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If you were thinking that you’d just watch your favorite Fox shows on Hulu until Cablevision and News Corp worked out their differences, then think again. Not only can you not watch Fox on Cablevision’s cable service at the moment, but if you get your internet from said company, you can’t watch Fox content on Hulu either. This isn’t too terribly surprising considering the networks see Hulu as a supplemental service to their traditional avenues, but that doesn’t make cord cutters who don’t even subscribe to cable feel any better. The good news is that these disputes don’t tend to last long — they usually never amount to an interruption in service — so you shouldn’t miss too many of your favorite shows before Cablevision gives in and pays Fox $1 per subscriber (vs $0) like the other providers have.

News Corp pulls Hulu from Cablevision customers, escalating carriage dispute originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on January 18, 2007 by CyberNet.

When Internet Explorer 7 was released, there was speculation that it would end up taking some of the market share away from Firefox who had been experiencing growth at the time.  Well, 100 million installations of IE7 have occurred and Firefox hasn’t lost any of their market share.  In fact, they have continued to grow over the last three months. Firefox currently has 14% of the market!

So, with 100 million installations of IE7, were they all originally Internet Explorer users? Well, yes, most of them come at the expense of IE6.  The new browser is just being exchanged for the older version.  Tony Chor, an Internet Explorer group program manager says “As of January 8th, we had the 100 millionth IE7 installation.  We expect these numbers to continue to rise as we complete our final localized versions, scale up Automatic Updates distribution, and with the consumer availability of Winnows Vista on January 30, 2007.”

It will be interesting to see what will happen with the Windows Vista launch and if previous ‘basic’ Firefox users will just stick to IE7.  There are many Firefox users who don’t realize the capability that it has, or who choose just to use it for its’ basic features liked the tabbed browsing.  Now that IE7 has the tabbed browsing, some of those basic users may decide that they don’t need to download Firefox. 

While there may be some people who, through Automatic Updates , or with an upgrade to Windows Vista will stick with Internet Explorer 7,  I believe there will be that many more new people that discover Firefox for the first time which will at least keep the market share at 14% or will help it continue to grow.

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You know that iPad Dock Connector to VGA Adapter that you wasted money on? Yeah, turns out there’s probably a superior alternative available in the wilds of China… well, aside from the fact that it probably lacks an internal authentication chip needed to play back most protected content. Noosy’s iPad HDMI output adapter is fairly simple in design — it plugs into the 30-pin Dock Connector that’s on modern iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices, and then allows 720p content to flow directly over HDMI. We’re guessing there’s just a VGA-to-HDMI converter wrapped inside a familiar package, but we definitely like where this is headed. There’s nary a word on how much this will cost you (or what street corner you need to visit in order to find one), but here’s hoping the engineers in Cupertino are paying attention to what consumers are really after.

[Thanks, Thomas]

KIRFy iPad adapter adds HDMI output, probably balks at DRM’d material originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on February 19, 2006 by CyberNet.

Google has really extended the number of modules that are available for users to add to their own personalized homepage. Many of the newly added modules have been written by people that do not work for Google, which is good and bad. It is good because the ability to extend the homepage has greatly increased. The bad thing is that I don’t feel my information is as secure as if Google was managing it.

I am sure Google will continue to add modules they make themselves, but to conquer the competing site, GoogleModules.com, they didn’t have much other choice but to add modules from other people. I am sure that the Sudoku module pictured above will be one of the most popular, along with the torrent searcher, Del.icio.us bookmarks manager, and the Google Calculator.

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TomTom was quick off the mark with multitasking in its iPhone app — and it’s hard to think of an app other than Pandora that benefits more from its inclusion — but TomTom isn’t stopping there. The new 1.5 version adds enhanced graphics to match the new iPhone 4 screen resolution, along with “faster, more-responsive navigation” on that handset. Not good enough for you? Try the new navigate-to-photo feature, a not-a-gimmick-at-all addition that allows you to select a geotagged photo as your destination instead of messing around with pesky addresses and facts. The update is free for existing users, newcomers will have to shell out $50 for the US version.

TomTom App for iPhone hits version 1.5, adds further iPhone 4 support and ‘navigate-to-photo’ originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 16 Oct 2010 06:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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