Cody Taylor

theodp writes “Steve Jobs wasn’t around to convince you that you should be impressed, but on Wednesday Apple unveiled a 4GB Shuffle that’s half the size of its predecessor. Holding up to 1,000 songs, the pre-shrunk Shuffle sports a 10-hour battery life and also adds a new VoiceOver feature that can recite song titles, artists, and playlist names, as well as provide status information. Even without a show from Steve, the new player is generally leaving folks dazzled, although there are some complaints.”

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Memristors are arguably the most important thing HP Labs is working on–it could fundamentally change the memory chip industry–but its director has no problem talking about it openly.

Fusion-io today announced what it is calling the fastest server-based solid state drive on the market today.

Al writes “The economy has hit green energy technologies hard, but technologies focused on energy efficiency and clean coal are still attracting money. Over the next few years, venture capitalists say that the biggest winners in clean tech will most likely be companies with technologies that improve efficiency. Such ventures often take advantage of cheap sensors, communications hardware, and software packages to monitor and control energy use both in buildings and on the electricity grid. High-capital businesses are now more likely to succeed if they can attract foreign funding. For instance, Great Point Energy, based in Cambridge, which has developed a process for converting coal into natural gas, has attracted 0m in funding from China.”

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NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “You may recall that in an RIAA case, SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum, the district court ruled that an oral argument about the constitutionality of statutory damages could be streamed, and the RIAA has been fighting that with a petition for ‘mandamus or prohibition’ in the appeals court, which is opposed by the press. Interestingly, it now turns out that the appeals court’s oral argument about the streaming will itself be recorded and then streamed. It is hard to imagine how a court which routinely streams its own oral arguments can rule that it is somehow inappropriate for similar oral arguments in the district court to be streamed as well.”

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While the entertainment industries push for harsher copyright laws, public opinion steers in the opposite direction. Two recent studies from Canada and Spain found that half of the Internet users use p2p networks to download music, software and films. Less than 5% of the respondents believe that people who download copyrighted content are engaging

Okay so there’s an app for just about anything. But how many of these are actually good? Here are some of the best ones for ebooks, music, browsing, games & more.

Proving once again that the best way to reach Americans’ brain is through their funny bone, Jon Stewart of the Daily Show continued his warpath aimed at irresponsible financial reporting by CNBC, specifically calling Jim Cramer out for his comments on how easy it was to profit from misinformation aimed at Apple.

One of the hot trends right now are those typography designs which normally focus more on 3D. Some designers are even introducing 3D typography particularly for web designs, and even for commercials.

Apple’s just confirmed iPhone 3.0 firmware is already rumored to add MMS picture messaging and data tethering. Also, Sirius XM has said it plans to give its radio subscribers an iPhone app, and Maine is negotiating a major deal to lease 100,000 MacBooks for its schools.