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Blockbuster to Close 500 Locations [Rentals]
Feb 26th
You might’ve recently walked the aisles of one of Blockbuster’s 3,525 locations while looking for a good make out movie. Five hundred of those locations are closing. [ MSN via Read more ...
CESPool: The Saddest Man at CES, Mascot Edition [Image Cache]
Jan 8th
The first thing they teach you at mascot college? Don’t mope. The second? Try to remember to wear more than 10% of your costume. Cheer up, buddy!
It could be so much worse.
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TiVo Is Slowly Dying [Data]
Nov 25th
It’s always strange when a company that’s become synonymous with its market—like Kleenex to tissues, or Xerox to copiers—starts fading. And that’s exactly what happening to TiVo, whose subscriber level has dropped to where it was in 2004.
This from TiVo’s SEC filing for last quarter, which shows the company losing 314,000 subscribers in the period, capping more than year an a half of fairly steady decline. They Read more ...
Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Diagnosed With Cancer [Sad]
Nov 17th
Paul Allen, known both as the co-founder of Microsoft and for his multitude of philanthropic pursuits, has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, a form of cancer.
We don’t know much about his prognosis, though a letter from his sister says he’s “feeling OK.” Allen came down with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma back in 1983 and beat it, and we’re all hoping he can do it again. [ Read more ...
Rest In Peace, Ridiculous Dual-Screen OLPC XO-2 [Obits]
Nov 3rd
It has always been an unspoken fear—or assumption, even—that the dual-touchscreen followup to the original OLPC, the
XO-2, would never come to pass. But we let the dream live! Until today: the XO-2 Read more ...
