RSS Digest for Wednesday, July 29th, 2009:

Video: ‘V for Vendetta’ Director Goes Ninja
Kodak Zi8 Wallops Flip With 1080p, Image Stabilizer and SD Slot [Camcorders]
Xbox Live dashboard update preview invites begin rolling out
Palm Pre headed to Verizon next year
LG has first THX-Certified LCD HDTV
Agency Mulls Curbs on Cybersquatters
Pascal Finette: Mozilla Labs Design Challenges – What we’ve learned so far…
AOL revenue slides 24 percent in 2nd quarter
Intuit and open source: Tastes great, less filling?
T-Mobile to sell HTC Touch Pro2 in August
Oops, @MarissaMayer Deletes Sensitive Tweet That Can Still Be Found
AP’s rights management DRM explained
Psystar hires Jammie’s lawyers in fight with Apple
Windows 7 activation already cracked with Lenovo’s OEM license key
Pirate Bay acquisition is likely dead
Car? Kids? Get a two-pack of headrest LCDs for $130
Online video keeps growing with help of broadband, mobile
Barnes and Noble to offer complimentary WiFi
Windows 7 vs. Windows XP On a Netbook
Brilliant but Doomed Technology
Intel: Windows 7 will deploy faster than Vista
Unboxing the $1,195 URC MX-5000 remote
Steam Achievements
Motorola Morrisson with T-Mobile 3G and UMA hits the FCC
I’m 90% sure the “Apple iTablet rumor” is an elaborate hoax by Apple to get Dell to waste money building a competing device
How Much Do You Think Twitter Is Worth? How about a Half-Billion Dollars

RSS Digest for Tuesday, July 28th, 2009:

The Matrix, but with money: the world of high-speed trading
Apple Rejects Official Google Voice iPhone App [Apple]
Labels hope Apple’s ‘Cocktail’ will boost album sales
MySpace Overtakes Evite On The Event Planning Totem Pole
LEGO Unboxing
Travel Back in Time
V-Screen turns PSP games 3D
ATI’s $1,800 2GB FirePro V8750 GPU introduced and reviewed
Microsoft sponsors Firefox!
Free Spirit: NASA Recreates Mars Surface to Liberate Rover
Movie studios sue The Pirate Bay
Unix Turns 40
Samsung’s debut e-book reader arrives
Verizon Uses Twitter To Trash Talk AT&T Too
AT&T dual USB and iPhone car charger – $15
Acer and ASUS reportedly freeze netbook releases until 2010
microsoft’s settlement proposal
Red Hat: ‘We spend over $100 million a year to advance Linux’
Like Chrome, Should Firefox Put Tabs on Top?
New Scientist: ‘Humans Prefer Cockiness to Expertise’
Electric-car maker Coda gains high-powered investors
Order Your DIY Flying Trike Today!
Robot gets an iPhone 3Gs for a brain
Landlord sues tenant after tweet about moldy apartment
Mozilla Security: URL bar spoofing vulnerability
Netgear and OpenDNS to block porn from the cloud
Viliv X70 preorders delayed, should ship out on August 11
New DoS Vulnerability In All Versions of BIND 9
Alternative to Bottled Water
Toshiba’s inaugural 3.5-inch external HDD is exactly what you think it is
EU Vista, XP users will also get to vote IE off the island
Yahoo and Microsoft to start ad partnership, says source

- Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

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Here are my news picks for the week…

Sorry for them being late but i had a busy start of week.

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

The story of the PlayStation
SlingPlayer for iPhone getting closer to release?
Apple may hear Verizon now
Google makes their own Digg, lets users pop stories
Will Oracle kill MySQL? Who cares?
Skype Cuts Prices On SkypeOut Service
Qualcomm, Broadcom reach $891 million settlement
Essential Tips to Get the Best from iTunes
Virus begins to attack PCs
First Android Netbook will cost $250?
Flip Video Ultra HD makes its unofficial debut, gets unboxed
Apple loses patent suit, will have to pay $19M
NVIDIA’s GT300 specs outed — is this the cGPU we’ve been waiting for?
FBI accuses Twitter user of massacre threats
Windows 7 – Gold – As Early as July?
Download Wall-E for just $62,000 Now!
Billionth iPhone App is a Freebie!
Review – Twitter Desktop Clients for Mac, Dual Review
Chalk Drawing Depicts Epic Browser War (With A Touch of Conan) [Browser War]

