This video popped up on YouTube in the week, and although I’m pretty sure that some of the features and services will never be available, its interesting to see where Intel thinks the future for the UMPC might lie:

Whereas, the pitch for the Origami was very much along the lines of a single device-type […]

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So, Steve Jobs has called on the music industry to start selling music online without any DRM?
I think this has less to do with Steve wanting what’s best for the consumer and more to do with the recent news that Norway declared Apple’s DRM - specifically the way iTunes is locked into iPod - violates their consumer […]

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According to this article from the CBS news for San Jose, someone bombed the offices of Paypal on the night of Halloween.
It would be easy to joke about an Ebay transaction gone way, way wrong, but for the fact that some pretty heavy explosives were used to make the point:
“Whatever caused this (blast) was pretty […]

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Talk about getting a day off to a great start. This was one of the first posts I read in Google Reader this morning. From Leo’s article:
I had no idea what a storm my little sentence would generate. Hey, I was tired, dispirited, and trying to figure out how to do a show without any […]

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If you’ve worked in the tech industry for any length of time, you must be aware of your own mystical powers when it comes to resolving “techie problems” - how many times has a colleague asked you to look at something and the moment you peer over their shoulder, you hear the words, “It seems […]

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The news that TWiT may on it’s last legs has got the blogosphere buzzing - and rightly so.
Paul O’Flaherty and Rob Hyndman are among the scores who share their disbelief, while Jon Emmon quotes a great comment that he himself posted to the TWit.tv comments log.
A “Save TWit” blog has already appreared, and had a comment […]

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