One thing that people seem to have missed in all the hubbub over Microsoft saying that it’ll stop doing keynotes at the Consumer Electronics Show after 2012: Doing a CES keynote isn’t exactly a singular honor.
In fact, …
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The Airing of Grievances (Day Five)
Klout
According to Klout, I am influential in the topic of “Hurricanes,” which is funny because I don’t remember getting my degree in meteorology or ever experiencing a hurricane in my life. I assumed it was because I …
iPhone Case Gift Guide: A Case to Suit Any Personality
YouTube Lets It Snow with Special Holiday Snowflake Button
Have you ever seen a cat play the piano? Ah, but have you ever seen a cat play the piano covered with snow? Yes, YouTube is jumping on the holiday functionality bandwagon with its new snow button, which makes snowflakes fall from …
Facebook Changing International Privacy Policies Following E.U. Review
Facebook users outside of the U.S., you can breathe a little easier: The social media giant has been told that it can no longer indefinitely keep data about which ads you’ve been clicking on, and it’ll have to think twice about …
Steve Jobs Will Receive Posthumous Grammy
Following his death in October, Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs received a host of tributes and plaudits, but come February, he’s going to get one more: a posthumous Grammy Award.
Jobs will receive a Trustee Award for his …
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After AT&T-T-Mobile, Are Verizon’s Cable Spectrum Deals on the Chopping Block?
Move over AT&T and T-Mobile, you may have company: Arch-rival Verizon Wireless is said to be under the U.S Justice Department microscope, specifically the DOJ’s antitrust division, for recent spectrum deals struck with cable …
Science Proves Twitter Really Has Become More Sad Since 2009
Well, this is depressing: A team of scientists from the University of Vermont appears to have proven via the judicious use of Twitter that people have been gradually growing more and more unhappy over the last three …
The Airing of Grievances (Day Four)
Drive-By Commenters
Look, we know you’re angry, anonymous commenter X, but here’s the thing: We don’t know why. We know it’s not because we said something you disagreed with. Not really. Sure, that’s what got you to sign …
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A Few New Year’s Resolutions for Tech Companies
Constructive advice for HP, Google, Netflix and RIM–because hey, nobody’s perfect.
Google Maps Easter Egg: ‘One Does Not Simply Walk Into Mordor’
Are you as excited about the new The Hobbit trailer as we are? Sure, it looks exactly like all of the other The Lord of the Rings films and Peter Jackson seems to be going kind of heavy (pardon the pun) on the dwarf physical …