Saturday, April 25th, 2009yep

Steve Jobs On The Value Of Stock Options
German book publishers want Rapidshare blocked
Former AOL Exec Mike Jones To Become No. 2 At MySpace
Video: Recording analog audio to a floppy disk
New Snow Leopard beta build includes screen recording capabilities, a certain je ne sais quoi
Windows 7 reveals XP mode AKA the IT guy’s wet dream
21 Eye Catchy Collection Of Free Textures
Samsung plays catch-up with 32GB P3
Why AT&T Wants To Keep the iPhone Away From Verizon
Windows 7 Release Candidate 1’s Best Surprise New Features
Conficker virus begins to attack computers
Somniloquy external networking card lets PCS “sleep talk” essential connectivity functions
Microsoft training video reveals older prototype of Windows 7 “superbar”
Bugs Aside – Ubuntu 9.04 Is Pretty Slick

Friday, April 24th, 2009

It’s official: Windows 7 Release candidate available for download May 5th
No, This Dancing Building’s Bricks Are Not Falling Like Tetris [Art]
Hollywood attacks RealDVD in court
Model 2+ production seen as “unlikely,” says OQO exec
Coming Soon: Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC
Analysis: App Store now $1 million a day business, cloud mobile apps the next big thing
Windows 7 RC build 7100 leaked
Windows 7 Release Candidate Update
Microsoft axes Live Search Product Upload
Apple Loses Patent Lawsuit from Opti Inc on “Predictive Snooping”
Internet Explorer 8 Security
Irish reject e-voting, go back to paper
Microsoft Surface First-Run Experience
Geocities to close after 15 years of aesthetic “awesomeness”
Android-Based G1 Phone Sells One Million Units
News: Bump is billionth app downloaded, 13-year-old wins prizes

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Apple Questioned Again About a Mac Netbook
Jaunty Jackalope hops onto scene with GNOME 2.26, new features
Consuming the Contents of Windows 7 Libraries
iPhone OS devices continue to dominate mobile traffic

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

iSuppli: Kindle 2 costs twice as much to buy as it does to make
Apple iPhone & iPod Touch sales pass 37 million
Steve Riley on Windows 7 Security
Apple with “No Plans” to Change AT&T iPhone Exclusivity and Other Notes
Pixelpipe adds drag-and-drop uploading to Firefox
Make your own solid state drive with a CF card
Second Life gives users ability to filter Mature, X-rated content
Apple WWDC rumors: MacBook speed bumps, pro application upgrades (but where’s the netbook?)
Congress wants new probe into P2P file-sharing snafus
The EagleTec USB Nano flash drive: it doesn’t get much smaller
Panasonic makes school runs more cinematic with its in-dash Blu-ray player
OLPC waves goodbye to AMD for new XO laptop, adopts VIA chip
Face recognition comes to Flickr
MacBooks, MacBook Pros, and Pro Apps to See Updates at WWDC?

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

iTunes Price Hikes Hurt Some Track Rankings
Amazon Video on Demand goes high definition
Apple preparing to release new Snow Leopard beta build
From Mingebag To Gmod Activist
DiggBar Changes Live Today
Why Time Capsule Is Doomed to Suck
Rumor smash: Windows 7 will keep 6.1 versioning
Sony Pictures is on YouTube, Hulu, but not Joost anymore
Nvidia gives developers OpenCL driver and SDK support
Bluetooth “high speed” technology becomes official with 3.0 spec
GamePark Wiz app store coming this summer
VMware’s Cloud OS Is Compelling, But Closed
Google joins effort for 3D Web standard with new plugin, API
Windows 7 Starter Edition Only Runs 3 Applications at Once
End to End Trust and Windows 7
The iPhone app that ran the Boston Marathon
Xbox 360 ‘Game Of The Year’ bundle ships in May
A Peek Inside Windows 8: Coming in 2011 [Windows 8]
LEGO Rock Band officially announced, coming just in time for the holidays
Study: Illegal music downloaders buy 10 times as much legal music as non-illegal downloaders
Google links students, projects in Summer of Code
Windows 7 could change our perception of PCs
More Details of iPhone OS 3.0 ‘Voice Control’ Emerge
Gmail can now suggest recipients for you
AT&T plans to double its 3G network capacity
Google serves up brace of slightly skewed search tools
SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone. What’s the deal?
Video: Sharp’s Mebius LCD trackpad
Fujitsu’s 10.1-inch LOOX M netbook looks good, positively average
OLED displays coming to half of all mobile phones in the next five years

