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• World Series of Video Games to be Broadcast on CBS

  Published: July 28, 2007, 2:04 pm

  Tags: Gamer Life, Games Industry, Games, Cbs Sports, Gaming Tournaments, Guitar Hero, Nytimes, Video Game Systems, Video Game Tournaments, World Series Of Video Games

  Tomorrow is Sunday, which as we all know is not usually a good “TV” day. With normal television stations you have the prerequisite golf, sports, racing, televangelists, and infomercials. Sometimes, if you are lucky, you can watch some low budget movie that the stations throw in for filler. This Sunday (July 29) will be a bit

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• New YouTube Video Ads, Google Embeds Maps, PlayboyU & MyNYTimes Launch, the Attention Economy, Microsoft's Tafiti Research Project & Bacn In Your Inbox

  Published: August 26, 2007, 11:26 am

  Tags: Attention, Business, Community, Communitynext, Conferences, Msn, Microsoft, Nytimes, Personal Homepage, Personalization, Personalized, Playboy, Playboyu, Search, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Tafiti, Technologies, Technology, Trends, Video, Web

  Photo of the Week: This photo was taken by, one of my skinnyCorp friends, Harper Reed as he captured some fresh Threadless designs. Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 08.26.2007Attention Economy: All You Need To Know Read/Write Web explains: the Attention Economy is a marketplace where consumers agree to receive services in exchange for their

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• Newspaper wrap-up: NBC does not renew iTunes contract with Apple

  Published: August 31, 2007, 5:00 am

  Tags: Aapl, Aeropostale, Apple, Aria, Ariad, Aro, Barron S, Barrons, Business Week, Businessweek, Coca Cola, Economic Times, Economictimes, General Electric, Generalelectric, Infosys, Infy, Mcgraw Hill, Mcgrawhill, Mhp, New York Times, Newspaper, Newyorktimes, Ny Times, Nytimes

  Filed under: Newspapers, Magazines, Apple Inc (AAPL), General Electric (GE), Coca-Cola (KO), McGraw-Hill Companies (MHP)MAJOR PAPERS: Amid mounting criticism for its role in the subprime crisis, McGraw Hill Companies Inc (NYSE: MHP) replaced Kathleen Corbet, the president of Standard & Poors, with Deven Sharma, a McGraw Hill senior VP who

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• Newspaper wrap-up: Microsoft's Halo 3 sets record

  Published: September 27, 2007, 5:00 am

  Tags: Barron S, Barrons, Financial Times, Financialtimes, Goog, Google, Imb, Indymac, Mdt, Medtronic, Microsoft, Msft, New York Times, Newspaper, Newyorktimes, Ny Times, Nytimes, Paper, Periodical, Siemens, Wall Street Journal, Wallstreetjournal, Wsj, Zale, Zlc

  Filed under: Newspapers, Magazines, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), IndyMac Bancorp (IMB)MAJOR PAPERS: In December, Siemens AG (NYSE: SI) disclosed questionable transactions in its telecom and power generation businesses totaling about $600M. Now that figure is estimated to be about four times that, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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• Self Referential: I was interviewed by Katie Hafner of the ...

  Published: September 29, 2007, 4:13 am

  Tags: Apple, Apple Iphone, Cellphones, Iphone, Nytimes, Self Referential, Smartphones

  I was interviewed by Katie Hafner of the NYTimes for a piece, Altered iPhones Freeze Up. The NYTimes gets how important this is to us. [NYTimes]

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• Newspaper wrap-up: GM may close two plants

  Published: October 2, 2007, 5:20 am

  Tags: Amr, Betanews, Cnet, New York Times, Newspaper, Newyorktimes, Ny Times, Nytimes, Paper, Periodical, Wall Street Journal, Wallstreetjournal, Wsj

  Filed under: Newspapers, Magazines, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), General Motors (GM), AT and T (T), AMR Corp (AMR)MAJOR PAPERS: Under pressure to improve results, AMR Corporation (NYSE: AMR), the parent of American Airlines, will prepay $545M in aircraft debt in the fourth quarter, cutting its annual interest expense by $25M, reported the

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• Nytimes Pulpbite: Two NYTimes reporters are relentlessly covering ...

