Archive for October 18, 2007

On Your Marks, Get Set…Gutsy Gibbon!

“This week, I had the chance to take part in a press conference with Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of Ubuntu. Read on to learn why Shuttleworth’s is so fired up about the new Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” (available this week), as well as why he thinks Ubuntu is so darned successful.”

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Apple’s U.S. Mac market share rises to 8.1 percent in Q3

Apple Inc.’s share of the U.S. personal computer market for the third calendar quarter of 2007 was 8.1 percent, up from 6.2 percent during the same period one year ago, according to results released from Gartner just minutes ago.

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Apple’s iTunes Plus now world’s largest DRM-free music catalog

Apple on Wednesday issued a formal announcement regarding its expanded iTunes Plus service, which now offers more than two million tracks at the reduced price of just 99 cents. All iTunes Plus tracks feature DRM-free music with high quality 256 kbps AAC encoding for audio quality which the company claims is “virtually indistinguishable from the ori

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50x Faster Than BitTorrent? Dream On!

Yesterday, quite a few websites, such as TechCrunch, quoted Kaiser Kuo, who claims that Blin.cn is working on a P2P-technology that is allegedly 50 times faster than our beloved BitTorrent. Impossible of course, and we will show you why.

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Apple’s got a new 13-inch laptop prepped for Leopard launch?

Nothing like a wild and unsubstantiated Apple rumor to keep us entertained in the run up to Apple’s Leopard launch on the 26th. The latest comes courtesy of TheStreet.com’s Scott Moritz, who says Apple will have a new 13-inch ultraportable laptop ready to coincide with Leopard’s launch party, and the laptop will be aluminum like the MacBook Pros.

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Surge protector does not void warranty: Sony

In response to a previous story on a messageboard about surge protectors voiding PS3’s warranty, Sony has confirmed to the contray. Sony will be contacting the customer with the bricked PS3 to resolve the matter and sort out any misunderstandings. Now that’s good customer service

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