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iCon TV Show Takes on Steve Jobs With a Seinfeld-Style Approach
What do you get when you throw 'Mad Men,' 'Entourage,' and Steve Jobs into a blender, and hit purée? At best, you just might find yourself with a deliciously cutthroat blend of Silicon Valley satire and comedic (Ari) Gold -- which is exactly ... Read more →
HBO's 'Funny or Die' Sketch-Comedy Show Trailer Hits the Web
1 month ago on SwitchedOur two favorite time wasters -- television and the Internet -- have been making wondrous love babies for a while now (for example, Hulu). But none may be as hilarious and anticipated as the soon-to-be-released venture between HBO and the guys ...
Pee-Wee Loves the iPad, Chairry Stays Mum
1 month ago on SwitchedShare Dang! It's barely been 48 hours since Steve Jobs unveiled "the most important thing" he's ever done, and now everyone has gotten on the iPad heehaw bandwagon. Paul Reubens, a.k.a. Pee-Wee Herman, got together with the jokers at Funny or Die ...
The 'Lost' Enthusiast's Guide to Twitter... and Season Six
1 month ago on Switched[Ed. Note: Minor spoiler alerts ahead. If one is saving season five, skip this post] 'Lost' is one of those television shows that often spawn more questions than they provide answers. What other secrets will the Island reveal? Why does Jack's dad ...
Over Half of Netflix Viewers Too Lazy to Walk to the Mailbox
1 month ago on SwitchedShare If you've wondered just what kind of an effect Netflix's "Watch Instantly" service has had on the company's bottom line, the latest financial reports should take care of that. The home of the red envelope threw down all its numbers yesterday, ...
Boxee Sits Comfortably Atop the Media Center Hill
1 month ago on SwitchedWhat it is. Boxee is the most hyped media center software to ever hit the market. It's supposed to change the way we watch TV, how we discover new content, and solve global warming. Okay, maybe not that last part, but you can only expect so much ...
DARPA's 3-D Surveillance Experiments Take a Page from Pandora
1 month ago on SwitchedSince James Cameron completed 'Avatar' he's probably looking for another project to occupy years of his life. (We're sorry if it makes you depressed to hear that it's really over). Instead of wasting time on another overrated technology demo posing ...
'DVR-Proof' Commercial Kind of a Failure
1 month ago on SwitchedBack in the late '50s, a market researcher named James Vicary decided that by flashing "Drink Coca-Cola" for 1/3000 of a second at five-second intervals during a film would make audiences desire to quench their deep-down thirst with the soda. In ...
Conan O'Brien for Sale on Craigslist's 'Casual Encounters'
1 month 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
1 month 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
2 months 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
2 months 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
2 months 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
2 months 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
2 months 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?
2 months 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 ...
