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SXSW Dynamo Takes on YouTube for Indie Film Rentals (14 March 12:21) |
| Promising a mix of revenue and flexibility, the startup will offer independent filmmakers a direct route to movie fans.
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Google 999 Sure To Shut China Search Engine Report (13 March 10:11) |
| Talks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the world's largest search engine, is now "99.9 percent" certain to shut its Chinese search engine, the Financia... |
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Slacker Radio Secretly Preparing On-Demand Music Service (12 March 11:49) |
| Slacker, the critically praised interactive radio service our readers helped us discover in '07, plans to launch an on-demand subscription service combining elements of Pandora, Rhapsody and... |
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Al Franken Jokes But Google Fiber Is No Laughing Matter (12 March 04:26) |
| Minnesota seeks to distinguish itself in the increasingly reality TV-esque race to convince Google to build a high-speed fiber optic network there with a video featuring junior US Senator (a... |
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Google Reader Play iPad-Friendly News Reader (11 March 09:21) |
| Google has added an iPad-friendly version of its RSS aggregator, called Google Reader Play. According to the Official Google Reader Blog, the new full-screen slide-show is for people who “... |
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Ear Infections Could Cause Long-Term Lazy Ear (11 March 07:58) |
| Some folks who don’t seem to listen may just have a lazy ear. A new study in rats shows that short-term hearing impairments at any stage of life can lead to rewiring in the part of the bra... |
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How Andrew Breitbart Hacks the Media (11 March 04:40) |
| How Andrew Breitbart -- Matt Drudge's former right hand -- fights the vast left-wing conspiracy by infiltrating the media machine.
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Apple Beware Dell With A Little Help From Amazon and Google is Taking on iTunes (11 March 01:49) |
| The formidable triumvirate of Amazon, Dell, and Google is apparently poised to give iTunes the first serious run for its money just as the iPad is about to take Apple’s downloadable media ... |
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Googles Schmidt China Negotiations Should End Soon (11 March 01:37) |
| Google is actively negotiating with China over web censorship according to CEO Eric Schmidt.
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Veil Lifts on Apples Secret Plan to Control Universe (10 March 06:30) |
| The recently unveiled secret agreement that Apple makes iPhone developers sign supports what many have suspected all along: Apple is trying to control the universe.
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Texters Should Park the Car Take the Bus (10 March 06:30) |
| Taking public transit wouldn't just decrease our carbon footprint — it'd also end all that fiddling with the phone while driving, an insanely dangerous problem.
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10 Years After A Look Back at the Dot-Com Boom and Bust (10 March 06:30) |
| The Nasdaq peaked at 5,049 on March 10, 2000, then it promptly nosedived and hasn't come near that level since. Here’s a look at the era that launched — and crushed — a million... |
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Hot Property Sexcom on Auction Block (10 March 03:40) |
| It’s a sadly familiar story from the high-flying market of the past few years: Speculator thinks values will continue to go up, up, up. Overbids for a hot property. Can’t keep up with th... |
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Digital-Ad Spending May Eclipse Print This Year (09 March 05:10) |
| Spending on digital advertising is poised to surpass print for the first time in 2010, according to a new study prepared even before the announcement of Apple’s iPad, with all of that hard... |
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Grab 1000+ MP3s From SXSW BitTorrent Free and Legal (09 March 04:30) |
| Fire up that bit torrent client to download more than 5 gigabytes of free MP3s from bands playing the SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas, next week and catch up on the latest in music with... |
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Four In Five Consider Web Access A Fundamental Right (08 March 09:14) |
| Four in five adults believe access to the Internet is a fundamental right — with those feelings particularly strong in South Korea and China — and half believe it should never be regulat... |
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Hordesourced Playlist Whats Popular On MySpace Right Now (05 March 04:40) |
| A trio of nifty apps for Android, iPhone and MySpace profiles from We Are Hunted taps into the musical zeitgeist in near-real-time. It lets you listen to minute-long samples from whichever a... |
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FCC Chair Julius Genachowski on Broadband Google and His iPhone (05 March 04:00) |
| Julius Genachowski wants to be the Federal Communications Commission chairman that brings cheap and fast broadband to a technologically backwards nation — the United States.
