iPhone 3Gs now outnumber originals (10)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Apple Financial, iPhoneBlogger Michael Arrington at TechCrunch pointed out an amazing, yet somewhat obvious, thing yesterday -- at some point next week, the number of iPhone 3Gs in use around the world will exceed the number of first-generation iPhones. The statistics are astounding: 6 million original iPhones were sold in about one year It took 74 days for the first million first-generation iPhones to sell A million iPhone 3Gs were ...
Biden wants to spend $1 billion spying on file sharers [Copyfight] (12)
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The best way to judge a society is to judge how well it takes care of those unable to take care of themselves — like music and film executives, for example. Motivated by profit and self-interest, they have been helpless to stop digital piracy from eroding their relevance and profit margins at home or abroad. Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden to the rescue! Reports PaidContent: Biden this year "proposed a $1 billion program to ...
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Cassie Wallender said:
Aggghhhh....
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Ruben said:
Kind of goes against the net neutrality stance Obama had taken. Don't think I care for it much.
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Sean said:
Oh yeah, this is going to sit will with the technology crowd.
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Jeff Schmidt said:
great - so 1 party candidate is clueless about the internet - and the other knows just enough to be dangerous.
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Tim said:
oooh, this will cause some conflict among the pro-obama geek constituency.
Microsoft aims to dump Avenue A/Razorfish on WPP [Online Advertising] (2)
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After Google bought ad-serving firm DoubleClick in March 2007, Microsoft rushed onto the market in May 2007 and paid — most say overpaid — $5.9 billion for aQuantive and its three businesses: Atlas, DrivePM and digital agency Avenue A/Razorfish. Microsoft never wanted Avenue A, which investment bankers calculate to be worth about $800 million, buying it only because it came with the aQuantive package. Now AdWeek reports that Microsoft ha found a way to dump ...
Dual Level Turns Your iPhone into a Digital Level [Featured IPhone Download] (41)
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iPhone/iPod touch only: Free iPhone application Dual Level uses your iPhone or iPod touch's accelerometer to turn your device into a dual-bubble level. That's really all it does, and though it's a bit jumpy at times, it seems to work pretty well. You probably shouldn't trust this level with building your home, but for a quick and crude leveling job, it seems like it could come in handy (hopefully it'll only improve with updates). This ...
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Dedalus said:
Now that's a good use for an iPhone: being an overpriced bubble level! ;-)
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Kevin Rossen said:
This is a creative use for the iPhone.
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Jeff said:
This is just too cool...I wonder how accurate it is?
Diebold comes clean, admits that its e-voting machines are faulty (69)
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Filed under: Misc. GadgetsFor years, Diebold has embarrassed itself by claiming that obvious faults were actually not faults at all, and during the past decade or so, it mastered the act of pointing the finger. Now that it has ironically renamed itself Premier Election Solutions, it's finally coming clean. According to spokesman Chris Riggall, a "critical programming error that can cause votes to be dropped while being electronically transferred from memory cards to a central ...
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Ashok said:
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Brandon Bloom said:
how is this not CRIMINAL?!?!?!?!?!
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Lionel Riem said:
O RLY?
Vincentvw shared as favorite Amazon Confirms Student Version Of Kindle (68)
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Amazon confirmed our speculation that they are planning to target colleges and universities with a new version of the Kindle, reports the Seattle PI. Textbooks are a $5.5 billion annual market, and most publishers now offer electronic versions of their textbooks. McGraw-Hill Education, for example, publishes 95% of their books electronically as well as in print. But there is no compelling device to read them on. The new Kindle will likely be a large screen ...
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Ahmaud Templeton said:
The opportunity to buy digital copies of my textbooks would be fantastic. I wouldn't have to lug around those tomes from class to class anymore. Man, would that be nice.
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Vicky said:
Great move by Amazon. I hope this will bring down the price of textbooks considerably.
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Eric Atkins said:
Yes! Forget about heavy text books. Give me digital paper.
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fesja said:
a ver si pruebo un kindle, que tengo curiosidad por ver cómo funciona
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Forrest said:
SO COOL - this should be a great catalyst for amazon, and plays to a bunch of themes that are popular across the political divide. Good on Amazon for bringing this solution to market.
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Sean Blakey said:
Consistently handling PDFs of lecture slides and papers would be a big improvement.
