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As we close in on the public release of Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft has taken what’s likely an unprecedented step: it’s cut the prices of many of the retail versions of the OS. The timing is obvious: Microsoft has been betting heavily on SP1 as many corporations have been waiting to [...]

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Earlier in the month, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile all launched $99 unlimited voice calling plans (T-Mobile’s included text messaging). Sprint waited a week, but they fired back with their own salvo on Thursday.
Sprint’s plan is called “Simply Everything.” And when they say everything, they mean everything. They are offering [...]

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Last year AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said we’d get a 3G iPhone this year (and I’m sure Steve Jobs was really happy he opened his mouth). Of course, no date was given, just that we would have it this year.
Thursday UBS analyst Nicolas Gaudois narrowed the timeframe a bit for [...]

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JotSpot was acquired by Google in October 2006, and since then it’s basically disappeared. Last night, however, Google added a new service to Google Apps: Google Sites, incorporating the JotSpot tech, though it looks nothing like the original product.
The original JotSpot site described their product as:
JotSpot’s wiki allows you to create [...]

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Well, they only missed it by a little more than a week. Wednesday Apple started emailing invitations to a special media event to be held March 6th. While Apple is generally close-mouthed about these events, this time they were pretty open, saying in an email sent to members of the media:
“Please join [...]

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Last June, iTunes passed Amazon.com to become the #3 music retailer. Eight months later, it’s passed Best Buy and is now #2, trailing only Wal-Mart.
The numbers are – well, pretty amazing. Apple says there are now 50 million iTunes Store customers, with a total of over four billion songs sold [...]

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By Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
In March of 2007 Nokia Research Center and the University of Cambridge announced a research partnership, and here we have the first fruits of their labor, though this is far from being ready for consumers.
The Morph is a nanotechnology-based concept phone. It’s flexible and stretchable, has self-cleaning surfaces and transparent electronics, [...]

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Have you ever wanted to play your Wii without having to have that pesky Wiimote in your hand? Reactrix hopes that their WAVEscape product might come close to providing that experience. We got a look at it during CES. The WAVEscape contains a camera that can track the motion of multiple people, distinguishing each person [...]