Ad-Supported “Free” Music Plays On: SpiralFrog, Imeem, QTrax  —  As Apple (APPL) and Amazon (AMZN) duke it out in the MP3 price war, music publishers are still trying to figure out how to cash in on a crowd that will go to great lengths to get its music for free.

Source:   GigaOM
Author:   Adena DeMonte
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Apple, Jobs, AT&T sued over iPhone price cut, rebates  —  Apple Inc., along with its chief executive and exclusive U.S. iPhone wireless partner AT&T, have been hit with a new lawsuit from a disgruntled customer who charges the trio with a variety of offenses stemming from the recent iPhone price cut.

Source:   AppleInsider
Author:   Kasper […]

iPhone update: facts and fiction  —  If you haven’t already bitten the bullet and taken your unlocked iPhone down that scariest of paths, the 1.1.1 update, we’re here to sort out a bit of the hearsay from the actual and fairly inconvenient truth.  Even if you have already updated …

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Paul Miller
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Go from hell  —  Why do we continue, in 2007, to believe that markets are all about What Big Companies Do?  Worse, why do we continue to take advertising for granted as the primary source of the the Bux DeLuxe required to fund technical, social and personal progress?

Source:   Doc Searls Weblog
Author:   Doc Searls
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The problem with newspaper blogs is . . .  . . . they are on newspaper sites.  —  I’ve come to argue that newspapers should not be big brands but big collections of brands.  —  If I develop a relationship with a blog, I don’t go searching for it through the many layers of an […]

Seems there is a bit of confusion about our last post.  Here are some of the most common questions, with some corresponding answers.  —  Q. Why do you say it is unlocked if you can’t activate a non AT&T sim?  —  A. There is a difference between unlocking and activation.

Source:   iphoneSimFree.com - Choose the […]

Google’s Game-Changing Phone  —  Mobile biggies are quaking at the idea of competition from a free, ad-based service  —  Imagine your cellphone as a mini marketing machine.  As you head into your car after dinner, a text alert pops onto the screen of your handset announcing the 9 p.m. lineup at a nearby cineplex.

Source:   […]

Act Now and Get a Downgrade to the OS You Really Want, ABSOLUTELY FREE!  —  It’s looking more and more like the pent-up demand for Windows Vista we’ve heard so much about this past year is really just pent-up demand for Windows XP.  —  With Vista failing to win over the consumer …

Source:   Digital […]

Apple update disables iPhones  —  An Apple software update is disabling iPhones that have been unlocked by owners who wanted to choose which mobile network to use.  —  Earlier this week Apple said a planned update would leave the device “permanently inoperable”.

Source:   BBC
Link:   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7017660.stm

Yahoo tops Google in quality of searches, study says  —  While Google dominates market share, Yahoo gets more users to click on results  —  September 28, 2007 (Computerworld) — While Google Inc. dominates the search query business, results generated by Yahoo Inc.’s search engine result …

Source:   Computerworld
Author:   Heather Havenstein
Link:   http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do…