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Geeklist Takes Issue With Best Buy Super Bowl XLVI Advertisement

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One of the commercials shown during last night’s Super Bowl was from Best Buy.  In it they highlight several individuals who created various technologies that we use each and every day.  The laugh out loud part of the commercial is when the two Words With Friends creators are caught with their games . . .

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Skype Updated To Version 5.8 Now Supports Full HD Video

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An announcement over at the Skype Garage Blog earlier today provided details about the latest update to Microsoft’s Skype video calling software.

Improvements and new features in version 5.8:

Full HD video-calling Support for Facebook audio and video-calling (beta) Group screen sharing Hide offline Facebook contacts Push to Talk Skype updater service . . .

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Vimeo Releases Official Windows Phone App

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It has been a busy week for the popular video based website Vimeo.  Last week they unveiled their year long renovations for Vimeo.com and this week they release an official Vimeo app for the Windows Phone.

This app has been optimized for Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) and brings you the following features:

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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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Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 13 Demo For Xbox 360 Kinect (video)

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Here’s a video demo of Electronic Arts’ upcoming “Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13,” showing the game’s first version with full Kinect support and can be played completely without a controller. This is achieved with a mix of Kinect gestures and voice controls.

Also new to the game are online country clubs that . . .

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Vimeo Unveils New Website

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Vimeo, a social media website for filmmakers and video creators to share their work, has just announced a website redesign on their staff blog – Say Hello to the New Vimeo.

According to the blog post this is the culmination of a year long effort to redesign the site from scratch with . . .

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