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Apple’s App Store: From 2 To 3 Billion Downloads In Just Over 3 Months
Apple this morning announced that more than 3 billion apps have been downloaded from its App Store by iPhone and iPod touch users worldwide. This comes nearly 9 months after it first hit 1 billion downloads served, and…
January 5 2010, 1:56pm | Comments
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The Pricing Smoke Around The Tablet Fire
Just when you thought everyone was all talked out about the Apple Tablet, there comes more news. But today’s news is both odd and interesting for a few reasons. The big news today comes from a Wall Street…
January 5 2010, 5:12am | Comments
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Google And Spotify Dance Over U.S. Launch
Spotify. The elusive European streaming music startup that you just can’t get access to in the U.S., unless you know someone or jump through a few hoops. The U.S. launch has been delayed over aggressive negotiations with the…
January 4 2010, 9:26am | Comments
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Cheap Beer If You Check-In… Or Just Tweet.
One of the most compelling aspects of the location-based service Foursquare is that they are increasingly enticing users to check-in to venues by partnering up to offer special deals to those who do. A person who checks-in at…
January 4 2010, 3:46am | Comments
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The World Doesn’t Need Someone Telling Us What We Don’t Need In Tech
If Joe Wilcox ran the computer industry, we’d still be using typewriters. Wilcox has a lengthy post today on BetaNews saying that the world doesn’t need an Apple tablet. And while Wilcox does have some decent general points mixed…
January 3 2010, 2:48am | Comments
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2010: My Fifth Annual List Of The Tech Products I Love And Use Every Day
It’s time for my annual list of technology products that I love and use every day. This is the (wow) fifth year I’ve done this. Here are my previous lists: 2009, 2008, 2007 and 2006. The scope of…
January 2 2010, 2:46am | Comments
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Hotel WiFi Should Be a Right, Not a Luxury
I’m in my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee for Christmas and on a drive between Memphis and Nashville I noticed that every $30/night hotel offered free wireless Internet access. Further, when we got to Nashville and checked into the…
January 1 2010, 11:39pm | Comments
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From A Geek’s Geek: Daniel Raffel’s Favorite New Projects, Products and Features of 2009
When Daniel Raffel emailed and asked if we’d be interested in publishing his list of favorite stuff from 2009 we quickly agreed. He has worked on some of the more interesting projects in Silicon Valley over the last…
January 1 2010, 12:17am | Comments
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The Google Countdown Reveals Its Explosively Colorful Secret
A few weeks ago we wrote about a mysterious Easter Egg on Google’s homepage that we dubbed The Google Countdown. After clicking the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button with no search query entered, the page would display a countdown…
December 31 2009, 8:31pm | Comments
