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Archive for May, 2010

Upgrading to a DRM-free iTunes library will cost y

27 May 2010

Apple’s Macworld updates
iWork ‘09 Online syncing, Keynote Remote
Photos: Jobs fill-in touts media, MacBook updates

With the move, Apple’s iTunes is also making its strongest foray into interoperability. From now on, iTunes’ music should play on any digital player, meaning iTunes users don’t have to worry about their music libraries being locked out of some future [...]

SMS in Gmail gets two-week delay

24 May 2010

If you were raring to play around with the new send-to-SMS chat feature in Gmail Labs, you’ll have to wait a little longer.

When the process is working properly you’re able to send SMS contacts a message just like you would if they were online. The system would also keep their responses in the same [...]

Earnings preview How will HP weather the storm

20 May 2010

With the PC market in its biggest rut since 2001, Hewlett-Packard’s earnings report, which will come after the market closes on Wednesday, will likely be one of the few bright spots for the industry.

The pack is in trouble. PC sales took a nosedive between November and January. IDC’s data showed PC shipments worldwide dropped 0.4 [...]

Looking for a new job Start here

18 May 2010

Instead of allowing visitors to simply search for jobs without providing any other service, Realmatch connects employers to prospective employees in a fashion that’s similar to online dating sites.
I used Indeed to search for jobs in fields ranging from accounting to law and it worked well. It even did a fine job of finding obscure [...]

Rising from the dead The paid-for online model

15 May 2010

These are not the only examples where the free model can be a powerful commercial engine. Last week, at the Monaco Media Forum, Avinash Kaushik, Google Analytics’ chief evangelist, mentioned the example of TurboTax, an American tax filing software and service company. For a limited period of time, TurboTax decided to give away its basic [...]

Now-dead Mixwit offers escape hatch for user data

03 May 2010

Former Mixwit users received an e-mail early Wednesday detailing how to download a permanent archive of their mix tape data which includes both a track list and the design of their virtual cassette tape. This data will continue to be hosted on Mixwit-is-dead.com through April, giving users about a month to make a back up.

(Credit:
CNET Networks)

Dying companies should take note of Mixwit’s strategy to preserve user data. The now-dead mix tape-sharing service, which closed its d