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This app, originally released only to testers last month, has finally been pushed up to the Android market. The app will only work with the Logitech Revue set-top box—but it allows control via your WiFi home network and knocks you down one …
Cable Television Disagreement Catches Internet Viewers as Collateral Damage
It looks like television programmers and distributors are going to war–and as they pulled on their helmets and manned the artillery, it’s Internet TV watchers who are getting shelled in the crossfire. The worst part of this action seems to be that …
Yes, We’re Addicted to Conan O’Brien and Team Coco as they Take Over the Web
It looks like Conan O’Brien’s first guest on his new Team Coco show will be chosen by his fans—he’s crowd sourcing his decision by offering it up to the public in a poll. Ever since joining the social media sphere, he’s been …
EA Acquires Publisher Chillingo of Angry Birds Fame
It looks like Electronic Arts just slingshot an angry red bird across the landscape and toppled the obstacles between them and Chillingo. I refer, of course, to the extremely famous mobile phone game Angry Birds, a casual puzzle game that involves the …
Steve Jobs Continues to Take Fire: Jim Balsillie of RIM Joins In
While Steve Jobs was making critical comments about Android yesterday, he also took a swing at plans for 7-inch tablet PCs. Announcing with broad strokes that they both wouldn’t make it to market, but that they were bad for the app ecology, …
Xbox.com Gets a Facelift: Additional Features, Enhanced Experience
People who might have attempted to access Xbox.com extremely early this morning would have been greeted with a downtime message. The web page had been taken offline for a short time at 5am EST for its facelift—the Xbox Live service remained unaffected …
Mozilla Labs Details Open Web Applications for Chrome Have-Nots
Mozilla intends to bring to the web what apps brought to the mobile sphere with Open Web Apps—but they also seem to be doing it in response to Google’s announcement that they would open their own Chrome Web Store. They intend to …
All a Twitter: Android Chief Jabs at Steve Jobs, TweetDeck Joins the Fray
Andy Rubin’s long-dormant Twitter account just came to life today, and with it came one of the most geeky snipes I have ever read. His first tweet, the definition of open: “mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init –u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; …
Verizon Entering Tiered Data Plan Market with $15 Capped Data Subscription
The addition of a less costly subscription plan for Internet use by smartphone users by Verizon is likely a response to AT&T’s own similar move. With the explosion of handsets that use the Internet as a matter of course and the recession …
Microsoft Ascending Into the Cloud with Office 365
Microsoft Corp is making a move against Google in the cloud-based office product department by moving away from their usual hybrid on-machine/on-web apps (e.g. Outlook vs Outlook Web) by making the jump with Office 365. The software giant has already started accepting …