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30 Nov 2010 00:34

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Tech: Posted without comment: Google adds 3D trees to Earth, Street View

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27 Nov 2010 13:37

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Tech: The Incredible Apple Monster in process of eating Cupertino

  • 57 number of buildings Apple will be taking over from HP, who’s moving their campus elsewhere
  • 98 number of acres Apple will gain in the sale; with the purchase, they’re now Cupertino’s biggest landowner source
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27 Nov 2010 11:58

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Tech: Laptop-buyers clearly preferring MacBooks over everything else

  • 36% of laptop buyers want a MacBook in the next 90 days, a jump of 11 percent from last month
  • 19% of laptop buyers are looking to buy a Dell laptop, down four percent from last month
  • 22% of laptop buyers want an HP laptop, also down four percent from last month source
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27 Nov 2010 11:33

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Tech, U.S.: The U.S. government gets bolder with its anti-piracy actions

  • 70+ illegal torrent sites shut down by the Feds; single tear source
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26 Nov 2010 16:09

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Tech: The Pirate Bay’s legal troubles – better in some ways, worse in others

  • good Three of the four principals behind Bittorrent site The Pirate Bay got their prison sentences cut to under a year – the fourth was ill and will be sentenced later.
  • bad While their sentences were cut, the monetary damages to be paid to various content providers were raised – from $4.2 million to roughly $6.6 million. source
  • » But really, the thing to take from this is … Despite the legal troubles the Swedish site has faced lately, it’s still up. Can we just offer them a hand for somehow keeping this site up despite all of the trouble they’ve been facing? That’s kind of amazing.
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22 Nov 2010 11:00

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Tech: Sales-wise, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab holds its own with iPad

  • 600,000 number of Android-based Galaxy Tab units the company has sold in its first month of launch
  • 1 million number of iPads that sold in the first month of ITS launch; they’re now hovering around 7.2 million source
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22 Nov 2010 10:35

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Tech: Netflix prices streaming-only subscription in very desirable way

  • good Netflix added a streaming-only option to their popular subscription service (about time!). It suggests that they’re at a point where streaming is the focus.
  • bad For people who still want the DVDs (and their boyfriends to mail them when they go to work), your subscription price is likely going up about a dollar. source
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22 Nov 2010 10:27

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Tech: Side benefit of iOS release: “Find My iPhone” is now free (finally)

  • $99 the cost of Apple’s greatly useful “Find My iPhone” service, as part of a MobileMe subscription
  • free the cost of the shoulda-been-free service after iOS 4.2 comes out today (good idea) source
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20 Nov 2010 22:00

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Tech: TapTyping makers Flairify: People can type 100WPM on an iPad

  • It’s been a few months since we posted about TapTyping, Flairify’s tap-typing app for the iPad. Anyway, they let us know the other day about two new features on their app: One, a universal version’s out (so you can test your tap-typing skillz with your thumbs on an iPhone or iPod Touch), and also, there’s a new leaderboard feature. Would you believe that someone can actually type 111 words a minute on an iPad? Well, someone has. Get that person a job as a secretary. source
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20 Nov 2010 21:50

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Music, Tech: Protip from MC Paul Barman: Cell phones emit radiation, guys

  • Our friend (and reader) Shawn Vulliez sent this clip along to us, which features MC Paul Barman (a guy you might know if you follow underground hip-hop) noting the dangers of cell phones over animations that Vulliez (a well-known artist himself) created. Sleep with your cell phone? Keep it in your jeans? You may want to consider not doing that. source
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