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Earlier today we learned about the Android Market, Google’s way to get third-party applications on phones running Android. It sounds a lot like Apple’s App Store for the iPhone, but claims to be more open. Now we know some of the applications that will be offered on it.
Google has just announced the winners of the [...]

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You just knew it was too good to last. Starting on October 1 of this year, Internet service provider Comcast will begin placing a cap on the amount of data its customers can access a month, DSLreports has learned.
The 250 gigabyte cap, now confirmed by Comcast, represents around 14,000 of the company’s 14.1 million users, [...]

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A lot of companies file patents for products they are never going to make. Apple is no exception. But given how many it has filed the past few years for advanced multi-touch technology and devices, it’d be very surprising if a multi-touch-enabled tablet device isn’t coming from the company at some point in the near [...]

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Veoh wins in court, YouTube claps — A federal judge ruled that Veoh was not infringing on copyrights by letting its users upload videos to the site. This is an important ruling because it sets a precedent for the similar, but much larger YouTube/Viacom case. You can probably expect an appeal. The [...]

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The life-streaming site Jaiku has come back online after being down the entire weekend and the first part of this week while it moved to Google datacenters. While the look and feel of the service are exactly the same as before it went down, users were greeted with a shiny new terms of service (TOS) [...]

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The online video sharing site YouTube is a great product with a rich community. To say it has a stranglehold on the online video space would be putting it lightly. Yet, as with most things in the tech world, all anyone seems to ever want to talk about YouTube is its monetization. Today, Google, which [...]

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A security flaw in the new iPhone 2.0.2 software was uncovered last night by a MacRumors forum user. To expose the flaw you must have your iPhone password protected. When you turn on the phone and get to the “Enter Passcode” screen, hit the “Emergency Call” button. From here, double click the main iPhone button [...]

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It looks like the rapid fire site updates are about to start again for the social content conversation site FriendFeed. Just a few days after the launch of its new “beta” area, FriendFeed is finalizing a new technology that could help pull content into the site at a much faster rate.
The technology, called Simple Update [...]

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When I saw the an iPhone advertisement was getting banned in the UK, I assumed it was the one showing ridiculously fast web browsing speeds that no iPhone user had ever seen. I had to laugh when I saw that the actual ad causing controversy basically amounts to a semantics argument.
“You’ll never know which part [...]

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SMS (text message) rates in general are ridiculous, but they’re arguably worse for Apple’s iPhone 3G. Whereas the original iPhone included 200 free text messages with your data plan, the 3G data plan includes none and laughably charges you $5 for 200 of them. This is problematic for heavy users of the micro-messaging service Twitter.
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Google has become almost ubiquitous with online advertising at this point. But it doesn’t control all facets. Specifically, in terms of display ads, Google is neither running many on its sites or buying much to promote its brand. But some of its rivals are, according to comScore’s new June numbers.
Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft all place [...]

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Psystar had a simple idea. It wanted to build a low-cost machine that would run Apple’s Mac OS X operating system. Apple had a simple response: Lawsuit. Now, Psystar is striking back. It will not only answer Apple’s lawsuit, it will meet the computer giant with a countersuit of its own, reports CNET.
Psystar’s suit will [...]

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