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Market research firm ComScore releases its data on online-video viewing for October 2009. Not surprisingly, YouTube is leading the pack by a large margin.
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Phone company continues to fight accusations that its 3G network is poor. One new spot uses the same strategy as the iPhone, featuring simultaneous voice and data.
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Dubai debt fears hit world markets hard
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World stock markets fell sharply Thursday as investors fretted over the debt problems at Dubai World, a government investment company, and the continued fall in the dollar. Markets are usually relatively quiet when Wall Street is closed for a holiday, as it... Hong Kong - Asia - Economy of the United States - US - Tokyo
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In October, Mac US retail desktop computer revenue share was 47.71, percent up from 33.44 percent a year earlier, according to NPD. It's a stunning number, given just how many Windows PC companies combined command so much more market share, while competing for the same revenue share.
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IPhone Owners Spend More Money -- and Not Just on Apple Hardware
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Mac users may be more individualistic than PC owners, but new data suggests users of another Apple gizmo--the iPhone--are, on average, much freer with their online spending than their peers. It must be an individualism thing. Olswang's research, contained in its recent Convergence Survey, shows that among the wide online community, 58% of people ...
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Apple goes to court again
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Apple is again going to court, this time suing a third-party MacBook power adapter manufacturer who supposedly violated patented designs, while in a separate trial has also appealed to move its ongoing defense against clone iPod maker Luxpro to a California court. The former involves a suit against Media Solutions Holdings, where both ...
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NPD: 48% of retail desktop revenue in US from Macs
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Mac desktops represented nearly half of all desktops sold at US retail shops in October, the NPD Group said in a new study. About 47.7 percent of desktop revenue was from iMacs, Mac minis or Mac Pros, an increase from 45 percent in April and a sharp surge from just 33 percent in October 2008. Mac notebooks also saw a sequential gain from 30 ...
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Asus releases an Eee PC desktop
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The machine comes with an optical drive and a dedicated graphics chip. It is designed for home entertainment on a budget, the budget being £339 but that includes Windows 7.
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Should I buy a PC or Mac?
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Q. Our 6-year-old PC computer is dying a slow death and we are considering moving to a new iMac but have a few concerns. First, of all, we have several Word documents on our disk drive now that we want to keep and add to as well as many pictures that will be kept as well. What capabilities are available to transfer these files to an iMac? Is ...
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The author of the world's first iPhone worm must be feeling pretty chirpy today, because he's managed to get himself a job as an iPhone application developer.
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Ikee worm author gets job at iPhone app firm
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The author of the world's first iPhone worm must be feeling pretty chirpy today, because he's managed to get himself a job as an iPhone application developer. 21-year-old Australian Ashley Towns, revealed that he was going to join mogeneration (What is it with companies who insist on being spelt in lowercase? Does anyone really think that [...]
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IPhone owners more likely to pay for digital content
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iPhone owners are much more likely to pay for digital content than the average Internet user, according to a recent survey conducted by the media firm Olswang. Although previous surveys have concluded that iPhone owners have an apatite for apps and media accessible directly from the handset interface, the latest research suggests the same group ...
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Tips to keep iPhone battery going strong
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In talking with my iPhone-using friends, we often seem to bring up how to squeeze the most life from the iPhone's "nonreplaceable" battery.
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Little World Gifts to bring virtual gifts to the iPhone just in time for Christmas
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[UK] Liverpool-based Little World Gifts wants to re-define virtual gifts. Only the company doesn't want us to use that word, instead preferring the term 'digital gifts' -- these aren't the typical tiny 2D icons that are gifted on sites like Facebook, they're 3D, touch-friendly and yes, you've guessed it, they run on the iPhone. Little World ...
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Your Favorite Mobile Apps of 2009
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A year ago we polled you, the ReadWriteWeb community, on your favorite mobile apps . It's become an annual tradition to run this survey, so in this post we're collecting your top 5 lists for 2009. To get you inspired, the ReadWriteWeb team have listed their personal favorites below. We first ran this poll in November 2007 , before Apple's App ...
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Microsoft 'worked with Apple' for Silverlight on iPhone, says Goldfarb
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"The promise of Silverlight is that it's a cross-device, cross-browser, cross-platform solution, and it works the same on Macs as it does on Windows," Goldfarb responded. "The iPhone is a unique scenario. We talked to our customers...and they said, 'Look, we just need to get our content there, and it's mainly in the ...
