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Here are some of today’s phone conversations I enjoyed reading or viewing on the web, along with some brief thoughts:
T-Mobile discounts phones on Friday (T-Mobile) — Take your pick from the Motorola CLIQ, BlackBerry Bold 9700 with Wi-Fi calling or the Samsung Highlight — ...
Mobile
Samsung
Verizon
AT&T wasn’t the only company that took offense to Verizon’s “There’s a Map for That” ad campaign and responded in kind. Monday night, Apple premiered two new iPhone ads that are actually aimed at pointing out the downsides of Verizon’s network, though ...
Mobile
Verizon
Apple
iPhone
With New Moon sucking a bajillion dollars out of the world’s wallets this past weekend, don’t count on the vampire craze dying (errr, undying?) anytime soon. Perhaps this bonanza will help spur MTV to transform its vampire interstitial/web series, Valemont into a bona fide TV ...
Other
MTV
Gizmodo has a nice write up explaining how to backup your data from the major smartphone platforms that’s well worth the read. Windows Mobile, iPhone, Android, Symbian, BlackBerry and webOS are all covered, so there’s something for everyone. I actually don’t backup my phones ...
Mobile
Windows Mobile
Android
Symbian
BlackBerry
Google Voice
While the fall TV season has been all about Glee in terms of Twitter, Oprah proved that kids singing show tunes are no match for her mighty media empire. The queen of daytime announced last week that she was calling it quits on her eponymous syndicated talk show and focusing her efforts on ...
Online
Here at GigaOM we’ve pretty much decided that the femtocell market is dead . At the very least, it’s significantly smaller than what was forecast (GigaOM Pro, subscription required) when these tiny base stations for the home first started garnering attention last year . However, ...
Other
Last Friday, buzz about an imminent IPO for electric car startup Tesla Motors hit the Interwebs , courtesy of two anonymous sources familiar with the plans who spoke with Reuters . As in several previous stories about its possible plans for a public offering, the company has declined to ...
Other
Black Friday is just around the corner and it seems everyone is looking for the best deals on gadgety goodness. The folks at HTC just let us know that they are running a promotion that puts $100 in the pockets of qualifying customers buying a new HTC Tilt 2, HTC Touch Pro2, HTC Imagio, or HTC ...
Mobile
HTC
As an amateur photographer , I like to have a nice image as my desktop wallpaper to provide me with some inspiration throughout the day. Thanks to a post on freewaregenius , I just discovered that National Graphic magazine makes a huge selection of inspiring images available for desktop ...
Online
An update recently went live in the App Store for Twitter client Twittelator Pro that brings, among other things, support for the new Lists feature. Lists, which Twitter implemented only a few weeks ago, allows users to create and subscribe to lists of users, which Twitter users can organize ...
Online
iPhone
App Store
Two-year-old Hulu, which has quickly become Americans’ preferred method of consuming TV online, is now blocking startups from embedding its video library. But while Hulu is now (mostly) unfriendly to startup video aggregators, it’s still sharing its videos with its corporate ...
Online
Hulu
My building only had one broadband provider until recently, as Stacey reported last week . But that’s changing, as Verizon FiOS just became available in my building, and the company is making a huge push to get people connected. So for those of you in other areas of the country, where ...
Mobile
Verizon
Time for Contingent Climate Commitments: Should the Obama administration get out ahead of Congress, pledging to set greenhouse gas emission reduction targets that 67 senators may not be willing to ratify? — Grist GM Marketing Volt to…Middle Schoolers?: “On November 30th, ...
Other
It’s always a bad idea to compute without protection, but methods vary according to personal preferences. I’m a padded gear bag kind of guy myself, but you’re just carrying a netbook, that can be overkill. So how does one protect a naked netbook? These Hard Candy cases might ...
Hardware
Backstory: Hulu and Embeds
Before Hulu even had a name or its current management team, it had distribution partners : AOL, MSN, MySpace, Yahoo.
All along, one of Hulu’s most distinctive and friendly features has been that all its content is embeddable.
Since ...
Online
Hulu
For some actors, just sitting down and reading off a teleprompter is hard work. So Ginger Marie Rogers, host of Fear News , might have one of the toughest on-camera jobs in web video history. For each week, the 25-year-old actress not only has to spew out the latest developments in horror, but ...
Other
For some actors, just sitting down and reading off a teleprompter is hard work. So Ginger Marie Rogers, host of Fear News , might have one of the toughest on-camera jobs in web video history. For each week, the 25-year-old actress not only has to spew out the latest developments in horror, but ...
Other
Cable programmer Oxygen is adding a social viewing experience for fans of its Bad Girls Club reality TV show, with the launch of OxygenLive, a new web site where viewers can socialize, take polls, and chat with other fans. OxygenLive will enable viewers to participate in a real-time chat ...
Online
Welcome to our newest Monday feature — Android Ecosystem! My own little experiment in running Android on an Intel Core Solo UMPC is about to take another step forward. The Android-x86 team has a new stable build that I’m downloading this very second. As I’ve shown before in video ...
Mobile
Android
Airlines are pushing hard to bring in-flight Wi-Fi to their customers, but there’s little evidence consumers are willing to spend much to be connected in the air. So perhaps airlines should be looking to advertisers to fund their services. In-flight Wi-Fi faces several challenges, from ...
