Dish Network Ad-Wiping DVR

Dish Network is now offering subscribers a DVR–called The Hopper–that has an “Auto-Hop” feature skip commercials for prime time television.

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Harry Potter eBooks Free For Kindle Prime Subscribers

Amazon has just begun to offer free eBooks from the Harry Potter series through it’s Kindle Lending Library that is available to Amazon Prime subscribers. Amazon Prime members pay $79 a year for free shipping, free access to many of Amazon’s streaming video titles, and free eBook checkouts from the company’s lending library program. Found…

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Bing Social Search

Microsoft is getting its competition on with Google by adding social content to its search results. The new Bing will include a social sidebar that will draw relevant social posts from a user’s Facebook friends to accompany a search.

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Steampunk Trend

The Steampunk movement has been fueled by the communications infrastructure of the Internet. Prior to online communications, such a movement would’ve been limited by geography or slow communications vehicles such as snail mail newsletters.

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