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North Americans sure have their priorities straight. During the second quarter - a period marked by anemic economic growth, climbing inflation, and surging oil prices - TV shipments rocketed 28 percent. Market research provider DisplaySearch says total shipments of TVs...

It's hard to compete with free. Online movie rentals cost roughly $2 to $4 apiece. And since pirated versions of most TV shows and movies often show up online without charge, it's not easy to convince people to pay for...

Facebook is experimenting with video advertising in a way which invites users to rant and rate, much as they do on each other's pictures and news feed items. The idea is to come up with a strategy to generate ad...

A new website that allows users to upload and share entire magazines online has come under attack for digital piracy and copyright infringement. Ya think? Mygazines.com, listed as in beta, is already packed with even more titles than overstocked, struggling...

Netflix' 3-day shipping outage is not good for business. Customers are pissy and investors are likely annoyed. But is it detrimental? Not really. The estimated cost of the outage - roughly $1.8 million to $3.6 million per day, according to...

Telegraph.co.uk: The Waboba ball, which is about the size of a golf ball, has taken off around the world after videos were posted on YouTube. Made of a combination of plastics with a lycra coating, it is described as having the consistency of a breast implant. The ball is about the same density as water and floats when [...]

American Well provides a platform where consumers can obtain real-time access to physicians via the Web. The company has already signed a deal with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Hawaii to offer online services to BCBS members and non-members –and is busy putting other deals in place. I met this morning with Dr. Roy Schoenberg, the [...]

What do you expect when you're dealing with pirates? Just days after an Italian judge's decision to block ISP access to the major Sweden-based torrent site in Italy, The Pirate Bay is reporting a 5 percent increase in Italian web...

Support may be growing for action against technology firms that track online behavior to better sell advertising, but with time running out on the Bush presidency, and companies increasingly adopting opt out loopholes, federal attention may be more about publicity...

zenhabits: One of the keys to happiness - as well as productivity and effectiveness at work - is finding work you love, that you're passionate about. Work you want to do, instead of just have to do. 1. It won't find you - you have to seek it. Doing the same ol' thing everyday [...]

If you’ve ever opened the gym bag of someone who does a lot of sports, you are probably familiar with the smell that comes out. From all the use the gear piled in there gets, it’s very important to make sure everything gets cleaned and sanitized as that gear needs to be. For less than [...]

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Mental Floss: For Allied POWs during World War II, Monopolyr games came equipped with real-life “get out of jail free” cards. During World War II, the British secret service hatched a master plan to smuggle escape gear to captured Allied soldiers inside Germany. Their secret weapon? Monopoly boxes. In 1941, the British Secret [...]

Gas prices may be through the roof, but that apparently hasn't stopped eager vacationers from giving up hope. Travel ground/cruise related websites were the top gaining category up 10 percent from June with a whopping 12.7 million visitors, according to...

Just Make Money Online: If you can't lounge around the well-known, award-winning Google HQ offices as an employee, there are other ways to make money off the big G. 1. Blogger - Whether you're running ads, selling products, promoting affiliates, or using this blog platform as a way to promote your business or services, this Google service [...]

When you love something, you might want to set it free. But NBC loves the Olympics more when the events are gripped tightly in its primetime grasp. Jeff Zucker is basking in the advertising revenue from the Olympics this week,...

Entrepreneur: Over the past several months, Congress has been discussing numerous changes to existing patent law. While certain elements of the legislation will bring the U.S. patent system in line with much of the rest of the world by potentially simplifying the process of filing, granting and disputing patents, my concern is that the direction and [...]

Good news for one social aggregator. Socialthing!, a Colorado-based start-up, was rumored to have been bought by AOL earlier this month by TechCrunch, but on their blog this morning founder and CEO Matt Galligan confirms the acquisition. In thanking them...

UPDATED with quotes from Jeff Zucker. NBC may be taking lumps in the blogosphere for its decision to provide so much of its Olympics coverage exclusively through traditional channels, but they have given advertisers an increasingly elusive commodity - a...

Biz.Yahoo.com: Entrepreneur.com announces the launch of Entrepreneur Connect, a highly anticipated online social networking site for the small business community at http://econnect.entrepreneur.com. The new online destination, presented by Sprint, is a business-to-business marketplace designed specifically for entrepreneurs. While other social networking sites feature an atmosphere of play, Entrepreneur Connect was created by the online authority in entrepreneurial [...]