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Viral Video: My Last Word on CircusCrunch (We Will Now Go Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Tech Scoops)

in Media on September 19, 2011 at 12:25 am PT

It’s never over until it’s over. But let’s hope it’s over.
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Viral Video: The JaneDear Girls Hook Up With the Lip-Synch Phenom on YouTube

in News on February 16, 2011 at 2:59 am PT

BoomTown is officially voting for the JaneDear Girls, after seeing the hot country duo’s effective use of Keenan Cahill, a.k.a. the weird little lip-synch dude on YouTube. While the pair–Susie Brown and Danelle Leverett–have been rocketing up the country charts with their self-titled debut album, they delivered a rap-style offering, called “Need Ya Vote,” using the odd Cahill’s talents.

Google Shows Off Honeycomb Features, Android Web Market

in Mobile on February 2, 2011 at 9:59 am PT

Today’s event in Mountain View provided new details on the tablet-friendly version of Android and a new way to acquire apps. Mobilized was there liveblogging.

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Logitech Delaying New GoogleTV, Too–Report

in Media on December 24, 2010 at 8:11 am PT

Google has reportedly told some of its partners to hold off introducing new versions of Google TV. So this one at least sounds right: Google has supposedly told Logitech to stop shipping its version of the Google TV box while Google upgrades the software. The catch: This report comes from DigiTimes, which is sometimes quite accurate about the Chinese supply chain for consumer electronics, but also misses the mark with some frequency

AT&T’s Q1: 2.7 Million iPhones, 1.9 Million New Subs and a Nasty Charge

in News on April 21, 2010 at 5:46 am PT

Reporting first-quarter earnings this morning, AT&T said it added 1.9 million new wireless subscribers during the period. It was the biggest first-quarter gain in the company’s history and an impressive achievement, but it was undermined by a large health-care expense. A $995 million charge related to the new federal health-care law dragged AT&T’s first-quarter earnings down 21 percent.
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Video Tour of Redesign: Back to the Future at MySpace? Or Just Another Retread?

in News on March 10, 2010 at 5:19 am PT

Earlier this week, BoomTown visited MySpace HQ in Beverly Hills, Calif., to interview its new co-presidents, Michael Jones and Jason Hirschhorn, and get a look-see at its evolving revival plans to stop the social networking ship from sinking further. Thus, I did a video tour of a storyboard-like room at MySpace, where the team is trying to formulate the “discover and be discovered” motto it is now using, which is pretty much its old motto restated. Can the old become new again?

Fancy Bar Graphs of the Week: Zero Surprise–the Youngs Love New Media More Than the Olds

in News on September 3, 2009 at 1:22 am PT

This week, in its annual survey of consumer technology attitudes and adoption, titled “The State of Consumers and Technology,” Forrester Research found that…wait for it, wait for it…the kids love the Internet! As for the olds–they like their traditional media stories and they’re sticking to them. It’s only at the Weather Channel where online and offline media live together under blue skies.
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