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New bill to keep XM, Sirius from offering local news and alerts
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Do terrestrial radio stations need government protection from satellite broadcasters? A pair of congressmen think so and have introduced legislation that would take local traffic and weather off of XM Radio and Sirius.
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TiVo Series 3 and 2 set top boxes will be living room conduits for Amazon’s Unbox IP video on demand service. This is the first single box solution that intermingles downloadable broadband video and traditional TV in one place.
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Where do the Super Bowl losers t-shirts and hats go?
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In some parts of the world, the Seattle Seahawks are the reigning Super Bowl champions, the Buffalo Bills are the last great football dynasty and Tom Brady is some frustrated quarterback from New England who can never win it all.
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So sleek, so clean, so pretty. What is it about Apple products that makes them look so yummy?
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PS3 demand slows, retailer says “no one wants them.”
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One retailer spoke to me on condition of anonymity, and broke down his version of the situation. “It’s not that we’ve gotten more PS3s than Wiis, it’s just that no one wants them. We’ve seen a few returned. We have four in the store right now,” he said.
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YOU were named TIME magazine ‘Person of the Year’ Saturday for the explosive growth and influence of user-generated Internet content such as ‘blogs’, video-file sharing site YouTube and social network MySpace… You — YES, YOU — beat out candidates including Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, China’s President Hu Jintao, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
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James Kim died of hypothermia, autopsy reveals
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Police released Thursday that James Kim died of hypothermia after hiking more than 10 miles trying to find help. More details and a timeline of events are given in this CNET article
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Sad news….Search teams have found the deceased body of CNET editor James Kim in the Oregon wilderness. More details from the Crave blog posting…..
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Searchers to drop care packages for missing CNET editor
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Multiple care packages are being dropped along the search route for James Kim. Packages include clothes, food, supplies and a letter from his family.
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SFGate has updated their coverage of the Kim family with a picture of Kati holding Sabine inside the helicopter rented by their family to assist in the search and rescue.
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Kati and daughters found. Still searching for James
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Kati and the two daughters have been found. James left two days ago to find help and is still missing.
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Following confirmed sightings last Saturday night of missing CNET editor James Kim and his family at a Denny’s restaurant in Roseburg, Ore., search efforts are shifting north to Douglas County, Oregon police said Saturday morning.
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Update: As of 9 a.m. PST Friday, investigators said they were narrowing their search to Oregon’s Highway 38 as the family’s most probable route to their destination of Gold Beach. The Kims last spoke to an innkeeper there by phone about five hours before they planned to arrive.
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We’ve received word that a respected member of our tech community, James Kim (whom many of you may know as CNET’s senior editor of digital audio), and his family have gone missing. As we understand it, last weekend James, his wife Kati (above right), and his very young girls Penelope (left) and Sabine (baby), drove from their home in the SF Bay Are
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Bob Barker is heading toward his last showcase, his final “Come on down.” The silver-haired daytime-TV icon is retiring in June, he told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
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Here is a video from today’s boat races at Devil’s Elbow.
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XM Radio Asks Judge to Throw Out RIAA Lawsuit
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XM Satellite Radio asked a federal judge Monday to throw out a copyright lawsuit by the recording industry over the company’s new iPod-like device that can store up to 50 hours of music.
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Gamblers who prefer their laptops to blackjack tables won’t like what Congress is doing. On Tuesday, the House plans to vote on a bill that would ban credit cards for paying online bets and could padlock gambling Web sites.
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Microsoft’s iPod killer to provide free versions of all your iTunes tracks
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To attract current iPod users Microsoft is going to let you download for free any songs you’ve already bought from the iTunes Music Store. They’ll scan iTunes for purchased tracks and then automatically add those to your account. Microsoft will still have to pay the rights-holders for the songs, but they believe it’ll be worth it to converts.
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Experts say that although dry floors harbor fewer pathogens than expected, those that are there will transfer in less than five seconds.
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