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  • Google setting up music store later this year, looking for search and Android synergy

    Google setting up music store later this year, looking for search and Android synergy

    Posted on June 22, 2010 | No Comments
    Remember that chart that pointed out the differences between Google, Apple and Microsoft? Well, it's looking increasingly like Google is intent on filling any and all gaps in its portfolio. Those good old unnamed sources have been talking, originally to CNET last week and to the Wall Street Journal today, and disclosing Google's supposed intent to introduce its very own music store. This would initially encompass a web store where you can stream or download tracks, with a search tie-in that'll get your money into Google's pocket in the fastest possible way. Subsequent plans are said to include Android integration in 2011 -- something that Google rather nonchalantly demoed at its I/O conference last month. Of course, none of this is as yet confirmed, but it looks like Apple and Google will be competing across yet another front -- hold on tight.

    Google setting up music store later this year, looking for search and Android synergy originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • FoxSoccer.tv learns that Web sites work best when they’re actually online

    FoxSoccer.tv learns that Web sites work best when they’re actually online

    Posted on April 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Call me crazy, but Web sites usually work best when they're online. Nobody knows this better than we do here at CrunchGear, where the site is down a good 20 percent of the time. But at the very least you're not paying for our crummy service, unlike the poor FoxSoccer.tv customers. Fox wants $45 per season for online access to a whole host of content, including live games from all over the world. It's really not a bad service when it works, but when it doesn't work people freak out, and rightfully so.

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  • Popular Science archives are now online

    Popular Science archives are now online

    Posted on March 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Back in the old days, when people got their tech news from stacks of paper stapled together called "magazines," Popular Science was a nerd's dream. It was full of all sorts of exciting things, had less nudity in it than Omni (Note: This is not a good thing but your parents would buy it for you), and let you dream of jet packs. This is not to say that that old stalwart PopSci isn't still around, but back in the old days it was our only lifeline to the world of high tech.

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  • The Mobile Mobile is a magnificent and melodious module of merriment

    The Mobile Mobile is a magnificent and melodious module of merriment

    Posted on December 24, 2009 | No Comments
    Faced with an agency-wide phone upgrade that left fifty older HTC devices homeless, UK-based Lost Boys International decided to act on instinct in the most natural of ways: by turning each device into a cog in a musical mobile that hangs just inside the entrance of its Brick Lane studio. Even better, all those phones are connected in a way that turns each one into a member of some crazy techno orchestra, the results of which can be seen after the break in an unbelievably fun rendition of a Christmas song you're bound to hear a dozen more times today. If that's not enough, you can also control it live, thanks to a webcam and a flash interface that accepts keyboard commands. LBi Creative Director James Théophane has the project chronicled if you want the full details, but more importantly, just make sure you experience the holiday choral after the break.

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    The Mobile Mobile is a magnificent and melodious module of merriment originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Survey: 13 percent of teens have posted nude photos of themselves online

    Survey: 13 percent of teens have posted nude photos of themselves online

    Posted on August 10, 2009 | No Comments
    A new poll, conducted by Common Sense Media, suggests that teens are complete idiots when it comes to comporting themselves online. A whopping 13 percent of teens have posted online nude or semi-nude photos of themselves or someone they know. And then some 25 percent of teens have posted something online that they later regretted. You know, drunk photos and the like.

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