Faster Forward: June 21, 2009 - June 27, 2009
Apple's iPhone 3GS: A Next Step, Not A Next Generation
I don't want to call Apple's iPhone old, but it is maturing. The new iPhone 3GS just doesn't bring the kind of groundbreaking improvements delivered by its predecessors--the original iPhone's gesture-driven touch screen, auto-correcting onscreen keyboard and Safari Web browser, or the iPhone 3G's App Store and Global Positioning System...
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June 26, 2009; 10:10 AM ET |
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Microsoft Names Its Price(s) For Windows 7
This morning, Microsoft revealed the last major missing ingredient to Windows 7, the upcoming replacement for the flawed Windows Vista: what it will cost. A post on the Redmond, Wash., company's Windows Team Blog outlined four possible prices home users can pay in the United States: * Starting tomorrow, if...
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Rob Pegoraro
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June 25, 2009; 11:43 AM ET |
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Comcast, Time Warner Announce "TV Everywhere" Initiative
Comcast and Time Warner said this morning that they're working on plans for a big increase in the amount of TV shows watchable online for free--but only by people who also subscribe to their regular TV services. This scheme goes by the name of "TV Everywhere." The idea is that...
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June 24, 2009; 4:54 PM ET |
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The Bad News Network: Twitter, Facebook and Liveblogs
Yesterday was not a good day for the District of Columbia and its neighbors. And, like on many other bad-news days, the Internet was there to tell the story of Metro's two-train collision in real time. Somewhat to my surprise, nobody seems to have been Twittering from either train. But...
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June 23, 2009; 10:29 AM ET |
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Smartphone News: A Million-Plus iPhone 3G S Sales, One New Android Phone
Apparently, this iPhone thing isn't getting old: Apple announced this morning that it had sold more than one million units of its new iPhone 3G S through Sunday. The lines to buy an iPhone may not have been as long as in the previous two iPhone launches -- the Apple...
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June 22, 2009; 10:37 AM ET |
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