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Kaiser Chiefs get medieval on music marketing
Michael Berk  |  Jun 03, 2011  | 

Kaiser Chiefs' fourth studio album, The Future is Medieval, comes out today - but with a twist. The Chiefs have invited purchasers of the record to assemble and sell their own versions, building an online hub where fans they can find an audience for their personal Medievals.

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Xbox, set (at last) to take over your living room
Michael Berk  |  Jun 06, 2011  | 

Microsoft's keynote was the hot ticket this morning at the E3 Expo, and the company didn't disappoint. While a few had held out hopes for a hardware surprise (the company dominated last year's event with the Kinect motion controller), no such thing was forthcoming from Redmond.

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iCloud rolls in
Michael Berk  |  Jun 06, 2011  | 

As expected, Steve Jobs took to the stage at the close of this years WWDC keynote to introduce the highly anticipated iCloud service.

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KEF rocks (and rolls) for children
Michael Berk  |  Jun 07, 2011  | 

Our friends at KEF are looking to raise some money this summer for the ChildLine Rocks Foundation, and naturally they're doing it in a high-octane, high-volume fashion. The organization works to prevent child abuse.

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Free Audiobook: "Go the F--- to Sleep"
Ken Richardson  |  Jun 15, 2011  | 

 

"A children's book for grown-ups! I really did laugh out loud. Hilarious!"

That's none other than David Byrne singing the praises of Go the F--- to Sleep, which was published yesterday by Akashic Books.

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Happy Bloomsday, rock and rollers
Michael Berk  |  Jun 16, 2011  | 

It's Bloomsday today, everyone, and time to celebrate the life and works of James Joyce (June 16th is the day on which Leopold Bloom's wanderings through Dublin are described in obsessive detail by Joyce in his Ulysses).

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Cutting (most of) the cords
Michael Berk  |  Jun 17, 2011  | 

Seems like everybody's trying to cut down on your desktop clutter these days, paring down the collection of cables it takes to run all of your gear - and introducing new standards in the process.

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Decide aims to eliminate buyer's remorse
Michael Berk  |  Jun 20, 2011  | 

The mysterious Decide launches today. The service, founded by MetaCrawler and Farecast vet Oren Etzioni, aims (like Farecast) to use historical pricing and product release schedule data, rumours, and predictive algorithms to take the sting out of shopping.

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The Big Man Joins the Band in the Sky
Mike Mettler  |  Jun 21, 2011  | 

The Big Man has left the building.

Clarence Clemons, the powerful tenor saxophonist of the E Street Band and onstage foil for Bruce Springsteen for 40 years, died Saturday at age 69 due to complications from a recent stroke.

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Forecast continues to be Cloudy
SV Staff  |  Jun 22, 2011  | 
Everybody's heading to the cloud these days, of course (even Best Buy is launching a service), but various little glitches along the way have made some of us reconsider trusting our data to somebody else's distributed network. We told you a few...
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Near Field Communication: payment- and party-enabling
Michael Berk  |  Jun 22, 2011  | 

While we have yet to see an explosion of NFC-enabled products, Nokia's brought the near-field communications protocol to a new range of home entertaiment products launching along with its much-lauded new

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AppRadio: Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the touchscreen
Michael Berk  |  Jun 23, 2011  | 

Pioneer launched its AppRadio yesterday at the CE Week, with the long-awaited iOS-integrated device coming in at an intriguingly low price of $399.99.

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Biggest production rear-projection 3D TV?
Michael Berk  |  Jun 29, 2011  | 

...who knows? It'll change next week, I'm sure. I'm not going to get into that question again.

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Mouser Electronics: more than just a catalog
Michael Berk  |  Jul 01, 2011  | 

 

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URC Looks to take Total Control
John Sciacca  |  Jul 01, 2011  | 

Friday the 13th is nothing to fear this month as remote control giant URC releases the first wave of its new Total Control platform of housewide automation, control, and audio distribution components today.

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