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    All-American Tech: What's Hot Here (and Nowhere Else)

    Six Technologies That Passed America By

    America's Club Nintendo Is Here

    Zvue Spirit MP3 Player Brings New Meaning To Patriotism

    OLPC America to Help Kids Back Home

    US Control Over Core Internet Systems Called Into Question

    Apple to Latin America: We Don't Care About You, Compadres

    Virgin America's Airplanes Play Doom

    i.Dream America i-Classic iPod Dock
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    Image of infmom infmom
    05/13/09

    In reply to All-American Tech: What's Hot Here (and Nowhere Else)
    Oh, man, I was SO GLAD when my husband's company got rid of their push-to-talk phones and went with Blackberrys instead. No more *chirp* *tweedle* *BLAST OF VOLUME AS BOSS CALLS IN THE MORNING*


    Now if someone would only convince them that with Blackberrys they don't need beepers.

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    Image of MrBlahBlah MrBlahBlah
    05/11/09

    In reply to All-American Tech: What's Hot Here (and Nowhere Else)
    half of this stuff is due to licensing issues, not really "technology." And TiVo doesn't count - it is a DVR, and that is idea has wide adoption.


    And I still think TiVo is overpriced.

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    Image of Kevin337 Kevin337
    05/11/09

    In reply to All-American Tech: What's Hot Here (and Nowhere Else)
    Netflix didn't make the list?


    That's one service I'd love to have.

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    Image of Wilson Rothman Wilson Rothman
    05/11/09

    @Kevin337: There are a lot of Netflix clones overseas, with no usage differences. Where do you live?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/11/09

    In reply to All-American Tech: What's Hot Here (and Nowhere Else)
    Oh yeah? Well at least we don't feed our children antifreeze in their wine, make them work in salt mines and allow punk to exist in a greater-than-acceptable saturation. Nothing but good ol' fashion Grade A lead paint for our kids, from China.
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    Image of Zordon Zordon
    05/11/09

    In reply to All-American Tech: What's Hot Here (and Nowhere Else)
    "People without American billing addresses are barred from VOD services like Amazon's Unbox, and will find their iTunes video selections sorely lacking."


    Yeah, well, I don't know what country you're in (probably America, I'm guessing) but it doesn't even matter that I have an American billing address in their system, Amazon VOD won't work for me at all in the Middle East. What is your magic trick, Giz?

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    05/11/09

    @Zordon: proxies.
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    Image of avconsumer2 avconsumer2
    05/11/09

    In reply to All-American Tech: What's Hot Here (and Nowhere Else)
    "satellite radio might won't do much your stir your techno-patriotism, but goddernit, it's ours."


    jumble-cluster-a-thon

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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    05/11/09

    @avconsumer2: I see nothing wrong with the usage or syntax of that colloquial 'Murican expression...
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    Image of admoseremic admoseremic
    05/11/09

    In reply to All-American Tech: What's Hot Here (and Nowhere Else)
    Satellite radio will die to services like Pandora IMO.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    05/11/09

    @admoseremic: Which is the more expensive subscription model for my car - satellite radio service or roaming WiFi service for Pandora?
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    Image of aerospaceman aerospaceman
    05/11/09

    In reply to All-American Tech: What's Hot Here (and Nowhere Else)
    CDMA. worst American tech.
    also, trucks. For people who don't need a fucking truck.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/11/09

    @aerospaceman: i resent that.
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    05/11/09

    In reply to All-American Tech: What's Hot Here (and Nowhere Else)
    Whomever captioned that first pic is made of WIN! I laughed my ass off. +1.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/11/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: Indeed, very funny and well done. I read the caption hearing it voiced by the Michel Gerard character from Gilmore Girls, makes it even funnier.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/11/09

    In reply to All-American Tech: What's Hot Here (and Nowhere Else)
    mexicans love push to talk. live in san antonio and almost every mexican family from mexico i see are on them while they shop. they also love to shop.
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    Image of ridgecity ridgecity
    05/11/09

    @drowning in denon_Nick: mexicans? in San Antonio? aren't they americans also?
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/11/09

    @ridgecity: not the ones already here. the ones that come to visit for the shopping. c'mon now -- try to keep up.
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    Image of Manolo Bles Manolo Bles
    05/11/09