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Mission Impossible Crew Pinches $26000 in Apple Notebooks (05 March 03:09) |
| Apple fanboys (and maybe girls) have struck again in New Jersey -- this time breaking into a Best Buy ninja-style to steal $26,000 in notebooks. Six months ago and an hour away an Apple Stor... |
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Beijing Says Its Working With Google to Resolve Dispute (04 March 10:06) |
| China says it is in consultations with Google to resolve its dispute with the company, which has threatened to abandon the Chinese market over hacking and censorship concerns. It would be th... |
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Guess What Google Fears the Next Google (04 March 09:56) |
| Google is haunted by the notion that the same disruptive forces which transformed it from a garage project by two kids maxing out their credit cards into a global superpower in 10 short year... |
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Indie Coder Proves Android Apps Can Make Money Too (04 March 01:30) |
| Eddie Kim's Android app Car Locator is raking in $13,000 per month. That's probably the greatest success story we've heard from an independent Android developer so far.
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Virtual Musicians Real Performances AI Is Changing Music (03 March 06:30) |
| Ever wonder how Jimi Hendrix would have covered Lady Gaga? The day is approaching when you should be able to find out, thanks to Zenph Sound Innovations' technology for analyzing and recreat... |
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httpwwwwiredcomepicenter201003apple-fires-at-htc (03 March 12:30) |
| Apple sues HTC, claiming infringement on patented technology used in the iPhone. But the real target here is Google, as another front is opened in an increasingly hostile face-off by Silicon... |
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Netflix Eyes iPhone for Movie TV Streaming (02 March 10:30) |
| Netflix has renewed its interest in the iPhone as a video streaming platform, with a survey asking its customers how much they want an app for the iPhone (and, almost certainly, the iPad). T... |
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Condeacute Nast Adds 4 Titles to iPad Initiative (02 March 12:50) |
| As Wired magazine gets ready to release a tablet edition, parent company Condé Nast adds iPad versions of GQ, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Glamour.
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Ad Powerhouse FedEx Woos Small Biz With Web Parodies (27 February 06:30) |
| FedEx is famous for memorable television commercials, but like many big companies, it is following customers as they navigate from the television to the computer. So FedEx is shipping much o... |
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Twitter Plans Search Ads Like Googles (27 February 05:30) |
| Twitter is reportedly set to introduce tiny text ads that come with search results. They learned it from watching you, Google.
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Targeted Audio Ads Coming to a Cellphone Near You (26 February 11:38) |
| A CBS-backed venture called TargetSpot, an internet-radio advertising network, announces deals with Slacker's music-streaming service. The ads are aimed at your geo-located cellphone.
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Scott Brown on Managing Your Digital Remains (26 February 10:30) |
| Death is inevitable. But, as Scott Brown points out, with companies like Legacy Locker and Deathswitch.com, your digital self can live forever!
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iPad Apps Could Put Apple in Charge of the News (26 February 04:20) |
| In response to customer complaints, Apple imposes a blanket ban on iPhone apps that contain sexual imagery. The capricious nature of the App Store should raise concerns for publishers who pl... |
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Palm Acknowledges the Pre Isnt an Anything Killer Game Over (26 February 02:43) |
| Palm lowers its 2010 estimate and admits its Pre and Pixi smartphones are not selling well., and the company's shares tank. But in a wireless world dominated by the iPhone, Blackberries and ... |
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The 10 Geekiest Ways to Hide Your Age (25 February 09:47) |
| Unless you’re Benjamin Button or T.H. White’s Merlin, you’re not getting any younger. While getting older may be better than the alternative, there’s no reason why you have to be com... |
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Video Bloom Energys Founder on Next-Gen Fuel Cells More (25 February 11:22) |
| Bloom Energy made its long-anticipated debut Wednesday and while the company didn't share all of the details behind its so-called energy servers, it did give some.