Monday, April 20th, 2009

PSP firmware updated to v5.50
The ESA are fans of Pirate Bay decision
Jonathan DiCarlo: Do We Still Need Bookmarks?
Apple Launches Movie Downloads in German iTunes Store
Windows 7 security enhancements
Blu-ray in every home? Backers aim for $99 players
Windows 7 Starter Won’t Open Any Doors for Android or Linux
ISP Download Caps Not Dead, But Ought to Be
Windows 7 Security: Helping Enable the Mobile Workforce
Google tweaks Chrome with new tabs management features
Windows 7: A New Approach to Securing Today’s Enterprise
Skype coming to the DSi?
$400 Xbox 360 Elite Games of the Year bundle with Halo 3 and Fable 2 gets official
Tweetie for Mac now available
MSI intros the touchscreen Wind Top all-in-one US mod
Adobe brings Flash to the TV screen
Atempo Digital Archive Adds Full Mac OS X Support
The Pirate Bay loads cannon with official appeal
Play Garry’s Mod before you die!
Windows 7 Starter Edition headed for a netbook near you
Engadget’s take on the new mophie Juice Pack Air
Toshiba 10-inch Dynabook UX’s got talent
More Apple Netbook Rumors Pinpoint Foxconn as Manufacturer
Next Generation iPhone to Support HD Video and Apple TV-Like Behavior?
Oracle reels in Sun Microsystems with $7.4bn buy

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Here are my news picks for the week…

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

Quickoffice Mobile Office Suite debuts in the App Store
Windows 7 Release Candidate Drops May 5
Chrysler’s Peapod EV lets iPod double as ignition key
Cheap Blu-ray players will hit U.S. store shelves
Dilbert Takes on Cellphone Rebates In Epic Battle With Rebaterus [Comic]
This is not how you’re suppose to wardrive
2009 is an Android year declares Google’s Schmidt
Do You Have a Google Profile?
Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles
SMS messages could be used to hijack a phone
MySpace Fires Employee After Data Breach
The Palm Pre is already in mass production
Kadoink Seized By Creditors
New Get a Mac ads after “Laptop Hunters”

Saturday, April 18th, 2009

Lobby Groups Launch Full Assault For Canadian DMCA
Ubuntu 9.04 release candidate arrives
Windows Mobile 6.5 takes personalization to the next level with themes and Titanium plugins
What’s up, bot? Google tries new Captcha method
Celebrities Take Over Twitter
Apple Comments on Microsoft’s Laptop Hunter Ads
Apple Is Approaching a Defining Moment
Windows 7 RC coming May 5 for public consumption, out now for MSDN / TechNet subscribers
How many paper cups do you trash in a day?
Apple tops PC customer satisfaction survey
Piracy causes nightmares for Stardock’s Demigod
BBC explains DRM restrictions on HD broadcasts
Let your friends crash on these CTRL-ALT-DEL Pillows
Windows Mobile 6.5 coming soon?

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Windows enthusiast Cullen creates “Cophenhagen” user experience concept video
The Pirate Bay verdict: guilty, with jail time
A warning against premature adoption of cloud computing
Job cuts to happen at Sony Ericsson
Hilco / Gordon Brothers acquires Polaroid brand, assets and dignity
iPhone beta OS cracks before release
Microsoft Family Safety Filter Blocks Google
LEGO Boombox looks sweet, still can’t make your kid’s music sound good
Simplify Media- Legally Share Your Music Library with Up To 30 Friends
A Few New Functions Spotted in iPhone 3.0 Beta [Unconfirmed]
Vonage now charges 29% in fees (at least for me)
4 Reasons Apple Should Deliver the iPhone to Verizon
Microsoft targets Barmy Army with Silverlight
Windows Mobile 6.5 to officially “launch” on May 11
If You Become a Yahoo Engineer, You Too Can Have 7 Monitors on Your Desk [Yahoo]
Verizon’s subsidized HP Mini 1000 leaks out
Report: Hulu planning iPhone app
Stone Neo 101 drops into the netbook pond, doesn’t cause a ripple
Tweetie for Mac looks fantastic!
Nintendo sells 435,000 units in the US in first week
AT&T iPhone Exclusivity Expires in 2010, AT&T Asking for Extension?
Samsung, Dell bring SSD encryption solutions
Photo Sharing feature in Live Messenger: Kill it dead

