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Today in Tech: Apple Opens iTunes Store April 28, 2003

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

2003: Apple opens the iTunes Music Store and starts to revolutionize the music-recording industry, one song at a time.
Between the mid-1980s and late 1990s, the media were undergoing a massive conversion from analog to digital. The music industry hated it.
Much to the chagrin of the Recording Industry Association of America, internet users quickly caught on [...]

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Apple Bans Online Sales in Japan

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Large retail stores in Japan were ordered a week ago to stop selling Apple products online (Google translation; Japanese original). The comments in the Japanese business newspapers suggest that Apple believes online shopping confers an aura of ‘cheapness’ on their products; but some say that killing the Apple store’s competition must have entered into the calculation.
As of [...]

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No need to wait, Nokia launches firstrate N8

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Nokia today revealed its latest iPhone challenger, the exciting Nokia N8 smartphone.
The multimedia focused Symbian smartphone features a 12-megapixel camera and HD video recording, obviously far superior on paper to anything an iPhone can offer. Beyond the hardware, though, the N8 is the first phone to feature the latest iteration of the Symbian OS.
One of the [...]

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No, Facebook isn’t testing HTML5…at least not yet

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

A number of bloggers are today reporting a noticeable change to Facebook’s website when viewed from the built-in Safari web browser on the Apple iPad: videos now work. Previously, videos appearing in a user’s News Feed wouldn’t play on the iPad due to Facebook’s use of Adobe Flash technology, which is not supported. Apple has, somewhat notoriously, [...]

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Android Passes iPhone Web Traffic In U.S.

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

As we noted earlier, mobile ad network AdMob has released its monthly mobile metrics report for March, which takes a close look at Android OS traffic. One interesting stat that was hidden in the report was that Android ad traffic overtook iPhone traffic in the U.S. for the month of March.
According to the report, Android traffic [...]

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Jailbreak guide for iPhone 3G 3.1.3/4.0 Firmware

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Warning!
There is a method going around a number of unscrupulous forums and blogs that advertises a jailbreak for 4.0.  The company is IPhoneLand and the software is iPhonia.
This software is a scam!  It does not jailbreak 4.0, and it does not work as indicated.  Additionally, we’ve been told of numerous complaints about there being no [...]

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Gizmodo’s Jason Chen has computers seized over alleged iPhone 4G ‘theft’

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Gizmodo.com, the technology blog, said law enforcement officials seized computers from the home of Jason Chen, a staff editor who wrote about a prototype for an Apple Inc. iPhone that had been left behind in a bar.
“Last Friday night, California’s Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team entered editor Jason Chen’s home without him present, seizing four [...]

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