    @ridgecity: NOT, I have a house there and Im not AMERICAN
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    Image of mcnuggetofdeath mcnuggetofdeath
    05/11/09

    @drowning in denon_Nick: for the record, he's talking about the mexican nationals who come here (I also live in San Antonio) exclusively to shop. They dont stay, they just generally walk about as if they own the place because they tend to be ridiculously wealthy. I used to work at North Star Mall where theyd drop huge sums of money at my Hot Topic for their awkward emo children.
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    Image of Jose Cortes Jose Cortes
    05/11/09

    @Manolo Bles: What is an American?
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    05/11/09

    @Jose Cortes: It is a type of human being that has nearly become extinct as the more offensive and faster breeding 'Murican has squeezed it out of much of its traditional home range...
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    Image of Ryuku Ryuku
    05/12/09

    @mcnuggetofdeath: So, if a foreigner gets to buy something at your workplace, that automatically converts their children into awkward emos? Harsh man, really.
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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    05/12/09

    @Tru-Mann: Almost anyone who buys something from HotTopic is an awkward emo, regardless of country of origin.
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    Image of vladdybear vladdybear
    05/11/09

    In reply to All-American Tech: What's Hot Here (and Nowhere Else)
    Good point.

    We're very spoiled!


    SPOILZ US SUM more Mr.Prezident!

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    Image of tenazrael tenazrael
    05/11/09

    @vladdybear: Get a job and then spoil yourself to your hearts content. Last thing we need is more people asking for handouts while our country continues to go in debt to the Chinese. Maybe it won't affect us today, but man our children are really gonna hate us tomorrow.
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    05/11/09

    @tenazrael: Fcukin' chillax captain downer-face.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    03/03/09

    In reply to Six Technologies That Passed America By
    Nokia's West Coast US headquarters is about five minutes from my house. I always wonder what they're doing in the that huge building, since their phones are mostly off the radar here in the US, except with the geek crowd.


    And I would love to have the e-wallet here.

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    Image of MerisCater MerisCater
    03/03/09

    In reply to Six Technologies That Passed America By
    Very interesting. We here over at the other side of the Atlantic sometimes tend to think that America has all the best things, but it turns out that's not really the case. Anyway, I find the remark about AIM being popular in Israel a bit puzzling: to the best of my knowledge, both MSN and ICQ are much more popular. I once knew a girl who used Yahoo messenger, but I got her to switch to MSN... I think the reasons for both apps' popularity is that in the late 90's most Israeli's had Hotmail (which got you MSN) and also ICQ started out as an Israeli company.
    Personally i prefer Gtalk, but since not many of my friends are willing to let go of their other clients, i use Digsby to stay in touch.
    still, good reading!
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    Image of Wilson Rothman Wilson Rothman
    03/03/09

    @MerisCater: ICQ is owned by AOL--and administered by the AIM group, if I'm not mistaken. Hence the point.
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    Image of MadCrazy MadCrazy
    03/03/09

    In reply to Six Technologies That Passed America By
    4th of July seems to have come early for the giz commentators...and the yanks wonder why ever1

    they are hated.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    03/03/09

    @MadCrazy: Are you drunk or just stupid?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/03/09

    @Curves: Or, tee hee, Mad Crazy.


    @MadCrazy: I'm assuming that this stems from the "Technological superpower" comment. Grimace as much as you like from across the pond, it's not an exaggeration.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/03/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Hm, that seems to be a fail for me.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/03/09

    In reply to Six Technologies That Passed America By
    I adored my Minidisc player. It had fantastic battery life, was immune to skipping, unlike Discmans, and was pretty easy to use (I thought). I think I still have one laying around here somewhere. My particular model was cheap, and didn't use rechargeable batteries, but on a single AA, it could go almost all week long.
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    Image of snoob snoob
    03/03/09

    @Kaiser-Machead:


    +1 I have the same model, sitting in my bedside table, waiting for a run. Of course I will never install that god-aweful sony software again, so i'm stuck with the music I listened to in 8th/10th grade.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/03/09

    @snoob: I made random mixes with Simple Burn rather than use Sonic Stage with the MD utility. It didn't plant the names into the files, but I never really paid much attention to file names when the extent of the GUI was just a small black and grey LCD.
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