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Apple’s Laptop Line Gets a Graphics Boost

Apple has updated their laptop line (sans the “white MacBook”) with NVIDIA’s new GeForce graphics chips: the 9400M for the MacBook and MacBook Air, and the 9600M GT for the MacBook Pro. The 9400M contains 16 parallel graphics cores offering 54 Gigaflops of graphics… Read More »

Apple Appears Green, May Be More Greenish-Brown

Consumers may be perceiving Apple as a more ecologically friendly company than they actually are, according to a new report by marketing research firm TDG. Results of a survey of randomly selected participants found that roughly 30% believed Apple was the most environmentally friendly tech… Read More »

 
 

RealNetworks announced the availability of its RealDVD DVD “storage” software, and doubled-down on the sure-to-be controversial product by pre-emptively announcing a lawsuit against the major Hollywood studios. Read More »

Revision3, which has 20-odd web series that were mostly developed in-house, is making a bet that the next big stars of online video are already making their shows. But those shows are teetering on the edge of obscurity with nobody to help promote and… Read More »

Remember when Matt Damon said that Sarah Palin’s candidacy was like a bad Disney movie? Well, CollegeHumor, in their first political video ever, made the trailer for that “movie.” And when I was in New York earlier this week, I got the chance to… Read More »

Game day in the U.S. usually means a bottle of Bud and football on the television for a few hours. But for Willow TV‘s million registered users across the globe, it means cracking open a Kingfisher, firing up the PC and enjoying literally a day’s… Read More »

Talk Like A Pirate Day is arrrrrguably one of the Internet’s most ridiculous holidays, but hey, what better day than Friday for a few minutes of swashbuckler-themed frivolity? And there’s a decent variety of activity to choose from: Ninja of Ask a Ninja will be… Read More »

Jaman Gets Manga Content from Starz; movie site will offer such as Ghost in the Shell, Robotech and Astro Boy. (release) AT&T Synergizing iPhones and U-Verse; planned functionality includes using the iPhone as a remote and downloading shows to the mobile device. (Reuters) Comcast’s thePlatform Hooks… Read More »

Sure, the new iPod Nano is sweet, but why is NBC back on iTunes, and where’s a rental model for TV shows (especially HD ones)? Read More »

BitGravity raises $11 million from Allen & Co and Tata Communications. Verimatrix raised an undisclosed amount from SunAmerica Ventures (part of AIG) and Goldman Sachs as part of its Series C investments. Read More »

First I didn’t know about the Jonas Brothers. Then The Hills started dominating Google Trends. Does one have to watch MTV in order to write about online trends? The longer I do this, the more likely that seems. The Aug. 18th premiere of its… Read More »

Atheist/evolution expert Richard Dawkins is a controversial figure in Britain, and when confronted by his haterz, he shows the kind of grace and good humor that the typical YouTube vlogger would do well to imitate: And for those who have been covering online video since… Read More »

More Must Reads

Brand.net Raises $10 Million; ad network gets money from Norwest Venture Partners and previous investor InterWest Partners. (CNET) Animoto comes Out of Beta; photos-to-videos company celebrates its one-year anniversary, says it has 250K registered users that have created more than 4 million videos. (release) Mad Men Twitters… Read More »

Today, the Federal Communications Commission issued its formal order censuring Comcast for throttling P2P traffic as part of its network management practices, requiring the ISP to report, within 30 days, details on how it plans to manage its network. Nothing in the order is terribly… Read More »

Debates about the effectiveness of viral marketing have been waging for years, but a German-accented Darth Vader has never had a chance to weigh in on the subject — until, of course, this Star Wars redub. Admiral Motti questions whether or not viral ads… Read More »

Mobile video search startup Vuclip has done far better than most under-the-radar startups; It has 100 million monthly page views and $8.1 million from top investors. Read More »

After being out of commission for three days this week, Netflix has got its shipping back up and running. Like the bizarre death of Spinal Tap drummer Eric Childs, the mystery of why Netflix went down remains unsolved, or at least unknown by… Read More »

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