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When participants of the first Ultra HD conference at a Consumer Electronics Association event gathered in New York, everyone saw the light about ultra high-definition television sets and the impact they could have on the TV programming we’ll see through them. The big split of opinion: how soon we choose to buy these sets. At Continue Reading →

AMC Networks’ planned $1 billion purchase of ChelloMedia from Liberty Global will undoubtedly turn the mid-level U.S. cable network company into an international content giant. At the same time, expect Liberty Global to become even larger. In fact, by this time next year, Liberty may well become even a bigger player in the U.S. cable Continue Reading →

The PlayStation 4 is great. I think. There aren’t really enough games out for me to say so definitively, but I think it’s great. So far. Available now in the U.S. for $399 (if you can find one), the PlayStation 4 took everything that was good about the PlayStation 3, got rid of (mostly) everything Continue Reading →

All media that fail to offer an enhanced value exchange will soon become Spam. While that may be a bold statement, we can easily turn to the traditional models of mass media and see how they are faring in today’s world. Mass media are based on old models of communication. If anyone doubts this, they only Continue Reading →

There’s a lot of speculation over whether or not the Twitter IPO is a smart long-term investment. — NewsToLiveBy (@NewsToLiveBy) November 11, 2013 If Twitter is so valuable, then we should be able to talk about anything in 140 characters or less. Right? — NewsToLiveBy (@NewsToLiveBy) November 11, 2013 With the IPO in mind, an Continue Reading →

From trick-or-treating, to Thanksgiving feasts, to the sweet celebrations Christmas and Hanukkah, your kid will be exposed to a lot of unhealthy options this holiday season. Get ahead of it! November is National Diabetes Awareness Month. Here are five mobile apps that empower young ones to understand the consequences of what foods they put into Continue Reading →

The moment [Hoover] would get something on a senator,” said William Sullivan, who became the number three official in the bureau under Hoover, “he’d send one of the errand boys up and advise the senator that ‘we’re in the course of an investigation, and we by chance happened to come up with this data on Continue Reading →

This week marks the end of an era. Friday will see the launch of the Sony PlayStation 4 with the release of Microsoft’s Xbox One coming one week later. Sure, you can still buy new games for the PS3 and Xbox 360 over the next few years, but the industry will have moved on to Continue Reading →

Today’s blog continues with Jan Wallen (you can check out her website here), an expert on selling online who literally wrote the book on using LinkedIn, answering more LinkedIn job search questions about how to use this social networking site for job search. (Here’s a link to the previous seven LinkedIn job search questions.) Final Five LinkedIn Continue Reading →

Tim Kreider lit a fire under the blogosphere in late October with an opinion column in The New York Times called “Slaves of the Internet, Unite!” In the piece, Kreider gripes about hard-working young writers who contribute to various web sites and receive no compensation — even when the work generates massive traffic and thousands Continue Reading →