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Penn State Crowdfunds Lunar Lion Lander

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Earlier this week, Penn State’s Lunar Lion team launched a crowdfunding effort to raise a little over $400,000 towards its goal of putting a lander on the Moon to win Google’s Lunar X-Prize. In order...

HBO, Showtime, and Starz say they didn’t lose subscribers to Netflix and others

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This week a report came out from NPD that says the major pay TV networks like HBO, Showtime, and Starz are losing their subscribers to streaming services like Netflix, Amazon, and others. Showtime,...

5 Reasons to Start Loving Windows 8.1

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You don’t have to look far to find reports that Windows 8 (and the updated Windows 8.1) is an unmitigated failure. A quick search turns up stories detailing why Windows 8 has failed, why Windows 8...

Smartphones Shipments Dip In 1Q 2014

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That’s right, it had to happen! It was only a matter of time before smartphone growth started to slow. Yes, we’ve seen this before with a number of other consumer electronic devices from the TV to...

Big Deals on Big Screen TV’s before the Big Game

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With the impending February 2nd Superbowl coming up fast, you might want to treat your friends/family to a 60-inch screen or larger. Price is always an important factor, so here's two of the best...

Top CEOs meet in Davos

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Davos is the place to be for the world’s top executives and political figures this week but what happens if you’re not deemed important enough to get in? Here’s my tale from nine years ago. Something...

Court Prods FCC In Unexpected Direction In Last Week’s Verizon Ruling

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By Andy Oram A court ruling this past Tuesday on FCC “network neutrality” regulation closes and opens a few paths in a three-way chess game that has been going on for years between the US District...