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iPad iPhone Cash Mountain Expected to Dominate Apple Annual Meeting (25 February 06:30) |
| When Apple chief executive Steve Jobs holds his annual face-to-face meeting with shareholders Thursday, there will be no shortage of questions for the information-technology company that's f... |
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Exclusive How Googles Algorithm Rules the Web (25 February 06:30) |
| When it comes to finding stuff online, there's Google — and there's everyone else. Wired senior writer Steven Levy gets an unprecedented inside look at the company's technological wiza... |
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Bankrupt Crowd-Funded SellaBand Bought by German Investors (25 February 05:25) |
| SellaBand, the bankrupt crowd-funded online record label announces that it has buyers and a new CEO in Munich, Germany. It'll go back online Thursday.
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Bloom vs Solar Which One Is Best (25 February 04:49) |
| Bloom Energy formally unveils its energy server that converts natural gas or other hydrocarbons into electricity on demand. The launch fuels the debate over which alternative to coal, nuclea... |
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Google Hit With Anti-Trust Complaints in Europe (24 February 09:22) |
| The European Commission has acknowledged receipt of three antitrust complaints against Google. It did not identify the companies and said it had not started a formal investigation.
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Google Executives Convicted in Italy for Downs Video (24 February 07:40) |
| A Milan court convicts three Google executives for violating the privacy of an Italian boy with Down's syndrome by letting a video of him being bullied be posted on the site in 2006.
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How Twitter and Facebook Make Us More Productive (24 February 10:30) |
| Contrary to recent research about social networks and efficiency, taking a break from work to read that tweet about Lady Gaga's lingerie might actually stoke creativity and enhance problem-s... |
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Arnold Kim Celebrates 10 Years as Apple Rumor King (24 February 06:30) |
| MacRumors.com, the most popular Apple rumor publication on the web, celebrates its 10th anniversary Wednesday. The site's creator, Arnold Kim, quit his job as a kidney doctor to focus on his... |
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Music Wont Feed the Band mdash But Merch Might (24 February 02:07) |
| Say what you will about shlock-rock band K.I.S.S., but they understood one thing: There’s lots of money to be made by selling nonmusical merchandise to music fans. You might say it's bette... |
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How Haiti Bootstrapped Its SMS Emergency Response System (23 February 10:11) |
| What if we could communicate with disaster affected communities in real-time just days after a major disaster like the quake in Haiti? That is exactly what happened thanks to a partnership b... |
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The Future of Money Its Flexible Frictionless and Almost Free (23 February 10:30) |
| The reign of the bank and credit card cartel is ending. A new wave of financial upstarts is liberating your cash -- and the economy.
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Cyber Evil Will Thrive Without Global Rules mdash Good Luck With That (23 February 06:30) |
| Thwarting online thieves, spies and vandals who threaten global companies and governments might only work if cyberspace is regulated internationally. The bad guys are lucky for now -- such c... |
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Googles Music Strategy Past Present and Future (23 February 03:28) |
| Google may have lost to Apple in its bid to acquire Lala, a music service that grabs users' digital music collections and hosts them in the cloud, allowing them to add to those collections f... |
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Is Bloom Energys Secret Ingredient Zirconia (23 February 03:15) |
| Bloom Energy holds its big coming out party on 60 Minutes. Founder K.R. Sridhar touts the potential and promise of the company's Bloom boxes, but gets a little vague when it comes to what ma... |
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Five Reasons Why Chatroulette is Addictive and Worth a Try (22 February 08:01) |
| Everyone (from the mainstream media to celebrities) is obsessing over Chatroulette, the website that randomly connects users via one-on-one videochat with strangers around the world. Why is ... |
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5 Reasons Why Chatroulette Is Addictive and Worth a Try (22 February 08:01) |
| Chatroulette, the website that randomly connects users via one-on-one videochat with strangers around the world, is hooking everyone. Why is it so addictive? Wired's resident Chatroulette ex... |
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