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Ernest Adams, Freelance Writer, Game Designer and contributor, has written another entry for his series, “The Designer’s Notebook,” about the PS3 and Wii. The question he poses in this column is “which will developers want to work on?” I believe that’s something we’d all like to know. Read more »

Toshiba is showing off a new HD-DVD drive capable of reading and writing on the new media. HD-DVDs are garnering attention for their high-definition video playback, but like Blu-Ray, the optical disk format is also perfect for storing large amounts of data; HD-DVD typically can store […] Read more »

Major League Baseball is trying bat Sling Media around according to CNET. The claim is that viewing content on multiple devices should require paying for that content multiple times. Sling Media’s Slingbox allows you place-shift television content from your TV to any single computing device, which […] Read more »

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Niall and I met with Matt Mullenweg, lead developer of open source project, WordPress, and founder of Automattic, this week and asked him about his experiences with starting, building and scaling WordPress.com and Akismet, the spam plug-in which is often coming to the rescue to most […] Read more »

It seems the Tablet PC is growing in popularity with Mac users, no doubt since Apple just won’t listen to the masses who keep asking for a Mac Tablet.  Some brave Mac owners are doing what they have to do and picking up Tablet PCs to […] Read more »

Karl Bode: If you thought dirty tricks were reserved for presidential politics, you should try wiring your town with fiber optic cable. As several communities prepare to vote on such home-grown broadband networks today, they face disinformation campaigns, bogus think tank studies, and an uphill battle […] Read more »

I have read more broadband-over-powerline stories this weekend than ever before. Barrons, Telephony, and every single magazine/newspaper is buzzing about BPL, despite the fact that most of the trials of this technology have not worked out. FCC obviously has done a great job to refocus the […] Read more »

FCC’s decision to extend monopolistic control over the last mile has The Consumer Federation of America and Consumers Union all riled up. They are worried that lack of competition will only increase prices, limit choices, and result in slower innovation. “The FCC today took our country […] Read more »

Okay, so I’ve spent some time messin’ with the new Blackberry 7100t, and while it has some well-implemented features, I’ve come to the conclusion that I’ll never own one. My biggest complaint? Why in hell would the benevolent folks from the north (read RIM) decide to […] Read more »

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PC magazine say VoIP finally worth a look. Alternatively, a story that makes advertiser quite happy. Painless VoIP set-up! No I am not lying! WebUnited goes VoIP Yankee Group thinks VoIP is ready for primetime. Actually it means they are ready to sell a report on […] Read more »

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