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Kinect for PC
by
John Moe
Jan 4, 2011
Asus has licensed Kinect technology from Microsoft and will debut a version of Kinect to run on PCs. It's called WAVI Xtion (catchy name, guys!)...
Company that makes Rock Band sold for the price of a copy of Rock Band
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John Moe
Jan 4, 2011
$49.99 was all it took for a group of investors to buy the videogame maker Harmonix, makers of the popular, but perhaps not as popular as they used...
3D TVs bomb, smart TVs are the next big thing. Or the next bomb.
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John Moe
Jan 4, 2011
So at last year's CES, 3D TV was the hot item. Tons of new sets got rolled out, the revolution was upon us. But the revolution didn't happen. The...
Please welcome your new Android conqueror.
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John Moe
Jan 3, 2011
Research company Nielsen says 41% of new smartphone buyers in the last six months chose Android phones. That's compared to 27% going with iPhones.
Online airfare dispute deepens - Expedia drops American
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John Moe
Jan 3, 2011
Over the weekend, Expedia just dropped American. This is an escalation from the dispute as it stood last week, when Expedia was burying American...
Wikipedia reaches fundraising goal, creepy Jimmy Wales face to disappear soon
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John Moe
Jan 3, 2011
Wikimedia, the parent company of the online encyclopedia, says it has met its goal of 16 million dollars raised to keep the site commercial free....
Paul Allen renews lawsuit against everyone everywhere for doing everything
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John Moe
Dec 29, 2010
The Microsoft co-founder has been actively suing the following companies for a while now: Apple, Google, Facebook, eBay, AOL, Netflix, Yahoo,...
For public good, not for profit.
Groupon raising 950 million dollars, dominating its category
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John Moe
Dec 29, 2010
Maybe Groupon wasn't quite so dumb to turn down that 6 billion dollar offer from Google a while back. The increasingly popular group coupon site...
AT&T to expand Wi-Fi hotspot coverage
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John Moe
Dec 28, 2010
They had been doing this in dense areas like Times Square for a while but AT&T is now expanding this program to more spots around New York and...
Amazon patents incredibly heartless and useful idea
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John Moe
Dec 28, 2010
Amazon has been awarded a patent for a new way to return unwanted gifts. The current system is pretty cumbersome: you have to repackage the ugly...