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Pope to Social Media: Please Be QuietPope Benedict XVI’s annual message for World Communications Day on Tuesday suggested a tried-and-true strategy for both social media and life in general: don’t just talk, also listen. The theme of the message: balancing silence and words. “The process of communication nowadays i... Boxee With Live TV Is a Cord Cutter’s Dream [REVIEW]Home The home screen in Boxee 1.5 now has a new "Live TV" option when the Live TV dongle is plugged in.Click here to view this gallery.Boxee is bringing live TV to the Boxee Box with its new live TV add-on and version 1.5 of the Boxee software. The company hopes th... Facebook Subscribe for Journalists: What Works and What Doesn’t“Thousands” of journalists have signed up for Facebook Subscribe since it launched last September, according to a report released by Facebook Wednesday. Subscribe is a feature that allows Facebook users to follow the public status updates of other users without sending a friend reques... More Power! Microsoft’s New Xbox 720 Will Be 6x More Powerful [REPORT]“More power!” You can imagine Steve Ballmer yelling it through Microsoft’s halls but that’s exactly what is happening with the Xbox 720, according to reports from IGN. The next Xbox — rumored to be the “Xbox 720″ — will ship to retailers in... Microsoft’s New Xbox 720 Will Be 6x More Powerful [REPORT]“More power!” You can imagine Steve Ballmer yelling it through Microsoft’s halls but that’s exactly what is happening with the Xbox 720, according to reports from IGN. The next Xbox — rumored to be the “Xbox 720″ — will ship to retailers in... Obama’s State of the Union: Where Was the Tech?From what I’ve heard, President Barack Obama is a bit of a gadget nerd. He likes his iPad and his BlackBerry, and fought to keep using the RIM device as he entered the White House in 2009. Yet, as I listened to his State of the Union-cum-2012 presidential election stump speech, I was struck ... 6 Ways the Media Is Using Digital Tools to Cover the ElectionPoliticians have been deploying digital tools in new and innovative ways this election season, and the media outlets and journalists covering them have been doing the same. Throughout the 2012 battle for the White House, media outlets have been designing web apps dedicated to political coverage, ... Recycle Your Kid’s Clothing Through the Mail with ThredUp BagsSure, there are parents who responsibly sort their children’s outgrown clothes into boxes for consignment and donations before driving them to appropriate locations. But there would probably be a lot more of them recycling clothes if the process instead involved throwing all items into on... McDonald’s Follows Twitter Fiasco With Another Hashtag CampaignMcDonald’s — whose last Twitter campaign, themed #McDstories, became a magnet for criticism of the brand — launched another hashtag campaign on Wednesday. The new drive is called #littlethings. The fast food giant introduced the talking point with the following tweet, which hit ... Twitter Will Become Available in Right-to-Left Languages This SpringTwitter announced languages read right to left would be coming to the Twitter Translation Center, beginning with Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu. Twitter will become fully available in those four languages later this spring, once volunteer translators have completed their work. The company said in... |