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The long-promised potential of HDTV-over-the-Web could be delivered by an unlikely source. Rather than being worked out by your broadband service provider, your big-screen TV could get video through Cisco, which just invested a chunk of change in a...

On what will you spend your forthcoming federal tax refund? One out of five U.S. households will buy consumer electronics, according to (who else?) the Consumer Electronics Association. That's positive thinking. We like that.

Whether you're for or against the Bush administration's decision to mail out economic stimulus checks to American taxpayers, the check is in the mail. Or, it will be at some point this summer in the amount of $600 per adult per household, and $300...

Welcome to International Night! No, that's not an official SXSW designation for the last night of the festival. But even though I've already taken you to places as far flung as Australia and the Faroe Islands, tonight I'll take you to Brazil,...

As I warned you in SXSW: The Night Before (under Rule No. 4), tonight is the night I make my pilgrimage to Soiled Mattress & the Springs. The photo at left is the opening image on the band's MySpace page - and I can't think of anything better...

"I have a B.A. in dope, but a Ph.D. in soul." That, of course, is the line extracted for today's front page of The Austin Chronicle, reporting on yesterday's SXSW keynote interview of Lou Reed, conducted by producer and friend Hal...