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AT&T: We Should Have Never Given You People Unlimited Data [Block Quote]





Ugh. Customers. The little brats. You give them the chance to pay extra for unlimited data so they can use their smartphones as designed, and then when you take it away, they complain! AT&T's #1 regrets th...
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Rupert Murdoch Admits He Screwed Up MySpace "In Every Way" [Block Quote]





Media baron, professional evil white guy archetype, and technologist Rupert Murdoch recently took to Twitter regarding his company's historically awful purchase of MySpace. So, what they do wrong? Literall...
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Pete Townshend: iTunes Is a Bloodthirsty "Digital Vampire" [Block Quote]






The music industry has been good to Pete Townshend. The Who honcho is an extremely rich guy. But for young, nascent acts? He thinks the biz is a hostile place, thanks mainly to iTunes, which "bleeds" thei...
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Bill Gates: Being a Billionaire Is Overrated [Blockquote]






That Bill Gates, he's such a joker. Apparently you shouldn't bother attempting to be a billionaire like him; after a million, it's pretty much the same. I think Roman Abramovich might disagree, what with ...
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Google: Spend More Time Talking to People, Than Asking Siri About the Weather [Blockquote]






The head Android honcho over at Google, Andy Rubin, had a few choice words to say about the iPhone 4S' personal assistant Siri. According to Rubin, we should spend more time talking with actual people tha...
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Like Throwing Astronauts Into a Flaming Barrel [Block Quote]






Astronaut Ron Goran may sound like he's being creative when he describes what returning from the ISS feels like for today's space-faring souls, but really, no he isn't. [Fragile Oasis via Boing Boing, Ima...
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The Financial Times Can Even Make LOLspeak Boring [Block Quote]






When the bunch of stodgy old Brits over at the Financial Times attempt to describe the world of internet slang to its readers, verbal trainwrecks, like this paragraph, happen. More »

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Al Gore Thinks TV Networks Are Destroying Civic Involvement in the U.S. [Block Quote]






Despite running a cable channel of his own, Al Gore thinks that TV networks at large wield too much power as gatekeepers of news and areruining civic involvement in the U.S. More »


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Nokia: Apple is a Closed Box, But "Google’s Open Box Still Has Flaps, and We Don’t Know What Those Flaps Will Do" [Block Quote]






Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop today provided a glimpse into why they chose Windows Phone for their OS instead of Android, explaining that with Android, you just don't know what they'll do in the future. Mor...
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Eric Schmidt Says He "Screwed Up" Social Networking at Google [Block Quote]






It's not often an exec is this honest about his/her own faults, but Google's Eric Schmidt admitted that not only did he "clearly knew I had to do something and I failed to do it," but that he "screwed up"...
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Rolling Stone Publisher Jann Wenner Not a Fan of iPad Magazines [Block Quote]






Once upon a time, Jann Wenner started a little music magazine called Rolling Stone. When the internet arrived, he shrugged his shoulders and tossed up a half-baked website. Now, with tablets on the rise, ...
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HP: "In the Tablet World We're Going to Become Better Than Number One. We Call It Number One Plus" [Blockquote]


HP has some strange ideas of greatness, with their European head Eric Cador commenting that "in the PC world, with fewer ways of differentiating HP's products from our competitors, we became number one; in the tablet world we're going to be...
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If Filming in 3D is "Tough as Hell," Michael Bay, Maybe You Should Give Up Now? [Block Quote]


I mean, who's really looking forward to Transformers 3? Really? Really?! Anyway, turns out James Cameron is to blame, with Bay saying "years ago, Jim Cameron called me and told me I needed to do 3D. I told him no!" More »
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Work Is Just a Game for Air Traffic Controllers [Block Quote]






Air traffic control horror stories are popping up left and right these days, but few stories have a description as vividly nerdy as the one found in Mother Jones' write up about the switchboard operators ...
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Court Docs Reveal Google's Been Bullying Android Developers [Block Quote]






Google uses Android compatibility standards to suppress fast-rising developers. At least that's what the latest court docs say in the lawsuit between the Skyhook (who specialize in location-based services...
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Obama Wants "to Start Making Science Cool" [Blockquote]


Not only did Barack Obama tell people at his Facebook town hall lecture that he wants science to be cool, he also said he wants "people to feel about the next big energy breakthrough and the next big Internet breakthrough the same way they ...
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World's Third Richest Man Isn't So Sure About Apple [Verbatim]


Billionaire Warren Buffett on Apple: "Even though Apple may have the most wonderful future in the world, I'm not capable of bringing any drink to that particular party and evaluating that future...I simply look at businesses where I think I...
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Richard Branson Would Love to Merge Virgin With Apple [Verbatim]


