It sounds like something from a futuristic thriller: police pick up spent bullet shells, find a tiny code on them that reveals what gun they were shot from and then use the ID to track down the killer. The technology to do this, …
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Suggested New Movement: ‘Cord Trimming’
Critics say a pay TV business that regularly charges its customers $100 a month is doomed. OK, so how about a cable bill that costs less than $40?
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Microsoft’s Kinect NUads Will Be Even More in Your Face (Perhaps for the Better)
When I think about online commercials and embedded spots and advertising in general, I imagine Malcolm McDowell strapped into a chair, his eyes pried open.
I think about volume jacking — TV ads that suddenly blare from my …
We Are Watching the Reinvention of Microsoft
Its not every day that we get to watch a company that helped make personal computing a reality reinvent itself. Yet that is exactly what we are watching as Microsoft inches closer to one of its biggest operating system launches …
The New Math on Smartphone Plans and Providers
Considering the huge range in prices, as well as the recent changes in plans and providers in the marketplace, it’s time to at least start thinking about switching wireless services.
Samsung Series 5 550 Review: The Case for Google’s New Chromebook
Why buy a laptop that runs nothing but a web browser, when you could buy a laptop that runs everything? That’s the question that comes up in pretty much every debate about Chromebooks — a series of stripped-down laptops that …
Google+ Has a Games Problem
Long before the launch of Google+, there was a recurring rumor that Google would get into social games in a big way. The company invested more than $100 million in Zynga, and was reportedly planning to use games as an anchor …
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Let’s Hope Microsoft’s Kindle Fire Competitor–Assuming It Exists–Isn’t a Kin
We still don’t know what Microsoft is going to announce tomorrow at its event, shrouded in carefully-orchestrated mystery, in Los Angeles. (I’ll be there to provide live coverage here on TIME.com, and I hope you’ll join …
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L.A. Confidential: Live Coverage of Microsoft’s Mystery Event
It may be the most cryptic invitation I’ve ever received to anything. The Microsoft e-mail asked me to come to an event in Los Angeles on Monday, saying it was “major” and informing me that I didn’t want to miss it. But it didn’t …
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I Visit the U.S. Open: A Day of Golf, and No Tech
I can’t claim to be a serious golf fan–or, really, a golf fan at all–but for the past four years, I’ve been looking forward to attending this year’s U.S. Open at San Francisco‘s historic Olympic Club.
That’s because my wife …
Can HDTV Behemoth Vizio Chart a Similar Course with Its New PCs?
The first TV I ever bought was from Vizio. I was fresh out of college and the relatively young company offered me exactly what I was looking for — an attractive HDTV that I could actually afford.
To go from a brand-new …