I've been testing the
iPhone version of MOG, a subscription on-demand music service that I blogged about in December, for the last few days. While it performs adequately, I haven't seen anything that really makes it stand out from the other competitors I've looked at recently, like Rhapsody, Thumbpl...
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Longtime readers might remember the YouTube piano, an ingenious use of YouTube's deep-linking feature that turned a video with various keys on it into a working piano. This week its creators are introducing a follow-up that's slightly less interactive, but just as amusing, called YouTube radio.
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Somehow, you knew this might happen.
After Apple CEO Steve Jobs explained at Friday's iPhone 4 press conference that all smartphones have antenna problems similar to the one experienced by the
iPhone 4, RIM, the maker of the BlackBerry, declared that in its view this is hogwash.
In a rather forc...
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news analysis Call it the revenge of George Carlin.
The legendary Grammy-winning comedian, who died in 2008, was slapped down by the Federal Communications Commission in the 1970s for his "Seven Dirty Words" monologue. The U.S. Supreme Court gravely concluded that the 12-minute monologu...
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Grand Central Terminal, in New York City, handles 700,000 visitors a day. It also harbors a series of secrets, some of which are visible to anyone walking through the great main concourse.
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Daniel Terdiman/CNET)
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They say they're targeting seniors, children, and the vision- and hearing-impaired, but Just5's new mobile phone line is really best explained as a talking device for Luddites.
"We want to open mobile phones to specific populations that may have difficulty using the latest and greatest mobile...
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Ten years ago, the next big thing in tech was supposed to be the Internet appliance: a device that offered tech newbies a simpler and cheaper way to get onto the Internet.
Within the span of only a few months a host of such devices hit the market--products such as 3Com's Audrey, Netpliance's I-op...
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