Filed under: Video Hot on the heels of Auntie releasing a selection of videos for sale via the iTunes Store, we somehow missed yesterday's sneaky revelation that the BBC is intending to release some form of the BBC iPlayer for iPod touch and iPhone 'in the coming weeks.'Why on earth is this important? The much-maligned quarter-billion-dollar iPlayer project has been thus-far Windows only (if you want to download content for the 7 days that it's a
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Filed under: Video Hot on the heels of Auntie releasing a selection of videos for sale via the iTunes Store, we somehow missed yesterday's sneaky revelation that the BBC is intending to release some form of the BBC iPlayer for iPod touch and iPhone 'in the coming weeks.'Why on earth is this important? The much-maligned quarter-billion-dollar iPlayer project has been thus-far Windows only (if you want to download content for the 7 days that it's a
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Apparently, in his quest to convince the world that his alternative medicine practices are worth 9,999 euros, Joseph Chikelue Obi missed out on learning how the Streisand Effect works. Obi got upset about the website Quackometer which was making fun of Obi's claims. Rather than, you know, proving them wrong or responding to the charges, Obi had his "lawyer" send a threatening letter to Quackometer's ISP who pulled the site. The article linked
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Say what you want about the Wall Street Journal, but they're generally pretty reliable on fact checking and not reporting baseless rumors. That's why it's strange to see a report in the Journal about Google's supposed interest in buying up a balloon-based wireless data company. For many years, we've seen all different reports about attempts to offer wireless data services using various types of floating devices. Sometimes it's via blimps, some
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Facebook announced a number of steps today to battle the growing problem of application spam - stuff that is sent from your Facebook friends asking you to try out new services. Generally, applications force users to send these invitations in order to get access to the more interesting features. The result can be dozens or [...]

Since launching four and half years ago, Skype users have talked to each other for 100 billion minutes, and that is just counting free Skype-to-Skype phone calls. Of course, many of those calls would never have been made if Skype didn’t exists, so you cannot count the entire 100 billion minutes as a loss [...]

The Labor Department said that its closely watched Consumer Price Index posted a gain of 0.4 percent last month, a development certain to raise concerns at the Federal Reserve.

Two brothers who claim they were wrongfully arrested by Harris County Sheriff's deputies are seeking $5 million in damages, a federal jury learned today.

The Astros have signed right-handed pitcher Shawn Chacon to a one-year, $2-million contract.