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Happy Bloomsday, rock and rollers
Michael Berk  |  Jun 16, 2011  | 

It's Bloomsday today, everyone, and time to celebrate the life and works of James Joyce (June 16th is the day on which Leopold Bloom's wanderings through Dublin are described in obsessive detail by Joyce in his Ulysses).

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Cutting (most of) the cords
Michael Berk  |  Jun 17, 2011  | 

Seems like everybody's trying to cut down on your desktop clutter these days, paring down the collection of cables it takes to run all of your gear - and introducing new standards in the process.

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Decide aims to eliminate buyer's remorse
Michael Berk  |  Jun 20, 2011  | 

The mysterious Decide launches today. The service, founded by MetaCrawler and Farecast vet Oren Etzioni, aims (like Farecast) to use historical pricing and product release schedule data, rumours, and predictive algorithms to take the sting out of shopping.

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The Big Man Joins the Band in the Sky
Mike Mettler  |  Jun 21, 2011  | 

The Big Man has left the building.

Clarence Clemons, the powerful tenor saxophonist of the E Street Band and onstage foil for Bruce Springsteen for 40 years, died Saturday at age 69 due to complications from a recent stroke.

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Forecast continues to be Cloudy
SV Staff  |  Jun 22, 2011  | 
Everybody's heading to the cloud these days, of course (even Best Buy is launching a service), but various little glitches along the way have made some of us reconsider trusting our data to somebody else's distributed network. We told you a few...
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Near Field Communication: payment- and party-enabling
Michael Berk  |  Jun 22, 2011  | 

While we have yet to see an explosion of NFC-enabled products, Nokia's brought the near-field communications protocol to a new range of home entertaiment products launching along with its much-lauded new

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AppRadio: Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the touchscreen
Michael Berk  |  Jun 23, 2011  | 

Pioneer launched its AppRadio yesterday at the CE Week, with the long-awaited iOS-integrated device coming in at an intriguingly low price of $399.99.

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Biggest production rear-projection 3D TV?
Michael Berk  |  Jun 29, 2011  | 

...who knows? It'll change next week, I'm sure. I'm not going to get into that question again.

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Mouser Electronics: more than just a catalog
Michael Berk  |  Jul 01, 2011  | 

 

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Noisy Summer
Dan Bracaglia  |  Aug 02, 2011  | 

With the Brooklyn Bridge in the distance, the Raveonettes took the stage at Beekman Beer Garden this past Sunday, performing a free show to a packed house at the outdoor venue and drinking establishment located at Manhattan’s South Street Seaport.

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Hands On With the Resistance 3 Multiplayer Beta
Timothy J. Seppala  |  Aug 09, 2011  | 

The Resistance series has never had it easy. The original title launched alongside the PS3 back in 2006, and remained largely overlooked in the furor surrounding Sony’s $600 asking price for their new console.

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Motogoogle
Michael Berk  |  Aug 15, 2011  | 

You've no doubt heard by now that Google's forked over somewhere in the neighborhood of $12.5 billion to acquire Motorola Mobility,  the mobile device business Motorola spun off at the beginning of this year.

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Retro Remixing: You're Gonna Love It, Too
Michael Berk  |  Aug 25, 2011  | 

To celebrate Buddy Holly's 75th birthday (coming up September 7th), online music creation marketplace Indaba Music has launched - oddly enough, though it is the business Indaba is in - a remix contest, inviting contestants to take on Jenny O's version of Holly's "I'm Gonna Love You Too."

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ESPN for Xbox LIVE Gets a Makeover
Michael Berk  |  Aug 25, 2011  | 

Love your Xbox 360? Want more control over your live sports viewing? Microsoft has you covered with a host of upgrades to their ESPN for Xbox LIVE service (which requires an Xbox LIVE Gold membership, though you'll incur no additional cost beyond the subscription fee).

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MOG Comes to Boxee
Michael Berk  |  Aug 30, 2011  | 

MOG, the streaming service that emerged victorious in our showdown with Spotify, comes to yet another venue - the Boxee Box, the digital media receiver S+V's Geoffrey Morri

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