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Fanhattan brings its movie and TV app to the Web
Fanhattan, a San Mateo, Calif.-based company that makes a smart guide to movies and television shows online, took its first steps beyond the iOS universe Thursday, releasing a version of its guide for the Web. The new guide is not only available to more...
Tags: Apple iPad, Entertainment, Computer Hardware, Amazon.com Inc., Netflix Inc.
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SXSW 2013: Napster film 'Downloaded' comes alive as a documentary
AUSTIN, Texas -- More than a decade ago, Alex Winter saw a revolution brewing. Winter is perhaps best known as Bill, the blond-haired high school slacker from the 1989 comedy “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.” But he’s also a tech...
Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, Neil LaBute, Entertainment, Computing and Information Technology Industry, MySpace
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Mobile social networking app Path settles with FTC for $800,000
SAN FRANCISCO -- Mobile social networking app Path has settled Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived users by collecting personal information from their mobile address books without their knowledge or permission. The San Francisco company...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Federal Trade Commission, Media Industry, Consumers, Culture
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1 in 10 would drink expired milk before they'd move
Moving is a least-favorite activity among Americans, according to a recent survey conducted by Harris Interactive. How onerous is it? One in 10 respondents said they would rather drink expired milk than move. Others said they would prefer to visit a...
Tags: New York City
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In the dark on doctor perks
Though few patients realize it, many doctors receive thousands of dollars from pharmaceutical companies for each patient enrolled in an experimental drug trial. The medication might be the best thing for the patient's condition. The doctor's motives might...
Tags: Politics, Pharmaceuticals, General Practitioners, Barack Obama, Elections
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Quiz: What set the Internet on fire in 2012?
Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, released its lists of the most searched for terms of 2012. The results show us in no uncertain terms that what we think is important does not always relate to what the masses actually care about, or search for on the...
Tags: Microsoft Corporation
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Time Warner Cable subscribers, brace for rate hikes
Just as Time Warner Cable has cut a deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers for a new baseball channel, which could add $5 to customers' bills regardless of whether they watch the channel, the company is jacking up rates for nearly all its other TV services....Tags: ESPN (tv network), Entertainment, Time Warner Cable Inc., DirecTV Group Inc., Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Government requests for Twitter user data rise 20% in 2012
The (relatively) old joke among lawyers is that the "e" in email stands for "evidence," since emails had the unfriendly tendency to reappear in court; so you might say that the "t" in Twitter stands for "transparent," in that both you and the police can...
Tags: Laws, WikiLeaks, Data Privacy Day, Twitter, Inc., Electronics
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News of the Weird: Porn Site Estimates Its Viewers Have Spent 1.2 Million Years Watching
Perspective: A leading “adult” search engine reported in December that, over the last seven years, just two of the most popular Internet pornography websites it analyzes have been viewed 93 billion separate times, which averages to about 13...
Tags: New York City, Judges, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Criminals, Laws
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Study: Majority of consumers watch TV and surf Web simultaneously
For millions of U.S. consumers, one screen in the living room is not enough. A new study from KPMG finds that 60% of American television viewers are devoted multitaskers, watching TV and accessing the Internet at the same time. "We continue to see...
Tags: Entertainment, Consumers, Hulu, Netflix Inc., Television
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The Getty is getting it right
The J. Paul Getty Museum has spent the last five years making amends for acquiring looted antiquities and trying to distance itself from a culture of rapacious and corrupt collecting. Stricter rules on acquisitions have been put in place. Nearly 50...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Arts, Museums, The Getty, Los Angeles Times
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