At the 2009 CES, Sony and Panasonic showed 3D HDTV as product concepts. Nvidia showed off its ability to display games in 3D and several other smaller companies demonstrated various 3D technologies, some with polarized glasses, some with shutter-glasses. I liked Sony’s demonstrations the best because they used lightweight polarized glasses.
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According to the League of American Bicyclists, there are some 57 million Americans who ride a bike , all of which will now be able to map their daily commute, check out side trails, or any other biking activities without getting lost. Why is that? Google this morning announced it has added biking directions in the U.S. to Google Maps. And not just a handful of trails in select cities, either, but a whole new biking layer that differentiates between bike trails, bike lanes, and bike friendly roads.
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Comedy Central’s parent company Viacom is apparently moving ahead with plans to remove popular shows like The Daily Show and the Colbert Report from Hulu. Neither side is crying foul, but this represents a major loss to Hulu. The Daily Show is listed as the third most watched show on the service. Hulu and Viacom originally reached an agreement in 2008 that landed the programs on the streaming service
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This probably won’t come as a surprise to anyone with an Internet connection, but according to a new survey by Pew Research Center, online news has supplanted newspapers as the third most popular form of news, trailing only local and national TV stations. “News awareness is becoming an anytime, anywhere, any device activity for those who want to stay informed,” PRC said. No single site dominates the online news scene, though PRC did say that news aggregators such as Google News and AOL were more popular than other outlets. Even still, over 90 percent of the survey’s respondents said they get their news from more than one method, and 57 percent said they browse between two and five websites for their daily dose of world events. “Americans have become news grazers both on and offline — but within limits,” said Amy Mitchell, deputy director for the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.
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Have you encountered a webpage that you really wanted to share on your favorite social service (or make a note of to yourself) only to find the “Share Options” are extremely limited? Now you can easily access extended sharing goodness with the AddThis Bookmarklet. Note: There will be some webpages where this bookmarklet will not work because JavaScript is blocked/disabled from functioning (i.e. the official Google Chrome extensions website).
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Like most of you, Windows Media Player is my favourite audio and video player. Every time I start my notebook, I like to listen to old hits. As opening the same playlist again and again is a boring task to do, I have done this simple tweak so that WMP will automatically start and playing my favourite playlist. In simple words, you can make your WMP to start playing your favourite playlist at any predefined time by using this guide.
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New statistics show that Twitter users in the UK have declined over the past few months, prompting analysts to question whether the site has hit its peak. Nielson’s figures show that 4,427,000 UK people logged onto Twitter in September of last year, with the figure declining by 24 per cent in October to 3,364,000. This dropped further (although percentage wise not as much) to 3,414,000 in December – a trend which is seeping into January’s figures. Twitter off-shoots popular It’s not all doom and gloom however (if you can call a global audience of 50 million plus doom and gloom), as Alex Burmaster, of Nielson, notes that Twitter off-shoots are rising in popularity
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China has denied any involvement with the recent cyberattacks that targeted Google and about 35 other large U.S. corporations, but when it comes to the country’s media, China’s more than willing to openly go on the offensive . “It is not difficult to see the shadow of the U.S. government behind the politicization of the Google affair,” Communist newspaper, People’s Daily, wrote partially in response to Hillary Clinton’s defense of Google threatening to shut down service in China. The paper added that American politicians are using Google “in an effort to restrict China’s right to protect its national security and interests on the Internet.” These comments come despite the fact that Google continues to filter out content the Chinese government deems “sensitive” and has asked to talk to China about the situation.
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It’s difficult to envision a life without email. I’m not sure if that’s a good or a bad thing. Suffice, digital messaging is just a fact of geek life that we all have to deal with on a daily basis. Whether your inbox gets flooded with messages like the Nile during rainy season, or it’s barren as one of those outback wastelands that Bear Grylls likes to visit, you probably aren’t using your email client of choice to its fullest potential.
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What is the most humourless environment in the entire world right now? We’d say it’s a toss-up between Iain Lee’s living room on a Wednesday evening and any airport terminal across the globe, with the latter this week seeing a stunning case of extreme job-doing by UK airport security staff. Silly man Paul Chambers made a joke on Twitter saying he would “blow up” Doncaster’s Robin Hood Airport if his flight was delayed, which is admittedly a Category A Stupid offence – but the end result was quite something else. DROP THE MAGAZINE, LADY: “…then I’m going to spend £4.75 on a rubbish baguette” [Image credit: Flickr ] Police arrested him under the terrorism act, confiscated his laptop, computer and iPhone, and he has been banned from the airport for life, all for Tweeting about bombs
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