http://tech.peekbase.com Peek technology in one base Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:20:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://tech.peekbase.com/nhl-com-benches-inaugural-video-player-in-favor-of-sleeker-more-social-model http://tech.peekbase.com/nhl-com-benches-inaugural-video-player-in-favor-of-sleeker-more-social-model#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:00:05 +0000 admin http://tech.peekbase.com/nhl-com-benches-inaugural-video-player-in-favor-of-sleeker-more-social-model December 21st, 2009 Like other leagues, the NHL continues to see a major uptick in video use and is looking for ways to make the most of it with fans and advertisers. Once heralded as the up-and-coming video player for the National Hockey League, the NHL Network Online is being benched today in favor of NHL VideoCenter, a less-cluttered, higher ... 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Read More]]> http://tech.peekbase.com/engadget-podcast-174-12-12-2009/feed 0 http://tech.peekbase.com/the-engadget-podcast-live-at-5pm-est http://tech.peekbase.com/the-engadget-podcast-live-at-5pm-est#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:00:13 +0000 admin http://tech.peekbase.com/the-engadget-podcast-live-at-5pm-est December 11th, 2009 It was a sleepy week for a second there — and then everyone started suing each other. Not to worry, Josh, Paul, and Nilay are going to break down the latest in the CrunchPad / Joojoo saga, sort out what Apple and Nokia are up to, and maybe even talk about some ... Read More]]> http://tech.peekbase.com/the-engadget-podcast-live-at-5pm-est/feed 0 http://tech.peekbase.com/apple-reveals-itunes-top-sellers-from-2009 http://tech.peekbase.com/apple-reveals-itunes-top-sellers-from-2009#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:20:02 +0000 admin http://tech.peekbase.com/apple-reveals-itunes-top-sellers-from-2009 December 8th, 2009 It’s December, and that means list season. Early this morning, Apple released the top sellers from the iTunes stores across several categories. The top music, television shows, movies, audiobooks, podcasts and apps sold in 2009 are displayed on a special page in the store [iTunes link], called “iTunes Rewind 2009.” Here are ... Read More]]> http://tech.peekbase.com/apple-reveals-itunes-top-sellers-from-2009/feed 0 http://tech.peekbase.com/npr-makes-its-mobile-website-appalicious-and-readies-an-android-app http://tech.peekbase.com/npr-makes-its-mobile-website-appalicious-and-readies-an-android-app#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:40:08 +0000 admin http://tech.peekbase.com/npr-makes-its-mobile-website-appalicious-and-readies-an-android-app December 8th, 2009 National Public Radio has the fourth most popular news app in the iTunes store in the U.S., but now it is taking some of that Appalicious goodness to the mobile browser. Today it launched a new version of its mobile website at http://m.npr.org/ which looks like a stripped down version of ... Read More]]> http://tech.peekbase.com/npr-makes-its-mobile-website-appalicious-and-readies-an-android-app/feed 0 http://tech.peekbase.com/engadget-podcast-173-12-07-2009 http://tech.peekbase.com/engadget-podcast-173-12-07-2009#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:40:10 +0000 admin http://tech.peekbase.com/engadget-podcast-173-12-07-2009 December 7th, 2009 We’re late, and we’re sorry. You’ve come to expect your podcasts within a vague and yet rigidly-defined four day window, and we betrayed that trust. After all, if you can’t expect to have piping hot discussion of the week in technology news delivered to your inner ear the very week it happens, ... 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