The Apple store is down

Ok, here we go again, the Apple Store is down in the US and Canada, only. While 90% of the time we’re looking at product updates, there’s always the chance that Apple’s performing routine maintenance or making such minor tweaks that there’s no discernible impact to the fanboy radar. We’ll see in an hour or [...]

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Trigem showcases Lineage 2 Dreamsys STWT slim PC

Filed under: Desktops, Gaming

It’s not unusual to find pre-fabricated rigs with game-specific paint jobs here in the US, but Trigem is looking to pique South Korea’s interest with its Lineage 2 Dreamsys STWT. The glossy white tower sports some fairly impressive artwork on the front panel, and while your attachment to the game may draw [...]

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Web 2.0 for the Enterprise - Builder.com

Web 2.0 for the EnterpriseBuilder.com -5 hours agoOverview: With Web 2.0 services enabling millions of consumers to participate meaningfully in online communities, those tools are now making their way into …
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Microsoft’s Gates Plans Leave Amid Great Change (John Markoff/New York Times)

Microsoft’s Gates Plans Leave Amid Great Change  —  Microsoft is beset with competition from all sides, unlike any it has seen in decades, and Bill Gates, who co-founded the company 32 years ago, still intends to step away next year as planned.  —  But so far, Mr. Gates, Microsoft’s 51-year-old chairman, shows no sign of [...]

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Japanese automakers collaborate on operating system

Filed under: Transportation

Earlier this year, Toyota was reportedly mulling the idea of crafting its own in-car OS, but now the firm — along with nine other Japanese companies — will be collaborating with the Economy, Trade, and Industry Ministry to develop “an operating system for automotive electronics.” The initiative is supposedly in reaction to similar [...]

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Social networks change music purchasing habits - VNUNet.com

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Social networks change music purchasing habitsVNUNet.com, UK -5 hours agoThis trend is translating into purchasing behaviour: 17 per cent of social network users claimed it has a large impact on the way they purchase music and 30 …Music industry sees legal downloads failingmad.co.ukIllegal music downloads hit record highTelegraph.co.ukIllegal Music Downloads Hit All Time HighDigital-Lifestyles.InfoNew Media Age - Gigwiseall [...]

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50 Cent Gets Down With YouTube

YouTube has announced a new music competition that will be judged by leading artists 50 Cent, Common and Polow da Don.
YouTube OntheRise Rap Edition is a follow up to last year’s YouTube Underground contest and seeks to discover the best rap and hip-hop artists in the United States.
Unsigned talent who aspire to be professional artists [...]

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UPDATE: KDDI To Offer Email Service Based On Google Email (SmartMoney.com)

UPDATE: KDDI To Offer Email Service Based On Google Email  —  TOKYO -(Dow Jones)- KDDI Corp. (9433.TO), Japan’s No. 2 mobile operator, said Monday it will offer a new email service based on Google Inc.’s (GOOG) Gmail.  —  KDDI is in the midst of a price war with companies like NTT DoCoMo Inc. …

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Akamai: web 2.0 icon gets some competition - Blogging Stocks

Akamai: web 2.0 icon gets some competitionBlogging Stocks -6 hours agoAkamai (NASDAQ: AKAM), the largest content delivery network, road the wave of Web 2.0 multimedia for almost two years. The company markets the service of …
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Service is 100% free. - PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)

Service is 100% free.PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria -2 hours agoThe results can be downloaded via CSV for free. in search engine optimization for their websites," said Frank Vitetta, founder of Wordsfinder. …
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YUI-based Image Cropper Widget

Julien Lecomte of Yahoo! has written a YUI-based image cropper widget that allows you to easily select which region of an image you’d like to crop. This widget works on all A-grade browsers in both standards mode and quirks mode.
Once you setup the CSS and JavaScript you simply:
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JAVASCRIPT:
 
new YAHOO.widget.ImageCropper( “myImageId” );
 
Oh, and you [...]

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Samsung’s i85 PMP camera: aces the i7’s swivel, adds a megapixel

Filed under: Digital Cameras, Portable Audio, Portable Video

Here ya go, another 8 megapixel shooter only this time, it’s Samsung doing the honors. The new 0.8-inch thin i85 brings the PMP action like their i7 without the swiveling novelty of that rear LCD. Instead, the brushed aluminum, i85’s 3-inch LCD remains fixed with the sound provided [...]

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Validas to Help You Understand Your Cell Phone Bill

It’s sad to say it, but it’s true: most cell phone bill are so complicated that it is nearly impossible to understand exactly what you are being charged (and perhaps over charged) for. A new site called Validas promises to make sense of the chaos, help you understand where you are spending money, and what [...]

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For NowPublic Citizen Journalism Seems to Work (Liz Gannes/GigaOM)

For NowPublic Citizen Journalism Seems to Work  —  NowPublic, a Vancouver-based citizen journalism site has raised $10.6 million in Series A funding from Rho Ventures/Rho Canada, Brightspark, and the Working Opportunity Fund.  —  So first off, that’s a boatload of cash in the web news business and we’re not saying it’s justified.

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Cisco and Click.tv?

I picked up a juicy rumor this weekend that Cisco may have acquired Click.tv, a video annotation and deep tagging service that launched in 2006 and then shut down last month.
When Click.tv closed down last month they said in an email to users “While I regret this shutdown, I am very excited by the [...]
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