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The Best And Worst Things About Being A Billionaire: A Q&A With Mark Cuban
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At our IGNITION conference last fall, Mark Cuban summed up his life in one quip: "Someone has to be the world's luckiest person!" Cuban certainly could be the world's "luckiest man," but that would discount his incredible savvy as a businessman and investor. Cuban made his fortune when he...
Facebook Adds "Organ Donor" Status Update Option
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Facebook has modified sharing options on the Timeline to allow folks to share their organ donor status on Facebook. The company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is discussing the new feature this morning on ABC's "Good Morning America." Facebook users already signed up with a donor registry can add the date they...
The Truth About Foxconn: It's Not That Bad
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Read it at Bloomberg > Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story »See Also:A Tour Of The Foxconn Factory Where Teenagers Are Making Your iPhone For $1.78 An HourGuess How Long It Takes To Make An iPadApple And Foxconn Respond To ABC's Report On...
What we learned from the 'Nightline' report on Foxconn factories
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After teasing the story yesterday, Nightline has aired its report from Foxconn's factories on ABC. In the report, host Bill Weir speaks directly to factory workers as well as their managers. You would think that this "unprecedented" look inside Apple factories would reveal much we didn't know, but the...
Anonymous hacks into 78 Syrian government email accounts
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Anonymous strikes again: this time it has hacked into the email accounts of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's aides, reports Haaretz. The hacker group released 78 username and password combinations for the accounts, and 56 of those accounts used the password "12345," while five others added just a "6" to...
Comcast Subscribers Can Now Connect to WatchESPN, With Service Coming Soon to XfinityTV.com
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Comcast and ESPN are making good on their promise to bring live sports to iPads and other devices, announcing today that Comcast subscribers can now log in to ESPN’s WatchESPN mobile and web apps. And coming soon, ESPN will be making its live TV streams available through Comcast’s XfinityTV.com web...
Google takes you on a tour of the White House, still no sign of Lincoln's gold
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With all of the hubbub around the race for the White House, have you ever wondered what actually lies behind the doors of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? With some help from Google, the first family is taking users on a tour of the famous residence without having to jump on...
The average American still loves Google. Twitter…not so much
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The tech press has been teeing off on Google recently, ridiculing the company’s core motto, “Don’t Be Evil”, as it compromises it foundational product, search, in the name of social media. But when it comes to the average America, Google is still the most loved tech company by a wide...
Sony PS3 gets Amazon Instant Video app, streams purchased movies and Prime subscription content
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Sony's mystery addition to the PlayStation 3's streaming video service lineup is a mystery no more: it's Amazon Instant Video, the online retailer's collection of an estimated 100,000 movies and shows, as well as Prime Instant Video, the roughly 17,000 streaming items included along with a $79 Amazon Prime...
New York Times sees higher circulation numbers, digital paywall smiles knowingly
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Given how aggressively The New York Times pushes its digital packages -- we've long since dropped our subscription yet are still bombarded with offers -- you'd hope the paper was at least seeing some results. Well, never fear: it is. A report by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC)...
If You Want An Immediate 'No,' Start An Investor Pitch Like This
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We conducted a Q&A with billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban. He's a judge on ABC's Shark Tank and he is an angel investors, so he has seen a lot of startup pitches. We asked Cuban about the worst pitch he's ever seen. He replied, "Tons have started, 'I have a...
Facebook debuts ‘life-saving’ option to add organ donation to Timeline
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After teasing a new “life-saving” feature yesterday, Facebook has announced the ability to add organ donation status to a person’s Facebook Timeline. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared on Good Morning America early today to talk about the feature, saying that the idea of it came from having dinner with...
'Nightline' report on Apple production line shows iPhone is basically handmade
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ABC's Nightline special episode on Apple's production line offered an inside look at the company's supply chain but revealed few surprises, though it did show that the iPhone, with 141 separate steps that go into its production, is practically a handmade device....
Fanhattan Adds A Watchlist And Shows From NBC, HBO, And Cinemax To Its Video Discovery App
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When Fanhattan launched its iPad app last year, it had just four content sources to choose from. With the latest release of its app, being launched today, Fanhattan’s now got content from 14 different content providers, including some new cable TV content from networks like NBC, HBO, The CW,...
Cartoon Network's iPhone and iPad app adds a live TV feed, for authenticated customers
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Cartoon Network announced plans to join the TV Everywhere party with a live internet feed of its channel (for authenticated cable / satellite customers) during upfronts and now the updated v1.8 app has arrived on iPhones and iPads. The feed can also be streamed with Flash on the channel's...
Apple And Foxconn Respond To ABC's Report On Work Conditions (AAPL)
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On Monday night, Nightline aired a special report that took a look behind the scenes of a Foxconn factory. Now Apple and Foxconn have issued statements to clarify aspects of people saw, reports ABC. Apple responded to one worker's claim that she carves Apple logos into 6,000 iPads per shift:...
