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The Giant iPod Touch Theory: I Don’t Know if I Buy It, But I Like It

Friday, March 20, 2009

Is Apple getting ready to release a tablet that’s essentially an oversized iPod Touch? I don’t know, and neither do you. And neither does media blogger Rex Hammock. But he’d sure like to see such a gadget–and he has a fun post up theorizing that it might show up in the next 45 days. He’s [...]

Even More on That iPod Shuffle Remote Control

Monday, March 16, 2009

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Over at PCMag.com, Mark Hachman has a good piece on the controversial new earbud-embedded remote control for Apple’s new iPod Shuffle. Folks have theorized that Apple will demand royalties on third-party headphones that incorporate remote controls, and that it might be encrypting commands send from the remote to the Shuffle to prevent unauthorized clones. And [...]

5Words for March 13th, 2009

Friday, March 13, 2009

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Happy Friday the thirteenth, everybody! Mozilla releases new Firefox beta. AOL gets CEO from Google. StumbleUpon preps a URL shortener. Cybercriminals get down to business. Unlimited-VoIP-and-data carrier. New iPod Shuffle teardown photos. A little more Pre news. An iPhone 3.0 wish list. Poor Woz fractures his foot. Regimes that repress the Internet.

Introducing the iPez Shuffle!

Thursday, March 12, 2009

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I’m not sure if there are any deep psychological insights to be gained, but one interesting thing about Apple’s tiny new iPod Shuffle is that it reminds different people of different other tiny things. USA Today’s Ed Baig compared it to a tie clasp. For David Pogue of the New York Times, it evoked Trident [...]

The iPod Shuffle Gets Even Smaller

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

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Apple usually announces new stuff on Tuesdays, but just to keep us on our toes, it’s making an, ahem, small announcement today. There’s a new iPod Shuffle that’s almost 50 percent smaller than its predecessor, and smaller than an AA battery, yet which is still the first Shuffle capable of putting the iPod’s traditional 1,000 [...]

Wake Up, World! Amazon’s MP3 Store Deserves Better. Doesn’t It?

Monday, December 15, 2008

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Over at All Things Digital, Peter Kafka is saying that Amazon.com’s DRM-free MP3 download store is a “miserable failure” as an iTunes Store rival at the end of its first year of operation. Judged in terms of market share, dollars, and cents, it’s hard to argue that it’s anything else: Kafka says that Amazon appears [...]

25 Unanswerable Questions About Apple

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

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Everybody has two businesses, the old saying goes: their own business, and show business. It’s the same with technology, except everybody’s two business are their own business…and Apple’s. No other tech company on the planet is followed as avidly, nor is any so routinely second-guessed. And if anything, controversy over Apple’s decisions and dramas intensifies [...]

The Fuzzy-Wuzzy World of Tech Spy Shots

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

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[SHAMELESS PLUG: Technologizer will be liveblogging the Apple notebook event on 10/14/2008 @ 10am PT. Please join us.] So Engadget has published a shot of what might be a next-generation MacBook built with an innovative manufacturing process: The shot has several things in common with most tech-product spy shots: 1) It’s of an unannounced but eagerly-anticipated product; 2) Nobody [...]