July 2009

Apple Time Capsule (2TB) Unboxing

by Jeff Weisbein July 31, 2009
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Yesterday, Apple announced updated Time Capsule’s.  The Time Capsule is a wireless router (802.11n) which contains a hard drive for easy backup in conjunction with the OS X application Time Machine.  The new Time Capsule’s come in a 1TB model for $299 and a 2TB model for $499. Today, I picked up the new 2TB [...]

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Google Voice Review

by Jeff Weisbein July 30, 2009
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Google Voice (formerly Grand Central) is a service that allows you to handle all of your phone communication functions in one place.  One of the major features of Google Voice is that it allows you to have all of your phone numbers routed through your Google Voice number.  For example, you can have your house [...]

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Google vs Yahoo & Microsoft

by Jeff Weisbein July 30, 2009
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Well, it’s a done deal.  Microsoft and Yahoo have come to a 10 year partnership agreement with regards to search.  Microsoft’s new Bing search engine will be powering Yahoo search and handling the back end, while Yahoo will essentially be the sales team.  While there was no up front payment from Microsoft to Yahoo, the [...]

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SearchMe: The Search Engine That Never Was

by Jeff Weisbein July 25, 2009
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SearchMe, the visual search engine which currently is redirecting to Google, due to lack of funds and no buyer insight is essentially the search engine that never was.  Granted, there are a lot of search engines out there that really never take off, SearchMe is an interesting example to look at.  As I talked about [...]

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Digsby Passes 1 Million Users

by Jeff Weisbein July 24, 2009
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Digsby the multi-protocol IM client which allows you to connect to various instant messenger platforms such as AIM, Yahoo, and MSN, email services such as Gmail, as well as a number of social networking services such as Twitter, Facebook, and Myspace has passed the 1 million user mark.  According to the press release from Digsby [...]

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How To: Remove DRM From Your Music

by Jeff Weisbein July 24, 2009
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DRM, short for, Digital Rights Management can be quite a pain to deal with due to the restrictions it puts on the music or movies/videos you downloaded (and paid for) from online music services.  Granted, that while DRM is slowly dying, it’s still around in some places and causing trouble.  It’s also possible that even [...]

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I Told You MySpace Should Focus On Music

by Jeff Weisbein July 23, 2009
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According to recent Nielsen data for June 2009, traffic to MySpace Music has grown 190% since its launch in September 2008 and year-over-year traffic to the URL has increased a whopping 1,017%.  Additionally, MySpace Music the third largest music destination on the web (within that category of sites) only behind AOL Music and Yahoo! Music.  [...]

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The Future May Revolve Around “Freemium” Products

by Eric Massengill July 23, 2009
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In one of Jeff’s previous articles he expressed antipathy about the company LogMeIn (NASDAQ: LOGM), because the vast majority of its users opted only for the free service. At face value, it seems like he’s right: 10% monetization doesn’t look like a large number, not when physical products have numbers like 100%. The thing is, [...]

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AT&T Mails International Data Plan Pamphlet To iPhone Users

by Jeff Weisbein July 21, 2009
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It wasn’t all too long ago when Adam Savage of MythBusters went on a tirade against AT&T for charging him $11,000 for “a few hours of web surfing in Canada” in which AT&T claimed he downloaded 9GB of data using his USB connection.  The issue has since been resolved but apparently AT&T wants to prevent [...]

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Microsoft’s XBox 360 Indie Games Has Huge Potential

by Eric Massengill July 20, 2009
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Most of you probably haven’t heard of it, but there was a huge moment at the last E3, a moment that everyone seems to have forgotten. It could potentially alter the game industry. The problem is, it’s being run by Microsoft. Those of you who payed attention to the last E3 know that I’m talking [...]

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