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AdBlitz Lets You Watch Super Bowl Commercials... on YouTube
For some of us, the Super Bowl is nothing more than a string of witty commercials interrupted by snippets of football. Now, though, you won't even have to tune in to the big game to watch the world famous ads, thanks to a new YouTube channel devoted ... Read more →
Conan O'Brien for Sale on Craigslist's 'Casual Encounters'
20 days ago on SwitchedSo it's come to this. After all the melodrama, all the rumors, all the flaring tempers, the NBC late night soap opera has not only apparently sent Conan O'Brien packing, but also forced him into a life of online "prostitution." After ...
Forget Cable: Live ESPN Events May Stream to Your Xbox Console
21 days ago on SwitchedAs you probably know, nowadays you can stream movies or check up on your Facebook friends with your cherished video game console. Seeking to push the envelope yet further, The New York Times reports that Microsoft wants to bring live-streaming ...
'I'm With COCO' Campaign Fires Up Facebook Support for Conan O'Brien
26 days ago on SwitchedIf you've missed the recent late-night imbroglio at NBC, you have missed a great deal of comedy, and some tragedy. The shakeup, which involves bumping Conan O'Brien to the midnight time slot, and moving Jay Leno back to his old time slot for half an ...
Risk For Heart Disease Increases With Each Hour Spent Watching TV
26 days ago on SwitchedWe understand that there are plenty of new episodes of your favorite TV shows to watch this time of year. However, you might want to consider tuning out -- or, at least, to get up and move around the house every once in a while. According to ...
The Worst of CES 2010
28 days ago on SwitchedWe saw plenty of cool gadgets at this year's CES. But for every 3-D screen that needed no glasses, and for every hybrid laptop, there was at least one piece (but, more likely, two or three or ten pieces) of utter crap. There were digital photo ...
'The Office' Ex-Intern Presents Co-Worker's 'Souls' on Artsy Photoblog
28 days ago on SwitchedEverybody remembers the old saying, "A picture's worth a thousand words." Well, Ryan Howard (the fictional character played by B.J. Novak in 'The Office') won't let that stand. According to his artist's statement on his recently launched photoblog, ...
Intel's AppUp Center Could Enhance Netbooks and Mobile Devices
1 month ago on SwitchedYesterday, at Intel's CES keynote, Paul Otellini unveiled the AppUp Center, similar to the iTunes App Store but geared toward netbooks and MIDs (Mobile Internet Device). While our friends at Engadget were busy wondering "why you would need an app ...
Does Vegas Buy the 3-D TV Hype?
1 month ago on SwitchedTimed barely a month after the release of James Cameron's 3-D behemoth 'Avatar,' CES picked a great time to display the latest and greatest 3-D TV technologies. We've seen some impressive setups so far, but we took to the sidewalks of Vegas to ...
Panasonic Breaks Largest TV Record by Two Inches, Dethroning... Panasonic
1 month ago on SwitchedIt seems like only yesterday, but it was way back at CES 2008 that Panasonic debuted its now positively quaint-looking, 150-inch, "world's largest" TV. Since no one else was challenging its record-sized commercially available television, Panasonic ...
ESPN Launching 3-D Network in June
1 month ago on SwitchedJust a few days ago, we told you to brace yourselves for 3-D's jump from the big screen to your television. Yes, we too are salivating over the prospect of watching 3-D movies in our living rooms, but that's not all we're excited about. A bit of ...
Boxee Box Made Even More Official
1 month ago on SwitchedWell, it's official: media-center software suite Boxee is getting a box. The Boxee Box already got a kind-of-sort-of debut, but here at CES, D-Link is giving the angular media streaming device a proper coming out. The chopped and tilted cube can ...
More People Pirate 'Heroes' and 'Dexter' Than Watch on U.S. Television
1 month ago on SwitchedWhen it comes to network television, it's all about the ratings. If people aren't watching, the show's getting axed -- no matter the quality. (R.I.P. 'Freaks and Geeks' or 'Arrested Development'). According to numbers compiled by TorrentFreak, fans ...
3-D TV Soon to Be a Reality
1 month ago on SwitchedNow that 'Avatar' has blown everyone's minds from the big screen, it looks as if the small screen will soon be jumping on the 3-D train, too. According to HD Guru, DirecTV's newly launched satellite will not only include over 200 HD channels, but ...
Kim Kardashian Gets $10K Per Tweet
1 month ago on SwitchedFor the most part, 'Keeping up with the Kardashians' doesn't involve too much thought. Sure, you have to remember which girl's dating the football player, which one's having a baby with a basketball player, which one's doing neither. But other than ...
Pepsi Goes Social, Leaves Behind the Super Bowl
1 month ago on SwitchedThere has been plenty of talk in the past few years about how the Internet and social media are going to replace everything from newspapers and TV to shopping malls and classified ads. And while hyperbolic hypotheses about the death of traditional ...