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

This DSi Can Take Itself Apart, Thank You Very Much [Teardowns
4400 Radioshacks Now Accepting Old Gadget Trade-Ins [Retail]
“Apple Tax” Report Backfires On Microsoft
ZuneHD specs leaked, supposedly confirmed by Microsoft
Sun begs IBM to come back and talk
German iTunes Store adds movie purchases, rentals
Mac OS X 10.5.7 update appears to be nearing release
Apple patent shows front-facing camera: Hello, video calls
Genius sues Activision and 7 Studios over Scratch game delay
Iomega opens sub-£2k box of storage tricks
Pirate Bay server becomes museum artefact
Apple, your Mighty Mouse sucks. Please fix it.
Ning hits 1 million social networks
Apple Researching Movement-Aware Interfaces for iPhones
WSJ’s Free iPhone App Is Already Better than the NYT App [Apps]
The Gadgeteer’s ZuneHD Rumor Mill Roundup
DivX 7 video software released for Mac
Apple growth turns negative as worldwide PC shipments plunge
Lose Your Amazon Account and Your Kindle Dies
They’re gone! After outcry, Time Warner uncaps the tubes
Apple and AT&T: Should the Exclusive Deal End?
Are Skype’s founders going to buy back the company from eBay?
SlingPlayer banned from App Store?
Google: We’d love to supply ads for Twitter
It begins: Palm Pre trickles out to accessory manufacturers
Light Up with Windows 7 Libraries
Apple: A PC is no bargain when it doesn’t do what you want
YouTube launching premium section with movies, TV shows
Apple market share drops slightly in the past year
Chrome update offers tab micromanagement options
Verizon Sues Dastardly Californian Fiber-Optic Cable Slicers [Crime]

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Virgin Media switches to Gmail
Apple Offering 8 GB RAM Kits for 2.93 GHz and 2.66 GHz 15″ MacBook Pros
Nirvanix Adds $5M to Keep Data in the Cloud
US company steps in with three new displays for mini-DP Macs (Updated x2)
eBay to spin off Skype in 2010
Eee PC hacked into a digital picture frame
DIGG: (Yet) Another DiggBar Update
OWC Releases Plug & Play Desktop Hardware Raid Solution
Google finally lets Blogger users earn money with AdSense ads
Reports: Mac OS 10.5.7 release imminent
ZuneHD details “confirmed”
CNN acquires leading Twitter account
Microsoft to allow on-campus pub after all
eBay buying stake in Gmarket; Yahoo selling its

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

OTA feature updates for Windows Mobile in the works
OQO could be hurting
app4mac Intros Jump, Projector Productivity Apps
Twitter is at least a dress rehearsal
Google official announces Android OS 1.5
Apple isn’t making your next iPhone, these guys are
Microsoft ends mainstream XP, Office 2003 support
Better Place experiments with WPF & Windows XP for in-car electronic console
Next-gen iPhone shows 15+ parts supply vendors
Reporter drives the Chevy Volt (almost)
Libraries Under the Hood
Ubuntu 9.04 due April 23, includes native ARM port
10 Of The Most Annoying Vista Irritations Solved
Coming Soon, Yet Another Re-Org at Yahoo
Vista Post-SP2 Is the Safest OS On the Planet
iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 3 is out
Google search referer changes
Apple posts third iPhone OS 3.0 beta with minor API changes

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Bluetooth 3.0 specs revealed April 21, 480Mbps
Want to Sync Files Between Computers and Platforms? Check Out Dropbox!
Microsoft: have it your way on IE 8
iPhone Jailbreaking Still Going Strong
YouTube bypasses Korean law by ‘blocking’ uploads and comments
Kwiry- Another Web Service Shutters Its Virtual Doors
Palm’s “Touchstone” induction charger to cost $70?
HP MediaSmart now streams to iPhone, iPod
Burn ISO Images Natively in Windows 7
Sony to sell PSP game without UMD copy?
German Wikileaks Suspension Not Related To Police Raid

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Here are my news picks for the week…