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Eerste indruk: Parrot RKi8400 autoradio
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Parrot is inmiddels de grootste speler in de aftermarket van handsfreesets. Met de nieuwe RKi8400 wagen ze de sprong naar autoradio's. Die overstap van handsfree naar autoradio's doen ze met een gewaagde stap: geen cd-drive meer. Achter het frontje bevindt zich een opbergvak voor je usb-stick, iPod, iPhone of andere mp3-speler. In het frontje ...
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Review: My Brute for iPhone
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This online fighting game for the iPhone and iPod touch has a lot going for it -- if you can accept the limitation on how many times you can fight on a given day.
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Joystiq
IPhone It In: bitFLIP
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I first heard about iPhone pseudo-puzzler bitFLIP from the game's developer, Metamoorephosis Games owner (and JPAG member) Josh Hernandez. I'd be remiss to not mention upfront the hesitation with which I approached reviewing said game for iPhone It In , given the development source being a Joystiq reader and podcast listener. It was a convenient ...
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OK so I have to admit that I'm an iPhone nut through and through
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[From Chrisbird] OK so I have to admit that I'm an iPhone nut through and through and it is with me everywhere. I know everyone has an iPhone these days but I love all the apps I can download. Did I tell you it's jailbroken which opens up a lot of possibilities especially as my phone can multitask. I also listen to internet radio especially at ...
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IPhone app rejected? Now there's a site for that
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A new revolt seems to be brewing against Apple's notoriously murky method of approving apps. Known for its questionable rejections and communication-free delays, the App Store has long come under fire by developers who feel they're being left in the dark. Even the guy behind Facebook's official iPhone app called it quits this month, telling tech ...
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EBay launches holiday deals app for iPhone
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In time for Black Friday, eBay is offering a free eBay Deals app for the iPhone that is a tool for finding and buying the best deals on eBay. In their own words: Create, edit, and save your personalized searches so that you wont miss out on that must have item. The eBay Deals application even lets you share the items you find on your favorite ...
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IPhone Comics
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iPhone Comics is a post from Chris Pirillo Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed This is Ken Brady, who lives in both Portland and Japan. He’s a software developer who I think you’ll want to follow! He’s working on a few very cool things. One of these is a comic reader for the iPhone. You can change ...
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My First PDA – Sharp Wizard
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My First PDA – Sharp Wizard is a post from Chris Pirillo Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed My first PDA was an old Sharp Wizard which carried 64MB of data! It was over $300 back in the day, and was considered to be a high-end model. I could add things to my calendar and keep track of what I had to do. My calendar ...
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New Website keeps track of rejected iPhone apps
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A new website of interest for all app developers, App Rejections . App Rejections keeps track of rejected iPhone apps. The blog features the name of the rejected app, Apple's justification for rejection, and then an editorial comment. If YOUR iPhone app has been rejected by Apple in an unusual or unfair way, please write about it on your blog / ...
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Flash on the iPhone Would Be Nice, but Not Essential, Brightcove's Jeremy Allaire
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Flash for the iPhone would be helpful to developers and programmers, but it's not essential in getting the rich interactivity of Flash on the iPhone, says Jeremy Allaire, one of the principal developers of Flash. Allaire, who was CTO of Macromedia, the company that developed Flash and was sold to Adobe, is the founder and CEO of video platform ...
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Eight years ago Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia that allows anyone to write and edit articles, declared that it would provide access to “the sum of all human knowledge”. It soon became one of world’s most popular websites.
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Vrijwilligers laten Wikipedia in de steek
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Het aantal bezoekers van Wikipedia blijft maar groeien. Maar ondertussen neemt het aantal vrijwilligers af. Als er één mooi voorbeeld is waartoe samenwerking op internet kan leiden, dan is het wel Wikipedia. De encyclopedie waaraan iedereen kan meeschrijven, is met 325 miljoen unieke bezoekers per maand één van de populairste sites van de ...
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Volvo IT Department Gets Banned From Wikipedia For Racist Rants
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One of the risks facing any enterprise is how to deal with people who use the corporate network to post rude, sexist or even racist material on public facing web sites. That issue is coming home to roost for Volvo , following the news that Wikipedia has banned editing from machines inside the Volvo IT Department for racist remarks left on the ...
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Wikipedia's facts-about-facts make the impossible real
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My latest Make: column, "Shortcut to Omniscience," talks about the cognitive shift that Wikipedians undergo in order to collaboratively write an encyclopedia, and how that kind of fundamental, subtle change enables networked groups of people to do things that were previously considered impossible. Here's the thing about expertise: it's hard to ...
