May 4 2009

What Disney-Hulu Means for Apple

The growing popularity of free video-viewing site Hulu could test the viability of Apple’s pay-as-you-go iTunes download business.


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May 4 2009

Trent Reznor rips Apple, says WinMo sucks balls

Hey Mr. Jobs, if you’re listening… Trent may not be Bob Dylan, but he is the voice of the digital music generation.


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May 4 2009

Why text messages are limited to 160 characters

Alone in a room in his home in Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm Hillebrand sat at his typewriter, tapping out random sentences and questions on a sheet of paper. As he went along, Hillebrand counted the number of letters, numbers, punctuation marks and spaces on the page. Each blurb ran on for a line or two and nearly always clocked in under 160 characters


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May 4 2009

The F.B.I. is Following You (on Twitter) and Responding

Obviously, someone in the FBI Press Office is tracking references to the agency on Twitter and has the authority to respond.


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May 4 2009

An invention that could change the internet for ever – News

I certainly hope the next generation of internet search requires less work on my behalf (ala Google).


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May 4 2009

A Silver Ooze That Could Shrink the iPod

Bill Watkins, the former chief executive of Seagate, is now at a start-up that is trying to shrink the stack of memory chips inside mobile devices.


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May 4 2009

Mobile net reaching more people

From checking e-mails to status updating on social networking sites, more people are going online while on the move.


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May 4 2009

Wikipedia Founder Slams Wikipedia Art

Calls artists ‘trolls’


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May 4 2009

Is there only one internet?

Probably – for now. The internet is a disparate mix of interconnected computers, many of them on large networks run by universities, businesses and so on. What unites this network of networks are the communication languages known as the Transmission Control Protocol and the Internet Protocol, collectively TCP/IP.


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May 4 2009

Ubuntu 9.04 and Intel graphics

For Linux users who don’t need absolute top-notch 3D performance, Intel is considered the preferred graphics solution, not least because the company develops its drivers as open source within the framework of the X.org project. However Intel’s drivers are currently in a state of some disarray.


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