Speaking to TechRadar about Steve Jobs, Sir Richard Branson commented that "everything he does is real class and if he wants to rename his company Virgin Apple I'd be happy to merge!" Could we see Virgin Apple Galactic taking off in the fut...
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It's Not Downloads Harming DVD Sales, it's Facebook/Twitter/Sex/Gaming/Sleeping [Verbatim]


Disney CEO Bob Iger: "I look at my kids' generation and it is not just about watching a TV show or a movie any more, it is about doing other things." Do we have more varied interests than every before? [CharlieRoseShow via HCC via TechRadar...
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PS3 Hacker Says Death Is the Only Way Sony Will Stop Him [Block Quote]






So he may not have the uh, showmanship, of fellow PS3 hacker (and future 106 & Park guest) geohot, but graf_chokolo is determined as hell to keep shoving Linux into Sony's box. After being sued for a mill...
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The Sad State of Hollywood Movies [Block Quote]






In this month's GQ, Mark Harris laments the death of the adult drama and the rise of the comic book-remake-prequel-sequel (pick whichever permutation applies). Here, he says, is what we have to look forwa...
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A Small Victory: Panasonic's Just Pleased 3DTVs Have Now Beaten LaserDisc [Block Quote]






That's in the US, anyway, where around 2 million LaserDisc players were sold from the late '70s. 3DTV sellers still have some catching-up to do globally though, where 16.8 million LaserDisc players were b...
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Apple Customers Are Just the Worst [Block Quote]






Stepping out of the blue employee t-shirt, an Apple worker has broken Jobs' honor-code to speak to Popular Mechanics about what it's like working in one of those big glass-and-chrome stores. And guess wha...
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George Lucas Believes the World Will End in 2012 [Block Quote]






How far would your jaw have dropped if George Lucas told you how he thinks the world will end next year? If you were comedian/actor Seth Rogen, you'd scoop your jaw up and then tell the world all about it...
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Tron's Jeff Bridges Ponders Retirement Thanks to Facial-Mapping Technology [Block Quote]






Technology has got Jeff Bridges thinking: why bother acting when a digital version of himself can so easily be created? Trapped by his evil creation Clu 2, today's Bridges acts opposite a 30-years-younger...
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Simon Pegg is Worried About What 3D is Doing to the Movie Industry [Block Quote]






Echoing the opinions of Francis Ford Coppola and Roger Ebert, Simon Pegg took to Twitter today to voice his opinions on 3D movies. Even 3D porn was under fire: "Could you seriously masturbate knowing you ...
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The UK's Prime Minister Probably Shouldn't Admit to Being an Angry Birds Gamer [Block Quote]






Not that there's anything wrong with politicians playing games, obviously, but we know just how addictive Angry Birds can be. Prime Minister David Cameron also asked the UK Interactive Entertainment Assoc...
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If Nokia Ever Launches an Android Phone, Let's Remember These Wise Words [Block Quote]






Taking no prisoners before he departs Nokia in six months' time, Executive Vice President Anssi Vanjoki had some choice words to say about manufacturers who've embraced Android, claiming it won't pay-off ...
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How FarmVille Got So Great [Block Quote]






With 84 million monthly users, and a reported $500 million revenue a year, how did FarmVille capture the hearts of so many Facebook users? According to a former employee speaking to SFWeekly, they stole. ...
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Jaws Will Drop When Nintendo's Next Console Appears, Warns Game Designer [Block Quote]






Nintendo game designer (and co-creator of Metroid) Yoshio Sakamoto is hyping up Nintendo's next console—even if it could be another eight years away. "At Nintendo we always have the obligation to s...
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Stephen Hawking: "Big Bangs Happen" [Blockquote]






Hawking's covered the end of the world, now he's examining the beginning—writing "It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going". The Big Bang was a cert...
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Now Sony is a Train Driver [Block Quote]






At Sony's IFA press conference, their CEO Sir Howard Stringer talked up Sony's 3D might. Expect to see Sony: Train Driver Simulator! on the PS3 shortly. [TechRadar] More »






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Please Return Your Seats to an Upright Position and Put Your Tongues Back In Your Own Mouths [Block Quote]






Picture the scene: 275 passengers aboard a Hong Kong-bound British Airways flight from London Heathrow are played an automatic plane crash message when flying over the North Sea. Only trouble (or, blessin...
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Don't Hold Your Breath For a Download-Only PS4 [Blockquote]






