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Burger King: Will sacrifice Facebook friends for free Whopper
It looks like Burger King has been reading into the prediction that cutting down on Facebook friends is going to be trendy in 2009. The fast food chain has developed Whopper Sacrifice, a Facebook application that rewards you for doing just that delete 10 of your friends on Facebook, and score a cou …
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Change Chromes channel to get beta features
Release early, release often, thats apparently the creed the Google Chrome team lives by, as it describes today on its blog. To that end, Google is taking a bit of a different approach when it comes to launching new features for its Chrome web browser: Its splitting features up into three different …
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DECE gets some new members for its league of extraordinary DRM still no Apple
The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE), a consortium attempting to set new standards for the transfer and storage of copyrighted digital content, announced that six new members signed on board today at CES. Deluxe, Panasonic Corporation, Samsung, MOD Systems, Sonic Solutions/CinemaNow an …
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Comedy site JibJab raises $7.5 million, no joke
JibJab, the site that spawned original comedy videos and customizable animated greeting cards, has raised $7.5 million in a third round of funding, according to TechCrunch. The site is known for its parodies and original funny shorts, many of them skewering politicians and the government, like 2004s …
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A quad-core iPhone?
Well, the post-Macworld keynote slowdown in Apple rumors lasted a day. Today brings a hot one: A multi-core iPhone. Imagination Technologies is set to announce its PowerVR SGX543, a multi-core graphics processing unit (GPU) tomorrow at CES, according to TG Daily. Apple enthusiasts may recognize the …
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New York Times new API frees congressional data
Ive been quite impressed by The New York Times efforts to expose its data for use in outside web applications. And despite The Gray Ladys apparently dire financial troubles, it continues to release new application programming interfaces, or APIs. The most recent addition is the Congress API, which a …
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Palm wows one crowd for sure: Its investors
While reactions to Palms new Pre device are still trickling in, its already pretty clear that one group liked what Palm offered up at CES today: Its investors. Palms stock is currently up over 30 percent on the day. While it opened the day at $3.36 a share, it currently stands at $4.30 a share. The …
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The new prolific iPhone app developer: Microsoft
For a company whose chief executive laughed off the iPhone when it was first announced, Microsoft is sure making a lot of iPhone applications. The company unveiled another app, Tag Reader [iTunes], at CES today, marking the second time its released an app to Apples App Store in less than a month. Ju …
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Cisco study: U.S. wins TV and mobile-watching world olympics
Cisco Systems has released results from its new Visual Networking Index survey looking at video consumption habits around the world, and some of them may surprise you. Among other things, it gauged peoples attitudes toward online, mobile and television viewing of video content in the U.S., China, Ge …
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Details about Googles layoffs actually, no, none
Rumors circulated late last year that Google was planning to make significant cuts to its temporary workers to cut costs. That definitely did happen, but details remain murky, even after a new regulatory filing showed up this week. Interestingly, Google seems to be going to some lengths to keep some …
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Vain model Googles herself, sues over skanky findings
The internet is serious business. Just ask Canadian ex-model Liskula Cohen, whos suing Google to unmask the individual or individuals behind the blog Skanks in New York, a site hosted by Googles Blogger publishing service. The blog didnt release Cohens social security number, credit card info or hom …
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A hard days night: Norwegian Beatles podcast yanked
The rumors are true, the bird has flown the illegal coop. NRK, the Norwegian public broadcasting company, had to pull all 212 episodes of its podcast Our Daily Beatles last night. The free podcasts, which we discovered on Monday, included anecdotes behind the songs and offered the original Beatles t …
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Who did Apple hurt with its Macworld announcements?
In yesterdays keynote address at Macworld, Apple unveiled a series of software product upgrade that will potentially encroach on the territory of a handful of both startups and larger companies. Should you be worried? What iPhoto might maim For starters, one of the big announcements revolved around …
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Newsflash: Apple has been charging for iTunes Plus upgrades since 2007
Following yesterdays announcement that Apple had reached agreements to convert the entire iTunes library to iTunes Plus format, a format without digital rights management (DRM), some people seem surprised that Apple is charging users 30 cents to upgrade a song. Well guess what? They have been since …
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Netgear introduces more connected entertainment gadgets
Connected entertainment is clearly a big theme at the International Consumer Electronics Show. In that vein, Netgear showed off three products today at its event that make it a lot easier to use the Internet with consumer electronics gear. Its first product was the Netgear Internet TV Player, which …
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If the New York Times dies, does the news die?
The death of an institution isnt far off, writes the Atlantic in an article titled End Times, and with it an entire industry may be preparing to slip underwater. Low on cash, high in debt, the legendary New York Times is reeling from the recession. Theres no guarantee that it, or many others of our …
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Vain model Googles herself; sues over skanky findings
The internet is serious business. Just ask Canadian ex-model Liskula Cohen, whos suing Google to unmask the individual or individuals behind the blog Skanks in New York, a site hosted by Googles Blogger publishing service. The blog didnt release Cohens social security number, credit card info or hom …
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Fair weather fanboys
Apples final Macworld Expo keynote today drew reviews that universally seemed to range from boring to awful. For a company that has been no stranger to praise from the press in recent years, theres a growing concern that they can no longer live up to expectations and that it may be a sign of a large …
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Video ad service SpotMixer lands $9M, gets in with Google
One True Media, the online video creation and editing company, has raised $9 million in a second round of funding to market and scale SpotMixer, its business-targeted video ad service. The funding was led by DAG Ventures, with reinforcement from previous investor Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers …
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Admob lets you track Apple App Store downloads
Mobile ad network Admob is making it possible for application developers on the iPhone to track how often their ads entice users to actually download their applications from Apples App Store. The San Mateo, Calif. companys download tracking has already been adopted in testing mode by some prominent …
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