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"There are many things I can say I'm thankful for in the FOSS world. The first would be Linux, a free operating system with no strings attached. Sure, it's got its quirks, but what OS doesn't? And despite any shortcomings it may have, it gives me a freedom to choose, to do things my way, to go places no corporately funded OS would ...
Newly released text messages reportedly from the morning of September 11, 2001, show panicked family members trying to contact loved ones and officials frantically trying to grasp what was happening.
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Text messages sent on 9/11
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CNN 11/25 : Web site posts what it says are half million text messages from 9/11 Newly released text messages reportedly from the morning of September 11, 2001, show panicked family members trying to contact loved ones and officials frantically trying to grasp what was happening. More than half a million messages, released by whistleblower site ...
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Leaked 9/11 Text Messages
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Wikileaks has published pager intercepts from New York on 9/11: WikiLeaks released half a million US national text pager intercepts. The intercepts cover a 24 hour period surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington. [...] Text pagers are usualy carried by persons operating in an official capacity. Messages in the ...
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UK broadband provider TalkTalk says about half of its customers who have peer-to-peer (P2P) filesharing activity on their home networks are unaware that it is happening. The ISP says this is due largely to teenagers downloading without their parents’ knowledge or to others piggybacking on its customers’ internet connections. TalkTalk says the ...
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What Twitterers Are Thankful For
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Do you want to tell the world what you're thankful for? Will the Twitterverse suffice? How about you followers and the few people that go to TurkeyTwitter? What is TurkeyTwitter you ask? It is a site that was launched yesterday to give those celebrating Thanksgiving a place to see the collective thanks of Twitter users. Sure, you could simply ...
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Turkey Timer app
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A usefull app for this Thanksgiving, Turkey Timer which helps you figure out just how long it takes to cook your turkey. How does it work? Enter the weight of your turkey, whether it's stuffed, your desired internal temperature, and whether you plan to baste the turkey. Using algorithms based on top cookbook instructions, TurkeyTimer will track ...
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Joystiq
The latest trailer for Super Street Fighter IV reveals the newly-announced characters in motion for the first time, leading to some surprising discoveries. For example, Adon sounds like Starscream. That actually kind of makes sense if you imagine Sagat as Megatron and Adon as his annoying sidekick. In addition to the three new new guys, all the ...
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MS patents its own Super Guide system
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Going for in-game, user-written FAQs? Nintendo isn't the only platform-holder working on an in-game guide system. A Microsoft patent turned up by Siliconera (via GameSpot) outlines a "User-Powered Always Available Contextual Game Help" system for a games console. However, the system - patented back in February 2008 - seems somewhat different ...
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A couple of aspiring reality-TV stars from Northern Virginia appear to have crashed the White House's state dinner Tuesday night, penetrating layers of security with no invitation to mingle with the likes of Vice President Biden and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.
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Uninvited guests crash White House dinner
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Secret Service is investigating how an uninvited couple was admitted to U.S. President Barack Obama's White House state dinner, penetrating layers of security, a spokesman said on Wednesday.
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Feds: Couple crashed Obama's state dinner
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Two people without invitations crashed President Obama's first White House state dinner, the U.S. Secret Service said Wednesday.
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At the First Obama State Dinner, the First Crashers
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A Virginia couple mingled with guests, including the vice president, though neither had been invited.
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Couple Slipped Past Security, Crashed State Dinner
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The Secret Service is looking into its own security procedures after determining that a Virginia couple managed to slip into Tuesday night's state dinner at the White House even though they were not on the guest list, an agency spokesman said. The Secret Service learned about the breach after the couple posted photos on Facebook.
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U.S. will be out of Afghanistan by 2017: White House
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will not be in Afghanistan eight years from now, the White House said on Wednesday, as President Barack Obama prepared to explain to Americans next week why he is expanding the war effort.
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White House defends costs, cuts in health bill
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The Obama administration pushed back Wednesday against claims that it's not doing enough to slow the growth of health care costs, a topic senators will debate heavily in coming weeks.
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INSIDE WASHINGTON: Stream of WH health care visits
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President Barack Obama's top aides met frequently with lobbyists and health care industry heavyweights as his administration pieced together a national health care overhaul, according to White House visitor records obtained by The Associated Press.
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The original Terms of Reference for the review are to examine corporate governance in the UK banking industry and make recommendations, including in the following areas:
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Nissan brings its Leaf all-electric car to CNET headquarters. Originally posted at The Car Tech blog
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While the release of the PSPgo demonstrated Sony's intention to cater for the consumer that prefers digital downloads over packaged media, the latter is "not going away any time soon".
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