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Apple and Google: Stealing the Technology Spotlight

by Mike Mansell September 27, 2010

What do technology giants Google and Apple have in common? Besides staying relatively stable in a otherwise shaky economy, both companies have managed take the spotlight in the media; something that cannot be said about other technology entities such as Microsoft. So why is it that a report today from the Pew Research Center says [...]

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Newspapers Have Alternatives to the Paywall, But Will They Explore Them?

by Jeff Weisbein July 20, 2010

It has been over a year since we published an article entitled The Future of News and the newspaper industry is still hurting. Many of them are now implementing paywalls in order to read their content, but is this truly the right approach?

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Sex.com Back on the Market, Internet Explorer Grows

by Jeff Weisbein July 2, 2010

I’m going to try to do the weekly news thing again every Friday. So without further ado, here is this weeks top stories that made the short list. Story #1: Sex.com is back on the open market, Sedo, a company which specializes in selling domain names is the broker for this deal. You can email consult@sedo.com [...]

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Authorities Investigate Missing iPhone Prototype

by Mike Mansell April 24, 2010

In less than a week, there has been a lot of chatter regarding Gray Powell’s loosing of what is supposedly a prototype of the fourth generation Apple iPhone in a Northern California bar. Many of you already know the basic details of the story; Gray Powell, a iPhone software engineer working for Apple, was celebrating [...]

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Leaked iPhone 4G? Give Me A Break.

by Jeff Weisbein April 19, 2010

Well, it appears that the next generation iPhone (prototype of the iPhone 4G – if you will) has been found in a California bar. Somehow that prototype got into the hands of Gizmodo who supposedly have had it for a week. However, pictures of the exact device showed up on Engadget on April 17th. Does [...]

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Universal Music Group to Sell CD’s for $10 or Less

by Jeff Weisbein March 18, 2010

Universal Music Group (UMG) is making some much needed changes to their CD sales price point, but is it too little too late? UMG announced today they will be dropping the price of physical CD’s to $10 or less. The new price point will range from $6-$10 per album. Additionally, UMG plans to add “deluxe [...]

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RealNetworks Ordered to Pay $4.5M to MPAA

by Mike Mansell March 5, 2010

For about two years now, RealNetworks, the company behind products such as RealPlayer and RealOne, has been involved with legal battles with the Motion Picture Association of America, who stated that RealDVD, a DVD cloning and backup product, was illegal. The MPAA; the same organization the pursues peer-to-peer downloaders, stated that RealNetwork’s RealDVD product violated [...]

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Twitter Defaced, Nexus One Specs Revealed, and Apple Is Victorious

by Jeff Weisbein December 18, 2009

Tech News from 12-14-09 through 12-18-09. This week includes Twitter’s DNS servers being temporarily compromised which lead to the defacement of the website, the Nexus One (aka the Google Phone) specs and more have been revealed, Apple was granted an early Christmas present when the judge ruled for a permanent injunction against Psystar (they can [...]

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TechCrunch Sues FusionGarage, Aol. Spins Off, and Apple Tablet for $1,000?

by Jeff Weisbein December 12, 2009

Tech News from 12-7-09 through 12-11-09. This week includes TechCrunch suing FusionGarage for stealing the CrunchPad. Mozilla is launching Firefox Mobile for Nokia phones, Windows Mobile, and Google Android. No Firefox Mobile for the iPhone has been mentioned yet (that I have seen). By the way, Firefox Mobile will support extensions such as Adblock. [...]

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