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  • Top 10 Greentech IPO Candidates
    published on Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:35:00 GMT
    Recent greentech IPOs have had mixed and less than stellar results. Here are some wild prognostications of ten potential greentech IPOs coming in late 2010 through 2012. These companies have real products, serious revenu...
  • Take Heed, Tech Giants: Edison's Failed Plot to Hijack Hollywood
    published on Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:35:00 GMT
    Take heed, tech giants of today. Some of your companies or services aren?t much older than the Edison Trust Studios was when it collapsed. How much of your current business strategy is based on offering new and original ...
  • In Defense of Google, Or Why Consumer Watchdog is Full of It
    published on Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:52:00 GMT
    While there?s plenty of reasons to keep a critical eye focused on Google, Consumer Watchdog?s ad is a dishonest, factually inaccurate joke that shamefully got plenty of uncritical media attention. In the simplest terms p...
  • Censored! Craigslist Adult Services Blocked in U.S.
    published on Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:32:00 GMT
    The ?Adult Services? listing on Craiglist was removed late Friday on its U.S.-based sites and replaced with the word 'censored.' The change comes as the service faces growing pressure in the U.S. over sex services advert...
  • Shopping Site 'Thefind' Finds Its Facebook Way, Carefully
    published on Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:00:00 GMT
    The increasingly popular online shopping site Thefind has finally found a way to connect with Facebook, without being creepy. It?s not a technical breakthrough ? plenty of sites now work with Facebook to let users log-in...
  • Apple TV's Meager Offerings Are Due to Business, Not Tech
    published on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:00:00 GMT
    This week?s big Apple announcement featured one big disappointment: Apple TV?s relative lack of, well, TV. Out of all of the hundreds of channels available on cable and satellite, only ABC and Fox agreed to offer their p...
  • How Apple Just Disrupted the Cable Guys
    published on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:11:00 GMT
    People in Silicon Valley have focused on the set-top box as the lever to attack the cable industry. Cable boxes blow, but that's a losing battle. So why is Apple TV different? Because Steve Jobs has not just created a ne...
  • FaceTime Lets You Share Your Point of View
    published on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:00:00 GMT
    Video calls aren't for people to see you — they're for people to see what you see. ...
  • 5 Reasons Why Apple TV Is (Still) Boring
    published on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:32:00 GMT
    We know ? the new Apple TV is really small, and cheap and easy-to-use. That's all good, but still not knocking our socks off despite being the ripest area for expansion by a company that has already firmly established it...
  • Apple's Ping Network Is Already Too Big to Fail
    published on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:45:00 GMT
    Apple audaciously seems to think the world actually needs another social network ? one that you even need special software to be part of, to boot. With the introduction Wednesday of Ping, a music-centered community that ...