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Archive for October 25th, 2009

Netflix Movies to Stream to Sony’s PlayStation 3 (Brad Stone/Bits)

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

Brad Stone / Bits:
Netflix Movies to Stream to Sony’s PlayStation 3  —  Next month, the nine million American owners of Sony’s PlayStation 3 game consoles will have another entertainment option available: streaming movies and TV shows from Netflix.  —  The long-awaited announcement gives Netflix another distribution channel …

Netflix Movies Stream to Sony’s PlayStation 3 (Brad Stone/Bits)

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

Brad Stone / Bits:
Netflix Movies Stream to Sony’s PlayStation 3  —  Next month, the 9 million U.S. owners of Sony’s PlayStation 3 game consoles will have another entertainment option available to them: streaming movies and TV shows from Netflix.  —  The long-awaited announcement gives Netflix another distribution channel …

Twitter Serves Up Ideas From Its Followers (Claire Cain Miller/New York Times)

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Twitter Serves Up Ideas From Its Followers  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Companies big and small monitor Twitter to find out what their customers like and what they want changed.  Twitter does the same.  —  It started two years ago as a bare-bones service, offering little more than the […]

T-Mobile officially unveils $99 Even More, $79 Even More Plus plans … (Ross Miller/Engadget)

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

Ross Miller / Engadget:
T-Mobile officially unveils $99 Even More, $79 Even More Plus plans and equipment installment option  —  Right on schedule with the whispers, T-Mobile lifted the veil off of its new price plan tier structure, Even More and Even More Plus, and from the looks of it all those leaks were pretty […]

What Comes After Hard Drives? (Lisa Zyga/PhysOrg.com)

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

Lisa Zyga / PhysOrg.com:
What Comes After Hard Drives?  —  (PhysOrg.com) — The ability to store and retrieve data is an important component of today’s computers, as well as other modern electronic devices such as cell phones, video game consoles, and camcorders.  Since their invention in the 1950s …

WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal [Updated] (Nancy Scola/Personal Democracy Forum)

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

Nancy Scola / Personal Democracy Forum:
WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal [Updated]  —  WhiteHouse.gov has gone Drupal.  After months of planning, says an Obama Administration source, the White House has ditched the proprietary content management system that had been in place since the days of the Bush Administration in favor …

How High Will Real-Time Search Fly? (Miguel Helft/New York Times)

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

Miguel Helft / New York Times:
How High Will Real-Time Search Fly?  —  WHEN a US Airways plane landed in the Hudson River in January, the first picture appeared on Twitter.  In June, Twitter users were mourning Michael Jackson before major news outlets reported his death.  And, this month, as much of the nation was […]

Mark Zuckerberg on how to build hacker culture inside a company (Kim-Mai Cutler/VentureBeat)

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Mark Zuckerberg on how to build hacker culture inside a company  —  (I’m live-blogging from Startup School, a daylong program from startup incubator YCombinator held at Berkeley today.  Mark Zuckerberg is on-stage for a question-and-answer session.  You can watch it here live or update as we go.