Most TV -- Broadcast or Cable -- Saw Ad Revenue Fall Last Year
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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- While the nation tuned in TV favorites such as "24," "Lost" and "The Biggest Loser," the majority of U.S. broadcast and cable networks tuned in ad-revenue declines in 2009, according to new full-year data from Kantar Media....
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Sky's O2 broadband deal could signal dark clouds
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O2 and BE customers will soon be transferred on to a Sky service, but past transfer fiascos loom largeHome phone and broadband customers of both O2 and BE, who have officially became customers of Sky, are facing a nervous wait to see what this means in the long term for...
Twitter fiction: Damian Barr
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The writer and columnist takes up our Twitter-based challenge to come up with a story in 140 characters or fewer"Optimism is Savile Row then Harley St. The surgeon sighed expensively as x-rays and fate flickered. She made a note to cancel his winter coat."• Maggie & Meis published by Bloomsbury on 9 May...
X-51A WaveRider hypersonic missile successfully hits Mach 5.1 in final test
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In its fourth and final test, the X-51A WaveRider pulled off three and a half minutes of flight under the power of its supersonic combustion ramjet (Scramjet), the longest such flight ever. The WaveRider, developed by Boeing, DARPA, and the Air Force, is designed to test the feasibility of...
This week's games news
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Worms: The Revolution Collection | Might & Magic: Heroes VI Shades Of Darkness | Mystery Murders: Jack The Ripper | Around The World In 80 Days | Outdoors Unleashed: Africa 3D | Zoo Park: Run Your Own Animal SanctuaryGames out this week include Worms: The Revolution Collection (Xbox) a mercifully...
Dead Island: Riptide - review
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PC, PS3, Xbox 360; Deep Silver; £24.99-£30.99Reading this on mobile? Click here to viewDead Island: Riptide begins with an escape from the original game's zombie-infested holiday island. Your bunch of feeble-minded caricatures are then captured by the army and shipwrecked on a neighbouring island, which turns out to be identical...
Soul Sacrifice - review
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PS Vita; Sony; £29.78-£31.95Reading this on mobile? Click here to viewYour character has been taken prisoner by the crazed magician Magusar. Fortunately, the skeletal cage he or she has been locked in also contains Librom, a sentient book with angry-looking eyes and a collection of bloodthirsty stories in which you...
Path app gets enhanced security features, more friend finding options in latest update
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Less than a week after being accused yet again over user privacy issues, social networking app Path on Friday released an update with enhanced security settings and a bevy of new features. ...
Silicon Valley And The Reinvention Of Food
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Fake meats have been around for years, but a new crop of Bay Area startups backed by tech investors think they can make meat substitutes good enough to compete with the real deal. Beyond Meat — backed by Twitter founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone via their company Obvious Corp...
Report: Apple 'cheap' iPhone actually a mid-price device?
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Two analysts from Wall Street investment bankers JP Morgan have produced an analysis of possible scenarios for the rumored (but not announced) "low cost" iPhone model expected to debut later this year, aimed at the large worldwide "prepaid" market. Based both on research of existing entries in that market space...
Twitter gives API 1.0 a reprieve, lets it live until June 11th
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Those who preferred Twitter's earlier, more liberal ways have regarded May 7th with a sense of dread, as that's when API 1.0 (and our chance at a truly competitive app ecosystem) was supposed to go dark. While the company isn't about to reverse course, it is giving the refuseniks...
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