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Reaching for the Height of Radio

in The Mossberg Solution on January 26, 2010 at 2:21 pm PT

HD Radio offers better sound quality and more channels than regular radio–if you don’t mind a slight delay, says Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution.
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WebGameTV

in News on March 24, 2009 at 8:35 am PT

The days of the traditional gaming console are coming to an end–according to entrepreneur Steve Perlman, anyway. Later today, Perlman–a former principal scientist at Apple and the founder of WebTV–will officially unveil OnLive, the online service with which he hopes to upend the $46 billion world-wide videogame market.
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Cleaning Out Windows XP

in Mossberg’s Mailbox on February 4, 2009 at 5:42 pm PT

Walt answers questions about cleaning up a sluggish install of Windows XP, the new keyboards on the unibody MacBook Pros and alternatives to the Windows Mail application in the upcoming Windows 7 operating system.

Google Answers the iPhone

in Personal Technology on October 15, 2008 at 9:02 pm PT

In the exciting new category of modern hand-held computers — devices that fit in your pocket but are used more like a laptop than a traditional phone — there has so far been only one serious option. But that will all change on Oct. 22, when T-Mobile and Google bring out the G1, the first hand-held computer that’s in the same class as Apple’s iPhone.
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The $125 Million-Sweet DailyCandy Revenge of Bob "Pitchman"

in News on August 6, 2008 at 6:55 am PT

Oh, there had to be much, much gnashing of teeth in the corporate offices at the Time Warner Center in New York yesterday with news of the sale of DailyCandy to Comcast for $125 million. Why? Maybe because that tasty payment is going right into the hands of Bob Pittman’s Pilot Group Ventures, which bought the fashion and shopping newsletter business for $3 million in 2003. This is certainly different from the situation almost exactly six years ago when Pittman–nicknamed “Pitchman” for his smooth business stylings–was driven out of then-AOL Time Warner on the proverbial rail. If you want a taste of those once-grim times for Pittman, here is an excerpt from my book, “There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future.”