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

CrunchPad Leak Roundup
Apple updates iPod Shuffle ‘VoiceOver’ software
Some More Thoughts On The DiggBar
Eavesdropping On Google Voice and Skype
AnyDVD HD adds more BD+ support
Associated Press chairman “mad as hell” at new media
10 tweaks to make Windows 7 even better
Report: Conficker worm bites University of Utah
Use apt-p2p To Improve Ubuntu 9.04 Upgrade

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

New in Gmail Labs: Inserting images
Sweden Sees Boom In Legal Downloading
Microsoft fined over alleged price fixing of Office
Songwriter claims Google ‘exploited’ him
Apple Offers Another Fleeting Glimpse At The App Store’s All-Time Leaders
HTC Fiesta is “an Android phone,” so says Bluetooth SIG
Heat blamed for iPhone Wi-Fi problems
Best Buy strikes again: WD hard drive switched out for 8-year-old Maxtor, no refund given
Spam Replacing Postal Junk Mail?
Shock: iTunes price increase hurts songs’ chart positions
Steve Jobs still involved in ‘key aspects’ of running Apple, testing out that iTablet you so desire?
Humanity’s Fate
6 Half-Truths About the Cloud
Steam powered iPod charger made from LEGOS
A WINE Release Worth A Toast
Steve Jobs Still Involved in Apple, Still Expected to Return in June

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Why Engadget Is Blocking the DiggBar
Less obscure Microsoft Office 14 64-bit evidence
Windows Live Hotmail Service Disruption Locks Out Users
Cable-cutting vandals disconnect Silicon Valley
RIM picks up ex-Apple and Microsoft design guru
Huge Apple Purchase Sparks 32GB iPhone Rumors
Apple gives prizes as tally nears 1 billion Apps served
Apple retiring .Mac HomePage and .Mac Groups on July 7
When Will Apple Hit 1 Billion App Downloads?
MacHeist 3 Charity Breakdown
iTunes 8.1 Kindly Suggests You Get New iPod Shuffle By Scrambling Old Shuffle’s Brains [IPod Shuffle]
Apple Launches ‘1 Billion App Countdown’ Promotion
Public outcry led to taser policy change
Make your glossy iMac screen matte
Microsoft ordered to pay $388M in patent infringement suit
Apple Turns on Push Notification Services for Developer Testing

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

Microsoft Remains on Offensive with ‘Apple Tax’ Report and Latest Laptop Ad
Apple bullish on iPhone refresh sales
Nintendo DSi Sells 600,000 in Opening Weekend
CompUSA Comes Back From the Dead
Leaked pics of the CrunchPad make it look dangerously close to availability
Review: SanDisk slotRadio
Openmoko Phone Not Dead After All
AT&T uses Twitter during service outage
Apple announces end of .Mac HomePage
Qualcomm developing FLO TV accessories for iPhone OS 3.0, other smartphones
In Depth: 10 Reasons why we’ll see an iPhone This June
YouTube, Universal to launch ‘Vevo’ music video site
Yahoo adds Delicious data to search partnership
Apple makes giant NAND flash memory order
iTunes isn’t the only online music store that has variable pricing
Legacy Locker
Intel talks Moorestown, new Atoms; Larrabee may drop this year
French “3 strikes” law suffers shocking defeat
Eye-Fi’s 4GB WiFi SDHC cards start to ship out
AP orders affiliate to pull embedded YouTube vids
Apple sued over iPhone, MacBook multi-touch tech
Microsoft Order To Pay $388 Million In Patent Case
Apple Admits White MacBook’s Notorious Crack Problem

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Now what could Apple want with 100 million 8Gb NAND flash chips?
Unconfirmed: Apple Orders 100 Million 8Gb Chips for New Handhelds [Rumor]
Amazon, Wal-Mart, raise MP3 download prices
Unbelievably Detailed Wall-E PC Case Mod [Mods]
Microsoft Ordered to Pay $388 Million for Patent Infringement [Lawsuits]
Table Layouts vs. Div Layouts: From Hell to… Hell?
Video: HY Research’s Beagle Board-based MID
Fake Virus Warnings Are Ploy for Cash
Intel aims for 2-second boot time with Moblin Linux platform
For Some App Developers Palm & Nokia Are No-Gos
Conficker wakes up, updates via P2P, drops payload
Arcade Classic Galaga Comes to the iPhone in a Remix Version
Google Voice on the iPhone coming soon
Apple accused of touch screen patent infringement
Nvidia gives CUDA a profiler and hardware debugger
CFLs Causing Utility Woes
Sims creator Will Wright leaves E
Google updates Gmail, Calendar for iPhone
Google My Stuff May Rise From The Dead
Is Microsoft Back to Its Old Tricks?
Why the CAPTCHA Approach Is Doomed
News: Yahoo! launches Messenger app for iPhone, iPod touch
Sun’s VirtualBox
Quicklook – Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter
AP is fighting last century’s battle
Apple reveals first set of sessions for WWDC 2009