Foxconn Throws $1.6 Billion Into Sharp For Flatscreen Panels (AAPL)
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Apple manufacturer Foxconn is investing $1.6 billion in Sharp and committing to buying up to 50% of the company's flatscreen panels, reports Bloomberg. This could be a move on Foxconn's end to simply ensure that it has a decent supply for future products, such as the long-rumored Apple television....
Fox and NBC: Dish's commercial-skipping DVR 'a strange thing to do' at best, 'an insult' at worst
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Customers may be impressed by Dish Network's commercial-skipping Auto Hop feature on the Hopper DVR, but at least two networks aren't so happy. In a press call, Fox entertainment chairman Peter Rice said that adding the option to cut out commercials for broadcast television was "a strange thing to...
Arthur C. Clarke discusses the real 2001 in archive footage from 1974
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The late Arthur C. Clarke may have been most renowned for exploring the dangers of technology in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but just a few years later he was upbeat about the prospect for a computer world. Watch this 1974 archive footage from Australian broadcaster ABC and hear Clarke...
REPORT: New iMacs Will Also Get High Resolution Retina Displays (AAPL)
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Following the news that Apple plans to release a redesigned line of MacBooks with high resolution displays, ABC now reports new iMacs with better screens are coming too. The display will likely be similar in resolution to the "Retina display" found on iPhones and the new iPad. ABC's report doesn't...
Samsung Lightray 4G for MetroPCS leaked, complete with TV antenna
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Back in January at CES, we got a chance to look at a then-unnamed device for MetroPCS that featured Dyle Mobile TV. Today, as PCMag notes, Dyle briefly provided the name for said device on a FAQ page: the Samsung Lightray 4G. The phone is quite similar to the...
Diller-Backed Aereo Wins Broadcast-TV Clash
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Aereo, a start-up company retransmitting broadcast television signals to mobile devices, one a legal victory that puts renewed pressure on the likes of NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox....
CBS Mocks Its Own Failed Copyright Lawsuit By Sarcastically Announcing New 'Completely Original' Show 'Dancing On The Stars'
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A few weeks back, we wrote about a silly lawsuit from CBS, arguing that it could basically hold the copyright on some of the most basic concepts in reality TV. CBS was suing ABC, because ABC was about to put on Glass House, which was similar to CBS's Big Brother....
CBS Mocks Its Own Failed Copyright Lawsuit By Sarcastically Announcing New 'Completely Original' Show 'Dancing On The Stars'
Google Play gets TV, movie, and magazine purchases for Nexus 7
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Dan Goodin, Ars Technica Google announced the addition of TV, movies, and magazine purchases to Google Play today. The service will launch today with major partners on board such as Disney, ABC, NBC Universal, Sony Pictures, and Paramount for video and Hearst and Conde Nast for print. Previously, only...
Hulu refreshes its website UI: 55% larger video player
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Hulu rolled out a huge update to its website user interface today, increasing the size of its video player by 55 percent. The updated look makes a lot of sense since Hulu’s number one draw is current season TV shows from major broadcast networks like ABC, NBC, Fox, and...
Facebook removes “Find Friends Nearby”, company says it “wasn’t a formal release”
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Some of you didn’t even get a chance to introduce yourself to Facebook’s feature “Find Friends Nearby”, which we told you about this weekend. There’s a reason for it, as ABC has learned. Facebook has pulled the feature back, saying: This wasn’t a formal release – this was something that...
Everybody Loves Google; Only One-Third View Twitter Favorably
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Google is the most popular major tech company in America, slightly besting Apple, while Facebook lags far behind those two. Twitter polls the worst of the four, with only about one-third of Americans saying they view the company favorably. The data comes from a recent ABC/Washington Post poll of... Please...
10 Things You Need To Know This Morning (AAPL, HPQ, GOOG)
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Good morning! Here's the news: Apple and Foxconn have responded to ABC's report on factory work conditions. Here's the latest iOS bug everyone's freaking out about. This founder has a plan to keep a billion cars off the road. Here's the most important thing about Office on the iPad....
Amazon Instant Video adding Discovery, TLC, Animal Planet, and more
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Members of Amazon's $79-per-year Prime service are getting even more bang for their buck today with access to more streaming video content courtesy of Discovery Communications — the company behind Discovery Channel, TLC, Investigation Discovery, and Military Channel. The content includes past seasons of shows like Dirty Jobs and...
Netflix on the rise at the expense of kids' TV
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For some of us, Netflix and other streaming services are rendering the traditional syndicated TV paradigm less and less relevant by the day, but a new report suggests that this is affecting certain channels more than most. Bernstein Research used data from TiVo boxes to find out that, among...
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