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  • Comcast Brings Xfinity TV App to Android-Powered Mobile Devices

    Posted on March 1, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Kudos to ESPN’s World Cup live stream

    Kudos to ESPN’s World Cup live stream

    Posted on June 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Here's a slight update to my World Cup "all you need to know" post from yesterday. I completely forgot to mention that ESPN3.com is streaming all the games live and totally for free. No need to mess around with shady P2P streams.

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  • Daily Crunch: Myth Takes Edition

    Daily Crunch: Myth Takes Edition

    Posted on May 13, 2010 | No Comments
    Steam for OS X is available right now Steam offers Portal for free until the 24th: The first hit is free Irony: Did Rockstar upload a pirated version of Max Payne 2 to Steam? Comcast’s new iPad remote app looks pretty solid Those Sony Alpha NEXs (NEXes?) are available for pre-order, by the way

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  • Good news: Comcast will have ESPN 3D in time for the World Cup

    Good news: Comcast will have ESPN 3D in time for the World Cup

    Posted on May 12, 2010 | No Comments
    Comcast, America's worst company, just announced that it will have indeed have ESPN 3D in time for this year's World Cup. Comcast is the first cable provider to commit to carrying the network (while DirecTV announced the same thing several weeks ago).

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  • Bungie signs 10-year deal with Activision (cue explosion sounds)

    Bungie signs 10-year deal with Activision (cue explosion sounds)

    Posted on April 29, 2010 | No Comments
    Infinity Ward? What's that? Activision just snagged Bungie, of Halo fame, to a ten-year deal. Silver lining: the Sun will run out of hydrogen in about 5 billion years.

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  • Sony turning to Intel chips and Android to revitalize TV sales

    Sony turning to Intel chips and Android to revitalize TV sales

    Posted on April 29, 2010 | No Comments
    Look out, Sony is actually trying something new and might announce Intel Atom-powered TVs next month at Google I/O 2010. A new Android released dubbed Dragonpoint is said to run on these TVs and will be just the beginning of Sony's venture into the so-called Smart TV market. The report comes from Bloomberg who sources two people familiar with the matter. The timing is certainly right. Sony hasn't been in the top TV spot for years, constantly losing marketshare to others like Samsung, LG, and even Vizio. Something needs to be done and so Sony is said to be testing a whole line of home entertainment devices that will bring the wonders of the Internet to TVs and Blu-ray players through Android. Logitech is even said to be in on the venture and will contribute a wireless keyboard that will work as a remote. But as sweet as an Android TV sounds, it might not be the right solution -- at least not for the North American market. This could either be a huge win or a fail whale.

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  • South Korea imposes midnight gaming ban to prevent addiction

    South Korea imposes midnight gaming ban to prevent addiction

    Posted on April 12, 2010 | No Comments
    The South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism doesn't want the country's youth becoming addicted to video games, particularly MMOs, so it's imposing a ban of sorts. Starting in the second half of this year, underage gamers will find their Internet connections disabled for six hours every night, either from midnight to 6am, 1am to 7am, or 2am to 8am. The idea is to ween kids off these games, by hook or by crook, before they become addicted. Gotta start somewhere, I suppose.

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  • Federal Court Tells FCC It Does Not Have Authority To Enforce Net Neutrality

    Federal Court Tells FCC It Does Not Have Authority To Enforce Net Neutrality

    Posted on April 6, 2010 | No Comments
    This morning, the U.S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia dealt the FCC a major blow in its drive to impose net neutrality on the nation’s broadband providers. A panel of three judges ruled that the FCC did not have the authority to order Comcast to slow down BitTorrent traffic, and, more, broadly, that the FCC does not have the authority to enforce net neutrality. The case started as a result of Comcast selectively slowing down certain types of traffic in 2007 — namely, BitTorrent — leading the FCC to order Comcast to stop the practice. Comcast challenged the order, claiming that the FCC didn’t have the authority to mandate net neutrality policy. Today’s ruling affirms Comcast’s stance. This will strike a blow to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s recently released broadband plan, but it was not entirely unexpected, and the FCC can still fight back.

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  • Nobody wants the NBCU-Comcast merger to go down

    Nobody wants the NBCU-Comcast merger to go down

    Posted on April 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Looks like nobody in the TV industry wants the NBCU-Comcast merger to go down. And who could blame them! ABC, CBS, and Fox affiliates are afraid that, if the merger goes down, it'll cause the clouds to darken and the streets to run red with the blood of something or other. Basically, they're scared that the merger will put the in a very bad position indeed.

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  • EA fellow bitten by his own company’s DRM in Command and Conquer 4, questions the sense of it all

    EA fellow bitten by his own company’s DRM in Command and Conquer 4, questions the sense of it all

    Posted on March 24, 2010 | No Comments
    Jeff Green used to work at Games For Windows magazine before taking a sweet gig at EA, but that little fact won't silence his criticism of the DRM found in Command and Conquer 4. He tweeted white-hot rage when, as everyone on the Internet predicted, this "always-on" nonsense worked as intended, and prevented a law-abiding citizen from playing his game.

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  • Verizon launching 3D on FiOS when it makes sense and not just because

    Verizon launching 3D on FiOS when it makes sense and not just because

    Posted on March 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Amen, Verizon. Amen. Read this bit from Verizon’s statement on 3D. Verizon’s network can easily handle the 3D signal, and we are committed to having a 3D offering later this year, surely in time for the holiday tech buying season, when the penetration of 3D-ready sets increases.  Just as we did with HD, we’ll bring the [...]

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  • Sony’s tryin’ real hard to bring us the World Cup in 3D. Oh, and Messi is the best player on the planet. Fact.

    Sony’s tryin’ real hard to bring us the World Cup in 3D. Oh, and Messi is the best player on the planet. Fact.

    Posted on March 22, 2010 | No Comments

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  • Comcast to begin 100 mbps residential broadband this year

    Comcast to begin 100 mbps residential broadband this year

    Posted on March 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Kudos to Comcast for embracing the year 2009. The nation's largest—and quite possibly worst—ISP has finally committed itself to deploying 100 mbps broadband beginning this year. That will make the FCC happy, what with the loft goals it set with its National Broadband Plan. It's also good news for people who know their way around things like Usenet—taps nose like a spy. Will it be affordable, though?

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  • The Top 15 Brands on the App Store Might Surprise You

    The Top 15 Brands on the App Store Might Surprise You

    Posted on March 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Brands are increasingly prominent on the App Store and Apple tends to love featuring folks like Britney Spears and Coca-Cola on the App Store’s front page. But who’s actually succeeding and which brands have managed to maintain high download numbers? PositionApp, the app that lets you track how iPhone apps are doing on the App Store [...]

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  • Why are people against the FCC’s National Broadband Plan?

    Why are people against the FCC’s National Broadband Plan?

    Posted on March 14, 2010 | No Comments
    Up until a moment ago, this was going to be a standard "newsy" post: the FCC will announce its National Broadband Plan on Tuesday, here's what it's all about. Then I read the comments of a PC World article discussing that very same plan—many people are outraged that the government would muscle its way into the free market! If Americans wanted fast broadband then the market would provide it on its own terms. That, of course, is complete nonsense: plenty of Americans live in one-ISP towns, and if said ISP provides terrible service, well, though cookies, chico. This is America! Love it or leave it~!

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