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Twitter partners with NBA to highlight in-game replays, Blake Griffin posterizations
Posted On 17 May 2013 By Darren Murph. Under: Uncategorized.
In all honesty, Blake Griffin himself could start a social network that served no purpose outside of featuring his dizzying (and disgusting, if you will) array of dunks, and it'd probably go over quite well. Instead, he -- along with other superst...
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Yahoo rumors ahead of Monday’s event include $1.1 billion Tumblr buy, Flickr updates
Posted On 17 May 2013 By Richard Lawler. Under: Uncategorized.
Earlier today, Yahoo sent press invites to a "product-related" event in New York City Monday afternoon and there are already two separate rumors about the company's plans. The first, from Bloomberg, concerns the event specifically and cites a "per...
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Hangouts Easter Eggs put dinos and ponies in your chat
Posted On 17 May 2013 By Terrence O'Brien. Under: Uncategorized.
If the 850 hand-drawn emoji included in Hangouts aren't enough for you, we've got some good news -- there's a small collection of Easter Eggs that add even more whimsy to your discussions. The commands are mostly initiated with an IRC-like "/" fol...
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Firefox 22 beta enables WebRTC by default, HiDPI displays on Windows
Posted On 17 May 2013 By Jon Fingas. Under: Uncategorized.
Though Mozilla has long been a proponent of WebRTC for plugin-free video and voice chat, it hasn't been ready to enable the full protocol in Firefox as a matter of course. It's more confident as of this week: the newly available Firefox 22 beta tu...
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Yahoo schedules product-related event for May 20th in NYC, Marissa Mayer expected to speak
Posted On 17 May 2013 By Darren Murph. Under: Uncategorized.
Call us crazy, but it sure feels like Yahoo's had one heck of a spring. When it comes to spending, anyway. Just as soon as it can get one check to clear, the search icon is breaking the ink back out to write another. According to a breaking tweet ...
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YouTube’s One Channel becoming the standard next month, cut-off date set for June 5th
Posted On 17 May 2013 By Edgar Alvarez. Under: Uncategorized.
A few months have gone by since YouTube began testing its "One Channel" redesign in a private beta, after which Google allowed curious users to voluntarily opt in. But while some have been experiencing the next version of the site's design for awh...
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Soundhalo beta for Android lets us buy concert videos before the show is over
Posted On 17 May 2013 By Jon Fingas. Under: Uncategorized.
The urge to record video at a concert can be distracting for fans and musicians alike -- enough so that some bands now forbid it altogether. Soundhalo's new media service and Android beta might just keep both sides happy, as long as they've got th...
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Google Offers comes to Google+ with in-line save and share feature
Posted On 17 May 2013 By Terrence O'Brien. Under: Uncategorized.
The I/O keynote may be a fading memory, but Google's work isn't done just yet. Today its various services are getting a little more tightly knit as Offers comes to your Google+ stream. A select few brands (Zagat, Hello Kitty, Art.com, NOOK and Ada...
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Pinterest lets users send pins directly to friends, receive instant feedback
Posted On 16 May 2013 By Jon Fingas. Under: Uncategorized.
Despite being one of the hotter social networks, Pinterest hasn't been on the cutting edge of sharing: members wanting to send their pins through official channels have had to use old-fashioned email. The service is catching up to the modern era i...
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Amazon lands Prime Instant Video exclusives for five NBCUniversal shows
Posted On 16 May 2013 By Jon Fingas. Under: Uncategorized.
Amazon is still determined to snag every TV exclusive possible, and it just scored one of its better deals -- or at least, one of the more forward-thinking. It now has the sole unlimited subscription streaming rights to the previous seasons of fiv...
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