Lots Of Money Archive

  • Charter Communications: All your streams are belong to us

    Charter Communications: All your streams are belong to us

    Posted on March 17, 2010 | No Comments
    A young man rang Charter Cable to cancel his cable TV connection and maintain his Internet connection. Why? Because cable TV is an anathema to this generation's vision of media consumption and/or it sucks. So he calls Charter and Charter informs him that he has to pay a $10 no-cable fee and he is told that soon Charter and the rest of the cable companies will control all streaming, thereby rendering all streaming media unusable after "May 1."

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  • Pricey massage chair folds into a cube

    Pricey massage chair folds into a cube

    Posted on February 26, 2010 | No Comments
    The Venn diagram that drills down to the target buyer of this $800 chair must be a weird mix of people with lots of money, a tiny apartment, and sore legs. In cube form, the product “serves as an ideal footrest or stores unobtrusively in a closet.”

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  • AT&T to Fake Steve: Go on, punk, make my day

    AT&T to Fake Steve: Go on, punk, make my day

    Posted on December 16, 2009 | No Comments
    It's he said/she said time, where maybe like Fake Steve is the She and maybe like AT&T is the he. So like Fake Steve was all like "Let's send nasty texts about AT&T! And then we'll mess with them on Friday." And then AT&T is all like "No way! Nobody does that to me!" Hilarity ensues!

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  • CrunchGear in China: Seeing Where the Tech Sausage Is Made

    CrunchGear in China: Seeing Where the Tech Sausage Is Made

    Posted on December 2, 2009 | No Comments
    Greetings from sunny Shenzhen, just north of Hong Kong. I’ve spent some time in Asia – at least the tech centers – and have never found a place like this. It’s like Blade Runner meets 1990s Prague meets the end of the world. I’m here to report on what’s going on here in terms of [...]

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  • Contest: Become potent in your segment with Poken

    Contest: Become potent in your segment with Poken

    Posted on October 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Nothing says "I'm a plugged-in, cool guy with lots of money and charm" like a small RFID-capable dongle that you can rub against your friend's RFID dongles to pass pertinent information. With that hypothesis in mind, we've teamed up with Poken to offer 10 CrunchGear branded Poken Pulses for you and your friends. Here's how to win.

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  • Smule sells 300k copies of I Am T-Pain, celebrates with a new song and a huge contest

    Smule sells 300k copies of I Am T-Pain, celebrates with a new song and a huge contest

    Posted on October 1, 2009 | No Comments
    The second we laid eyes on Smule’s autotuning, pitch-changing iPhone app, I Am T-Pain, we knew it was going to be a huge hit – and it has been. We just got some details from Smule’s CEO, Jeff Smith, on how things are going so far. In the first 3 weeks alone, the application [...]

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  • NASA needs $50 billion to reach the Moon by 2020

    NASA needs $50 billion to reach the Moon by 2020

    Posted on August 20, 2009 | No Comments
    Hopefully John Hodgman was correct in calling Obama the first nerd president. If not, humans might not reach the Moon anytime soon because we all know a jock wouldn't fund a science project. The current target is 2020 and the development is already underway of the vehicles needed to get people there. But there is one small issue: Money. NASA needs lots of money.

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