The practice of bundling is under fire, and has been for years. True, à la carte pricing would cost more on a per-channel basis (and relatively speaking), but I’d gladly pay more per channel per month for one or two channels …
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Facebook and Privacy: Imperfect Together
So help me, I like Mark Zuckerberg. I’m glad he invented Facebook in his Harvard dorm back in early 2004 and has devoted himself to it ever since. The world, and my life, are richer for it.
Now Wikipedia’s Brandon Harris Can Follow You Around the Web
Oh Wikipedia programmer Brandon Harris, how we’ve become accustomed to your glaring visage, all but commanding us to donate money to Wikipedia with the wild hair and crazy eyes of a modern day Rasputin. Alas, when we leave …
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Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime Talks Zelda, the Future of Handhelds and Wii’s Big Holiday Push
How Nintendo is looking to finish the holiday season strong before the Wii U premieres next year.
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Set Your Printer on Fire? Hackers Can Do What?
Imagine: Your printer, at rest in your home office as you’re away at work or maybe out shopping. Suddenly it powers up, humming, making that familiar mechanical shuffling sound so many printers emit during startup. But after a …
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Consumers Don’t Care About Windows Tablets? No Problem
Research firm Forrester has conducted a survey that supposedly reveals that consumer interest in Windows-based tablets–once quite high–is now tanking. Forrester is concluding that Microsoft has therefore missed the opportunity to compete strongly with the iPad, since the first serious Windows-based tablets won’t show up until …
TechFast: Facebook and the FTC, AT&T and the FCC, Google’s Facelift
Good morning and happy Wednesday! Here’s what’s going on in tech so far…
Facebook Settles with FTC over Privacy Issues
Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission have worked out a deal to settle charges that the social network “deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then …
Samsung Beats Apple, Gets Galaxy Tab Ban Lifted in Oz
It sounds like Samsung’s singing a happier tune this morning, after an Australian appeals court overturned an Apple-petitioned ban on the sale of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, a ban Apple pursued because it claimed the Galaxy …
Google Maps for Android Adds Indoor Maps of Malls, Airports and Stores
Last weekend, I picked up an airport map, hopelessly lost and wandering around the terminals. If only I had the latest version of Google Maps (and data roaming, but I digress).
In an update to the application for Android, Google is unrolling a new indoor mapping feature that reveals floor plans for airports, shopping malls and other …