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Fox took a shot at making the Hopper DVR illegal. As with the last three who tried to take down Dish’s consumer-favorite, Fox fell short. Fox Broadcasting lawyers made an all-out push earlier this year to knock the newest version of Dish’s ad-skipping Hopper DVR off the market, but they
Consumer groups claim that it would save lives to compel automakers to install backup cameras in all new vehicles. President Bush directed the Department of Transportation to have new standards by 2011, but now they’re saying it won’t be until 2015 before they can make a rule. This didn&
You’re not a real tech company until you buy another tech company. That may or may not be true, but StumbleUpon has entered that arena with their first acquisition. Content discovery service StumbleUpon is announcing that it has acquired 5by, a video startup based in Montreal. The financial te
The President is quite popular on Twitter, or is he? Just when we thought Michelle Obama’s 2 million fake Twitter followers were something to gawk at, her husband dwarfed her numbers 10-fold. Among influential U.S. political tweeters, President Barack Obama is the undisputed king of the fake f
Normally, when gadgets get an upgrade, they get a price hike as well. Amazon is in the business of giving more for less and they’re proving it with the upgrade and price reduction of the Kindle Fire HD. This is, of course, due to the release of the Kindle Fire HDX. No surprise, of course, [&he
It might not be the hottest gadget of discussion as it was a couple of years ago prior to the Christmas buying season, but Amazon continues to make waves with each Kindle Fire release. The HDX may have an impact on your gift list this year. Amazon revealed its new Kindle Fire HDX tablets today [&hel
While some would say that the upcoming healthcare debate is about costs to the country, one individual found that having insurance even in his youth was important in avoiding a $200k doctor bill. You never know when you’re going to get shot three times. A few weeks ago, I wrote an essay for th
The mobile internet is great for most purposes, but there have always been challenges when it comes to continuously streaming videos. AT&T hopes to change this with an old MediaFLO spectrum they bought off Qualcomm. AT&T hopes to breath new life into some old airwaves by building a broadcast
It was bound to happen. Those who have been in social media for a while know that niche sites rarely stay within their initial scope. Flickr and YouTube are the exceptions as they’ve stayed true to their initial calling in pictures and videos, but Pinterest hopes to extend to the world of arti
The whole point of encryption software is to keep people out of it. Some of those people, as recent revelations have determined, are members of the NSA. Unfortunately, the very software meant to keep them out might give the NSA all of the information they need. Security Firm RSA has warned users of
It’s not uncommon. Newt Gingrich had them. Justin Bieber has them. Now the First Lady is the latest to have her Twitter account followed by a massive amount of fake users. Nearly 2 million of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Twitter followers are not real. According to the Twitter analytics applica
There’s a challenge with economic freedoms. Every country that expands capitalism finds that there are benefits, but one of the hardest parts to stomach is the increase in necessary wages. That combined with an aging population are pushing China to become more automated in their manufacturing
