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And by “Bug Fix,” We Mean the Palm Pre’s iTunes Integration…
Apple (AAPL) rolled out updates to QuickTime and iTunes on Monday, presumably as preface to iPhone 3.0. Both iTunes 8.2 and QuickTime 7.6.2 include support for the next iteration of the iPhone’s...
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Want to Turn Your New iPhone 3G S Into a Modem? Be Ready to Pay Up.
If you’re the sort of person who gets up early to stand in line for the new iPhone 3G S, then you’ve almost certainly got one in your hands by now: Early reports are that the lines for Apple’s (AAPL)...
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Adding an Amazon or Apple Affiliate Link to Your Blog? The Feds Want to Know.
Let’s say you’re a small-time blogger who makes a habit out of writing about, say, music or books or software or videogames. And let’s say that you’ve decided to join an “affiliate program” that sends...
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TwitterGate: Out Damned Spot!
For all the noisy hubbub over should-we-or-shouldn’t-we-publish confidential documents hacked from password-protected accounts of Twitter employees, as well as a Twitter spouse, it is actually pretty...
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AT&T Does Not Manage or Approve Apps for the App Store (Though We May Bitch...
AT&T has replied to a Federal Communications Commission letter of inquiry into the role it played in the rejection of a number of third-party Google Voice apps and Google’s official GV client from...
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Did Apple Just Kick Adobe (And Wired Magazine) in the Teeth?
It looks like Apple just stepped up its attacks against Adobe and its Flash standard–used throughout the Web and apparently hated with much passion by Steve Jobs. If Daring Fireball’s John Gruber is...
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A Modest Proposal: Please Leave the Lost iPhone Dude Alone
Last night, I tweeted: “Good god, pls stop egregiously using this poor lost iphone dude for cheap traffic…sadly, I have to link to explain: http://bit.ly/cK28zb.” The link led to yet another post on...
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Today in Unverified Apple-Verizon News
The drumbeat of reports pointing to an impending Verizon iPhone launch is getting louder. Which doesn’t mean that it’s true. Just that there’s a lot of drumming going on. Still, for the record: Apple...
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CliffsNotes for Apple's Education Event
A core part of any Apple event is pre-event speculation, where folks like yours truly try to report and/or guess about what we’re going to see onstage. The run-up for today’s event has been a bit...
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Social Ad Guys 33Across Buy Copy/Paste Guys Tynt
33Across, an ad tech start-up that specializes in social data, has picked up Tynt, the start-up that publishers use to track their content when readers copy and paste their stuff. It’s an all-stock...
View ArticleGame of Tech Thrones (Comic)
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
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Surface: Could It Be a Real iPad Competitor?
Microsoft launched its Surface tablet at a Hollywood event in June, and with its 10.6-inch display, Windows 8 OS and handy-looking keyboard built into its cover, the new tablet immediately sent much of...
View ArticleJobs-Like
Not because Bezos has copied anything Jobs did, but because he has not. What he’s done that is Jobs-like is doggedly pursue, year after year, iteration after iteration, a vision unlike that of any...
View ArticleOne More Thing …
Apple Events are the new late Friday afternoons: the remote desert where you bury bad news. – John Gruber, responding to news that Zynga had closed its Boston office and laid off more than 100...
View ArticleGoogle V/S
Google is a hyper-competitive company, and they repeatedly enter markets that already exist and crush competitors. Nothing wrong with that. That’s how capitalism is supposed to work, and Google’s...
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Air Freshener: What They're Saying About Apple's Latest iPad
With Apple’s new iPad Air headed to market on Friday, the first reviews of the device began publishing last night, and they are positive to a one, with more than a few extolling the device as not just...
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