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1. Chrome OS: Lame Copy or Amazing new OS?

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ... they can compete in a world of reality TV shows?   They do have that big unprofitable YouTube audience to satisfy after all, and the video of Eric Schmidt’s job interview  simply isn’t that funny anymore. ...

2. Murdoch plans to block Google News

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 09 November 2009

   Antipodean media magnate throws toys out of pram Mega-publisher Rupert Murdoch says he will pull stories from Google's news index to encourage people to pay for online content. In an interview with Sky ...

3. Wii fails to deliver

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Wednesday, 04 November 2009

   Infinity Ward has claimed that the Nintendo Wii is incapable of delivering the "cinematic experience" required for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Infinity Ward has claimed that the Nintendo Wii is incapable ...

4. How to save journalism

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Thursday, 01 October 2009

   ... don't cover it. They don't call sources, dig into public records, get interviews with people in power, attend public meetings, race off to natural disasters, or do half the things necessary to report ...

5. AMD aims at simplicity for the tech generation

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Wednesday, 09 September 2009

   Interview Chip firm AMD has integrated its portfolio of products and platforms and has a strategy aimed at targeting the tech generation rather than talking pure tech to people who don’t want to understand bits ...

6. Intel boss confident of market upturn

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 03 September 2009

   ... the decision out of Brussels, I'm comfortable we'll win. The process was one that did not look at all the evidence and didn't balance all the facts." The BBC interview was also notable for the ...

7. Sega: Hard-core Wii games a 'successful niche'

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 13 August 2009

   ... be titles have the same type of sales curve that a lot of Nintendo titles have," Denise Kaigler told Wired in a previous interview. "A lot of Nintendo titles don't follow that traditional sales curve where ...

8. Semi market stutters all the way through this year

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Tuesday, 11 August 2009

   ... brighter times in store.Penn said in an interview yesterday that the world of electronics doesn’t stand still. Companies that make products and that use the chips the semiconductor industry makes have ...

9. Masterclass: How not to write a news story

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Friday, 31 July 2009

   ... of headline writing skills and interviewed everyone and his uncle (literally) for background on the unfortunate man, so what should have been a one or two paragraph story expanded into a three-part epic ...

10. Nintendo clueless about "hardcore" Wii games

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 28 July 2009

    A Nintendo VP has admitted that she does not know why "hardcore" Wii games such as MadWorld and The Conduit have generated disappointing sales. San Francisco (CA) - A Nintendo VP has admitted that ...

11. Claws out in Splinter Cell snub catfight

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 22 July 2009

    A Ubisoft designer has insisted that the decision to designate Splinter Cell: Conviction an Xbox 360 exclusive was 'purely business.'San Francisco (CA) - A Ubisoft designer has insisted that the decision ...

12. Analysis: Microsoft prepares to dominate global console market

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 17 July 2009

    ... Aaron Greenberg expressed similar sentiments in a recent interview with PC World.   "If you want great games and you're only going to buy one system, you have to get the Xbox 360, because we have ...

13. Gates confirms Project Natal for 2010, also for Windows PCs

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 16 July 2009

    Bill Gates recently sat down for his annual interview with Cnet and spent some time talking about his thoughts on Project Natal – including the system’s release date, which should not be a surprise ...

14. Sony chief downplays rift with Activision over PS3 price cut

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 08 July 2009

    ... noted that he would "lose money on every PlayStation I make - how's that for logic." Jack Tretton, President of Sony Computer Entertainment America, expressed similar sentiments during a recent interview ...

15. Meet your new boss: Google

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Wednesday, 08 July 2009

    Opinion – Ten years ago, when I first interviewed the founders of a 30-people strong company and was confronted with the claim that it had reinvented the search engine wheel, I had little reason to ...

16. Firefox, IE. Tech journalists are a disgrace

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Friday, 03 July 2009

    ... about browsers. Most of them don't know which one they use and just eight percent of the people interviewed in Times Square by Google earlier this year could explain what a browser actually did. So, ...

17. Hard-Core Conduit placates desperate Wii fans

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 23 June 2009

    Sega and High Voltage Software have finally shipped the long-awaited Conduit for the Nintendo Wii. Conduit, a hard-core FPS (first-person shooter), features a "intense conspiracy-laden single-player campaign," ...

