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Viral Video: Chinese Senior Choir Sings Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance”

Kara Swisher in Media on November 10, 2011 at 10:26 am PT

The headline kind of says it all.

High-Definition Streaming

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on August 31, 2011 at 6:00 pm PT

Walt answers a reader’s question on set-top boxes streaming movies in high definition.

Former Top Editor Makes Another Talent Raid on AOL’s Engadget for New Competing Gadget Site

Kara Swisher in Media on July 7, 2011 at 9:24 am PT

I love the smell of blog wars in the morning! Acting as Facebook often does to Google, a new site started by former Engadget editor Josh Topolsky just hired away yet another passel of tech journalists from the giant gadgets news and reviews organization. It is Topolsky’s second major talent raid since he left his editor-in-chief job there in March, for a new gadget property aimed at unseating Engadget.

CTIA Notebook: While Most Phones are Getting Smarter, Snapfon Aims for Simplicity (Video)

Ina Fried in Mobile on March 24, 2011 at 4:20 pm PT

While most phones are busy becoming little computers, the Snapfon prides itself on doing just a couple of things. With big buttons and an SOS help feature, the product is aimed at seniors who view their phone as a lifeline rather than an on-ramp to the information superhighway.

Kindle Ate My Homework

John Paczkowski in News on July 30, 2009 at 4:17 pm PT

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s hair-shirt apology for Kindlegate was a nice gesture, but it didn’t go over particularly well with Justin Gawronski, a Michigan high school senior who lost his homework when the retailer remotely deleted a copy of George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” from his Kindle earlier this month. He’s filed a class action suit against Amazon seeking to prevent it from deleting books from Kindles in the future.