Netflix CEO: Less Than 6% Of Our Subscribers Use Blu-ray How many people does Netflix (NFLX) expect to pay its $1-per-month Blu-ray rental surcharge, which it'll begin charging next month? Not many: About 500,000 -- or less than 6% of its current 8.67 million subscriber b [..]
'CSI' Creator's Latest Fiction: The Web Is Killing Me "CSI" creator Anthony Zuiker had some choice words about the Internet at the National Association of Broadcasters confab: "I lost 8 million viewers on our premiere last season. Where are they? They're o [..]
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P&G Bets Two Podcasting Moms Will Make For Good-Looking Video The women behind Mommycast, a three-year-old audio podcast with more than a million subscribers, are taking their schtick to video, courtesy of Procter & Gamble.
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Japan turning itself into Cyberman machine civilisation Three million converted to undying robotoids by 2025
Enormous numbers of people are being replaced by (or perhaps converted into) robots, reports suggest, and the trend is set to continue.
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PodTech, A Onetime High-Flyer, Sells For A Song PodTech, the once-promising creator of tech-related videos and podcasts, was sold for less than a half-million dollars to ViewPartner, a telecommunications firm, VentureBeat report [..]
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GTA IV: Big Sales. Take-Two Shares: Small Bump (TTWO) Take-Two Interactive's GTA IV was only on sale for five days during the April reporting period, but that's all it needed to take home bragging rights for the month. Take-Two (TTWO) sold 2.85 million units in North Ameri [..]
Bebo Update: Still Not Big in The U.S. (TWX) It was hard to find any American who had heard of Bebo before AOL (TWX) ponied up $850 million to buy the social network last spring. So what's changed since the deal went down two months ago? [..]
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Best Western plays down impact of hack attack 8 million records? Huh, more like 10
Hotel chain Best Western has denied falling victim to a large-scale hacking attack.
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See Tekken film stars in costume Filed under: Culture, Fighting
We're still not sure if we want to actually see a film based on Tekken, but we know that whether it crashes and explodes into a million pieces or narrowly escapes ut [..]
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Tap Into the 12-Million-Teraflop Handheld Megacomputer A single worldwide computer — think of it. We are even now collectively assembling this megacomputer from our billions of net-connected devices. Its software is our collective online behavior. Forget Web 3.0: The One Machine is the next stage of tech evolution.
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The $100M iFund Is Now One Third Smaller (AAPL) Are you an iPhone developer hoping to get a piece of the $100 million iFund? You better hurry up. The Kleiner Perkins-backed cash hoard earmarked for coders working on Apple's mobile platform, [..]
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CBS To Advertisers: Go Ahead, Have Some Free Football On The Web CBS chief Les Moonves was pretty proud of his network's $23 million haul from its Webcast of March Madness last spring. But as the network puts more live sports online this fall, it's looking more like a freebee f [..]