  Published: October 2, 2007, 6:55 pm

  Tags: Nyt, Nytimes, Nytimes Pulpbite

  NYTimes reporters are relentlessly covering the iPhone Bricking episode. Saul Hansell interviews Palm and confirms that AT&T isn't worried about Treos bringing down the network, the restoration of bricks, and Katie tells the tale of her daughter's iPhone bricking that had nothing to do with an unlock. I wonder what David Pogue and Walt

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• Nytimes Pulpbite: Two NYTimes reporters are relentlessly covering ...

  Published: October 2, 2007, 6:55 pm

  Tags: Nyt, Nytimes, Nytimes Pulpbite

  NYTimes reporters are relentlessly covering the iPhone Bricking episode. Saul Hansell interviews Palm and confirms that AT&T isn't worried about Treos bringing down the network, and Katie tells the tale of her daughter's iPhone bricking that had nothing to do with an unlock. I wonder what David Pogue and Walt Mossberg have to say about this

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• NYT Pulpbite: Pogue Reviews the OLPC

  Published: October 5, 2007, 7:11 pm

  Tags: David Pogue, Laptops, Nyt, Nyt Pulpbite, Nytimes, Olpc, Pcs, Pogue

  right about the OLPC in his NYTimes column this week. For those of you who haven't kept up with the changes in the One Laptop Per Child he sums it up nicely, demoing all the engineering miracles in the machine, addressing the low minded complaints of "snarky bloggers" (Where?!), going on to explain why it's an interesting and important thing for

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• Microsoft buys 1.6% of FaceBook for $240m

  Published: October 25, 2007, 11:16 am

  Tags: Microsoft, Facebook, Nytimes, Directors, Emotion, Web 2 0 News, Asides, Social Networking, Irrational Exhuberance, Google, Social Networks, New York Times

  microsoft, facebook, NYTimes, directors, Emotion, Web 2.0 News, Asides, social networking, Irrational exhuberance, Google, Social Networks,

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• More Sling Player Upgrades Coming [Nytimes Pulpbite]

  Published: November 1, 2007, 2:29 pm

  Tags: David Pogue, Iphone, Nytimes Pulpbite, Pogue, Sling, Sling Solo, Slingbox

  Pogue reviews the Slingbox Solo, but the news is that the Sling Client is getting an upgrade in the shape of local pause and rewind controls. That's cool because you don't have to deal with the stream delay while trying to rewind or pause the TiVo back home remotely. The upgrade, due in a month, will also have the clip and post functionality

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• Humdinger of a Project: Tracing Slang to Ireland

  Published: November 14, 2007, 10:15 am

  Tags: Nytimes, Internship, Inclusion Ireland, Anglo Irish Bank, Corn Beef, Credibility, Bully Beef, Halloween Party, Ireland, United States, Media, Japan, Books, Vending Machine Dress

  NYTimes, internship, Inclusion Ireland, Anglo Irish Bank, Corn Beef, credibility, Bully Beef, halloween party, Ireland, United States, media, Japan, Books, Vending machine dress,

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• Jobs on DVR in the Apple TV, the MacBook Air, and the Kindle

  Published: January 16, 2008, 6:15 pm

  Tags: Apple, Macworld08, Nytimes, Steve Jobs

  Filed under: Macworld, Steve JobsTUAW didn't get a chance to sit down with Steve Jobs after yesterday's keynote for some reason, but Mr. Jobs did find time to chat with the New York Times (it is a small paper out of Manhattan) where he talked about what Apple introduced, and gave his thoughts on some other happenings in the tech sphere.Jobs is a

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• New York Times Is Big Apple Favorite

  Published: January 17, 2008, 6:37 pm

  Tags: Media, Apple Inc, Catherie Mathis, New York Times, Nytimes Com

  it?) It's the second time nytimes.com has done such an ad--the first time was with Apple on Dec. 14, 2007. It's a pretty giant ad--whether the industry term "takeover" applies or not, the ad was certainly the most prominent thing on the nytimes.com homepage for much of the day. What did the editorial side think of all this?

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• 'Times' Web Traffic Peaks ... And Peaks Again

  Published: February 8, 2008, 10:12 am

  Tags: Media, Arthur Sulzberger Jr, Nytimes Com, The New York Times

  primaries on Super Tuesday, nytimes.com served up 35.9 million pages, according to a memo sent to staff this morning by company Web executives. By their count, that's a single-day all-time traffic record. But the Web crew didn't have much time to enjoy that—the very next day, Feb. 6, the paper's website did 37.5 million pageviews. Times

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