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2011
iOS Apps: PressReader
(via)PressReader brings over 2,000 full-content newspapers from 95 countries in 51 languages to your iPad & iPhone. Download PressReader today and receive 7 issues for FREE!*
2010
NASA To Brief Findings For Extraterrestrial Life
(via)NASA will hold a news conference to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.
FHM
(via)FHM magazine, with 31 international editions and websites across five continents, is the authority and voice on men’s entertainment, girls, advice and video games. With some of the hottest content that only FHM could provide, Zumobi and Airborne Mobile proudly present the official FHM application for iPhone and iPod touch.
Total Film
(via)Total Film, the world’s best movie magazine and website is now available as an iPhone app. It’s the ultimate pocket companion for film fans.
Apple Apps: MOX
(via)Datatel MOX?, powered by DUB, is the only app that puts the complete higher education experience right in the palm of your hand. With MOX, you have anytime access to all the important information you need to be successful at your college or university?courses, contacts, events, notifications, news, maps, friends, and more.
Sony to pull plug on floppy disks
(via)Sony has finally decided to stop making 3.5-inch floppy disks, according to international news reports.
2009
Roach says Hatton out in nine minutes
(via)MANILA, Philippines - Freddie Roach is giving Manny Pacquiao nine minutes to put Ricky Hatton away on May 2 in Las Vegas.
2006
Apple decides to step up and defend itself
Creative Labs, makers of the Nomad and Zen line of portable MP3 players, decided to sue its biggest MP3 competitor, Apple Computers. The suit that Creative filed claims that Apple infringed on patents over the interface that's used in Apple's iPods. Creative claims that it had designed the easy to use interface over 6 years ago. Many are asking why Creative waited so long if it had the patents 6 years ago.
Apple Mac back in black!
Apple officially ditches iBook in favour of a slinky new MacBook, that’s also available in panther black. Grrr…
Softbank and Apple to co-develop iPod phones
Softbank Corp. and Apple Computer Inc. plan to jointly develop cellular phone handsets that have built-in iPod digital music players and can download songs directly from Apple's iTunes Music Store, The Nihon Keizai Shimbun is reporting.
Google goes after Microsoft
Google Inc. took direct aim at rival Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday by unveiling several search products while simultaneously calling the Redmond, Wash., software giant a "convicted monopoly."
Wozniak Memoir Cover Revealed, Dig at Jobs in Title?
by 1 otherAmazon has posted what appears to be the final cover to Steve Wozniak's memoir, I, Woz: How I Invented the Personal Computer and Had Fun Along the Way.
Apple offers QuickTime, Front Row, Security updates
Apple said the 49.1MB QuickTime 7.1 update is an important release that delivers numerous bug fixes, support for iLife ’06, and H.264 performance improvements. This update is highly recommended for all QuickTime 7 users.
New Standard for Opulence in iPod Cases
Owning an iPod in the first place is one of the top ways to conspicuously demonstrate your disposable income level (or at least that of your parents).
Google has its eye on Vista search
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Google executives downplayed their legendary battle with Microsoft but said they were keeping an eye on their larger rival's plans for embedding Web search functionality into Vista, its delayed next-generation operating system.
Technology Cult: Mac
Want an Intel-based Mac but don't want to pay Apple's prices? A company called Red PCs may have what you're looking for -- if you're willing to face the wrath of Apple's lawyers.
Technology Cult: World of Warcraft to the Big Screen
Warner Bros.-based Legendary Pictures has picked up film rights to adapt the popular fantasy video game franchise World of Warcraft and will develop the project with game publisher Blizzard Entertainment, which is owned by Vivendi.
Technology Cult: iTunes customers are Red Hot angry
A large number of Apple Computer's iTunes customers, who paid in advance for rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers' new album "Stadium Arcadium" in order to receive a Ticketmaster code that would allow them to purchase advance tickets for the bands upcoming tour, did not receive those codes before ticket pre-sales began on Tuesday and are now enraged with the iPod maker.
Gates Doesn't Want to Be Richest Man
Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates Doesn't Want to Be the World's Richest Man REDMOND, Wash. (AP) -- Most people probably dream of being the world's richest person -- except, perhaps, the man himself.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told an online advertising conference Wednesday that he'd prefer not to be the richest person in the world.
Experts Trash Mac Security Warnings
NewsFactor has a story today that puts to the test the claims of a recent white paper (PDF link) from McAfee that warned Mac OS X could be the next Windows.
Fight spammers - Sign up at Blue Frog
by 1 otherBlue Security’s Blue Frog has an interesting defense against spammers. If you constantly receive spam from a specific merchant, Blue Frog will bombard that spammer with email asking him to desist.
