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How To Get Flash On Your iPad

Not having Flash on mobile makes for a pitiful experience. USA Today, Washington Post, Huffingtonpost, etc all still use Flash video. The alternatives simply aren't mainstream yet.

WE JUST GOT BOUGHT! Here's The Internal Memo From The $60 Million Flixster Sale

Why is a cutting-edge company still using email/memos to communicate to their staff ?! At a minimum it should be in a blog post that can be updated/refreshed as new information comes out; instead, they're going to send repetitive emails/memos, no wonder an old behemoth like Warner was attracted to them.

Verizon Won't Be Selling Any More 4G Phones Until The Network Is Working Again

Wonder if their network was hack-attacked like Sony's ... Wouldn't that be amazing ? To pwn a carrier's network, wow.

11 Horrible Mistakes In Tech That Vaporized Billions And Billions Of Dollars

Missing from the list: Sprint's acquistion and fumbling of Nextel.

Twitter Investor Says Twitter's Valuation Is "Ridiculous"

Well, Wikipedia has a source reference citing 200M users (worldwide presumably). But still, I'd like to see "knowledgeable sources" comment more on that.

Twitter Investor Says Twitter's Valuation Is "Ridiculous"

It would be worthy to note in one of these Twitter articles its number of user accounts. EVERYONE knows Facebook's is on the order of 600M worldwide, but I've never seen a user population published for Twitter.

Ballmer HAD To Make Windows The Center Of Microsoft's Tablet Strategy -- Even If It Kills Them

"That means Windows growth comes to a screaming halt. It could even end up costing Ballmer his job."

We're WAY past the point of Ballmer losing his job, how he's still there is just baffling. Microsoft only dominates the desktop still. They were the first dominant smartphone with Windows Mobile and squandered that lead pitifully. They were the dominant tablet with Windows Tablet PC and squandered that as foolishly. They entered the MP3 player market only after Apple commanded 95% of it and the Zune has now been discontinued. How, HOW, is this incompetent STILL employed at Microsoft ?!

WHY IS CALIFORNIA BROKE? Because They Tax The Rich...

Just amazing and frightening that a state like California which is home to Hollywood and all its A-list stars, Silicon Valley and all its A-list tech firms, and top tier cities like San Francisco, LA, and San Diego can be in such dire straits. How can some of the best minds in that state's worldclass university system not advise them on how to better manage their vast resources ?! Seriously, what the hell ?!

Sprint Is Getting Mauled In Pre-Open Trading

Agreed, but buying opp'y as acquisition target as opposed to stock investment. The cheaper its stock price the cheaper its buyout price. You could buy its stock when slammed but you never are sure if its buyout is at a premium or just par.

AT&T Buying T-Mobile USA In $39 Billion Deal

This is bad news industry-consolidation-wise. AT&T, once a broken up monopoly, has in 25 years re-consolidated by massive acquisitions to MONOPOLY power again in that it'll be the only GSM-based wireless carrier in the US -- bad thing. It'll be argued that it's not a monopoly because of Vzn and Sprint but the emphasis is on GSM, there's no competition for that technology now and many people want that because of the ability to easily go international with it. Repeat, they will now have NO direct competition, only indirect from the remaining two CDMA carriers. For this obvious reason alone, it should fail regulatory approval.

I had hoped T-Mo and Sprint would've done a hybrid merger of equals, and maybe they wanted to, but it sounds like they got outbid. The US DoJ is the last line of defense to stop this apostasy.

Hulu Plus Hands-On Review: It's An A+

Ok, but this article stands on its own and you come off as an A-fanboy given your all-fruit test suite (Macbook, MaxiPad, iPhone). How is anyone to think otherwise based on this article ?! You don't mix in other amazing PC notebooks, or any just-as-capable phones that run MOSs like Android, Windows, Palm, or B'berry. You may have written some critiques re Apple but it appears here you're pwnd by them anyway.

Hulu Plus Hands-On Review: It's An A+

OMG, what a shill article ! You conveniently forgot to remind everyone that we'll pay out yet another $10/month and that the service is pwnd by MegaCable Corp -- we won't find any of our favorites from TNT, AMC, SyFy, FX, Cartoon Network etc etc. And Dan, why bother post here instead of an Apple fansite since you're obviously pwnd by Apple, too.

New York Times Mulls Online Subscription Fee

WTH ?! No one is going to pay THAT much for an online paper when they can just as easily go to USA Today, Washington Post, NY Post, etc etc. No, if the NY Times wants to stay in business it should convert to an RSS-subscribable news blog. That's the way news should be delivered in the 21st C. I would consider paying $2 - $5/month if the content was so compelling with oh, something like, investigative journalism that exposes all the freakin corruption within the financial and military/intelligence sectors. Otherwise they offer no added value compared to the other news sites cited.

Five Reasons "Watchmen" Will Be A Box-Office Bust

Hilary, I'm late to the party here, but since I'm seeing Watchmen on Imax this coming Sunday (its second weekend) ... the whole premise of box office bust is irrelevant anymore, that's old-school talk, are you over 40? The economics of the film business has so many revenue chains that the value associated with box office take is subordinated. And so, it's futile to really write about it. Big films these days have foreign box office, DVD sales (now in two formats), PPV/TV, Premium/TV, and network tv at the end. Don't cry for Watchmen, it'll be profitable for its investors.

Washington Post Bids Good-Bye To Its Business Section

@DJ, I think you're missing the larger picture, the newspaper business is on life support. This is just one more symptom of that entire business starting to shut down. Do you really envision newspapers still being published 25 yrs from now ? 50 years ? No, I don't think so. This contraction will continue if not accelerate till newspapers are just fringe-society novelties, if they exist at all.

Joost Looks Outside For Tech Help

Gahd, I hate living during a technology-transition period! This is what it must've felt like when tv first came on the scene threatening radio's dominance. Just like it took a few decades for tv to dominate it's prolly going to take another 10 years for the Internet to dominate over subscription tv. In the meantime, we're going to have to thrash through all this Bitorrent, now it's Joost, now it's TVShack, now it's Hulu, etc, ugh.

Google: 'New Code' Crashed Gmail, Sorry, Won't Happen Again

A moment of silence for the Unknown Techie who had to have been "let go" because of the global-scale embarrassment it caused Goog. (sniffle, sniffle)

Capt. Sullenberger: Stop Cutting Pilot Pay Or Next Plane Will Crash In River

"Negative consequences to the flying public."

Jeez, just come out and say catastrophic consequences because I don't think you mean surly attendants and lack of sack lunches ! Between underpaid pilots and overworked air-traffic controllers it's amazing we're not witnessing air catastrophes on a regular basis.

Gmail Goes Down, Again

They're contracted to a 99.9% uptime per month or they're liable for penalties to paying business customers. That means they're only permitted 45-mins per month to be offline, and with this 4-hr outage they're going to be paying out.

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