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Meet Apple’s iPad: Starts at $500, Supported by AT&T

in Mobile on January 27, 2010 at 11:25 am PT

At a 2007 all-hands meeting to discuss the iPhone, Apple CEO Steve Jobs remarked on the company’s product roadmap. The machines Apple will bring to market in the years ahead, he said, would be “off the charts.” This morning, Jobs made good on his word, unveiling a new multimedia tablet device called the iPad.

TV Viewing Dropped This Fall: Is the Web Finally Cutting into Tube Time?

in Media on December 8, 2009 at 5:11 am PT

Even as people watch more and more Web video, they’ve been watching more TV than ever. What happens when that changes? We might find out sooner than we think–Nielsen says TV viewing did indeed drop in the last three months.
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The Mystery of the Vanishing Videogame Boom Solved: Gamers Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

in Media on July 6, 2009 at 9:47 am PT

Videogame players are spending more time playing videogames than ever. But that won’t do the videogame business much good unless those players actually start buying new games again.
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YouTube Co-Founder Steve Chen Moves On, Stays with Google

in Media on June 30, 2009 at 10:50 am PT

YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, who oversaw the company’s technical operations as it grew from an upstart to the world’s biggest video site, no longer works at the site day-to-day. This is old news, literally: Chen left his spot as chief technology officer last fall, though he remains employed at Google, which bought his company for $1.65 billion in 2006.
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