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iTunes Plus is here, are you buying anything?

When EMI announced that they were going to be offering DRM-free tracks on iTMS in May, I was pretty psyched to see that a major label has finally stepped forward and admitted that DRM doesn’t work. However, the month of … Continue reading

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Reality of hiring and expansion

This past week, Microsoft’s Mac development team announced that a real document converter, that will allow old versions of Office users to convert to new versions of Office 2007 format, will not be released until after Mac Office 2008 is … Continue reading

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Microsoft introduces: Ofone!

It’s rare that Microsoft comes up with something truly funny, but this parody is really, actually, LOL-kinda good. Which makes you wonder, if they had this much time to make this parody… where is the ZunePhone?!

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Fresno State, video games and guns

Another unlikely teenage/college shooting happened today, apparently the argument was over a stolen Playstation. Jonquel Brooks, a 19-year-old freshman at Fresno State was accused of stealing a Playstation by three other guys; when he was confronted by the three man, … Continue reading

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The Digg fiasco

A very interesting thing happened at Digg yesterday. There was public posting of a HD-DVD decryption key, which was very promptly deleted by Digg’s admin. It created a public outrage of Digg users feel like they are being censored, and … Continue reading

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Leopard is a lazy, sleepy kitty

Apple announced today that Leopard is going to be delayed (via TUAW) until October because of the focused effort in getting iPhone out in time. Personally, I think the delay doesn’t really mean much. As much as I love to … Continue reading

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A bunch of news about patch 2.1 for WoW

Courtesy of WoWInsider again, there are a bunch of news in regards to the upcoming 2.1 patch (that isn’t just relegated to the new instance contents). First up, there are all the profession changes in the new content: Full 2.1.0 … Continue reading

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Brute force keygen now available for Vista

You know it’s only a matter of time… just another proof any sort of piracy protection ultimately, will fail. Brute force keygen cracks open Vista It’s certainly not an easy hack, but at the end of the day is that … Continue reading

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Showusthecode!

This post goes beyond even my usual amount of geekiness. “Show Us The Code” is pushing for Steve Ballmer to show the open source world exactly what part of Microsoft’s source code is being used in Linux: Your repeated claims … Continue reading

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So.. this is what Viacom had up their sleeves

This will raise an interesting “war” of sorts on very different competing platforms. Youtube is all about ease of use and wide-spread adoption, while Joost is pushing the technology envelope to deliver HD-quality content over P2P. If Viacom’s experiment pays … Continue reading

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