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CE Cares (Or Do We?)

Colleen Bohen’s blog earlier this week pointed out a move to bring computing to third-world children that is being attempted by the MIT Media...

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DRM Backbiting Frenzy

Oh my. Paul Sweeting at Video Business (which is owned by TWICE parent company Reed Business Information) has a report from the Digital Rights Strategies...

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You Get What You Give

The New York Times reported today that the One Laptop Per Child project will be launching a temporary “Give 1 Get 1” promotion that...

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Best Buy’s Unique Holiday View

Best Buy posted strong fiscal second-quarter sales and earnings this week; however, during its conference call with analysts, Jim Muehlbauer, chief financial officer of...

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The Digital Abyss

USA Today has an interesting piece running down how some average consumers are archiving their images and some of the pitfalls of digital storage:...

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Here Comes The Sun

Solar-power for your computer is here.  Granted, this contraption from the Advanced Energy Group, the Solar PowerPACII, weighs 86 pounds and needs to be...

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FotoNation Gets the Red Out

Red-eye reduction and facial detection technology have gone from a niche to mainstream digital camera technology quite rapidly. FotoNation provides both technologies to camera...

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iCryBabies

This is probably the best take I’ve yet read on the iPhone price cut (via Big Picture): Nobody forced anyone to buy an iPhone....

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Endless Energy

When I read stories like this about new battery technology, I get a boost of confidence that maybe we can outsmart our way out...

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Cellphone Empowerment Act

In our therapeutic culture, even cellphones need empowerment. At least that’s what I thought when I saw the news that there’s something called the...

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Cutting the Cord

Comcast cut Internet service to heavy downloaders, according to this Washington Post story. Mind you, these customers weren’t engaged in illegal activity; they were...

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CEDIA Quotes, Notes

There were a few good quotes during CEDIA Expo’s press conference day on Wednesday that I heard and I’d like to share. “TV… is...

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Apple Upstaging CEDIA?

As yours truly, along with TWICE editors John Laposky, Joe Palenchar and Greg Tarr, prepare to tackle press day here at CEDIA Expo, could...

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Gray is the New Green

Forget about the environment — it’s old people who will be driving the market for new technologies.  During his IFA keynote, Philips CEO Rudy...

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Designed to Sell

I went to IFA expecting a technology trade show, but the first day all anyone wants to talk about is design. Not that I’m...

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Chicago Drops Broadband Plan

Chicago has ditched a plan to blanket the city with wireless broadband Internet, the Associated Press reported. The reason for the scrap — too...

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Fedders Meant Room Air

At the beginning of this year’s air conditioning season in the Northeast, a relative who was in the market for an in-wall room air...

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What Happened to Skype

Two weeks ago, Skype suffered a major outage. The company has since issued an update as to what, exactly, brought down their service:The disruption...

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Burn, Baby, Burn

Austria-based Memlite recently introduced a USB flash drive/cigarette lighter, with storage capacities ranging from 128MB to 4GB. Personally, the idea of keeping important data...

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VoIP and E911

There is an interesting article in Telephony Online about the prospects for strengthening E911 requirements for VoIP providers.  The article details some of the...

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Zink Printer/Camera Coming Soon

A digital camera with a built-in printer will be launched by Zink and a yet-to-be-named manufacturer, according to the company. (Via DigitalCameraInfo.)Zink (which stands...

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TWICE Readers Like Barbie

And I have the evidence to prove it. Well, not evidence per se, but hearsay and conjecture (and those are “kinds of evidence” according...

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‘Trade-UP’ Irony

Ironically, a day after I blogged about D&M Holdings’ McIntosh offering a trade-in program for their products, we received news about the passing of...

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Customer Reviews Drive Web Sales

Letting customers write product reviews increases e-commerce conversion rates, Web traffic and average order values, according to e-consultancy and Bazaarvoice’s “Social Commerce Report 2007”...

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Must Be The Jukeboxes

Warner Music posts a wider second-quarter loss.  In other unfortunate music industry news, Wired may have caught SoundExchange (the industry’s digital royalty collection agency)...

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Move Over JPEG, Revisted

 Microsoft’s digital image file format HD Photo took another step closer to realization as a true industry standard when the Joint Photographic Expert Group...

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Blues With My Burger

Another day, another opportunity to lament my decision to be an editor and not a corporate lawyer. The music industry has once again decided...

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Worshiping Warehouse Clubs

Once there was an electronics Camelot era, when computers were bigger than DeSotos, the Internet a gleam in Al Gore’s eye, and people devoted...

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Another ‘Crazy’ Story

Some stories, and stores, never die. In the consumer electronics industry, the departed New York metro area chain Crazy Eddie is one of those....

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