ShareBy Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Another Steve Jobs health rumor? No, not a rumor this time. Information from an open letter from Steve Jobs, filed via

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Yes, there will be a Steve at Macworld, just not the one people wanted and expected. While Apple announced in mid-December that this would be its last Macworld, and that Steve Jobs would not attend, on Wednesday Axiotron announced that the “other Steve,” Wozniak, will “participate in the unveiling of Axiotron’s [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
You’ll probably recall that earlier this year the judge in the RIAA v. Jammie Thomas declared a mistrial in the case, setting aside the original verdict. A retrial date has already been set, but the RIAA had a chance to appeal the mistrial ruling. It has lost that appeal, and [...]

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
I consider myself a big technology fan, not only do I work in technology, I like using new technologies, whether it’s software, gadgets, or a combination, and I like talking about them, usually. My kids and I have a tablet, an UMPC running Windows XP, four laptops, four desktops, two iPods, [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
A report by research analyst firm The Gartner Group says what many consumers have know for some time: the age of the CD is over. The report states that the music industry, by continuing to rely on CDs as their main revenue generator, is limiting its ability to embrace digital distribution.
Further, Gartner [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
New York State must be the leader in clever, snarky names for taxes. First, facing a huge budget deficit and noting just how sales to e-tailers was siphoning off sales tax, they imposed an “Amazon Tax,” named after Amazon.com. Now it is apparently looking at a possible “iPod tax,” to [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
It’s that time of the year when everyone announces their “Top” list. Top this, top that. Feeling left out, Apple has launched a special section of iTunes that lists the top iTunes downloads of 2008. This includes not only movies, TV shows and music, but also App Store purchases [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Both the iPod Touch 2G and iPhone 3G use the same CPU, but apparently the second generation iPod Touch is clocking its quite a bit faster, according to a report. While observing empirical evidence that the iPod Touch 2G was running games quite a bit faster than the iPhone 3G, Handheld Games [...]