TiVo Googlizes the Television By Brad Stone TiVo, the dogged next-generation television company, appears to be striking a blow for youthful insouciance here at CES. Roving bands of bathing-suit wearing teenagers are walking around wearing TiVo tattoos, carrying surfboards and messages that read “Channel surfing is dead.” The gimmick is designed to promote what seems at first like a fairly routine new feature: search. The redesigned search feature in TiVo Series 3 and TiVo HD boxes uses th

So this season MTV decided to head back to New York for their 3rd time in The Big Apple, settling the new cast in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Considering that they went with 8 strangers, rather than 7, this time, we have increased opportunities for one of the cast members to get mugged. After all, the introduction of an IKEA next to the Gowanus notwithstanding, this is a neighborhood that in the 1990s was referred to as one of the worst neighborhoods in America and the “crack” cocaine capital of the US.

Weight Loss as a New Year’s Resolution by Amy Nutt It seems almost cliche to make a New Year’s resolution that has the words “weight loss” in it. As soon as New Year’s Day has passed, individuals start buying the gym memberships, treadmills, and other exercise equipment. However by the end of the year, the membership card is nowhere to be found and all of the exercise equipment has about two inches of dust on it. Many times, the weight loss New Year’s resolution doesn’t make it past Valentine’