Presenting the Googlephone [Smartphones] (5)
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Forget HTC's Android-running Dream, expected out this October. General Electric has brought the Googlephone to life. GE's Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications, or DECT, version 6.0, has a handy built-in Goog-411 button, to spare users the burden of dialing 1-800-GOOG-411. It's already on store shelves for $60.
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Isaac said:
the first Google phone?
The Decemberists Return With A Bunch Of Singles And An Ode To Valerie Plame (3)
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It's not exactly like Colin & The Gang have been out of sight since dropping The Crane Wife, but sure and yes, a new batch of Decemberists songs sounds great thank you. As far as we know the promise for an album in 2009 still stands, although this is not it; the project's dubbed Always The Bridesmaid: A Singles Series, and will unfold in three volumes, beginning this October. As you already read a few ...
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Sacha said:
a song called Valerie Plame? I can't wait...
Cyan porting Myst to iPhone (28)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Multimedia, Software An employee of Cyan Worlds (proprietors of the legendary Myst series of games) has announced that they will be porting the original Myst to the iPhone. Apparently it's an "outside-funded" project -- though who might be funding it isn't yet clear -- and is apparently proving to be an "interesting and fun" project with a small team of just three people. No word yet on how it ...
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John-Michael Oswalt said:
how cool would this be...
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jwisser said:
I would totally pay a few bucks for a chance to play Myst on my iPod. I never played when I was a kid, and I feel like I missed out on something.
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Typo180 said:
Best gaming use of iPhone ever!
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simplynutty said:
Hell yeah; I love Myst!
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Tom said:
I do think its awesome that Apple accidently entered the gaming sector.
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Matt said:
Very cool.
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Andrew said:
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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melcorind said:
Myst will then run on Windows and iPhone but not an Intel Mac. I have an original copy for Mac, but when my ppc ibook finally bites the dust I will no longer be able to play it. (Also I have Riven which also will not work) Grrr....
Prince can't keep babies from dancing on YouTube [Copyfight] (2)
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U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel has ruled that fair use — a complex set of exemptions to copyright meant to allow for commentary, criticism, and parody — must be taken into consideration before rightsholders request the removal of infringing content from websites like YouTube. The improper takedown suit was brought by Stephanie Lenz after Universal Music Group asked the popular video-sharing site to remove a clip of Lenz's then 13-month old son dancing to party-jam ...
Hulu sneaks up on YouTube's ad market [Online Video] (4)
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Nielsen stats show NBC's Hulu video site has only 2 percent of YouTube's traffic. But there's a twist: Hulu runs ads on everything. YouTube, by contrast, can sell ads on less than 3 percent of its video trove. Moreover, Hulu seems to land more big-ad-budget consumer brands like Dove. Watch enough Hulu, and the ads seem pretty close to what you'll catch on cable. Maybe that's why they aggravate my elitist nerves. I'd still rather ...
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brownpau said:
When people ask me what Hulu is, I answer that it's 'the big networks finally understanding internet video.'
Apple's September Quarter Mac Sales Projected to be "Massive" (6)
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AlleyInsider reports that RBC analyst Mike Abramsky is projecting that Apple will ship 3.04 million Macs in the current quarter than ranges from July to September. If accurate, this would represent 41% year-over-year growth for Mac sa...
Bracing for the big one [State Of The Valley] (5)
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The Valley's latest extreme sport is feigning nonchalance about the economy. Living in an earthquake zone requires developing a habit of stoic flinchiness. The economy's seismic shifts are slower, but just as unpredictable; all one can do it shrug one's shoulders, stock the emergency kit, and keep on living. "We're watching the economy crater all around us, but ... well, we're not really seeing any direct impact," writes Tech Ticker anchor Sarah Lacy. "Making things ...
Microsoft's ad agency "exists because of the Mac" [Advertising] (3)
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Before it landed Microsoft's $300 million and hired Jerry Seinfeld for a spokesperson, ad agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky met with Fast Company's Danielle Sacks in April 2007. That's when Alex Bogusky explained exactly what kind of computers it uses and why: Crispin sort of exists because of the revolution in desktop publishing that the Mac brought about. You could be a small shop and compete against Madison Avenue for the first time because all ...
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pneal said:
I think $300m is quite enough of a bribe for any one firm, lets just hope they don't use windows got creating any of the ads.
