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Filed under: Budgets, Credit, DebtPop culture is poised on the precipice of a mid-season replacement lineup as networks get ready to roll out their latest offerings, hoping millions will tune into their channels. Many will watch in the hopes of sharpening their punch line delivery skills or getting a hearty chuckle.But few viewers realize that the laughable and lovable characters we welcome into our homes once a week can actually teach...

Here�s a good catch by CNN from this White House video that provides a behind-the-scenes look at the Obama administration�s cabinet meetings. While it appears almost the entire cabinet uses BlackBerry as their smartphone of choice (I think I see one Razr in the pile � really?), all devices are to be left at the door before meetings begin. As you can see, the relatively low-tech way of keeping track of which phone belongs to which statesman...

We get it, Amazon Kindle App: you've just become available in over 60 countries, you're something of a jet setter now. But you don't have to go around and rub it in our faces. So what if we've only been to Mexico that one time by accident and can't sync books and page placement via Amazon's Whispersync technology... that doesn't make us any less valuable as a person. Oh, and you're coming to the Mac and BlackBerry "soon," huh? Well, aren't...

Filed under: Computers, Video Games, Breaking NewsWhat do you do when you're the U.S. government and you need heaps of computing power, quick and on the cheap? You snatch up 300 Sony PlayStation 3's of course. We've seen researchers use the gaming consoles before to crunch numbers and study gravity, and now the Air Force wants in on the Cell processor-powered action.What exactly the Air Force plans to use the 300 PlayStations for is unclear,...

Filed under: Extracurriculars, ShoppingMoney, it seems, just might be able to buy you a bit of happiness this holiday season. Or so says research from the University of British Columbia and Harvard University. The good news: It doesn't matter how much you make, because you can spend as little as $5 to get happy. But there's a catch: In order for your money to make you happy, you've got to spend it on others. Not yourself. Sounds like the...

The trailer we've placed below the break for XBLA's Zeno Clash: Ultimate Editiion is a failure. It's not that you won't get a good idea of the first-person-brawler-slash-shooter's gameplay -- you will. It's that the clip doesn't come within a million miles of communicating just how skin-crawlingly creepy the experience of playing Zeno Clash is.Just for the record, it's kind of like taking a shower in Neil Gaiman's bathwater after its been...

Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, iPhoneMaybe they're feeling a bit of pricing pressure? Whatever the reason, TomTom just released a stripped down version of its Navigation app that leaves out Canada. Oh my.This USA-only version sells for US $49.99, [iTunes link] which is half the price of the version that includes our good neighbor to the north. Like the big brother version, this app includes turn by turn directions and lane guidance,...

Filed under: Company News, Economy, Investing, Goldman Sachs , American International Group, INC., Bank of America, CitigroupWhile America's biggest banks may still be kicking and screaming about their need to make compensation decisions without interference, the bailouts they took from the government could impact their freedom to hand out excessive cash compensation for years to come. Even the hiring of a CEO for Bank of America (BAC)...

Filed under: Apple Corporate, Apple, iPhone Apple today filed a countersuit against Nokia for patent infringement as a response to the lawsuit Nokia filed against Apple back in October. The countersuit is over the 13 patents that cover many different communication technologies that are used in the iPhone, which Nokia clams to hold the patents. These patents cover the GSM, UTMS 3G, and Wireless-LAN standards used in the iPhone since early...

And now, 10 Questions from the Academy: A weekly feature from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences wherein significant figures in the video game industry provide their input on past trends, current events, and future challenges and goals for the entertainment software community.Brian Reynolds is a member of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences and will speak at the D.I.C.E. Summit in 2010. After working with Sid Meier...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/The_Google_Phone_everything_you_need_to_know_so_far'; There's been an immense amount of crosstalk, speculation, and just plain noise over the past 48 hours about a device allegedly called the Nexus One, or as it's more commonly known: the Google Phone. We've heard all sorts of reports about the HTC-made device, and figured it might be helpful to put together a little roundup about what we know -- and...

Last year was a bad one for former NBA star Latrell Sprewell who saw his yacht, the 70-foot "Milwaukee's Best" repossessed and his $405,000 home in River Hills, Wisconsin facing foreclosure (Sprewell later settled this debt). This year doesn't seem to be bringing Sprewell much more luck. His Purchase, New York home is scheduled for a sheriff's sale at the Westchester County Courthouse on January 7, 2010.LoHud.com reports that Sprewell purchased...

There's hardly a spokesasshole in the world of tech who doesn't throw around some kind of tagline. And that's fine because it's his job, but there's no reason for you to repeat those taglines. Especially any of these seven.Droid DoesVerizon's Droid commercials haven't been around very long, but I already keep seeing various combination of "iDon't" and "Droid does" being incorporated into everything from tweets to articles. (Hell, even we couldn't resist it once or twice.)I can sort of forgive occurrences of the tagline slipping...