ShareBy Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNewsYep, Apple released the 2.2 version of the iPhone software today, as expected, and it’s big. And by big I don’t mean just feature-wise, but size-wise. For comparison’s sake, the 2.1 update was 237.8 MB; this one is 246.4 MB.At the same time Apple released a new version of iTunes, [...]
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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
I’ve frequently harped on the fact that quite a few people have little if any common sense. Finally a college has realized what should have been obvious by now: most (all right, virtually all) incoming students have their own digital identities formed before reaching college. And they don’t really want, [...]
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I’m re-printing a CNET column I wrote nearly 10 years ago where I had the nerve to ask “Are Computer Magazines Dead?” at the time, I received so many scathing emails from writers and editors at various publications calling me self-serving and stupid and so on. And yet over time, the inevitable happened. [...]
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Contributing Writer, RealTechNewsÂ
Kevin Cheng writes: For almost as long as I can remember in Australia there has been a law against using “handheld battery operated devices” whilst driving. Whilst I have not fallen foul to this particular law, I have known a few who have. Seriously for the value of the fine and [...]
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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
One of the biggest photo collections in the world is now available to the public online, thanks to Life Magazine and Google. Most of the photographs, which ranges from the 1750s through the present day have never been seen before.
As of Tuesday, 20% of Life’s approximately 10 million image library of [...]
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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
No surprise here at all. On Monday, Yahoo! announced it was conducting a search for a new CEO, with embattled current CEO Jerry Yang stepping down. Yang will return to his position as Chief Yahoo! and Board Member, the titles he held prior to taking over in 2007 after former [...]
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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Mark Cuban has been called abrasive, brash, egotistical and more. Not only is he the owner of the NBA franchise the Dallas Mavericks, he’s a billionaire and Chairman of HDNet, an HDTV cable network. He’s also poked his nose into things some think he should stay out of, such as [...]
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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Wau! No, I didn’t spell that wrong, that’s “wow” in Japanese, and this certainly is “wow” news. While I’ve been invited to a Monday press conference launching Intel’s Core i7 CPU (nee Nehalem), which I’ve previously written about, Intel effectively pre-empted that event by launching the CPU in stores in [...]
