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Google's Don't Be Evil Mantra is Bullshit, Adobe is Lazy: Apple's Steve Jobs

Source: All About Jazz
January 31, 2010

After a big public announcement of the sort Apple had this week for the iPad CEO Steve Jobs often takes time in the day or two afterwards to have a Town Hall at One Infinite Loop, making himself available for questions from employees bold enough to stand up and take one right between the eyes. This time, the big topics included Google and Adobe no surprises there. Google recently unveiled its own Android-powered handset, the Nexus One, whose release Jan. ...

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The Day the Tech World Stood Still

Source: PC Magazine
January 30, 2010

Over the past three months, people of all walks of life have asked me about the Apple tablet. Some work in the tech industry, but many were people I know from my outside life, who have become caught up in the excitement surrounding Apple's announcement. In the months leading up to the Apple iPad launch, rumors were flying. Many tech blogs even went so far as to run contests, awarding prizes to the reader who could best predict the device's ...

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MediaNet's Downloads and Streaming Soar

Source: HypeBot
January 30, 2010

MediaNet's content network delivered a record 200 million music downloads and 150 million on demand plays in December, the company's CEO Alan McGlade shared in a Thursday afternoon call. That's a 124% increase in downloads from December 2008.

MediaNet powers music and media delivery via an API and web components to iLike, HMV, Tesco, MOG, Fox News, Ultimate Guitar, Intertech Media and a growing number of others. These sites use the company's services including streaming, downloads, music search, contextual matching ...

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Google Social Search Available to All

Source: PC Magazine
January 29, 2010

Google today announced that Social Search has graduated from Labs. The feature is now available in beta form to all users with a Google Profile. In order to use the new feature, users must add links to their social networking pages to their Profile. Once logged in and enabled, search a key term will bring up results from your friends on those networks toward the bottom of the page. Google has also rolled out a Social Search component for Images. ...

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Will the iPad Kill the Kindle? Of Course Not

Source: PC Magazine
January 29, 2010

Will the iPad Kill the Kindle? That's a question that lots of people have asked me since yesterday's Apple announcement. In many respects, it's representative of a belief that all markets are zero-sum: that for one to succeed, the other needs to fail. But I don't really believe that. Tablets and e-readers may well end up serving very different markets. Of course, there's one way in which the iPad is likely to replace the Kindle, and that is as the ...

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Has Twitter Peaked?

Source: PC Magazine
January 29, 2010

With every Internet fad's rise to fame, there must be a slow decline into mediocrity. Xanga, Friendster, and MySpace have all enjoyed a quick rise in fame and fortune only to be yesterday's news in a few short years. Twitter's rock-star status may be beginning its decline, since the middle of last year when the number of Twitter users flatlined. A number of Web traffic analysts such as Compete and comScore are asking, “Has Twitter peaked?" “Maybe Twitter was a ...

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What's the Apple iPad's Killer App?

Source: PC Magazine
January 29, 2010

I'm no Apple fanboy, but seeing Steve Jobs on stage in person is exciting, and it isn't just about his personal magnetism. Apple has $29 billion in the bank and Steve seems determined to spend it building really cool stuff. The iPad certainly fits that bill. Just a little slab of a display lets you play games, browse the Web, watch movies, view pictures, read eBooks, get directions, send e-mail, manage your calendar, and, well, anything else developers want to ...

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Apple's Ipad: Do You Want It? We Do. Maybe.

Source: PC Magazine
January 29, 2010

A “magical" device. That's what Apple chief executive Steve Jobs called the new iPad. Execs from the company said it so often that I began to imagine pixie-dust falling from the ceiling of the Yerba Buena Art Center, landing gently on our throbbing skulls and slowly but surely lulling us into the belief that Jobs and co had, in fact, introduced something otherworldly. Even hours later, I'm having trouble sorting out my feelings. I saw the demos, heard the words ...

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