Google TV promises nothing less than to meld live TV with the Web by piggybacking onto your pay-TV setup — and ever since Google first announced the service back in May, I've been dying to take it for a spin. … Full Story »
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24 hours with Logitech’s Google TV-enabled Revue
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Rumor says $10 Hulu Plus fee will be chopped in half
Ben Patterson – Fri Oct 22, 1:11 pm ETThe initial reaction to the $10-a-month Hulu Plus service—which lets you tap into a deeper well of network TV shows, as well as stream Hulu videos over iPads, iPhones and the PlayStation 3—was mixed, to put to it mildly. Sure, … Full Story »
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HP’s Windows 7-based, $799 Slate 500 to finally see light of day
Ben Patterson – Fri Oct 22, 11:02 am ETIt was announced with a bang, hyped to the skies, and then left for dead—but the long-awaited Slate 500 is alive and well, although HP is positioning the pricey Windows 7-based tablet more for the corporate market than as a … Full Story »
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Apple snubs Adobe again with Flash-less MacBook Air
Ben Patterson – Thu Oct 21, 3:12 pm ETCall me crazy, but I'm starting to get the feeling that Apple has something against Flash. Early reviewers of the revamped MacBook Air, which Apple unveiled Wednesday at a press event in San Francisco, started noticing something funny when they … Full Story »
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Netflix is a ‘streaming company which also offers DVDs,’ CEO says
Ben Patterson – Thu Oct 21, 12:10 pm ETMost of us may think of Netflix as a movie rental site that deals in physical DVDs first and streaming video second, but the company's chief executive sure doesn't see it that way. In notes that came with Netflix's just-released … Full Story »
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Early Windows Phone 7 reviews: ‘fresh start,’ but ‘not fully baked’
Ben Patterson – Thu Oct 21, 11:33 am ETMicrosoft's play to get back into the smartphone game has mostly succeeded, according to early reviewers, who praise the clean, easy-to-use interface of its revamped Windows Phone 7 OS. But as on opening night at a new restaurant, the new … Full Story »
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AT&T; exec: Customers willing to pay more for no-contract, 3G-embedded devices
Ben Patterson – Wed Oct 20, 4:00 pm ETSubsidy or no subsidy? That's the question that wireless execs — not to mention customers — are facing when it comes to the latest 3G-embedded laptops, netbooks, and tablets on the big U.S. carriers. The suits at AT&T;, for example, … Full Story »
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Apple unveils new MacBook Air, previews revamped Mac OS X
Ben Patterson – Wed Oct 20, 3:38 pm ETGet ready for a new, thinner — and most important, cheaper — version of Apple's ultra-slim MacBook Air, including a smaller 11.6-inch version to go along with the 13-inch original. Also on the horizon: the next major version of the … Full Story »
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Samsung Galaxy Tab slated to go on sale next month, for $599
Ben Patterson – Wed Oct 20, 2:32 pm ETSo, will tablets with 7-inch screens really be "dead on arrival," as Apple's Steve Jobs has archly predicted? Looks like we're about to find out. Samsung has just announced that its 7-inch, Android-powered Galaxy Tab will debut November 11, starting … Full Story »
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Google, TweetDeck execs return fire after Steve Jobs’ anti-Android rant
Ben Patterson – Tue Oct 19, 4:25 pm ETWhat would it take to inspire the Google executive in charge of Android to post his first-ever tweet? A five-minute diatribe about how Android's "fragmented" ecosystem is a "mess," uttered by none other than Steve Jobs himself. Apple's outspoken CEO … Full Story »
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Palm Pre 2 now official, headed to Verizon in ‘coming months’
Ben Patterson – Tue Oct 19, 12:30 pm ETAbout a week after it was outed by a French wireless carrier, the long-awaited Palm Pre 2—complete with a new version of WebOS—is finally official, and it'll be heading to Verizon Wireless in the "coming months," according to HP. Arriving … Full Story »
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Don’t hold your breath for a 7-inch iPad
Ben Patterson – Tue Oct 19, 12:25 pm ETRumors about a 7-inch version of the iPad have been floating around for months now, but based on Steve Jobs' epic rant during Apple's quarterly earnings call Monday, it sounds like we won't be seeing an iPad Jr. anytime soon. … Full Story »
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Tipsters: New, cheaper MacBook Air has more ports, longer battery life
Ben Patterson – Mon Oct 18, 5:00 pm ETIt's been more than a year since the last significant update for the slim and trim MacBook Air, the 13-inch Apple ultraportable that weighs just 3 pounds but comes saddled with only a couple of ports and a sky-high price … Full Story »
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Nintendo Wii crashes the disc-free Netflix party
Ben Patterson – Mon Oct 18, 12:40 pm ETLooks like the PlayStation 3 wasn't the only game console that learned Monday how to stream movies and TV shows from Netflix without a special disc spinning in its drive. Nintendo has just announced that the Wii, which was the … Full Story »
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How to put your third-party Facebook apps on lockdown
Ben Patterson – Mon Oct 18, 12:11 pm ETReady to chuck all your Facebook applications—you know, FarmVille, Mafia Wars and the like—in the wake Monday's Wall Street Journal story revealing that app makers may have (inadvertently or not) been passing along user IDs to advertisers? I don't blame … Full Story »
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Tablets, 3-D TV, 4G wireless among most hyped technologies of 2010, analysts say
Ben Patterson – Fri Oct 15, 4:19 pm ETAs far as hype cycles go, you can't get any hotter than 3-D TV, augmented reality, or tablets like the iPad, argues a new report. But with hype comes a backlash, and that's what technologies like microblogging (think Twitter), e-readers … Full Story »
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Long-delayed white iPhone 4 breaks cover in NYC, slips back into night
Ben Patterson – Fri Oct 15, 12:12 pm ETI'm not exactly dying for a white iPhone myself, but the promised white version of the iPhone 4 has been delayed for so long—four months and counting—that like many others, I'm just plain curious at this point. We put a … Full Story »
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With 3G smartphone data caps, would you rather pay more, or get throttled?
Ben Patterson – Fri Oct 15, 11:33 am ETThe age of unlimited smartphone data plans is slowly but surely drawing to a close. AT&T; added caps to its smartphone 3G data plans in the summer, and Verizon Wireless says it's also close to capping its own smartphone data … Full Story »
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