A Bruise on Apple’s Reputation  —  Is the company’s stellar service keeping up with its hypergrowth?  Some customers don’t think so  —  For Apple (AAPL ), there may be a downside to success.  Sales of the Cupertino (Calif.) company’s Macintosh machines are growing three times as fast as the overall PC market.

Source:   Business Week
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Universal Music Takes on iTunes  —  Universal chief Doug Morris is enlisting other big music players for a service to challenge the Jobs juggernaut  —  Relationships in the entertainment world can be famously fraught.  And few are more so these days than the one between Steve Jobs and Universal Music chief Doug Morris.

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Scoble Is So Right About Kara Being SSSSSOOOOO Right About Silly Facebook Apps!  —  You always have to get a little worried when someone opens a post like this: Kara!  Kara!  Kara!  —  Besides sounding like I am about to invade Pearl Harbor, I thought blogger Robert Scoble was going to slap …

Source:   BoomTown
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Gmail Updates Storage Estimation  —  Gmail today updated their home page’s storage estimation.  The new entries indicates that the storage will be:  — 2912MB by October 11, 2007 midnight Google time  — 4.2GB by the 23rd this month  — 6GB by January 4th next year  — 42GB by the year of 2038

Source:   Googlified
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More Gmail storage coming for all  —  When people ask me about my job, one of the common questions I get is, “Where does Gmail put all that mail?”  I generally answer by pointing them to a web site like this one.  While that’s not exactly how it works, we do spend a lot of […]

Rumormonger: Snocap lays off 60 percent of its employees?  —  Snocap lays off 60 percent of its employees?  —  A tipster reports that Snocap, the once-hot digital music startup from Napster founder Shawn Fanning and Silicon Valley bad boy Jordan Mendelson, has laid off 60 percent of its staff, and the company is up for […]

Shawn Fanning’s Snocap lays off 60 percent of workforce  —  Snocap, the music-licensing company best known for being the follow-up act of Napster founder Shawn Fanning, has cut its staff by 60 percent, a spokeswoman for the company said Thursday evening.  —  Founded in 2002 …

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Greg Sandoval
Link:   http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9796327-7.html

Rumormonger: Snocap lays off 60 percent of its employees?  —  Snocap lays off 60 percent of its employees?  —  A tipster reports that Snocap, the once-hot digital music startup from Napster founder Shawn Fanning and Silicon Valley bad boy Jordan Mendelson, has laid off 60 percent of its staff, and the company is up for […]

The Man In The Arena  —  Yossi Vardi is one of the people I’ve had the pleasure to get to know since starting TechCrunch.  You can find him at technology events worldwide - just look for the smiling, wild-haired guy surrounded by a pack of people.  —  To understand what he has accomplished, see his […]

Updates to Windows Live SkyDrive!  —  These past couple of months since our last release, we asked ourselves, “What can we do to make SkyDrive even better?”  The most obvious answer is something that our users have asked us to do: give out more storage.  We’re excited to announce that we’re doubling everyone’s storage to […]