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Crackle Joins the Xbox 360 Entertainment App Lineup

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Today Sony Pictures Entertainment announced the immediate availability of the Crackle App for the Xbox 360 Console.

The Crackle App allows you to watch full length Hollywood movies for free and is available in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia. There is no charge or membership fees related to this service however, . . .

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SlingPlayer App Now Available For Kindle Fire

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Sling Media, the folks who make the SlingBox, have announced the launch of the SlingPlayer application for the Kindle Fire .

If you have been keeping up with the news over the last several weeks you know that Amazon sold somewhere in the ballpark of 6 million Kindle Fire devices over the . . .

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Insects, Flora and Terra Windows 7 Dynamic Theme Updates for 27 January 2012

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I am especially excited about this set of updates to the three newest community based dynamic Windows 7 themes.  These themes are taking photos submitted for Microsoft’s open call for images and using them to populate the themes.

The reason I am personally excited about this set of updates is because . . .

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@WinObs Tweeted Links for 27 January 2012

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Running multiple versions of Internet Explorer on a single instance of Windows is unsupported Why Facebook Is Really Worth $100 Billion Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 39 Reporters Without Borders urges Twitter to reverse its decision to censor tweets What is ACTA? Why Should You Care? Platform unification: How Microsoft can win the . . .

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Windows Phone App Flow: The State of the Marketplace

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Rich’s Note: Travis brings up some points here that have impacted every app store out there and continues to do so.  With the sheer number of apps being submitted the quality control in the approval process has to be working well across the board.  Things will still slip through as we have . . .

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Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 39

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Welcome to Episode 39 of the Observed Tech PODCAST. In this show we talk about a million comments on Facebook; over a million Nokia Windows Phone sales; Bill Gates last visit with Steve Jobs; encrypted hard drives and the law; Hotmail on a lot of mobile devices; move from Gmail to Hotmail in three easy steps; Google and its new privacy policies; Facebook Timeline is here ready or not and sensors and mobile networks in Windows 8. As usual we wrap up with a look at the past week on WindowsObserver.com. . . .

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