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The Verge Hires Writer Who Quit CNET in Protest — Greg Sandoval, the CNET senior writer who resigned in protest when the site's parent company, CBS, interfered with its editorial coverage last month, has been hired by The Verge, the Web site that first revealed the full extent of CBS's involvement.
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My new home — I'm saved. — Two weeks ago, I resigned from CNET after seven years at the technology news site. Today, I can report that I have accepted an offer from The Verge to become a senior reporter. I start in a couple of weeks. — Greg Sandoval| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Where to watch the 2013 Super Bowl live online — Want to watch the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers duke it out at the 2013 Super Bowl without being in front of the TV, or without relying on a cable TV subscription? Then you're in luck: Super Bowl XLVII will once again be streamed live online in its entirety.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
CBS Takes a Second Shot at the Super Bowl's Second Screen — If you want to, you can watch the entire Super Bowl on the Web today, for free, on your PC or tablet. And maybe a handful of you will want to do that, for some odd reason. CBS, which is streaming the game, figures the rest of us won't.| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Samsung's $15 million Super Bowl commercial arrives early — Samsung just released its two minute Super Bowl commercial set to air during the fourth quarter of Sunday's big game. The full ad continues with the same rapid-fire Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd repartee that we saw in the teaser a few days ago.
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BlackBerry chooses ‘swagger’ over substance for Super Bowl spot — BlackBerry has just unveiled its Super Bowl ad — arguably the company's first real mainstream debut for BlackBerry 10 following its launch event — but for some reason it's all about what its new Z10 handset “can't” do.
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Super Bowl plans to handle 30,000 Wi-Fi users at once—and sniff out “rogue devices” — Where the Super Bowl—and a gigantic Wi-Fi network—awaits 73,000 fans. — Superdome.com — When 73,208 fans file into the New Orleans Superdome for the Super Bowl on Sunday, they'll have to follow the usual rules …
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Apple Debuts New Vanity URLs For App Store Developers During Super Bowl, Domain Name Land Grab To Follow — Look! Apple just released a new product during the Super Bowl. Actually, it's a new product for App Store developers - short “AppStore.com” vanity URLs.
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The Economics of Netflix's $100 Million New Show — With Netflix's foray into original, high quality programming today, the streaming TV network wants to turn into the HBO of Internet TV, but can the network afford it? Putting together a big production with famous actors like House … | Economist: |
The Nordic region is becoming a hothouse of entrepreneurship — IN 2010 A GROUP of students at Aalto University, just outside Helsinki, embarked on the most constructive piece of student activism in the history of the genre. They had been converted to the power of entrepreneurialism during … | Michael Larabel / Phoronix: |
Wine On Android Is Coming For Running Windows Apps — A port of the Wine software to Google's Android platform is being worked on. — Following the FOSDEM talk today in Brussels about Wine on ARM (notes on the Wine ARM talk will come in a later Phoronix article today or tomorrow), there was a brief showing of Wine on Android.| Matt McGee / Marketing Land: |
Oreo, Audi & Walgreens Newsjack Super Bowl “Blackout Bowl” — Thanks to super-fast reactions, at least three brands were able to “newsjack” the power outage that hit the Super Bowl early in the third quarter of today's game. With the Ravens up by a score of 28-6, and a 49ers third-down play …
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| Tony Romm / Politico: |
Washington talks cybersecurity after Chinese attacks — Washington is grappling again with the prying eyes of Chinese hackers. — A string of computer breaches at The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and other media organizations have drawn a frustrated response … | Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
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