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- Drew Wilson at Zero Paid points out that Napster celebrates its 10th birthday this month. The Globe and Mail takes a deeper look in its Download Decade series. In the...[Read the rest]
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- Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Oct 8, 2008 10:43 AM
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- Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Oct 15, 2007 3:18 PM
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- Posted by Matthew Miller in The Mobile Gadgeteer on: Oct 5, 2007 9:08 AM
- Confirmation of stealth Windows Update
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- You're Steve Jobs. What are you going to do about all these iPhone hacks?
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- Posted by Russell Shaw in IP Telephony on: Sep 12, 2007 9:26 AM
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- Just 74 days after releasing the iPhone Apple has sold its millionth iPhone. But will Apple hit the 10 million mark by the end of 2008? [Read the rest]
- Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in Hardware 2.0 on: Sep 11, 2007 4:27 AM
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- Just before the iPhone debuted in late June, Compete.com asked 103 "iPod shoppers" who pre-qualified as having a "significant interest" in the iPhone how much they would pay. You... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Russell Shaw in IP Telephony on: Sep 8, 2007 10:27 AM
- $100 store credit for all iPhone customers - Are you satisfied?
- As a token of goodwill for dropping the price of the iPhone Apple is offering every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T prior to the... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in Hardware 2.0 on: Sep 6, 2007 2:50 PM
- Today's Debate: Ban cell phones from hospitals?
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- A question of hard drive capacity
- How much hard drive capacity is enough? One of the key differences between the two quad-core systems that I'm building will be how much hard drive capacity each ends up... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in Hardware 2.0 on: Sep 4, 2007 2:48 AM
- Should YouTube take down pro-Nazi video clips?
- After complaints, Google now says it will remove videos depicting Nazi and anti-Semitic propaganda from its YouTube site in Germany. Already illegal in Germany, the videos of such wretched content... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Russell Shaw in IP Telephony on: Aug 29, 2007 11:50 AM
- Is open source the stock flavor of the month?
- Lost amidst the hype of CEO Jonathan Schwartz's blog post is the inescapable fact that Wall Street, for now, thinks open source is cool. Why else would SugarCRM hint at... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Dana Blankenhorn in Linux and Open Source on: Aug 29, 2007 6:28 AM
- Are Mac users smug and arrogant?
- One recurring meme that frequently gets trotted out on Digg.com and other forums is that Mac users are smug and arrogant. Many Windows users claim also that Apple users love... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Jason D. O'Grady in The Apple Core on: Aug 24, 2007 6:41 AM
- Skype's mea culpa: seven free days for some subscribers; fair or not?
- In order to make amends for its two-day sign-in outage last week, Skype is offering seven-day extensions to paid subscribers of some of its boutique services. These services include Skype... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Russell Shaw in IP Telephony on: Aug 22, 2007 6:27 AM
- Are all Google ads good?
- Has Google really succeeded in making advertising something YOU want to see? Google touts "Gmail isnt a traditional webmail account":There are no pop-ups, untargeted banner ads or warnings urging you... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: Mar 29, 2007 11:23 AM
- Adobe 'no64' Photoshop CS3 launches
- Yesterday saw the launch of Adobe "no64" CS3 with no AMD or Intel x64 64-bit extensions support. So what really prompted me to write this blog? Simple: It was Adobes... [Read the rest]
- Posted by George Ou in Real World IT on: Mar 28, 2007 1:24 AM
- Will notebooks outsell desktops by 2011?
- According to a report by analysts IDC, notebook sales will outstrip desktop PCs by 2011. The report goes on to predicts that the notebook market will grow by 16.1% year-on-year... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in Hardware 2.0 on: Mar 21, 2007 11:24 AM
- Worst PC of all time - Which one gets your vote?
- The Washington Post has an article by Dan Tynan of PC World listing the top 10 worst PCs of all time. I think that youll agree that its a pretty... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in Hardware 2.0 on: Mar 19, 2007 10:38 AM
- Is Google afraid of big, bad Viacom?
- Will Viacoms $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube owner Google rattle the $150 billion market cap "everyones favorite garage band"?I have been predicting a major copyright infringement lawsuit against... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: Mar 13, 2007 9:59 AM
- Google: Copyright infringement lawsuit risks 'could be substantial'
- UPDATE: Earlier this month I underscored the real, substantial copyright infringement risks Google faces, large financial and business model risks (see below).Viacom has now quantified the risk for Google: $1... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: Mar 13, 2007 7:05 AM
- Your reaction to Viacom suing Google/YouTube for $1 billion?
- Just hit the wires.Viacom has sued Google and YouTube for $1 billion.Something to do with nearly 160,000 clips of copyrighted allegedly being viewed more than 1.6 billion times. Look for... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Russell Shaw in IP Telephony on: Mar 13, 2007 6:42 AM
- DST - Happy or headaches?
- [Updated: Mar 12, 2007 @ 2.25 pm] NIST is keeping an eye on DST-related issues. Here are a few issues:SANS.org - Daylight Saving Time Change Problem With Symantec Backup Exec... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in Hardware 2.0 on: Mar 12, 2007 3:17 AM
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