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Mitsubishi Electric has been working in the TV field for a while. Their new line of televisions are 3D ready and pretty darn sharp. How can you make that more enticing? Well how about putting Vudu into the set?

Todd Cochrane talks with David about this. They actually started putting Vudu in TVs last year. But this year, Vudu is in all their 40 & 52″ TV sets. Add to it the New York Times, AP, and other subscriptions within Vudu.

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This week, the 5 Tech Things looks at:

• Bing on iPhone
• Kids spend 8-11 hours a day
• U.S. Broadband speed #11 @ 3.9 Mbps (behind Denmark)
• A Dancing Bear because I cannot count
• The New York Times going back to a subscription model

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2006 – In February 2005, 3 former Paypal employees start a website that lets you upload and share your video. YouTube brought a new idea of putting your creations on the internet. However, it cost a lot of money to run. Therefore, Google stepped in. They purchased the site from the founders for $1.65 billion. Today marks the completion of this acquisition.

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• New York Times tears down their Walled Garden for Ad- supported content.
• Tim Bernes-Lee launches the first Web Page
• The first Make Money Fast scheme is uploaded to Usenet

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It appears that the delay in the analog to digital broadcast conversion may have had one beneficial side effect.

According to the New York Times, there was a shortage of converter boxes in the stores. See the article here.

As near as I can tell, this had nothing whatsoever to do with the vote in Congress to delay the switchover . . .

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The New York Times reports of a Blogger who gets an email after complaining about a service that is not there. Other people have complained about their bills and Comcast comes back with a “Can I Help”? Even others find themselves with internet connection issues for trying to use the service. This begs the question: are we seeing a new trend and is this a good or bad thing?

First of all, most likely they are not looking at your blog or twitter directly. They are most likely running searches from Google, Summize (remember – Twitter bought that company) and a bunch of other engines. They look at keywords that – in turn – give them information to turn around and say “What can we do?”

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