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Data Porn: What are people buying in your neighborhood?

Data Porn: What are people buying in your neighborhood?

Now you can find out for sure if you're keeping up with the Joneses. "Bundle" is a sophisticated and time-wasting...
 
Publisher cutting books down to 2,000 words and less for the Kindle

Publisher cutting books down to 2,000 words and less for the Kindle

Sure, I love me some e-reading, but the one big downside is that books have too many darn words! Lucky...
 
If online newspapers forced you to pay, would you read them?

If online newspapers forced you to pay, would you read them?

Rupert Murdoch (above, left), CEO and Sith Lord of News Corp (which owns a variety of book, magazine and newspaper...
 
Why the NFL should just stream the Super Bowl already

Why the NFL should just stream the Super Bowl already

Come this Sunday, I'm going to do what most of you are, I imagine: find out which of my friends...
 
'Picture of the Internet' cobbles together games, movies and memes

'Picture of the Internet' cobbles together games, movies and memes

Ever wonder what it would look like if the Internet threw a party? Well, wonder no longer: this is it....
 
NASA plans a major overhaul of its 'space Internet'

NASA plans a major overhaul of its 'space Internet'

A new plan by NASA will see the agency consolidating its Space Network (SN), Near-Earth Network (NEN) and Deep Space...
 
Time machine: Windows 3.1 lives again on the web

Time machine: Windows 3.1 lives again on the web

You whippersnappers won't remember this, but back in the olden days there was once a version of Windows called 3.1....
 
McDonald's expands free Wi-Fi to 11,500 U.S. locations

McDonald's expands free Wi-Fi to 11,500 U.S. locations

Go ahead, get me a nagging weight-loss plate, but I love McDonald's. The gigantic greasemonger just gave us one more...
 
The next movie you rent may be from YouTube

The next movie you rent may be from YouTube

Google wants YouTube to be more than just a way to watch a cat playing piano. In fact, as soon...
 
One-click  payment system on the way to Boxee

One-click payment system on the way to Boxee

Boxee has great things on the way — some we can't tell you about yet — but here's one we...
 
Netgear Stora media server: simple storage for everyone

Netgear Stora media server: simple storage for everyone

Today Netgear unveils the Stora, a media server that enables simple sharing of photos, videos and music over the Web....
 
Skype video calls now in HD, if you have the right stuff

Skype video calls now in HD, if you have the right stuff

On video calls with friends or relatives using free internet calling service Skype, we're dying to see every mole and...
 
Britain to make taxpayers pay $1 billion to catch digital pirates?

Britain to make taxpayers pay $1 billion to catch digital pirates?

The British government's Labour Party proposed the Digital Economy Bill in October, a get-tough policy against copyright infringers that threatens...
 
Networked 'cloud' lets soldiers share info, call in air strikes

Networked 'cloud' lets soldiers share info, call in air strikes

Just the other day we showed you some of the military apps soldiers could take advantage of on their iPhones....
 
Wow: Animated gif files evolve into new artform

Wow: Animated gif files evolve into new artform

We've come a long way since the mid-'90s, when animated .gif graphics files were the first sign that the Internet...
 

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