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Slacker Personal Radio

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

San Diego based Slacker will be going head to head with some tough competition like, Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp, XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Raido
Slacker players will be able to play downloaded music, but it’s main emphasis is the radio style service.
Pre orders for Slacker are being taken on the Web site, with shipping [...]

Warner Music CEO Says War With Consumers Was Wrong

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

“Edgar Bronfman, CEO of the Warner Music Group, has publicly framed the music industry’s failure to accommodate file-sharing as an ‘inadvertent’ war on consumers. I’m left wondering how you can file a series of lawsuits inadvertently. ‘We expected our business would remain blissfully unaffected even as the world of interactivity, constant connection and file sharing [...]

Wal-Mart Plans To Restock Hot-Selling Linux PC

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

“Wal-Mart officials said Wednesday that the retailer plans to re-stock a hot selling, Linux-based PC that is currently sold out on its Web site.
“The Everex TC2502 Green gPC will again be available at Walmart.com ‘in the coming weeks,’ said a spokesman for the company…”
Well if Walmart approves of Linux what [...]

Microsoft’s Bill Hilf Reveals Its Open Source Strategy

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

“InformationWeek: How is Microsoft’s strategy toward open source and viewpoint about open source shifting?
“Hilf: Years ago, Microsoft had a very specific interpretation of what open source is. Open source and Linux were sort of synonymous and it was sort of a specter-like ghost. A lot of what I’ve done over the [...]

OS Upgrade Leaks for Linux-Based Tablet

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

“The hotly anticipated Maemo operating system upgrade for the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet has leaked. Early reviewers are impressed with the upgrade’s faster performance and Mozilla-based Web browser.
On Tuesday, information on how to access the upgrade via an N810 download page appeared on the Internet Tablet Talk forum. The upgrade is [...]

Where’s The First Firefox 3 Beta?

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

“Firefox 3 was originally slated to arrive last summer. Obviously that didn’t happen, but where is the first beta, which even on revised roadmaps was said to arrive in October? Well the answer is it’s just around the corner. According to Mozilla Meeting notes, the third candidate for official beta 1 status is already up [...]

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