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Super Bowl How-To Special: Set Up Your HDTV, Plan a Party, Throw a Football
Posted: February 1st, 2008, 8:30pm EST by Compiler blog
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Planning a Super Sunday shindig? Still trying to figure out where to plug in the HDTV? Consult our Super Bowl How-To guide for tips on geeking up the big game.
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Next-Gen Point-and-Shoots and Hot Lenses at PMA 2008
Posted: February 1st, 2008, 8:00pm EST by Dave Bullock
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Wired News presents a gallery of highlights from the Photo Marketing Association's 2008 trade show in Las Vegas, including digital cameras, high-end lenses and other photo goodies.
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FCC Auction Ensures Open Access — If in Name Only
Posted: February 1st, 2008, 8:00pm EST by Bryan Gardiner
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An anonymous bidder has met the reserve price for the so-called C-block of 700 MHz in the FCC's ongoing auction, virtually guaranteeing that the FCC's open-access conditions will be met. Open-access advocates greeted the news with mixed reactions.
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Pirate Bay Says It Can't Be Sunk, Servers Scattered Worldwide
Posted: February 1st, 2008, 6:30pm EST by Threat Level
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The Pirate Bay says it won't shutter, even if its operators are convicted. Its servers are scattered across the globe, out of reach of the Swedish authorities. Defendant Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi says the charges are "lame."
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Skeptics Doubt We'll See ZAP's $30K Electric Sports Car in 2009
Posted: February 1st, 2008, 5:00pm EST by Chuck Squatriglia
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Can't afford $98,000 for a Tesla Roadster? ZAP's Alias costs 69 percent less and has 25 percent fewer wheels. ZAP says to look for it in 2009; analysts say don't bother.
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Microsoft Bids for Yahoo: Do Two Losers Make a Winner?
Posted: February 1st, 2008, 5:00pm EST by Betsy Schiffman
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The key to Microsoft's proposed $44.6 billion acquisition of Yahoo is both companies' desire to build an advertising platform that can compete with Google's AdWords.
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Hulu to Stream Super Bowl Commercials After Game
Posted: February 1st, 2008, 4:30pm EST by Underwire
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Revel in the coolest and most-expensive marketing spots following the Patriots-Giants showdown, as the video site serves up a post-game advertising blitz.
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The Damage Done, Terry Semel Steps Down from Yahoo Board
Posted: February 1st, 2008, 3:30pm EST by Epicenter Blog
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On the eve of Microsoft's $44 billion bid for Yahoo, former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel announced his resignation from the Yahoo board of directors. Semel presided over a multiyear decline in Yahoo's market share, while collecting nearly half a billion dollars in compensation.
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Jumper Applies Showbiz Science to Teleportation. Beam Us Up!
Posted: February 1st, 2008, 3:00pm EST by Michelle Kung
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Doug Liman, director of the new sci-fi thriller Jumper, employs teleportation technology to connect two different environments for a split second.
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Flickr Rebellion Brews at Specter of MS Acquisition
Posted: February 1st, 2008, 2:30pm EST by Compiler
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A small but vocal minority on Flickr are already staging cyber-protests at the prospect of a Microsoft takeover of Flickr's owner, Yahoo. Flickr is one of several popular Web 2.0 sites owned by Yahoo that loyal users fear will suffer under Microsoft ownership.
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'Twisted Metal' Director Talks Car Combat
Posted: February 1st, 2008, 2:15pm EST by Game|Life
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David Jaffe talks about the "extra twisted" PlayStation 2 version of Sony's classic videogame that's ready to roll next week.
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Microsoft-Yahoo Merger By the Numbers
Posted: February 1st, 2008, 2:00pm EST by Epicenter blog
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Microsoft's $44 billion bid for Yahoo translates into nearly $1,200 for each unique monthly visitor to Yahoo's web sites. You want more metrics? We got 'em. Get your red-hot data here!
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Camera Vendors Busting Out the Megapixels, HD Video at PMA08
Posted: February 1st, 2008, 2:00pm EST by Dave Bullock
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PMA08 in Las Vegas features some of the latest in photogeek equipment, from increases in megapixel capabilities to stunning HD video equipment.
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Berkeley to Host Tribute to Missing Renowned Scientist Jim Gray
Posted: February 1st, 2008, 1:00pm EST by Wired Science
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Berkeley will host a tribute for Jim Gray, the renowned former Microsoft engineer who went missing at sea in January 2007.
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Nostalgic NASA Launching Beatles Tune to North Star
Posted: February 1st, 2008, 11:30am EST by Associated Press
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Driven by nostalgia as much as the desire to lay a really good song on some appreciative aliens, NASA will beam the Beatles' "Across the Universe" to Polaris, a distance of 2.5 quadrillion miles.
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India's Net Service About 80 Percent Restored
Posted: February 1st, 2008, 11:00am EST by Associated Press
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A day after losing most of its internet service as part of a wider Mideast-Asia blackout, India expects to have most customers back online by sundown Friday.
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Shock and Awe: Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion for Yahoo
Posted: February 1st, 2008, 10:50am EST by Epicenter
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Smelling blood on the water, Microsoft's spectacular bid is intended to close the deal. Wall Street seems to like the idea.
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Earnings In, and Google Isn't Bulletproof After All
Posted: February 1st, 2008, 10:40am EST by Associated Press
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Although top execs say all is well, investors are skittish after the internet giant fails to meet Wall Street's expectations.