18. LaBeouf criticizes Nintendo gamers, calls Wii an "amateur console"

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 22 June 2009

    Famous actor Shia LaBeouf has reportedly referred to the Nintendo Wii as an "amateur console." LeBeouf  - who referred to himself as a "gamer" - also claimed he would rather "eat glass" than ...

19. Schmidt triggered by Bing. Cross, be he

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 09 June 2009

    ...  In an interview with Fox Business News, Eric Schmidt, the company's CEO, said that Microsoft "does this about once a year". We don't remember Bing 2008, so we think he must mean another kind of Microsoft ...

20. Internet becoming 'messy and confusing'

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 09 June 2009

    ... businesses and 50 e-commerce managers from SMEs. A series of in-depth senior industry executive interviews were then completed to critically analyse the survey findings.    ...

21. Brits too scared to shop online

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Sunday, 10 May 2009

    ... to reach its full potential. Even for those who did shop using the internet - roughly half the people interviewed - 72 per cent said they still had concerns over doing so and 38 per cent were at best only ...

22. Harvard astrophysicist: Sunspot activity correlates to global climate change

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Friday, 10 April 2009

    ... "the first deep solar minimum of the space age", and "In fact, this is the quietest [fewest sunspots] Sun we have had in almost a century". In a separate video interview (http://wbztv.com/video/?id=75103 ...

23. Analysis: Mobile games as Microsoft's new weapon against iPhone

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 01 April 2009

    ... the iPhone has been entertainment (just like with the iPod)," Gold told TG Daily in an email interview. "So it is not at all surprising that gaming is doing well with the App Store. I don’t think ...

24. AMD's lawyer claims Intel wants them dead

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 18 March 2009

    ... general counsel, Harry Wolin, said in an interview with Cnet, "I don't agree with the premise that they have to have us and they think they have to have us [as a competing chip-making company]. I think ...

25. John McCain to be "Twitterviewed": First interview conducted over Twitter

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 16 March 2009

    Journalism is changing. On Tuesday, ABC's George Stephanopoulos is planning to conduct an interview with the former presidential candidate, John McCain, for his show This Week. I would say that typically, ...

26. Time Warner's TV Anywhere: Web access without cable or satellite

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 03 March 2009

    In an interview with Advertising Age, Jeff Bewkes, chief executive of Time Warner discussed a concept the company has deemed TV Anywhere. The goal of the initiative is to start an industry wide revolution, ...

27. Confess anonymously online via Twitter

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 27 February 2009

    ... the third unsuccessful interview for internship.... i have lost hopes of finding a job when i graduate....5) I wish i could make my mum as happy as the wine she can't survive a single evening without. SecretTweet ...

28. Android gets a $200 application that does nothing

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 24 February 2009

    ... ones. "It is likely that at least some portion of the applications will be less than robust," Jack Gold of J. Gold Associates told TG Daily in an email interview. "How will they get sorted out in ...

29. Torvalds: Linux will remain a many splendid affair

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 04 February 2009

    ... allows the market to decide which avenue is best. He also says "having multiple players just keeps everybody honest, and allows you to compare them." See DistroWatch Weekly for the full interview. Opinion YES! ...

30. A peek inside Apple's top-secret design facility

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 23 January 2009

    ... where Apple's "design czar" Jonathan Ive and his team dream up new gadgets. The director interviewed Ive for his film and has posted a rare photo of the interior of that facility. Chicago (IL) - Documentary filmmaker ...

31. Throw your hard drive away, Google's Gdrive arriving in 2009

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 19 January 2009

    ... for Gmail, alluded to Gdrive in a recent interview with Cnet. "We know people's file sizes are getting bigger," he said. "They want to share their files, keep them in the cloud, and not worry about which ...

32. UPDATED: Blu-ray sales quadrupled in 2008

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 14 January 2009

    ... interview:Q: It’s been a year now since Blu-ray won the next-generation DVD format wars. When are you guys going to drop the “digital download” line and say, “Let’s just put ...

33. Outsourcing wave to hit Hollywood actors

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Friday, 09 January 2009

    ... current stage of the development reminds me somewhat of 2001 when I interviewed the CEO of Electronic Arts for a German weekly and I was told that the company was working on injecting artificial intelligence ...

34. Microsoft interested in Yahoo search deal, again

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 05 December 2008

    ... two companies. It is more a question of when Yahoo is finally screwed enough and ripe for a deal. The anchor for the Wall Street Journal to interview Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was the hiring of former ...

35. Windows 7: Will it be good enough?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Sunday, 26 October 2008

    ... multi-touch demonstration: The two executives announced multi-touch capability as a major new feature for Windows 7 at the D6 conference earlier this year. 3. Interview of Steven Sinofsky by Cnet’s Ina ...

36. Android source code released, anyone can now make Android devices

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 21 October 2008

    ... with apps," Jack Gold of J. Gold Associates told TG Daily in an email interview. "So yes, open source has benefits in that many creative people and companies can 'improve' the base code. But if it gets ...

37. The iPod is about done, Apple co-founder says

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 07 October 2008

      Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has given another interview that highlights his opinions about some Apple core products – opinions that Apple PR would not approve as public statement even on April ...

38. Proxy server trail leads FBI to Palin email hacker

    (Security/Security Features)

    Friday, 19 September 2008

    ... is a good chance that it will lead to the hacker.  Since the interview, he’s received a call from the Anchorage Alaska FBI field office and agents there are highly suggesting that he not lose the ...

39. African locusts could help make better cars

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 19 September 2008

    ... behind the eyes.  The “radar” sweeps an area in front of the bug and if an obstacle is detected the signal to turn is sent directly to the wings. In a video interview with Reuters, the scientists ...

40. Move over Prius, upcoming gasoline car gets 100 mpg

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 18 September 2008

    ... This car has been shown off before at various green automotive shows, but it seems people didn't take the manufacturers seriously. The Register BBC Video interview via Breitbart Teaser image courtesy ...

41. Very few DTV coupons redeemed – study

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 17 September 2008

    ... have a converter box built into their leased equipment. DisplaySearch interviewed 800 people in July and found that over the air programming is still very popular.  Approximately 23% have one television ...

42. Al Gore invented the Internet, John McCain created the Blackberry

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 16 September 2008

    ... However, while Gore reportedly said during an interview with CNN back in 2000 "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." it is generally believed ...

43. Wall Street meltdown will ripple through the tech sector

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 15 September 2008

    ... and things will probably get much worse.  In an interview with ABC’s ‘This Week’ on Sunday, former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan said we are in a “once in a century” situation and added that ...

44. Abe Lincoln and Tesla to reside at NCSA in October

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 11 September 2008

    ... on campus for a guided tour hosted by four very spontaneous, knowledgeable and perky people.  In fact, for this journalist it's the most memorable interview I've ever had to date.  That team ...

45. Blu-ray has only five years left – Samsung

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 03 September 2008

    ... HD-DVD and is now locked in another format battle against DVD.  In an interview with Pocket-lint, Andy Griffiths, Samsung UK Director of consumer electronics, said, “I think it [Blu-ray] has 5 years ...

46. 5 million iPhone 3Gs and 3 million Macs this quarter, analysts estimate

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 22 August 2008

    ... - to cut grey market. "Russia is clearly one of the more dynamic and expanding markets worldwide," he said in an email interview with TG Daily. However, some industry watchers claim that Apple is spreading ...

47. Takei, Curry, McCarthy, others starring in Command & Conquer Red Alert 3

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    Wednesday, 20 August 2008

    ... shows. The publisher said those wanting to see more of the cast in action can order a special limited edition of the game, debuting this fall for the PC and Xbox 360. It includes a bonus DVD showing interviews ...

48. Music royalties could kill Pandora

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 18 August 2008

      Escalating music royalties could put Internet darling, Pandora, out of business.  In a recent interview with the Washington Post, Tim Westergren, the founder of the online radio station, says ...

49. Reports of failing iPhone 3G reception, Apple remains quiet

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 14 August 2008

    ... Many things could cause these issues," he said in an email interview with TG Daily. "Even people's sweaty hands could have an effect, or how close they hold the device to their heads, or in what direction ...

50. T-Mobile pitches App Store rival

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 12 August 2008

    ... while at the same time seeing decreasing profits from their basic services," said Gold in an email interview with TG Daily. "Clearly, services is where a lot of potential profit lies. What isn't so clear ...