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Social networking is still in its infancy. It’s this intangible, moldable, constantly changing thing and once you think you’ve managed to wrap  your head around it all, it morphs into something different entirely. The myriad of overlapping interests make social networking simultaneously rich and convoluted: Photo-sharing, microblogging, shopping and e-commerce, and the increasingly popular location to name a few of the bigger ones. Location,… Read More

The kerfuffle over collaborative coupon service Groupon's decidedly foolish Super Bowl ads just won't die. In a recent company profile in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Groupon's 30-year-old CEO Andrew Mason placed the blame for the commercials — one of which seemed to many to equate the plight of Tibet with saving money on dinner — pointedly on the shoulders of the advertising firm that created the spot, CP&B. According to… Read More

In the wake of the tidal wave of negative criticism that followed Groupon's “Tibet” Super Bowl commercial, the coupon company says the ads were intended, not to offend, but to enlighten. In case you missed it: Groupon ran a commercial during CBS's broadcast of the Super Bowl on Sunday, which seemed to tactlessly equate the long-time suffering of people in Tibet with the ability of Groupon users to save money at a Tibetan… Read More

Aside from deciding the champion of pigskin, the Super Bowl has long been the time when companies roll out their most high-budget, titillating or controversial commercials. But last night, collaborative coupon-savings company Groupon apparently took a step too far. In case you missed last night's big game, here's what happened: Groupon's ad, for which the two-year-old company paid $3 million to air, opens with shots of the… Read More

Wireless operator Sprint has been making much ado over its 4G WiMax network, which is lighting up in a growing number of major markets around the United States—although places like New York, L.A., San Francisco, Washington D.C., and Boston are still waiting. Part of its strategy has been selling 3G/4G combination hotspots that enable users to tap into mobile Internet capabilities using Wi-Fi devices. For the last few months,… Read More

While I think the new iPod Nano may be one of the best designed hardware products ever, I’ve never been a fan of iTunes and tend to avoid iPods as a result. Three products I’ve been testing couldn’t be more different than the iPod – or each other. These offerings all have unique advantages and disadvantages and, given that the stock market was up sharply on Monday, some of us may actually be able to afford one.… Read More

The Spot is the first convergent media experience available today for Internet, Mobile Phones and all media. The Spot follows the daily lives of six twenty-something's living in a seven-bedroom beach house in Santa Monica. California. The shows can now be accessed on select Sprint PCS Vision Phones nationwide as well as at the website www.thespot.com. The Spot was unveiled yesterday at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles… Read More

A surge in buying by PC makers, among other issues, has supported the price rise, said Nam Hyung Kim, an analyst with iSuppli Corp. All of this has pushed spot prices to nearly double what they were a year earlier. Prices in the spot market for a popular type of memory chip, 256-megabit double data-rate memory, jumped 10.8 percent to $6.30, according to DRAMeXchange, an online memory marketplace. A year ago, prices were $3.33, said… Read More