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Google Adds All-Important Java Support To App Engine
News: NPD: iTunes still #1 in music downloads, Amazon grows
Will Apple pretend iPhone video recording requires the new iPhone?
iTunes Variable Pricing Live, More Countries Supported
iTunes Store now infected with variable pricing, Amazon still $0.99
Three-tiered iTunes pricing due Tuesday

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Prepare for ludicrous speed: Ars reviews the 8-core Mac Pro
Microsoft: New Zune hardware coming this year
Intel launches new chip logos, rating system
Google Voice App Comes to iPhone and iPod Touch Soon [Google Voice]
Understanding Windows 7 Libraries
Video: 128GB SSD slotted into Dell’s Inspiron Mini 9
FriendFeed Is In Danger Of Becoming The Coolest App No One Uses
ShoveBox for Mac and iPhone
FriendFeed lifestreaming goes real-time for better and worse
Video: Acer Aspire One D250 gets unboxed
Windows 7 will allow downgrades too
2TB Time Capsule in the works?
Rumors suggest slew of new iPhone features
Myk Melez: The Extension Bootcamp Tutorial
Full-length Sony films headed to YouTube?
Next iPhone to make you a film editor?
Apple keeps SD rental hits coming with nearly 300 new titles
T-Mobile to use Google Android OS for home devices
Review: Pogoplug makes any USB drive a NAS
Mozilla reveals roadmap for Firefox 3.6, scheduled for 2010
News: Apple planning to bring camera to iPod touch?
iPhone OS 3.0 beta suggests 802.11n, video publishing coming
Microsoft, Lionhead settle alleged homophobia suit
Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes appear
Stanza eBook Reader for iPhone Updated
HP extends Windows XP supply until April 2010
Giant Lego Nintendo DSi Timelapse Construction Video [Nintendo]
MediaDefender Buys MediaSentry For $136,000 (Not $20M)

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This is the start of the weekly series that replaces the old daily ones.

Here are my news picks for the week…

Monday, March 31st 2009

Google launches free music download service in China
Disney signs deal with YouTube
Windows 7 .NET Interop Sample Libraries
Skype now officially available on iPhone

Tuesday, April 1st 2009

Latest iPhone 3.0 Beta Allows 11 Pages of Apps (180 Apps)
Correction: Starter wallpaper more secure than I thought
Rob Janoff, Creator of the Apple Logo
News: Apple releases iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 2 with push notifications
32GB High End iPhone and a Low End Version in Works?
What is Europe’s top browser? Stats says it’s now Firefox 3
Windows Marketplace for Mobile preview video teases the app store you want, don’t yet have

Wednesday, April 2nd 2009

Happy Birthday, Gmail, You Cute Lil Five Year Old [Techversary]
Samsung introduces Mondi, first WiMax Mobile Internet Device
Palm opening WebOS SDK up to developers
Adrollo Launches Dynamic Ad Network Platform For The iPhone
Microsoft Office opening for iPhone
Finest Internet Jokes for April Fools’ Day 2009
Latest iPhone developer agreement bans jailbreaks
TUAW Bookshelf: Apple II Reference Manual
Woz exits Dancing with the Stars
Apple Turns 33, No Fooling
Snow Leopard, Juno, and Pro App updates, oh my!
10.5.7 extension hints at upcoming Nehalem-based Xserve
News: Apple moves up in Greenpeace electronics rankings
Best April fools day jokes of 2009
4 Ways to Make Skype on the iPhone Even Better

