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Fun with numbers: For the first time ever, the Super Bowl was legally streamed online here in the U.S. and, according to NBC, over 2.1 million people fired up their web browsers to watch it. Overall web traffic, however, apparently fell by up to 20% during the game.
Calvin, the title character of the very-excellent Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, once remarked to his tiger friend Hobbes, “You can bet when I’m a geezer like Dad, I’ll be going like a maniac.” He had a point.
Behold the future! Take a pile of smartphone parts and stuff them into a pair of somewhat bulky glasses. That’s the idea behind a project Google is reportedly working on right now.
Your tweet near the end of Super Bowl XLVI may have very well been lost amid a sea of other tweets, as Twitter has revealed that 12,233 tweets per second churned through its system “at the end of the game” last night.
Motorola recently provided 6,200 “Xoom” Android tablets to daily deals site W00t.com and of those 6,200 tablets, about 100 of them “may not have been completely cleared of the original owner’s data prior to resale,” the company said in a statement.
Haven’t you heard? Nobody just watches TV anymore — you have to be playing with a smartphone or tablet the whole time. So while you’re “watching” the Super Bowl this year, here’s a list of apps you can use.
A look at life inside Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
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Every season, 32 teams hope to make it to the Super Bowl. In that spirit, here are 32 tech companies from Super Bowl ads over the years. Just like NFL teams, some of these companies have flourished; others haven’t fared nearly as well.
Since the advent of portable electronics, man has been trying to jury-rig portable electronics into automobiles to replace the lowly car stereo. Those days may soon be coming to an end.
As previously reported, President Obama will be holding a Google+ Hangout to field live (albeit pre-selected) questions about last Tuesday’s State of the Union address.
