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Archive for June, 2010

Modest Black Friday discounts help Mac sales

30 Jun 2010

Apple didn't cut prices as much as some had expected on Black Friday, but it didn't seem to matter to consumers.
(Credit:
CNET)
UBS’ Um also noted that Apple resellers, such as Best Buy and MacMall, were willing to discount prices more aggressively than Apple as well as apply discounts to products that Apple wouldn’t touch [...]

‘Red Paperclip’ house up for bids

28 Jun 2010

…I think this touched people from 8 to 88 because I went and met these people. I know them. I shook hands with everyone that I traded with, even Alice Cooper, and I think actually doing that struck a chord because it wasn’t just something on a computer.

The house at 503 Main St. in Kipling.
“I’m [...]

iCharts turns your boring spreadsheet into a flash

23 Jun 2010

What makes iCharts less worthy of the YouTube cringe is that it’s a solid business model. As billionaire panelist Mark Cuban pointed out, you can leverage out this technology to other companies that want to make their charts suck less, making a quick buck as a service provider instead of ending up as a destination [...]

Mobile carriers see opportunity in ‘tween’ market

22 Jun 2010

SAN FRANCISCO–Nearly half of kids age 8 to 12 years old own cell phones in the U.S., in what could be the next big cell phone demographic for the mobile industry, according to a Nielsen report released here Wednesday at the
CTIA Fall 2008 trade show.
But tweens aren’t the only young demographic that the mobile industry [...]

Fitbit will get you off the couch

18 Jun 2010

The scary side: If you thought corporate keycards and RFID tags that can rat you out were an invasion of privacy, those were the warm-up acts. Or maybe not: you’re the one who decides for the sake of that (hopefully small) potbelly you’re forming from too many hours in front of your laptop who [...]

HP in a box

16 Jun 2010

Technology first. Most of the other such products on the market introduce various clever schemes to cram lots of computer, storage, networking, power, and cooling gear into the tight confines of a shipping container without compromising the ability to service and reconfigure that equipment. Not easy, and definitely not in keeping with the way access [...]

Microsoft to start testing ‘Kumo’ search service

04 Jun 2010

Kumo is separate from another search tool being offered to employees by Microsoft Research. That tool, shown last week at TechFest and known as Viveri, uses the Live Search engine in combination with new visualization and vertical search technologies.

“Barney was referring to our internal testing environments,” the Microsoft representative said, adding that the company had [...]