague one.
Was that a photo of Irene approaching North Carolina? New York? No, that was actually from a storm from somewhere in Pensacola, Fla. from a couple of weeks ago.
Here’s a shocker for you: Newt Gingrich probably didn’t pad his Twitter follower list with fictitious accounts. And, to make matters weirder, the reason that people thought that he had is the same reason why even Twitter isn’t sure how many users it actually has: inactive users.
Google Plus added a new “ignore” feature to grant you further control of your privacy. Ostensibly, it’ll be for users you still want interacting with your content, but who you don’t want to see popping up in your stream all the time. Think of it as a less intense version of the “block” feature.
You know what they say about tech rumors: If you repeat them for long enough, eventually they’ll come true. The Wall Street Journal is doing its share of repeating with a rumor on Apple’s subscription television plans, which have been coming together in whispers for years.
