Netflix—er, Qwikster, wants you to stick around as a DVD-by-mail subscriber and, as Conan O’Brien has discovered, it’ll do just about anything short of reverting back to the original pricing structure to get you to stay.
Remember back in the day when you listened to Pandora and hit your 40-hour listening limit?
I’d say no, not really the smallest, not if we’re counting pinhole cameras and all the geeky spy-angled gadgets that’ve been circulating for years. But judging based on general, non-specialty use, I suppose the answer’s “close enough.”
The New York Times has published a stunning takedown of HP’s board of directors, accusing the board of being “rife with animosities, suspicion, distrust, personal ambitions and jockeying for power that rendered it nearly dysfunctional.”
Today at 1pm Eastern, Facebook will be making a big announcement at its “f8″ developer conference. We’ll be covering the event and will relay the official news after all the dust has settled.
Forget the loss of Starz for a couple of seconds. I know it hurts, but at least consider that Netflix has signed the Discovery network on for at least two years of streaming content before you drop your subscription.
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt testified today before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee, making the case not only that Google is not evil, but also that it’s not Microsoft.
Former Vice President Al Gore apparently forgot that Apple board members aren’t supposed to talk about unreleased Apple products. Either that, or he figured word wouldn’t travel very quickly from South Africa.
There’s no shortage of writing apps for the iPad: Take accessibility-angled options like Evernote (free) that allow users to add tags and keep everything organized, or more robust packages like Pages ($9.99) allowing for rich formatting and picture embeds. But the productivity app I’ve come to like the most is Clean Writer, which is currently on sale [...]
Internet retail giant Amazon.com is facing outcry over the revelation that workers at one of its warehouses had to be carried out by paramedics this summer after working in a closed-door environment that reached 115 degrees.
The most fully-baked thing about Logitech’s Revue Google TV box from last year wasn’t the Google TV part. It was Harmony Link, Logitech’s technology, drawn from its venerable Harmony line of universal remotes, for controlling an entertainment center full of gadgets from one remote. Now Logitech is readying a stand-alone Harmony Link that lets you [...]
