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This is future of watching the Super Bowl

Ronald O Carlson — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:14:12 +0000

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:

Online dating algorithms don’t work

John Lister — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:57:50 +0000

With Valentine’s Day approaching, online dating companies aren’t feeling the love. They’ve just been hit by a scientific review that claims most of their services don’t really work as advertised.

The claims comes in a forthcoming issue of the Association for [...] Related posts:

Amazon eyeing up chain of retail stores

Dave Parrack — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:57:39 +0000

When a company which has single-handedly killed off many bricks-and-mortar retailers plans a chain of retail stores itself, you know the world has gone mad.

Amazon can be blamed for forcing many companies out of business. They, and the [...] Related posts:

Kayak, Halliburton dropping Blackberry

Ronald O Carlson — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:57:24 +0000

Slip sliding away. Once upon a time, if you worked for a big corporation that provided a smartphone, chances are that device was a Blackberry — it was the device to have. No more as developers and corporations flee the platform for the greener and more secure pastures of the iPhone.

Last week, [...] Related posts:

Trendnet net admits home security cams can be viewed by all

John Lister — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:49:23 +0000

American firm Trendnet produces a range of home security cameras that let users check activity in their property while away, via an Internet connection. The problem — which the company has only just admitted — is [...] Related posts:

Samsung’s Galaxy Note Super Bowl ad designed to tempt Apple fanboys away

Dave Parrack — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:08:52 +0000

How not to tempt Apple fanboys away from their beloved: mock them while trying to sell them a phone/tablet that does neither thing very well.

As a Brit the Super Bowl means nothing to [...] Related posts:

The $200 million Facebook wall post

Ronald O Carlson — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:04:42 +0000

The big news of last week was the announcement of Facebook’s initial public offering (IPO) and the 1,000-plus soon to be minted millionaires that will result. Perhaps the most unlikely of these is David Choe, the guy that took options in lieu of payment for a bawdy wall mural he painted in Facebook’s [...] Related posts:

TripAdvisor can’t claim to be trusted

John Lister — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:52:37 +0000

TripAdvisor will not longer be allowed to tell British users that its holiday reviews can be trusted. Advertising regulators said that can’t be certain because there’s nothing to stop bogus reviews being posted.

The Advertising Standards Authority made its ruling [...] Related posts:

Let’s play Phone Stack and enjoy our dinner

Susan Wilson — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Being addicted to your cell phone is not uncommon. Many of us have [...] Related posts:

Whatever happened to Pottermore

Susan Wilson — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:43:00 +0000

The website announced by J.K. Rowling back in July has yet to come out of beta. That means [...] Related posts: