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I made a big decision today to stop visiting the CNET News homepage. For 10 years CNET News has been one of my favorite places to get tech news, until this year. Lately more and more of the stories have been making me feel uncomfortable. I could tell that CNET News wasn’t interested in reporting [...]

Great, those of us that already knew about Foursquare have been there and done that. Foursquare is over. At first you think it’s neat, you get to be the mayor of a couple of places. You compete for high score. Next thing you know, you can think of absolutely no reason to check in anywhere. So [...]

This article talks about how Google and Verizon may not be trying to break network neutrality, but work around it by having Google pay to place servers near or in Verizon’s data centers. Well if this is just something Bob Cringley made up and they’re not talking about this, they should. It seems like a great [...]

Report: Conservative groups gaming Digg It was only a matter of time. When Digg first came out, I was all over it. The idea of voting on stories seemed so great. The problems started almost immediately. First every story would be submitted from multiple places and they never figured out a way to join them and their [...]

Quick Facts Featured Story Microsoft Bing Maps Beta adds much richer images What Microsoft Bing competes with Google maps Excerpt Microsoft is kicking Bing Maps into a higher gear, announcing a beta version of Bing Maps that uses Silverlight to display [...]

For the past couple of weeks it seems like a lot of the YouTube videos I try to watch aren’t getting any bandwidth. If I want to watch even a short video I have to pause it and wait a half hour for it to load. This is particularly surprising coming from Google. I wonder if [...]