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Associated Press Kate Hooper, a 24-year-old professional nanny, is able to watch an Internet stream of the CW show 'Gossip Girl' on May 9, while preparing food for her sitter at her home kitchen in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles native often travels for work and on a recent trip to Hawaii, booting up her laptop was the only way to catch her favorite show. She was faced with either watching more ads, about four per break, or missing her show altogether.
More ads are hitting online TV
LOS ANGELES — One of the rewards of watching TV online is not having to sit through as many commercials. Now the networks are chipping away at that little luxury. CBS shows twice as many ads per s...
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EA to bring ‘Sims’ to Facebook
Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Major video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. is bringing its popular “The Sims” role-playing game to Facebook. EA made the announcement on the sidelines of t...
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Associated Press Kazuo Hirai (bottom), president and chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment America, introduces the company's next generation portable gaming machine, Playstation Vita, during a news conference at the E3 Gaming Convention in Los Angeles on Monday.
Sony unveils next-gen portable device ‘Vita’
BY RYAN NAKASHIMA Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Sony Corp. on Monday took the wraps off its next generation portable gaming machine, PlayStation Vita, a touch-interface and motion-sensitive ...
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Live television, another chapter of Halo’ coming to Xbox 360
BY DERRIK J. LANG Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Live television and another chapter of the “Halo” game are landing on Xbox 360. Microsoft Corp. announced its plan for the video game cons...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Chris Haskell, a special lecturer in educational technology at Boise State, co-developed a game based learning management system called 3D Game Lab. 'Rather than every student completing the same process to get through a course we create a pool of activities that they can choose from and make their own way through the curriculum,' said Haskell. 'You make the class a game, it has a winning condition that is reachable by every player but the path might be different.'
Quest for educational success
By Kristin Rodine McClatchy-Tribune News Service BOISE — The Doors’ hypnotic rhythms provide the musical backdrop as students in Chris Haskell’s educational technology class use laptops to wo...
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‘Angry Birds’ game migrating to TV on Roku player
SAN FRANCISCO — The addictive video game “Angry Birds” will be migrating to television screens this summer.   The move is being made possible by Roku Inc., which will be adding Angry Birds to the...
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Webcam for first iPad isn’t in the picture
By Steve Alexander McClatchy-Tribune News Service QCan you tell me if there is an adapter to connect a Web camera to an iPad? If not, is one coming out soon? Maybe should have waited to buy a...
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Cellphones may increase risk of 2 types of cancers
By Shari Roan and Ellen Gabler McClatchy-Tribune News Service LOS ANGELES — Cellphone users may be at increased risk for two types of rare cancers and should try to reduce their exposure t...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Dustin Robertson, 35, is a music video editor and personal trainer who uses a location-based dating app. Through the app, he has found both clients and romantic partners. Here, he surfs the app while at the Abbey in West Hollywood on May 5.
Dating apps all about location
By Shan Li McClatchy-Tribune News Service Sitting in the stands at Dodger Stadium, Steve Bergmann began checking out nearby women he might hit on. But his eyes weren’t scanning the seats — th...
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Getting over hacker attack
By Steve Alexander McClatchy-Tribune News Service Q I was recently the victim of a hacker, but only found out about it from a neighbor who received the same e-mail scam that you wrote about l...
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