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Sure, you use social networks to keep up with your friends, share vacation photos, and let everyone know that you’re traveling to Singapore for work. But using these networks for research can be extremely valuable to you and your business. Here’s how.
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Amazon’s IMDb wants in on the streaming-video business in a big way: founder Col Needham said the company, which dominates the movie-database business, wants to be able to give users one-click access to the 1.3 million titles in its index.

Of course, that’s a mammoth task—Needham said it was a goal for 2009 “and beyond,” per [...]

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Blu-ray Disc titles are now selling for less than the cost of a single movie ticket. Amazon is offering hundreds of Blu-ray titles at half their normal prices for the next two weeks, with some going for as little as $10. With Blu-ray adoption expected to explode in 2009 (for hardware advice, [...]

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21 is a sure bet: Kate Bosworth, Jim Sturgess and Kevin Spacey star in the movie, currently in the top five on Netflix.

We may have less money, but we’re no less impatient.
Flying in the face of the struggling economy, movies-by-mail service Netflix announced Tuesday that [...]

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Washington, D.C. (January 29, 2009) — Netflix said this week that it ended the fourth quarter with 700,000 Blu-ray subscribers, a sharp jump from the previous quarter.
The online DVD rental service said it had roughly 500,000 Blu-ray subscribers at the end of the third quarter. But the company increased that total despite [...]

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Camera makers are jumping into the 3-D photo market more than 20 years after the format was laughed out of town and ended up as Michael Jackson’s sidekick in Captain Eo.
Recently, Fujifilm announced a two-lensed camera that takes images and movies in 3-D and captures wide-angle photos of single scenes simultaneously. As [...]

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High-Definition TVs are now in more than 30 million U.S. homes and that number continues to rise. This makes the high-def audience a prime target for HD-related companies.
And when businesses are in highly competitive category, such as high-def, they will tend to be more aggressive in marketing campaigns designed to win over [...]

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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is bundling a form of copyright protection software into new MacBooks that has some buyers up in arms. Called High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), the technology prevents MacBook owners from playing movies they’ve purchased through iTunes on many external monitors, TVs or projectors—meaning they’re stuck watching flicks they’ve paid [...]

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How would you like a 60-Inch 1080p HDTV for $999? Or, how about a 42-inch Plasma HDTV for $599?
On November 28, the day after Thanksgiving, shoppers across America will pour into retail stores looking for ‘Black Friday’ bargains on everything from appliances to apparel.
The discount prices are often available for one day [...]

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So says a report from News.com, and it seems a no brainer on the face of it: YouTube, owned by Google (NSDQ: GOOG), has tried to get full length movies and TV shows from major networks and studios for a while now, but has failed to make major headway due to queasiness [...]