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  • 26 March 2013

  • News: BBC HD makes way for BBC Two HD channel

    The BBC has today replaced its HD channel with BBC Two HD.

  • News: AI programmers struggle to makes games 'imitate life'

    Artificial intelligence, a field of programming employed by video game developers to make characters smarter and improve their decisions, still has a ways to go before it actually yields intelligent characters.

  • News: Spotify plans to become an on-demand TV network

    Spotify: free music streamer, procrastination enabler, and soundtrack to household chores around the world may soon become much much more. The service is reportedly toying with the idea of offering original video content.

  • 25 March 2013

  • News: Lawmakers seek ban on Google Glass while driving

    The reality-augmentation spectacles Google Glass are meeting resistance even before their release, as another jurisdiction considers restrictions on their use.

  • News: Apple clarifies warranty policy in China amid state-press criticism

    Apple is in the midst of another public relations battle in China and is trying to clarify its warranty policies, as local-state controlled press continue to slam the U.S. company for allegedly offering subpar warranty services to Chinese customers.

  • News: Japan's Fujitsu pays £800M to cut deficit in UK subsidiaries' pension fund

    Fujitsu has paid £800 million (US$1.2 billion) into its pension funds for current and former U.K. employees, and renegotiated cuts to ongoing pension contributions, freeing up cash to grow other areas of its U.K. business, the company said Monday.

  • 23 March 2013

  • News: Is HBO finally considering decoupling HBO GO from a TV subscription?

    The pay TV content space is getting weird. Weird and competitive.

  • 22 March 2013

  • News: Barnes & Noble is now just giving Nooks away

    The Barnes & Noble Nook has always been a scrappy underdog to Amazon's Kindle line. But it looks like the brand's Rocky-ish run may be heading more for a The Wrestler-ish demise. At least, if the company's latest deal is any indication.

  • News: Fuji announces two new hobbyist cameras

    Fujifilm North America has released a pair of fixed lens Wi-Fi-enabled cameras--one is a DSLR-like long-zoom and the other is a rugged model for outdoor shooting. The new FinePix S8400W compact point and shoot features a 44x optical long zoom and updated CMOS sensor. The FinePix XP200, the latest addition to the company's rugged XP Series, features a reinforced 5x lens, and is waterproof, shockproof, freezeproof, and dustproof.

  • News: Google is reportedly building a smartwatch, too

    Another day, another smartwatch rumor. After reports that Apple has a team of engineers building a connected wristwatch and Samsung confirmed its own smartwatch is in the works, Google is now reportedly busy preparing a similar device under its brand.

  • News: EE launches 4G mobile broadband in rural Cumbria

    EE, formally Everything Everywhere, has launched 4G LTE fixed and mobile broadband services in remote rural parts of the UK.

  • News: Snapshot: Canon EOS 100D digital SLR

    The trend these days in digital cameras is smaller, smaller, smaller -- abandoning the tried-and-true formula of a digital SLR’s optical viewfinder and mirror box for a ‘mirrorless’ system that relies on an electronic read-out of what the camera’s seeing. This is what you get in cameras like the Canon EOS M, the Nikon COOLPIX A, and the Panasonic LUMIX GF5. The new Canon EOS 100D bucks that trend.

  • 21 March 2013

  • News: Google Glass to enable (something like) telekinesis

    A new patent application for Google Glass would enable the future specs to identify and remotely control objects such as garage doors and refrigerators. On one hand, this is a natural evolution of technology, but if you step back, this patent is really describing a work-around form of telekinesis.

  • News: Kensington debuts iPhone monitoring system for valuables

    Kensington has introduced a Bluetooth "proximity monitoring system" that aims to keep track of valuables like smartphones, keys, and other items.

  • News: Canon launches 'world's smallest' digital SLR, the EOS 100D

    Also launches the EOS 700D, an upgrade to the EOS 650D.

  • News: Google Glass may someday fire up your coffee maker

    Google filed a patent application for technology that will enable Google Glass to control everyday devices such as coffee makers, home alarm systems and garage doors.

  • News: Intel hopes to trump cable TV packages with new set-top box

    Intel aims to deliver more targeted packages of TV and Internet content at different price points through its upcoming TV set-top box, which will better address user needs than bundles offered by cable TV and satellite companies.

  • News: HTPC Showdown: Which front-end interface is best?

    Building the perfect home theater PC is easy enough--if you have the right guide. Setting up the perfect software front end is equally straightforward, but picking that software isn't so easy. You'll need first to consider the specific hardware inside your HTPC, and what you'll be asking your machine to do once it's sitting inside your living room.

  • Opinion: Remains of the Day: Digital wrongs management

    One patent-holding firm says it will see Apple in court. Elsewhere, people continue to pontificate on Apple's newest hire, and Walmart takes a page from Apple's playbook--and uses Apple's devices to do it. The remainders for Wednesday, March 20, 2013 are available where all fine goods are sold.

  • News: Canon launches compact, super-light DSLR

    Canon's Rebel line of DSLRs will soon host a sleeker, smaller, thinner model: the Canon EOS Rebel SL1--SL for Super Lightweight. This new camera, designed for entry level shooters as a step up from a point and shoot or camera phone, has the same traditional DSLR technology as the company's other Rebel cameras, but in a dimunitive body. It is Canon's answer to the compact interchangeable lens revolution that has rocked the camera world over the last couple of years.

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