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BitTorrent Gets Backing from Hollywood

BitTorrent launched their new digital media download this week in attempts to legalize the BitTorrent process and to, of course, make money. The new site allows users to download and rent movies, television shows, music, and games through the BitTorrent client at a price. Prices aren’t too high, but will BitTorrent users actually pay? More […]

Open Sign up for Gmail, Finally

Many of you probably have already heard the news, but if not … you’ve read the headline … Google’s Gmail is finally open for public sign up …
“No more waiting for an invitation: You can now sign up for your own Gmail account. Sign-ups are open worldwide in more than 40 languages.
Now everyone can get […]

Adobe Announces its Apollo Web Development Platform

 
Adobe held an event yesterday (Feb 27.07) called Engage, where they explained their new Apollo web development platform for tech bloggers, developers and others in the Web industry. John Dowdell from Adobe has a useful page of links. Their’s a lot of diverse coverage, from Tim O’Reilly commenting on the user experience aspects, to David […]

Google Annouces Google Apps Premiere Launch

Today’s the day …’G-Day’ as some call it, Google announces the launch of their Premiere version of ‘Google Apps for your domain’, a new version designed to take on all the challenges presented by businesses with complex IT needs. For $50 per account per year, you get the whole Google Apps package plus many new […]

XM and Sirius Merge

XM and Sirius have confirmed their merger plans. Both companies have a combined subscriber base of 14 million. The merger at this point is considered a done deal to XM and Sirius, but depends on the shareholders consent to approve … as well as the FCC. This merger will create a satellite radio monopoly, but […]

Microsoft Launches YouTube Competition

Microsoft has launched their version of an online video service like Google’s YouTube called MSN Soapbox in public beta.
Like YouTube, Soapbox lets people upload video in almost any digital format. Users can then tag and categorize videos, so others can more easily find them. One difference is that Soapbox users can watch and browse from […]

Apple CEO Lambasts Teacher Unions

Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs lambasted teacher unions Friday, claiming no amount of technology in the classroom would improve public schools until principals could fire bad teachers.  —  Jobs compared schools to businesses with principals serving as CEOs.
Go Steve. He’s just finally saying what most have been holding in - he’s just got the cajones […]

AllFreeCalls.net Shut Down - Darn!!

AllFreeCalls has been taken offline after a ton of legal action by the very ticked AT&T.
The company founder Pat Phelan blogged about them losing a “first round” to a “Huge USA carrier” (AT&T).
Here’s a cap:
“Our allfreecalls provider in Iowa today took flight due to increasing pressure from a large USA based carrier.
We are working on […]

Study: Office desks havens for bacteria

If you work often at your office desk day in and day out you need to read this AP study:
Your office desk harbors far more bacteria than your workplace restroom, and if you’re a woman, chances are your workspace has more germs than your male co-workers’, a new research report shows.
omen have three to four […]

The Ad-Free Cellphone May Soon Be Extinct

ADVERTISING on your cellphone?
Yes, and soon.
Already, ads are creeping onto cellphones around the globe. At this rate, experts say, it will not be long before the 2.2 billion mobile phone users around the world consider it natural to tune into a 15-second spot before watching a video, sending a message or listening to a downloaded […]