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16 Nov 2010 10:04

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Music, Tech: Yeah, Apple announced The Beatles on iTunes. Snore…. zzz

  • We’d like to thank The Wall Street Journal for making this so anticlimactic. source
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15 Nov 2010 21:01

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Culture: One more footnote from Apple vs. Apple: Mr. Guy Goma

  • One of the greatest gaffes in TV history, Guy Goma, a guy going for an interview in the BBC’s IT department, found himself on-air talking about the Apple Computer-vs.-Apple Corps case, which the Mac makers won in 2006. Goma, who has a very strong French accent, rolled with the punches when pretending to be tech journalist Guy Kewney. Kewney died earlier this year, while there was talk of a Guy Goma movie a while back. Wonder where that guy is.
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15 Nov 2010 20:21

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Music, Tech: The long, winding road between Apple Inc. and Apple Corps

  • It’s been a very long time coming. The Beatles and Apple have been on each other’s bad side for so long that the rock legends’ appearance on the Apple Store is almost anticlimactic, and likely to be incredibly boring. But the WSJ’s reporting that it’s finally going to happen. We’d like to remind you all how this happened and the stakes that were involved.
  • 1967 The Beatles form their own company, Apple Corps, which they used mostly for their own music.
  • 1976 Two computer nerds and a third guy still kicking himself found Apple Computer. It’s a big hit.
  • 1978 One Apple sues the other, and they make a deal not to encroach on each other’s businesses.
  • 2003 Apple starts up its iTunes Music Store, causing another lawsuit, which they won back in 2006.
  • 2010 Reports come out suggesting that The Beatles will finally be on the iTunes store. Finally. source
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15 Nov 2010 11:16

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Tech: iTunes has major announcement in store. We can’t wait.

  • “We’re getting rid of this crappy iTunes Music store and replacing it with Lala.” We can dream, can’t we? That site was freaking awesome. source
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11 Nov 2010 21:16

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Tech: Apple I auctioned: Own a piece of computer history that Woz built

  • Are you the kind of person who doesn’t consider money an object? Did you solder your first computer together from a kit? Did you write your own operating system based on an article you read in BYTE Magazine way back in 1979? Did you parlay your nerdery into the kind of success that someone who is unfamiliar with the work of Raymond Feist could never even dream of? If so, this Christie’s auction is for you. It’s the original Apple I, and the auction starts off at a modest $160,000 – a few bucks more than its original $666.66 price. Have at it, nerd. source
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31 Oct 2010 10:57

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Tech: Apple and Motorola lawsuits more annoying than anything

  • All these lawsuits between Apple and Motorola are silly. In the latest suit (a counter-suit, even), the iPhone maker sued Motorola for using multitouch technology (among other things which Apple owns patents for) in nine of its phones, including each of the popular Droid models. These suits are excuses for each company to get in the other’s hair, and basically do nothing useful. Honestly, if Apple was really serious about fighting these claims against their multitouch technology, they would’ve sued when the first Droid phone came out. Now, it just seems like a vindictive attempt at leverage. source
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27 Oct 2010 21:44

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Tech: How many employees does Apple have? We know the answer

  • 46,600 that’s way up from just last year source
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26 Oct 2010 10:02

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Politics: Bigger crime: Alex Sink’s texting or Rick Scott’s ignorance of Apple?

  • First, Alex, you say you always follow the rules. The rule was no one is supposed to give us messages during the break, and your campaign did with an iPad, all right, an iPod.
  • Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott • Pointing out that his Democratic opponent, Alex Sink, received a text message during the debate, a violation of debate rules. Sink’s make-up assistant has been fired for the incident, but we’re pretty sure everyone’s missing the real crime here: Scott had two chances to correctly name the device she was using (an iPhone) and blew it both times. We wouldn’t vote for him simply because it’s obvious that he doesn’t know one Apple device from another. source
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25 Oct 2010 20:31

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Tech: Google’s Android’s app store: Quickly catching up to Apple

  • 100,000 number of apps in the Android store, a threefold increase since March
  • 300,000number of apps in the iTunes store – they had a huge head start
  • 200knumber of new phones that get activated daily
  • 270knumber of developers working on apps
  • 32countries have paid app sales source
  • » Problems to solve: Many developers make their Android apps for free (and rely on in-app ads to pay the bills) not because they want to make them free, but because the payment process is so convoluted that many people don’t feel like going through it. Also, a major problem that developers have which iPhone developers don’t have to deal with at all is the fracturing of the platform – there are dozens of phones on the market with tiny but important quirks.
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24 Oct 2010 12:24

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Tech: MacBook Air: Not first to the ultrathin laptop game, by the way

  • .11″ the width of Apple’s latest MacBook Air, released last week for a mere $999
  • .38″ the width of Sony’s Vaio X505, a similarly designed laptop released  back in 2004 for $3,000
  • .78″ the width of HP’s Omnibook Sojourn, released way back in 1998 for $5,799 source
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