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NBC Using Authentication Wall for Olympics
At the rate online video is growing, I imagine there will be a lot of people wanting to watch the Olympics online come 2010. If that’s the case, they’d better not abandon their TV subscriptions. Using...
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Goodbye, NBC Universal’s Jeff Zucker!
Assuming that the government OKs Comcast’s acquisition of NBC Universal, network chief executive Jeff Zucker will depart. While I’m not one to dwell on personnel changes at entertainment companies,...
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No ABC, NBC or CBS Web Video for Google TV
Hulu isn’t the only online video site that’s blocking access from Google TV. ABC, NBC and CBS have restricted their websites too, Reuters reports. Fox may follow, an anonymous source tells Reuters....
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TechReads for July 14, 2014
The password is dying. (Christopher Mims/WSJ) And to prove it, Mims shares his own Twitter password (which is christophermims). Bringing back Prodigy. (Benj Edwards/The Atlantic) One man wants to...
View ArticleAt Comcast, You’re Not Just a Valued Customer–You’re Also an Indentured Servant
My friends Ryan Block and Veronica Belmont decided to cancel their Comcast service and switch to Astound, a smaller cable company available here in the Bay Area. So they called Comcast–and talked to a...
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One New Slingbox Caters to the Masses, the Other to High-End Users
Slingbox M1 When it debuted back in 2005, the original Slingbox–which let you pipe your TV signal at home over the Internet to a distant computer or smartphone–helped invent the whole idea that you...
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TechReads for July 16, 2014
Why that Comcast rep wouldn’t let Ryan and Veronica just cancel. (Adrianne Jeffries/The Verge) Because doing so would cost him money. Fox tried to buy Time Warner. (Andrew Ross Sorkin/Michael De La...
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The New Features in Jawbone’s Up App Are All About Eating
Thanks to wearable fitness gadgets such as Jawbone’s Up and Up24 wristbands, it’s now very easy to get some sense of how many calories you’re burning as you go about your everyday activities. But...
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Microsoft to reorg, cut up to 18,000 jobs. (Satya Nadella/Microsoft)
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How to Animate Your Dragon
A DreamWorks Animation artist works on How to Train Your Dragon 2 using Premo Mr. Peabody and Sherman, the computer-animated movie which DreamWorks Animation released in March is–of course–the tale of...
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A Celebration of James Garner’s Polaroid Commercials
They weren’t the best thing he ever did, or the one which we’ll cherish the most. But with the sad news of the passing of James Garner, it’s worth pausing to remember the commercials he did in the late...
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I’m Going to Want a Car With Built-In LTE…Eventually
Buick owners enjoying their car’s built-in LTE in a photo provided by GM Last week, General Motors invited me to a press event at which it showed off some new Buicks. Normally, such events involve...
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RIP, Jim Frederick
Jim Frederick, the first editor I had during my time as a tech writer for TIME, died unexpectedly on Thursday night. He was only 42, and I’m still in shock. The loss would be incalculable no matter...
View ArticleTechReads for August 11, 2014
Apple University revealed. (Brian X. Chen/NYTimes) Apple’s in-house training program sounds very, very Apple-esque.
View ArticleI’m Over at Fast Company. Join Me, Won’t You?
Just a quick reminder: I’m now happily ensconced in my new gig as technology editor for Fast Company. That means that the vast majority of my tech writing will appear on FastCompany.com. To see what...
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That Time I Interviewed Click and Clack
Back in the summer of 1997, I got my one and only assignment for a magazine called The Web, back when it seemed like it made sense to publish reviews and profiles relating to websites on dead trees. It...
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Technologizer: The Flipboard Edition
Back in 2014, when I became technology editor for Fast Company, I said I was keeping Technologizer open and reserved the right to write here if I had anything to say that didn’t fit into Fast Company....
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NBC Using Authentication Wall for Olympics
At the rate online video is growing, I imagine there will be a lot of people wanting to watch the Olympics online come 2010. If that’s the case, they’d better not abandon their TV subscriptions. Using...
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Goodbye, NBC Universal’s Jeff Zucker!
Assuming that the government OKs Comcast’s acquisition of NBC Universal, network chief executive Jeff Zucker will depart. While I’m not one to dwell on personnel changes at entertainment companies,...
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No ABC, NBC or CBS Web Video for Google TV
Hulu isn’t the only online video site that’s blocking access from Google TV. ABC, NBC and CBS have restricted their websites too, Reuters reports. Fox may follow, an anonymous source tells Reuters....
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