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Word of the day: petard/pi-tahrd/noun 1. Explosive device used to blow up a wall or door. 2. A kind of firecracker. Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s End People who constantly reach into a pocket to check a … Continue reading →

Word of the day: fugacious/fyoo-gey-shuhs/adjective. 1. Fleeting; transitory. 2. Botany: Falling or fading early. Facial Recognition Billboard Only Lets Women See the Full Ad A new kind of outdoor advertisement is being tested on Oxford Street in London’s West End. … Continue reading →

video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Word of the day: fetching/fe-ching/adjective 1. Attractive or pleasing. Google quietly launches Latitude Leaderboards, threatens Foursquare under its breath Google didn’t exactly offer much fanfare for this new feature — as far as we can … Continue reading →

Word of the day: jactation/jak-tey-shuhn/noun 1. Boasting; bragging. 2. A restless tossing of the body. Apple Sold More iOS Devices in 2011 Than Macs in 28 Years Apple sold 55 million iPads to date, CEO Tim Cook recently revealed in … Continue reading →

Groupon Is Testing A New $30 Per Year VIP Service Groupon is offering a new “VIP” service that costs $30 a year. A reader forwarded us the email below, and we’ve confirmed that it’s real with Groupon. What do you … Continue reading →

Zynga beats earnings estimates for its first-ever quarterly report as a public company Zynga reported a modest profit for the fourth-quarter in its first-ever quarter financial report today. The non-GAAP earnings per share were five cents, or $37.1 million, for … Continue reading →

YouTube’s Offer Video-Makers Can’t Refuse: We’re Putting All Your Stuff Everywhere Last night YouTube rolled out a new app for Google TV. And behind the scenes, YouTube has made a small but important change in the way it deals with … Continue reading →

Traveling Light in a Time of Digital Thievery When Kenneth G. Lieberthal, a China expert at the Brookings Institution, travels to that country, he follows a routine that seems straight from a spy film. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/11/technology/electronic-security-a-worry-in-an-age-of-digital-espionage.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all Where The Ladies At? Pinterest. … Continue reading →

Tucker Max’s Rejected Twitter Campaign and Stab at Celebrity Endorsement A few weeks ago, author and infamous frat-boy blogger Tucker Max told Forbes contributor Michael Ellsberg that he was giving up the game: giving up the writing, giving up the … Continue reading →

Patent Troll Claims Ownership of Interactive Web – And Might Win The city of Tyler, Texas, is better known as the nation’s “rose capital” than as a hotspot of the technology industry. It’s a quiet, conservative city of about 100,000, … Continue reading →