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Amazon is turning up the heat on Apple and using Apple’s former ally, Pepsi, against them. This coming Super Bowl Sunday, Grammy-winning singer Justin Timberlake will appear in an ad for Pepsi. The commercial kicks off a yearlong $1 billion Pepsi giveaway of music, videos, consumer electronics, and other items sold on Amazon. What Happened To …
Could it be true? Is one of the most traditional news organizations partnering with Kevin Rose's Digg.com? This week CBSNews.com announced that they would be integrating with the social news discovery site Digg.com for their 2008 US Presidential election coverage.
Call me crazy, but when a group of Police officers approach me holding guns and start yelling “Get down on the ground,” I’m gonna listen. This guy… not so much. Watch this clip first from the popular American TV series “Dateline: To Catch A Predator“, then read my explanation. I’ve analyzed this YouTube clip frame …
Yahoo Inc. is touching up its popular online photo-sharing service, Flickr, with free editing tools aimed at the growing number of shutterbugs who want to doctor their digital pictures. The editing software, expected to be introduced late Tuesday in a partnership with Picnik Inc., represents Yahoo’s latest attempt to broaden Flickr’s appeal as the Sunnyvale-based …
Westminster City launched "SatLav" - a toilet-finding service for cell phone users. The city hopes it will help decrease public urination incidents.
UPDATE: YouTube has reworked their site again in response to this article. They absolutely hate us. If you get an error when trying to download a YouTube video, please try some of the plug-ins and scripts listed in step #3. YouTube.com is a great resource. Not many sites allows users to freely upload, view, and …
NBC picks up the web series Quarterlife for their primetime broadcast schedule.
Someone thought it would be a good idea to model their home theater after the Enterprise NCC-1701D from the 1960s Star Trek spinoff, Star Trek: The Next Generation. The result is super geeky, but actually rather cool. Named the best theme theater installation at CEDIA 2007, this Palm Beach County, FL home features motion-activated air-lock …
This morning The Wall Street Journal announced a new program that will enable its users to submit WSJ.com articles to Digg.com. This will also allow Digg users to view content previously only available to WSJ.com subscribers. Coincidentally, this news comes around the same time Rupert Murdoch suggested that he might take down the Wall Street …
Bebo is offering publishers yet another way to reach young audiences. The company launched an ambitious Open Media platform with 22 major content partners and promised to create more interactive programming following the success of Kate Modern, the sequel series to lonelygirl15.
Antarctica is a huge desert. Even though it’s one of the coldest and windiest places on earth (average temp is -56º F), it has little or no precipitation, which classifies it as a desert. However there’s hidden plant and animal life that draws the attention of thousands of scientists every year, and interestingly enough, NBC’s …
The U2 frontman sits down for RollingStone’s 40th anniversary to talk about the future, the Buzzcocks and reasons to compromise. What is your most cynical vision of the future?That’s a good one. I’m genuinely excited about the future, but it’s clear that there’s jeopardy. I don’t know if you’ve read Martin Amis’ short-story collection Einstein’s …
The TODAY Show's Ann Curry and Matt Lauer will broadcast live from Antarctica and the North Pole at the same time in a segment called The Ends of the Earth. This will be the first live simultaneous broadcast in history from the top and bottom of the globe.
Tired of Facebook? Got some bad blood you need to vent online? Then embrace your hate and say hello to Hatebook. Hatebook is a Facebook parody site that looks and functions exactly like Facebook… except with an evil twist. Here’s a brief list of the “evil twist” to give you a better idea of how …
Terrible Star Wars trumpet solo at a Nebraska beauty pageant. Apparently, Stacy has been practicing on the wrong instrument.
Matt Lauer and Al Roker are taking the show on the road. They’ll broadcast live from Chicago on Monday, according to a press release from NBC O&O WMAQ-TV. On tap for the program is Lauer’s exclusive interview with Judge Joan Lefkow, whose husband and mother were murdered in 2005 by a man upset with Lefkow …
As a kid Tom Lawton wanted to see the wind. As a grown-up he wants to design cool stuff (like a 360° digital camera) These visions combine in his Firewinder Mini. It’s a 100% wind-powered outdoor light. Although it doesn’t generate practical task lighting it certainly seems to create an unusual atmospheric ambience. When wind …
