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The Setup For a few years now, Starbucks [SBUX] has been offering free Wi-Fi access to two groups of people: qualified AT&T wireless customers, and Starbucks Card holders. While it has worked well for the “in” people, it has been a point of mild consternation for those who have not been inclined to get a [...]
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In the wake of the FTC approval coming down the ‘pike for Google’s [GOOG] deal to acquire AdMob, Google changes its main page to include a functional online Pac-Man game in place of its customary Google logo. This commemorates Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary, and curiously, the game map spells out “Google”… So if you’re in the [...]
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Just when you thought you’d be able to keep your fictitious game characters separate from your, ahem, characters, there’s a bit of bleedthrough, as reported at Destructoid, about General Knoxx and his newly discovered Twitter account. It looks like he’ll be taking a bit of a tweeting breather for an unspecified bit. It’s likely that [...]
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As I’m tracking a variety of media channels at the same time as the Apple [AAPL] iPad announcement, I find it curious as to how the human condition, and certainly all of these so-called tech pundits, keeps wanting to compare new tech with old tech. When I’ve been using the iPod touch in the practice, [...]
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During the holiday season, there’s always that frantic search for that cool, new gadget to give your friend or significant other, who happens to be a technical bent. And, like it or not, there is always that discussion about what should be the “latest and greatest” from Apple [AAPL]… It seems to have escalated during [...]
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Wow… you heard the plans from Microsoft [MSFT] that they were going to launch a retail store, a la Apple [AAPL], going as far as to woo Apple Retail Store employees, especially managers, from Apple. And with the launch of Windows 7, Microsoft has executed their plan with their first outlet in Scottsdale, Arizona. Management [...]
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A few news outlets reported earlier that they spotted new price reductions in several of the iPod models on the online Apple Store. Some of the iPods received a modest $20 reduction, while items like the 32 GB iPod touch was marked down as much as $120. It seems that only the iPod shuffle was [...]
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As the announcement that Disney [DIS] is acquiring Marvel Entertainment [MVL] filters through the financial and entertainment industries, it is obvious that this is going to be a game-changer in a variety of market sectors, as they realize the far-reaching implications of an already-powerful media giant expanding its catalog of valuable assets to include a [...]
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For those of you who are old enough to remember the monumental three-way product/platform wars between a variety of different players, as well as the various face-offs between heated contenders, you can often slot the threesters into that ol’ Good-Bad-Ugly trifecta. Perhaps not this time, however. Apple’s [AAPL] Snow Leopard OS release on August 28, [...]
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Remember when I just had to get an Xbox 360 Elite Edition to replace my first Xbox 360 that unfortunately suffered a RROD event? Well, Microsoft [MSFT] has definitely come a long way since then, offering to correct their RROD warranty policies to reflect the wider impact of various hardware failure conditions. Now, to really [...]
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