Thursday, April 3rd 2009

Register.com goes down taking millions of websites, email address and network communications with it.
New Nmap version detects the Conficker worm
New flat-speaker tech could make public places even louder
The Beast unveiled: inside a Google server
Gmail’s search gets suggestive with labs add-on
Streaming iPhone via bluetooth in the car
Digg To Finally Fix Search – See The Screenshot
SlingPlayer for iPhone will only work with new Slingboxes
Windows 7 Sensor and Location .NET Interop Sample Library
Intel turns Moblin over to the Linux Foundation
Android App of the Week: GV Dials Numbers With Your Google Voice/Grand Central Number [Android Apps]
iPhone OS 3.0 beta successfully jailbroken
DiggBar Launches Today!
Windows 7 to support third-party codecs… like all other Windows versions
Free Online Stanford Course on Developing iPhone Apps
Adobe AIR, Flash big hit at Web 2.0 Expo conference
Apple Considers Having Stolen iPhones Call Police [Patents]
New iPod shuffle saw 50 percent sales increase in first week
Firefox beats IE in Europe: A duopoly to come?
Behold the Google Server, ye nations, and weep
Despite Funky HTML Encoding, Boxee Still Plays Hulu Video Just Fine [Boxee]
Canadians weigh in on network management: they don’t like it
Real or Imagined Threats?
Tabletize your laptop via USB for $99
Palm opens up, and goes back in time
ASUS 16-inch F50SV-X1 laptop now available
Video: NVIDIA’s ION-based netbooks and nettops are go for launch
What if IBM doesn’t buy Sun?
Netflix: Two Billion DVDs Served

Friday, April 4th 2009

How Linux killed SGI (and is poised to kill Sun)
Windows on Netbook PCs: A Year in Review
HP TouchSmart tx2z with 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD now $450 off with coupon
Demo your iPhone without cables
MacHeist entices, annoys buyers with new TweetBlast
Google shows off Gmail mobile Web app
Google brewing ‘offline’ web office apps
AT&T tweaks wireless terms of service to forbid video streaming, filesharing, data tethering
How the Conficker Problem Just Got Much Worse [Conficker
VLC 0.9.9, The Best Media Player Just Got Better
Tutorial released for Apple logo LCD mod
51,324 LEGO blocks + 1 virgin gamer = 1 LEGO DSi
Original founders buy and relaunch FileFront
Isaac Mizrahi designs Windows Mobile 6.5 themes
Sneaky Surfing Actually Increases Productivity
Using Your Tabs
Texas Just Now Bans Vista From Government Computers [Vista]
Apple Ordering 3.2 and 5-Megapixel Camera Sensors for iPhone and Future Product?
Ready or not, IPv6 is coming
Apple Leaks Nehalem Xserve Info
Big shifts in microblog/social networking world
Google makes Gmail search accessible to all comers
Asus Eee Linux-based Skype Videophone
Gmail Marks Five Years In Beta
Windows 7 Taskbar .NET Sample Library – an Overview

Saturday, April 5th 2009

The 7 Time Saving Firefox Add-Ons To Make Your Lives Easier
Next up for Microsoft’s ‘real life’ Windows star: 7-Eleven ads
Microsoft’s second Laptop Hunters commercial: Giampaulo buys an HP HDX
FCC Pressed to Investigate Apple, AT&T Regarding Skype Over 3G [Net Neutrality]
Week in Apple: Chrome, iPhone jailbreaks, security, and more!
Windows 95 Almost Autodetected Floppy Disks
XP is still so popular that MS decided to make it much harder to steal.
Week in review: was-Conficker-a-bust? edition
Tweet Quality
Rumor: Xserve refresh coming up soon
Week in Microsoft: builds 7068, 7070 will run on inexpensive laptops
Buying advice: Network-attached storage
Ubuntu 9.04 Beta – Expectations Too High?

Sunday, April 6th 2009

Google Car Pulled Over by the Cops – Now in Street View
Data Centers get ‘black box’ flight data recorder
Web Slices a rip off of OS X feature?
Report: Sun rejects IBM offer, IBM withdraws bid
Debian Gets FreeBSD Kernel Support
Sony: PS2 is the gateway drug to the PS3
25 Rare Wordpress Templates 2009
Wii MotionPlus Given July 10 Release Date By Obscure Amsterdam Retailer [Unconfirmed]
Leaked Dell Internal Product Roadmap Reveals Mini 11 Netbook [Dell]
Sneak peek at Windows Mobile 6.5 themes
Archos 2,4 flash players appear
iPhone 4G IV could support 802.11n

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