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Palm Pre's Launch a Plus for Tech Industry

Source: PC Magazine
June 5, 2009

It's no iPhone-killer, but the launch this weekend of Palm Inc's “Pre" could well become the brightest event this year for a gloomy industry. Palm Inc's smartphone may not attract lines around the block like past Apple Inc iPhone launches. But its launch will be seen as a badly needed shot of adrenaline for Palm and exclusive provider Sprint Nextel Corp. Plenty could go wrong. Executives have warned of shortages. Scathing reviews could smother not just Palm's hopes, but also ...

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Palm Launches the Pre Smartphone

Source: PC Magazine
June 5, 2009

The wait is over. The Palm Pre goes on sale this Saturday, June 6th. The Pre is $199.99 with a two-year Sprint contract and a $100 mail-in rebate. Barring shortages, you'll be able to pick one up at a Sprint retail store, Best Buy, Radio Shack, Wal-Mart, or online. But will the Pre be the device that finally seriously challenges the iPhone and forever changes the smartphone landscape? We can't say for sure, but here at PCMag.com, the Pre has ...

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A Blog Supreme: A New Jazz Blog from NPR Music

Source: All About Jazz
June 3, 2009

New jazz blog from NPR Music shares “driving passion" for jazz music, culture

NPR Music announces the launch of “A Blog Supreme"--a running journal driven by a passion for jazz music and culture. It's a place for MP3s of rising jazz stars and full concerts with legends; for comments, interviews and recommendations; and most of all: music. New entries are posted every weekday.

Written by NPR Music staff and Member Station partners, “A Blog Supreme" provides compelling content for both ...

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B.J. Jansen Launches New Adobe Air Application That Brings Jazz News to Your Computer Desktop for Free

Source: JM Creative
June 3, 2009

B.J. Jansen Launches New Adobe Air Application, eJazzNewsDirect, Bringing Jazz News From The Cloud To Your Computer Desktop. eJazzNewsDirect pipes in the latest Jazz News directly to your computer desktop using Adobe Air. You can use this application on Mac OS X (intel), Windows and Linux platforms. All you need to do is install adobe air before loading this program. You can download eJazzNewsDirect beta version 1.2 here. You can get Adobe Air here. An Open-source Mozilla Prism version will ...

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Walmart Shutting Down DRM Download Servers

Source: HypeBot
June 2, 2009

Walmart.com's music download store went DRM free in February of 2008; and now the retail giant is telling customers that they'll no longer support the DRM laden downloads that they sold them prior to the transition.

According to an email sent to customers, on October 9th the company will shut its servers that “that supports protected songs and albums purchased from our site". Unless you back up your files by burning them to CD, you will “no longer be able ...

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Shakeit Brings Polaroid Pictures to the iPhone

Source: All About Jazz
June 2, 2009

Question: Whats the difference between a Polaroid picture and an iPhone?

Answer: If you shake the iPhone, it actually does something.

This was one of the Laws of Nature, as immutable as the Snake-Oil Law (aka. the Second Law of Thermodynamics). Until now, that is:

Shakeit is an iPhone App from Nick Sayes which combines the slow-developing, whacked-out colors of the Polaroid with the shake-tastic abilities of the iPhone. The result is a photo that actually does develop faster if ...

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Happy 10th Anniversary Napster!

Source: HypeBot
June 2, 2009

10 years ago today, Napster was born in Sean Fanning's Northeastern University dorm room. Whatever side of the debate you're on, one can't deny that Napster changed the music industry forever. “It was something that came to me as a result of seeing an sort of an unmet need and the passion people had for being able to find all this music, particularly a lot of the obscure stuff which wouldn't be something you go to a record store and ...

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Google to Enter E-Book Market

Source: PC Magazine
June 2, 2009

Google will begin offering electronic versions of mass-market books by the end of the year, according to a published report. The move would put Google into competition with Amazon as one of the leading vendors of electronic books, a trend Google has flirted with in the past, according to The New York Times. It's not known how many books Google would choose to sell or be able to sell under the new plan. Google already supplies about 1.5 million public-domain ...

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