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It may not have qualified as true breaking news, but the new media and digital technologies showed once again Monday how they are breaking traditional news rules, thanks to a spur-of-the-moment post on Twitter from an ABC News anchor involving President Barack Obama ABC "Nightline" anchor Terry Moran and some network colleagues were monitoring a CN...
Chasing down rumors in the video game blogosphere can be as risky as a Bowser boss battle in "Super Mario Galaxy." That's the caveat for reports that an image of a retail advertisement announcing a US$50 price cut for Nintendo's Wii console had been captured in the wild by a Kotaku reader Unfortunately, there are no cheat codes for this kind of thi...
The graph that accompanies a Pew Research Center survey on media credibility released Monday shows blue lines heading south: Now just 29 percent of Americans surveyed believe the media gets the facts right, and a scant 18 percent think news organizations are truly objective While "Public Evaluations of the News Media, 1985-2009" does not focus on t...
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) focuses on the gaming industry and its media, and the Game Developers Conference revolves around ... well, developers. However, the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle is all about those who, in the words of one PAX official, "pay the salaries." Gamers really do rule at PAX. Despite a recession that has started slash...
The world's largest social network -- stuffed to the brim with 250 million members -- is checking itself out in the mirror, wondering how it would look in a slimmed-down version. However, it may also be putting on some weight by adding a feature that's popular with a certain much-hyped short messaging service that employs a fat little blue bird as its logo...
It has become a morbid habit for me every Sept. 11 since the attacks: I soak up all the media I can about that day in New York City. I put on DVDs, seek out TV shows on the History Channel, scour the Web for any new videos. My real focus in on the broadcast coverage of that day, watching anchors and reporters -- some of them former colleagues -- react to the second plane hitting, the Pentagon's smoke streaming, the towers falling. Archival footage of national and cable news as well as local New York TV, radio broadcasts captured in documentaries -- all of it takes me back to an impossibly sunny day and my last week in my midtown Manhattan apartment before moving to Atlanta.
Yes, there's a slump in the real estate market. Tell that to the players who tried to log on Wednesday to a new online version of the classic Monopoly game that substitutes Google Maps for the board; gamers can "buy" real streets in cities around the world and build skyscrapers a la Donald Trump. The temptation to own Broadway in New York or Colfa...
Just as Robert Langdon gets ready to take his fans on another thrill ride in the forthcoming new Dan Brown novel, The Lost Symbol, another tantalizing mystery has popped up: Is Asus getting ready to unveil a low-cost, dual-color-screen e-book reader just in time for the holidays? The Sunday Times of London quotes a UK Asus executive as saying the c...
The last time I saw Rebecca Aguilar in person, it was early October of 2007. We were both at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists' Noche de Triunfos awards banquet in Washington, D.C. I was presenting an award and she was receiving one -- NAHJ Broadcast Journalist of the Year for her work at the Fox affiliate in Dallas, Texas Two weeks ...
Can a Hero fly to Sprint's rescue in the battle for smartphone supremacy? The Hero will sell for US$179 after a $50 instant savings, and a $100 mail-in rebate....
Pity the early technology adopters in this world. Just as they have accepted the fact that three years ago, they paid more than US$5,000 for a 42-inch flat-screen HDTV that now sells for close to $1,000, a new image starts to coalesce in front of their eyes -- an image so real, so lifelike, it could only be ... a 3-D TV It may be back to home enter...
The smoke and haze from the 190-square mile Station Fire near Los Angeles isn't just making it difficult to see in the area of the San Gabriel Mountains. It's also having an impact on advanced forms of communications in Southern California: cellphone signals, television and radio broadcasting, even transmissions among the police, sheriff and fire crews battling the blaze and directing evacuation procedures for suburban residents...
You can look at it as the beginnings of real interactive television -- or simply one big episode of the cult comedy TV series "Mystery Science Theater 3000" brought to life. In any event, thanks to forthcoming plans from IBM and Fox, viewers will soon be able to talk back to their flat-screen televisions via social media such as Twitter and Facebo...
The idea was to provide some clarity on the issue of searches of computers and other digital devices when travelers enter the U.S. However, while Thursday's announcement of new Department of Homeland Security policies for border inspections was greeted as a good first step by some, they didn't completely quiet privacy rights groups The new rules he...
The audience at the Bell Harbor Conference Center in Seattle was full of geeks, and its members would probably have been proud to identify themselves as such. After all, it was the ninth Gnomedex conference, the annual gathering of tech bloggers, business types, private tech enthusiasts -- anybody and everybody who has a fascination with technology's impact on society, culture and media...
Back to school time is upon us, but it's not just students who will soon be facing homework. Thanks to Thursday's announcement that Microsoft is cutting the price of its high-end Xbox 360 Elite video game console from US$399 to $299 -- matching that of Sony's new PlayStation 3 Slim -- consumers will have to study up on which console now better fits their affordable entertainment needs in a down economy...
If you are able to read one of novelist Patrick O'Brien's rousing naval adventures on Sony's new Daily Edition electronic book reader, then you will also participate in helping Sony send its own shot across the bow at Amazon and its popular Kindle reading device ...
It appears that Wikipedia's reputation as the Internet's open source encyclopedia -- where any and all can contribute -- may itself be in need of some editing Media reports quote a spokesperson for the Wikimedia Foundation, which manages the user-generated site, as saying that the English-language version will soon start experimenting with designat...
Twitter's blue bird may be the social media darling of the moment, but Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says his company still has plenty to crow about In an interview with Bloomberg published Monday, Zuckerberg said his company plans to boost its hiring by 50 percent this year, thanks to technology workers looking for work after being let go by recess...
I regularly preach in this column about old-school newsies making the transition to digital journalism, and lately I've actually been trying to practice all that as well. I've spent the last three weeks becoming friends with my Flipcam, conducting interviews while playing videographer, parsing out the content to Web site and broadcast, using social media to let everybody know where they can find said content, and then presenting it all on a TV news set.
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