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WWDC News #2: The Long Cold Night For Twitter During A Wicked Keynote

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Well, since I can’t send any more Tweets, I’ll have to do this here in BlogSpace. The new iPhone 3Gs  is now official. It has that digital compass, a video capable 3MP camera, a faster processor, better battery life, remote wipe, encryption, new VoiceOver and voice controls. Just tell it what to do and it [...]

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WWDC News #1: Apple Bites

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Phil Schiller is proving that he isn’t Steve Jobs by jumping immediately into the new product announcements, and that seems to be a good thing. It shows that he’s no clone and that Apple isn’t looking to stay the same. So, the hardware bits are big for the moment. The MacBook Pro has been updated [...]

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System 76 Makes Linux Systems Real

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I’m not saying that Linux computers aren’t real now. They certainly are, but to people who are willing to work to get them to work 100% and enjoy hacking the kernel. The Linux lappy which works out of the box has been the holy grail of the Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) industry for years. Some [...]

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Microsoft’s Official Word On The Issues Setting Up The Surface PC

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As you probably already know, I was at Tech-Ed 2009 in Los Angeles earlier this week and while I was there I got to confront the Surface PC guys about the difficulties which were discovered while setting up the behemoth US$15,000 machine. Please do note that this is note a word for word transcription of [...]

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