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From PC World: Netflix’s CEO Reed Hastings thinks he has a great idea to stop more customers from defecting since its recent price hike: split his company into two operations, require users to maintain two separate accounts, and add video games. Hastings announced late Sunday that... |
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From CNET News.com: Following reports yesterday that suggested Facebook would use its upcoming F8 developers conference to announce some sort of music and/or video service, The New York Times says it has confirmed the service with anonymous industry sources, and the paper has... |
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From DailyTech: Uh oh, Japan's Sony Corp. is back at it again. The company who installed malicious rootkits on users computers via music CD, banished OtherOS from the PS3, and legally harassed/tried to sue into bankruptcy hardware enthusiasts who modified the firmware of the... |
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From DailyTech: Hewlett-Packard Company's CEO Léo Apotheker has quite the troubled past. As the leader of SAP AG he was fired for failing to help the company keep pace with American business software rivals International Business Machines, Inc. and Oracle Corp.. To make matters... |
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From X-bit Labs: According to The NPD Group, back-to-school sales turned out much better than the first half of 2011, when retail notebook sales in the U.S. declined more than 12% over the prior year. During the two-month back-to-school period (July through August), Windows notebook... |
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From X-bit Labs: Google’s recent acquisition of Motorola Mobility may yet allow the search giant to achieve success with its faltering Google TV product, as Google tries again to penetrate the market for Internet-enabled televisions and set-top boxes, an area projected to more than... |
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Although I have been in Canada since I was one and half years old, I have always been particularly proud of my Hong Kong heritage. Okay, I will be realistic here. Although my grandparents, my parents, and myself were all born in this wonderful city in the East, I neither look nor act fobby; if you have no idea what that means, look it up -- you are on the internet, haha. But at the very least, I can read and write Chinese, and... |
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As some of you may know, I recently visited the largely populated city of Hong Kong. The general notion for the average North American is that Hong Kong is a great city with lots of attractions, fabulous shopping deals, and excellent authentic Chinese cuisine. To fully experience and enjoy Hong Kong though, one must spend at least one whole day in Mong Kok. What is Mong Kok? Simply put, it is frequently one of the densest places... |
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From PC World: A federal judge threw out a small part of Oracle's Java lawsuit against Google on Thursday but allowed the bulk of the case to proceed. Oracle sued Google last year, arguing that Google had violated its Java intellectual property by writing its own version of the Java... |
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From CNET News.com: Investors are fleeing Netflix's stock and many subscribers have turned their backs on the Web's No. 1 video-rental service. A combination of skimpy selection in Netflix's Internet-streaming library, problems acquiring content, and an unpopular price increase have... |
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