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How to Lose Traffic and Alienate People: The Revenge!
Gadgets Or: why does Google hate this fish? Welcome to another installment of The Grouse's semi-annual lambasting of poor practices on the Web. When I compiled my first list of all things online and...
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Ten Computing Tasks You Won't Be Doing With Chrome OS
Gadgets Death knells for the desktop operating system as we know it are exaggerated--here's why most users won't be making a total switch to Chrome OS any time soon When Google pulled the lid off of...
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Gadgets Hint: the mobile network providers are involved Though whispers of an Apple tablet device practically predate Australopithecus, this week they've reached a fever pitch. It's been reported by...
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How About Cash for Tech Clunkers?
Gadgets This week, Uncle Sam's gas-guzzler gold rush was officially put to sleep. With some 800,000 fuel-efficient cars sold in the months of July and August, you'd be hard pressed… This week, Uncle...
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Why 4G is Nothing More Than a Band-Aid (and Why the FCC Isn’t Helping)
Gadgets On vacation on Cape Cod, my now-insatiable need for constant connectivity provides a revelation Besides world peace and a visit from the Publishers Clearing House van, the one thing I want in...
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Mourning the Death of the Meta Media Experience
Technology Face it: On-demand is the future of TV. But is passive channel surfing and collective viewing something we won't know the value of until it's gone? I tend to think of my cable bill kind of...
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The Grouse's Wishes For a Happy, Techy 2010
Gadgets There goes 2009, and what a year she was. Let's see, the iTunes App Store eclipsed one billion downloads, Google surprised us all with the announcement of Chrome OS, Windows… There goes 2009,...
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The iPad’s Closed System: Sometimes I Hate Being Right
Gadgets Remember that groundbreaking Apple Super Bowl ad from 1984? The one where the woman throws a hammer at Big Brother, signifying a new era of freedom that would be ushered in… Remember that...
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Inside the Excruciatingly Slow Death of Internet Explorer 6
Gadgets It's the bane of designers everywhere, and it makes most modern sites look broken and horrible. So why are 20% of Web surfers still using it? Today was supposed to be a great day for the Web....
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It's About Time: Satellite Video Delivery That Finally Makes Discs Obsolete
Gadgets If your video store isn’t already six feet under, XStreamHD will finally put it there. The company is launching the first set-top system able to download movies that are the… If your video...
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