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11 Jan 2010 10:58

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Offbeat: Meet the dumbest, time-suckingest machine ever made, guys

  • We admit that this machine would probably keep us busy for a few hours. Totally.

06 Jun 2009 10:05

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Tech, U.S.: Lots of people STILL aren’t ready for the digital TV switch

  • this Friday Or June 12, the day that the final stages of the digital TV conversion will take place
  • three million People still aren’t ready, including immigrants, the elderly and under-rock dwellers source

19 May 2009 10:27

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Biz, U.S.: Getting a copyright is even more tedious than usual nowadays

  • six months amount of time it took to get a copyright before they switched to electronic submissions
  • 18 months amount of time it takes now; no word on whether this is any faster than the App Store source

14 May 2009 08:13

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Tech: Gmail now lets you transfer your old e-mail piles to Gmail

  • No word on if they plan to do the same with physical letters. One of the few major sticking points for non-Gmail users to switch to Google’s superior-in-every-way free e-mail service has been the inability to drag your old mail with you. Until now. New users can now push mail from their old services (AOL, Yahoo!, Hotmail and a ton of others) to their new accounts fairly painlessly, right within Gmail. Good show, Google! source