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Careful What You Wish For

Be careful what you ask for. It’s easy to jump on the bandwagon and hope like hell that Microsoft finally gets what it deserves. Of course I’m speaking of its latest bag of hurt that is the Word patent infringement ruling. After years of putting out applications that, for the most part, were straight up […]

2 Kindle or Not…

Amazon released their 2nd iteration of their self-proclaimed popular eBook reader. I say self-proclaimed because I have yet to see anyone using one. When Apple pronounced their iPods as popular, you could see everyone and their brother with some white earbuds dangling from their heads. I’m still waiting to see someone outside the tech-writing industry […]

Current iTunes prices take 5

Five more years, that is. The Copyright Royalty Board voted to keep the current rates in place for another 5 years. The news agencies are happy that the iTunes Store won’t be closing. I wish they would have raised the rate, just to show the world that iTunes wouldn’t have closed. Come on folks, iTunes […]

Oh no… iTunes shutting down?

I think not. Macworld reports that Apple may shut down the iTunes store should the music industry get their way – more money for their songs. iTunes is a huge money-maker for Apple. Not in and of itself, but the halo-effect of all the iPods, iPhones, and Apple TV that sell to communicate and deliver […]