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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is not even three months old and it appears that the wizards at 1 Infinite Loop are already hard at work on 10.7.  Evidence has surfaced that Apple is hard at work on the next version of OS X, based on an entry posted earlier today in a database [...]

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Up to 1 Million users of Microsoft’s XBox Live service have been banned for altering their consoles in order to play pirated versions of games.  So, that buddy of yours that downloaded the recently released Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 from a pirate site, ask him if he can still play on XBox Live.  [...]

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Google want to make sure that no matter where their customers go, advertisers will be there too.  It announced that it would be buying AdMob Inc for $750 million in Google stock.
Google acknowledges that the mobile web is “still in its early stages” and that great mobile advertising products will only encourage more growth in [...]

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This Apple Tablet thing isn’t a new concept.  In 1997, the man himself (that’s Mr. Jobs for those of you asking), pulled the plug on the Newton, a device that was to revolutionize personal computing, but in the end couldn’t quite live up to the lofty imagineering at One Infinite Loop.
Fast Forward to 2009, and [...]

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And the copycats keep rolling in.  This time it’s 7digital, a European online music retailer who’s taking its turn at the US market, the latest MP3 store to challenge Apple’s iTunes kingdom. 7digital’s pricing reflects the company’s obsession with the number 7: single tracks for 77 cents, albums for $7.77. Easily 20% less than Apple [...]

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If you’re a blogger and you receive any form of compensation to review a product, and you fail to disclose this, you could run afoul of new federal regulations on advertising.
The Federal Trade Commission announced these new rules which are part of the revisions to the Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.  [...]

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Unauthorized Mac clone manufacturer Psystar is at it again.  They have announced the launch of a new licensing program that will enable PC manufacturers to preload their machines with Psystar’s boot loader.  This will facilitate simple installation of Mac OS X Snow Leopard directly from the retail DVD.  Psystar has been active of late, launching a number of [...]

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There’s still talk swirling around the decision by Apple to leave out a camera from their newest iPod Touch.  Seems like case manufacturers bet on the camera being made available, and went ahead and mass produced cases that anticipated the new design; however the camera was not to be.  That didn’t stop the enterprising case [...]

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