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by Peter Smith

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Peter Smith writes about personal technology for ITworld.

Are you getting your money's worth out of Netflix?

Posted Mar 31, 2009 - 08:13 am

Here's a website that will identify how much it is really costing you to rent DVDs from the popular service.
Personal Tech, Netflix
Sony's Big Announcement: What is it?

Posted Mar 30, 2009 - 12:28 pm

It seems pretty sure that Sony has some big announcement concerning the Playstation product line to make tomorrow, March 31st (the last day of their fiscal year). The details, so far, are pure conjecture.
Business, PS3, Sony
Foxit eSlick e-reader ships

Posted Mar 30, 2009 - 08:08 am

An economic E Ink device for reading PDF documents on the go.
Hardware, e-readers, eSlick
Gorge your e-reader on free books!

Posted Mar 27, 2009 - 10:39 am

Whether you read ebooks on a Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone or notebook, there is a plethora of free content just waiting for you to come and download it. Bonus topic: free audio books!
Personal Tech, e-books, e-readers
Apple Developer Conference dated

Posted Mar 26, 2009 - 04:29 pm

Apple's Developer Connection site was updated today to announce that the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference will be held June 8-12, 2009.
Software, Apple, WWDC
Another e-book reader announced; this is getting confusing!

Posted Mar 26, 2009 - 08:31 am

Samsung announces a new e-book reader due out in Korea in June. How many choices does that make? How many choices will the market support? And which one would you choose?
Personal Tech, e-readers
Blockbuster to announce partnership with Tivo

Posted Mar 25, 2009 - 08:03 am

Move over Amazon On Demand, Blockbuster is getting into bed with Tivo, too. Let's hope there are enough covers for everyone.
Business, Blockbuster, tivo
OnLive, a new game-changing technology

Posted Mar 24, 2009 - 08:17 am

From the Game Developers Conference comes word of a new video gaming service that will run on just about any system in your house. The secret? Run the code on their servers, and stream the output to you.
Personal Tech, OnLive, video games
ExecTweets showcases business execs on Twitter

Posted Mar 23, 2009 - 07:27 pm

A new site sponsored by Microsoft says it "empowers the community to surface the most insightful, business-related tweets." Curious to know what your favorite exec had for breakfast?
Business, Twitter
Bigfoot Networks brings us Voice Chat Acceleration

Posted Mar 23, 2009 - 01:10 pm

Company announces new line of "gaming network cards" for high-end PCs.
Networking, network cards, video games

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