TECH.BLORGE.com » Online video http://tech.blorge.com Top Technology news Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 This is future of watching the Super Bowl http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2012/02/08/nbc-2-1-million-streamed-super-bowl/ http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2012/02/08/nbc-2-1-million-streamed-super-bowl/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:14:12 +0000 Ronald O Carlson http://tech.blorge.com/?p=42243 How far has world come in 45 years? Believe or not, the television audience for the first Super Bowl in 1967 totaled more than 51 million people — it was broadcast (few people had cable back then) on both NBC and CBS. For latest iteration of the event, over 111 million watched on [...] Related posts:
  1. Watch Super Bowl XLIV to see the new Google ad – Nexus One or Search?
  2. Groupon pulls controversial Super Bowl commercials
  3. HD DVD uses the Super Bowl to aid in the HD DVD vs Blu-ray war
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  1. Worm kills off Harry Potter
  2. HP7 review
  3. Harry Potter-style invisibility cloaks edge closer to reality
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  1. Louis CK is making ‘shitloads of money’
  2. Google offers employee $3.5 million in stock not to join Facebook
  3. Dell makes $3 million from tweets – Twitter makes zero in return
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How cool is Samsung? Not going [...] Related posts:

  1. Samsung Instinct is flirting with the iPhone’s shadow
  2. Samsung bests Apple in Smartphone sales
  3. No Christmas joy for Samsung in Oz
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  2. Cable companies take aim at Hulu model
  3. DSL going down the tubes, customers driven to cable overall
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That not only makes Netflix the biggest data hog [...] Related posts:

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  2. Netflix eating up even more traffic
  3. Study shows Netflix tops Internet traffic during peak hours
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If you’re like me, you turned [...] Related posts:

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  3. Adobe building mobile Flash, competing with Microsoft & Sun
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  2. Digital Imax comes to Europe – Is 3D the future of cinema?
  3. Apple TV is the future of media entertainment
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Yep, the world’s second-favorite kiddie show about a street (behind Pigeon Street) became host to some unconventional action. Let’s just [...] Related posts:

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That’s how much a startup company with that codename has raised from a Who’s Who? of [...] Related posts:

  1. Chatroulette still trying to clean up its act – Napster creator Shawn Fanning helping
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  3. Chatroulette needs to lose the penises
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