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POPSKeeping an Eye on L.A.'s Tech Economy That's a difference of more than $2 billion--if even half of that ends up pumped into Web ventures and video games, it will prove the point that there is money to be made from Web video, undermining what the studios and producers have been arguing. And L.A. will become a bona fide tech capital.
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POPSYeah, but does it do Klingon? Google Chat offers language bots so you can converse with international Google users....but this type of machine translation is truly limited. To minimize miscommunication resulting from meanings lost in translation--especially if your business depends on it--check out natural language instant message translators such as NYC's Transclick.
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POPSI Dumped Word 94% of computer users haven't yet tried a web-based office suite like Google Docs--that means "Office 2.0" is even further from reality than I thought. I guess I fit in the 0.5% of people who've replaced Microsoft Office with an online alternative (except at work), a decision I definitely don't regret.
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POPSTexas RIM Blackberry's U.S. home is, as of Monday, in Irving, Texas. Nice town, home of Exxon Mobil and other big companies. Any coincidence that this patent litigating champ is choosing to to put its U.S. operations a car ride away from the Eastern District of Texas where all the best patent suits are litigated? Its basically the road on the map here between Dallas and Shreveport.
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POPSThis Bud's For You Fake Steve loathes iPod ear buds as jewelry. What would he say to $6,400 diamond-encrusted versions? I'm not sure if they're better or worse. Actually, they're worse: Ear buds are the worst listening devices ever. Better to wear them as bling than pretend the noises they produce are worth subjecting your ear drums to.
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POPSGetting Scared, Mr. Harrison? Nintendo marketing VP George Harrison told the New York Times that he worries that consumers who can't get their hands on a Wii will buy another system instead. But in an interview with Forbes.com in July, he said the exact opposite. Which is it? Is Nintendo acknowledging that consumers are getting over their Wii obssessions?
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POPS\/\/007 FTW! Merriam-Webster chose "woot," the video gamer's favorite interjection, as the word of the year. I've heard different theories of the word's origins, however. None of this "We Owned the Other Team." Instead, isn't it supposed to derive from excited multiplayer online role-playing gamers exclaiming "Wow, loot!," when they grab armor and prizes from a fallen enemy? As a |\|003, I might be wrong about that, however.
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POPSConsumers Shrug at Apple TV Only 400,000 Apple TVs sold so far? That's pretty puny for a company whose other hardware sells astonishnigly well. Where's the Apple marketing muscle? I see iPod, iPhone and Mac OS commercials and print ads everywhere I go, yet I've never seen one ad for the Apple TV. Did I blink and miss it? What does Apple need to do to make the Apple TV a lust-worthy device?
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POPSPalm Wins Some, Loses Some First the bad news: the company's stock tanked today based on bad earnings estimates and product delays. Now the good stuff: According to research firm Strategy Analytics, the Palm Centro is, surprisingly, the most appealing device to consumers looking to make a purchse in the fourth quarter of this year. Half of all consumers have considered the cheap, colorful Centro smartphone.
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POPSSweaty Palm Ouch, that hurts. The stock is down nearly 17% in after hours trading to $5.45. What do you think the delayed product is? Another Treo running Windows Mobile? Hope not. On the (rather dim) bright side, the company said the smaller $99 Palm Centros are selling better than expected.
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POPSFacebook's New World It almost doesn't matter that hardly any Facebook users had any idea what "Beacon" was all about. Take it from journalists and academics (such as UNC's Fred Stutzman) that the young company has a lot to learn about transparent conversation. Facebook matters to more people than merely its users.
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POPSMetallica to Debut Song on Rock Band I'll admit I'm not really a Metal fan (that's why I play Rock Band and not Guiltar Hero), but I give major credit to Metallica for being the first band to assist in the creation of a new music distribution model. Rock Band (or some future incarnation) could become the new studio system/record label/radio if it that's where people go to hear new music first. Hope someday it is open-sourced so any band and submit tracks to be played on a toy guitar and drumset.
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POPSI'd Rather Rent With the cost of home networks and high-def TVs plummeting, I don't think too many people are interested in "owning" digital copies of movies, and many people no longer want to collect hard copies of movies (DVDs) either. People won't pay extra for digital, they merely want to pay a few bucks to watch a wide selection of movies (in HD!) on demand through a set-top box or device that's connected to the Internet. Rent, not own.
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POPSMotorola's Reign: OVR Who remembers Motorola's first trendy flip-phone hit, the StarTAC? It was the RAZR of 1996. Both phones are now relegated to the retro-tech recycling bin. Motorola better come up with another mass-market super-phone that it can squeeze dry...
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POPSWill the Wii Be a Set-Top Box? We like remarks, however vague, that Nintendo plans to get its online act together. If Nintendo can improve upon Microsoft's Xbox 360 media capabilities, then perhaps someday Wii owners will have a better way to watch YouTube videos on their big-screen TVs than through the Wii's web browser (trust me, it looks terrible). For now, here are some other ways to get video content delivered to your TV: http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/11/26/digital-TV-video-personal-tech-cx_rr_1122livingroom_slide.html
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