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Dish Network, SK Telecom Submit Bids To Buy Bankrupt Blockbuster [Sale Of Blockbuster At Auction Brings Massive Content Library With It]

By on Monday, 4. April 2011

Blockbuster Video has seen better days since its 2002 peak in which it carried around a whole lot of market capitalization and could be found in almost every major city on earth. In some cases, you could find two or three Blockbuster Video locations in the same town. Thanks to [...]

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TiVo Users’ Email Address Database Hacked [Email Marketing Service Provider Epsilon Admits Security Breach; TiVo Users' Email Addresses Compromised]

By on Monday, 4. April 2011

TiVo users are probably experiencing an influx of email spam recently, with the TiVo email database having been compromised. Opt-in service provider Epsilon admits a breach in which email records from TiVo and other clients have been stolen.

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Nokia Shorts 2011 Filmmaking Project with the Nokia N8 [Nokia to Give Away Nokia Two N8 Multimedia Phones & $5,000 For Best Short Film Ideas]

By on Sunday, 3. April 2011

Nokia is looking for original ideas for short movies filmed on mobile phones. The Nokia Shorts project is basically a filmmaking grant that asks aspiring filmmakers for ideas. Give your pitch and you might win funds and equipment for your project.

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The Top Seven Tech Hoaxes [April Fools' Day Brings Its Share Of Fake News--Here Are Seven Such Great Fakes, From The Stun Gun iPhone To Google's Pigeon-Based Page Rank System]

By on Friday, 1. April 2011

Happy April to all and sundry among our ever-faithful readership, and being as it’s April First, or April Fool’s Day, I’m going to share a little story. If you’ve ever been reading news online, when someone puts up a fake news story but doesn’t declare it as fake, I doubt [...]

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Fuuvi Pick Combines Digital Camera and USB Connection In One [Fuuvi Pick Packs A Three Megapixel Digital Camera With A USB Connector, Needs MicroSD Cards For Storage]

By on Friday, 1. April 2011

It’s been a good while since we last had camera news (that wasn’t in a phone, of course) and though this may look like an April Fool’s stunt, the word is spreading about the Fuuvi Pick, a tiny digital camera that will make transferring what you shoot with it a [...]

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Netflix Adds More Fox Content [Netflix Streamers Will Now Get Access To The First Season of Glee, and Ally McBeal, Among Others]

By on Friday, 1. April 2011

Big news for fans of Fox programming–while you weren’t going to get it from Time Warner’s cable app, you will be able to get much, much larger quantities of it on Netflix than you ever could before. Included on the list of shows is both Ally McBeal and the first [...]

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Time Warner’s Cable App Gets Some High-Value Replacements [Recent Troubles With Various Networks Yielded Huge Losses For Time Warner's Cable App, But Wait Until You See Who Stepped In]

By on Friday, 1. April 2011

So the whole Time Warner streaming app has met with a lot of friction over the last few days as networks fight tooth and nail to keep Time Warner subscribers from seeing their content anywhere but their televisions, for some reasons that elude me. But while you were no doubt [...]

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Hasbro My3D Goggles Put 3D In iPhone [Resembling a View-Master Toy, Hasbro's Goggles Give Your iPhone a 3D Experience]

By on Friday, 1. April 2011

Anyone else remember the View-Master toy? You know, the thing that looked like bright orange binoculars with a lever on the side, into which you inserted discs with pictures in the  edge, and when you pulled down on the lever, you advanced the frame to the next picture? Well, Hasbro–the [...]

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Apple MacBook Pico Projector Patent is Improving [Apple is Adding Further Refinements to its Planned Pico Projector for MacBooks]

By on Friday, 1. April 2011

We reported about MacBooks potentially having built-in pico projectors last year as per Apple patent, but apparently that feature did not make it to the final product. This time, Apple has added refinements.

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ESPN Says That Sports Contracts Prevent Them From Being On Time Warner Cable’s iPad App [ESPN Says That Their Contract With Teams & Leagues Prevent Them From Being On TWC iPad App]

By on Friday, 1. April 2011

Time Warner Cable was forced to remove News Corp.’s FOX newtorks from their awesome iPad app that allows you to watch streaming TV on your iPad if you’re on your home Time Warner WiFi connection. News Corp. alleges that the broadcast agreement between them and TWC doesn’t give the cable [...]

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