MommaCyndy says "Buy a Sweet HD Surround Sound System" about Panasonic – SC-PT770 DVD 5.1 Home Theatre System
I needed a sound system that respected my music and would upgrade the sound to match the picture quality of a 40-inch HDTV. A year of web research and savings led to Panasonic’s SC-PT770 home theatre system. It has a five stack DVD/CD receiver with a nifty integrated MP3 cradle. For sound you get two [...]
Retweet.com Looks To Be A TweetMeme Competitor With A Killer Domain Name
Those little green reweet buttons you see across the web on sites like this one have helped TweetMeme rise in popularity. The buttons are now so ubiquitous that the service has seemingly become the de-facto retweeting mechanism for content on the web. But it looks like it’s about to get a challenger, with a killer [...]
By A Nose: Netflix Prize Leaders One-Upped With One Day Remaining
Last month news broke that a team of computer scientists had finally managed to improve Netflix’s recommendation algorithm by 10%, making them eligible to win the $1 million Netflix Prize, a competition that began back in 2006. The team, BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos, is composed of two former leaders in the competition who banded [...]
As AT&T gains on Verizon, CEO says exclusive iPhone fleeting
While AT&T added more customers last quarter than competitor Verizon — thanks in large part to the iPhone — AT&T's CEO admitted this week that his company won't have exclusivity on Apple's phone forever.
Dotopen Opens For Business – It’s Like FriendFeed For Companies
Barcelona-based dotopen has launched its B2B communication platform in public beta today in another attempt to create a successful matchmaking service for businesses where decision makers could come to collaborate and connect with each other.
We’ve heard that a million times before, but I got an early peak of the platform when I was in [...]
Samsung “World’s Thinnest” Watchphone Also Happens to Be One of the World’s Only Watchphones [Samsung]
Samsung’s only real watchphone competitor hasn’t even launched its product yet, so it’s a little early for the marketing oneupmanship. Regardless, the S9110 is an impressive piece of kit, with a 1.76-inch touchscreen, Bluetooth, email support and MP3 playback. Rounding out the feature list are a few watchphone necessities, like voice recognition and speakerphone, all [...]
XING Launches OpenSocial App Assault On LinkedIn
Despite being virtually unknown in the US, and still somewhat hemmed in by its core German speaking market, XING, the LinkedIn competitor, refuses to lie down. And like a scene from the Rocky movie, it’s going into training to become better, quicker and faster than the LinkedIn machine. Although let’s face it, it has it’s [...]
Digg’s Kevin Rose Not Pleased With DiggBar Change
Earlier today we reported on a change in how Digg handles URL redirects from its URL shortening service called DiggBar. Users of the service are not happy – links are now sometimes going to Digg’s summary of the story instead of the story itself. The term “Bait and Switch” is being thrown around liberally, and [...]
Why Zynga Is Worried about Playfish
When I wrote my BusinessWeek column on Zynga a while back, every venture capitalist in the Valley told me that Playdom was the company’s biggest competitor.
After all, it competes game-to-game, with similar mob-style and poker games, and was said to be doing the same revenues as Zynga with much higher profitability. (As my column pointed [...]
What Is This? [PCs]
Q: What classic computer and Apple II competitor opened its steel case up like a car hood? And was named after a domestic rock toy popular at the time? A: The Commodore Pet Gizmodo ‘79 is a week-long celebration of gadgets and geekdom 30 years ago, as the analog age [...]