Awaiting a download-only PS4 after clamping eyes on the PSPgo? Sony Computer Entertainment's CEO Kaz Hirai told MCV that it's a long way off—specifically, the "digital future is over ten years away....
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I Hope Panasonic is Eating a Lot of Fake Sushi This Week [Block Quote]






Panasonic has been caught gobbling the fake sushi this week, after comments their Senior VP Bob Perry made a while back reappeared and bit them on the bum. Panasonic's 2D-to-3D TVs were announced on Monda...
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Aging Rocker John Mellencamp Says the Internet Has "Destroyed the Music Business" [Block Quote]






Not only has it destroyed the music business, but "it's going to destroy the movie business," too. Obviously Mellencamp has a new album he's pimping out (and headlines he's trying to grab), but the atomic...
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Don't Even Tempt Them, BlackBerry... [Block Quote]






RIM's CEO Mike Lazaridis spoke out ahead of tomorrow's banning of BlackBerry services in Saudi Arabia, coolly pointing out that "everything on the Internet is encrypted. This is not a BlackBerry-only issu...
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Google's Facebook Rival Won't Be a Rip Off...Says Google [Blockquote]






Codenamed "Google Me," Google's rumored Facebook-like site wasn't exactly confirmed by their CEO Eric Schmidt, when talking to the WSJ, but he did have something to say about cloned sites, and how no-one ...
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Prince Rants and Raves About the Internet, iTunes and "Digital Gadgets" [Blockquote]






Prince is as renowned for his feelings towards iTunes and the internet as he is for women wearing raspberry berets. In an interview with the Daily Mirror, he repeated that "the internet's completely over,...
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Fighting Words From BlackBerry [Block Quote]






RIM's so confident that its upcoming two flagship phones and OS 6.0 will pound the competition into mincemeat, their co-CEO Jim Balsillie has taken to using physics to express his excitement. It better no...
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Steve Ballmer Takes On Everyone (Microsoft Included) [Block Quote]






Steve Ballmer took his turn in the hot seat today at D8, and anybody hoping for a few candid spitballs from Microsoft's quotable CEO wasn't disappointed. Ballmer had plenty to say about everyone's faults&...
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Hurt Locker Producer Drops Email Bomb On BitTorrenter [Block Quote]






Hurt Locker producer Nicolas Chartier—you know, the guy who wants to sue tens of thousands of people for downloading his movie—has made two things very clear over email: pirates are morons, an...
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Francis Ford Coppola Watched Part of Avatar Without 3D Glasses On [Blockquote]






Joining fellow film industry chum Roger Ebert, Godfather director Coppola has spoken out against 3D movies, saying that "until you can watch 3D without glasses, it's the same thing we know." More ...
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Do Not Watch Samsung 3DTV If Drunk Or Preggers [Blockquote]






Samsung's 3DTVs come with a list of warnings as long as you are tall. Basically, you shouldn't watch 3DTV under the same conditions that you wouldn't drive a car. Better wear a seatbelt, then. [Samsung vi...
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Jon Rubinstein Gets Frank On What Palm Could've Done [Blockquote]






In another world, the Pre would be available on more than Sprint and Verizon, Palm would've made $22 million last quarter, and their ads would've actually made you want one of their phones. Oh, and Google...
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Google's Sergey Brin On Microsoft's Refusal To Tackle Chinese Censorship [Block Quote]






After Microsoft refused to take a stand with Google against China's web censorship (and Bill Gates commented that the censorship was "very limited,") Sergey Brin has shoved back, saying he's "very disappo...
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The Entertainment Industry's Biggest Problem: "Piracy" Is Too Sexy a Word [Block Quote]






It's tough being a record label or a movie studio these days. People are stealing your content, all because they want to be Jack Sparrow. No, seriously: that's actually what the industry thinks. More&n...
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The Pirate Bay's Founder Likens P2P To Coke [Blockquote]






At SXSW, The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde helmed a conference via Skype, where he likened P2P to Coca Cola, and The Pirate Bay to sugar. He also said he could make Sergey Brin "want to marry me." [TechRadar] ...
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The Best Google-Yahoo Comparison To Date [Block Quote]
Happy Birthday, Yahoo! You turned 15 today. As a present, here's a pretty scathing assessment of you from Ditherati, compliments of Twitter. You know, your new content-sharing partner! It's okay... everyone's teen years are awkward.
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz'...
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Google CEO Thinks Buzz Privacy Worked Just Dandy [Block Quote]
So much for apologies! Google CEO Eric Schmidt yesterday described user discomfort over Buzz's privacy issues as "confusion," saying that "nobody's personal information was disclosed." This is, of course, complete and utter manure.
Buzz's privacy problems...
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