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Microsoft's WebTV service proved pretty conclusively that the masses don't want to surf the Web on their TVs. They want to watch videos, not browse for bargains on Craigslist. Technologies that integrate Web content into TV programming, on the other hand, seem much more promising. Vudu , ...
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Google and TiVo have been responsible for a
good deal of anxiety within cable and network television
circles. Put both together in the same sentence, and you have the potential need for some serious psychotherapy. Yes, the two Silicon Valley ...
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Roger Avary pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter in
September and may be tweeting from jail. Credit: Beatrice
de Gea / Los Angeles Times As is often the case with Twitter, screenwriter Roger Avary recently tweeted about what he had for ...
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Is 'Pulp Fiction' screenwriter Roger Avary tweeting from ...
Roku's $99 set-top box made its debut last year as a tool for watching Netflix's online movie streams on a television set. It later added access to Amazon's video-on-demand service and Major League Baseball's online game broadcasts. Today it announced the latest step in its evolution into a ...
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Does it really matter that the LCD TV has a contrast ratio of 40,000:1 or that the digital camera has a 12-megapixel resolution? David Colker gets to the bottom of these befuddling questions ahead of the holiday shopping season. He offers an in-depth gadget guide that doesn't make ...
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Feeding the Twitter bird. Credit: wharman via Flickr .
The twitterati today are aflutter about a few crumbs that Twitter Chief Operating Officer Dick Costolo dropped during an interview with TechCrunch's Michael Arrington on how the microblogging service plans to make money.
With ...
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Thing Labs in their San Francisco office. Chris
Wetherell, middle left, and Jason Shellen, middle right. Credit:
Mark Milian / Los Angeles Times The mad scientists at Thing Labs have a very impressive track record. On the sixth floor of a ...
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Betting that Brizzly will be huge, ex-Googlers are ...
The new Pogoplug. Credit: Cloud Engines.
One way to score a big hit in technology is to come up with not just a new gadget, but a new category. Of course, that is also a recipe for failure, because there's a risk that consumers don't think they need what you're selling. That's the risk ...
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Gabe Rivera, founder of news aggregator Techmeme. Credit: Mark Milian/Los Angeles Times. Don't tell News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch , but technology news aggregator Techmeme is raking in profits.
Rather than visiting the front pages of every newspaper or choosing a few out of brand loyalty, ...
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Google posted a video to explain its new operating system, Chrome OS, due out next year. Credit: YouTube. Google's new Chrome OS operating system, which is designed to bypass computer hard drives and work totally by way of the Internet, got its first public preview today.
The system, due ...
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Questia Library Plus iPhone app. Credit: Questia
We'll spare you the obvious "there's an app for that" joke. But you can get a library's worth of books on your phone.
Questia , an online research portal for students, announced its application today for reading books, articles and ...
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The California Energy Commission unanimously approved a regulation today capping the power consumption of televisions
sold in California starting in 2011. Although the Consumer Electronics
Assn., which represents the world's largest TV makers, was apoplectic
about the action, The Times' Marc ...
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After SpiralFrog's collapse and Qtrax's repeated misfires , I'm skeptical about any online music service that says it will give away advertiser-supported downloads. But Guvera , an Australian start-up launched by former advertising executive Claes Loberg, is different enough to make me think ...
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The Consumer Electronics Assn. and the CTIA (the main trade group for the mobile phone industry) urged the Federal Communications Commission today to consider reclaiming some digital TV airwaves and dedicating them to use with wireless devices. The chief executives of the CEA and CTIA sent a ...
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A.J. Bowen of Schupp's Line Construction works on fiber-optic installation in Norton, Vt. Credit: Toby Talbot / Associated Press. Federal programs to bring broadband Internet service to areas without it lack basic information and adequate safeguards to ensure that the money isn’t wasted, a ...
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Two teens listen to music and send text messages on their cellphones in a coffee shop. Credit: Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times. When Jonathan Linner describes his social networking website Brightkite , he sounds more like a savvy nightclub owner than the chief executive of a bleeding-edge Bay ...
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Tony Hawk , the renown skateboarder who landed the notoriously difficult "900" maneuver a decade ago at the X-Games, next Tuesday comes out with Ride, the latest title in the blockbuster video-game franchise that bears his name.
This time, the 41-year-old is adding a new trick to ...
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Angelenos unhappy with the cable or satellite TV
offerings in their neighborhoods will have a new, much
less expensive option today: Sezmi , a novel combination of over-the-air broadcasting and broadband programming . The company is launching a ...
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Sezmi says hello to Los Angeles
Google Map's Street View of Hollywood Boulevard near Highland Avenue. Credit: Google Inc.. Internet search giant Google is facing court action in Switzerland because it isn’t meeting the country’s demands for tighter privacy protection with its Google Maps' Street View service, according ...
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The Kogi BBQ truck started the Twitterin' truck trend. Credit: joshuaheller / flickr. Take a walk down Main Street during one of downtown L.A.'s Art Walk nights (the second Thursday of every month), and you will see an element that does not at first blend in with all the paintings, ...
