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Before the Palm Pre was released, the Palm executives announced that the device would be able to sync with iTunes, pulling down your music, podcasts, and videos. A former Apple’s hardware executive, Jon Rubenstein, now leads the team who brought you the Palm Pre, it isn’t a big surprise that Palm Pre was able to access iTunes. But now, the dramatic change seems to have limited the Palm Pre’s options to dig into Apple’s hard work. However, Palm is not giving up and suggesting Palm Pre users to not upgrade to newest version. “If Apple chooses to disable media sync in iTunes, it will be a direct blow to their users who will be deprived of a seamless synchronization experience,” Palm spokesman Lynn Fox said. “However, people will have options,” which include using previous versions of iTunes that are still Pre-compatible, she added. Its seems unlikely that most users will be willing to keep their old version of iTunes, especially in long term since Apple will keep on adding new features.
The Insignia HD Radio Portable Player offers new and extra FM HD Radio channels with crystal-clear, static-free sound, allowing listeners to take the ultimate sound experience to any available HD Radio signal. “The sound quality and LCD screen features of the Insignia HD Radio portable are phenomenal,” said Mike Dahnert, Insignia Portable HD Radio product manager. “Best Buy is proud to be the first to bring such a unique and quality product to our customers.” “We applaud Best Buy for setting a precedent in the audio entertainment marketplace by offering the first-ever portable HD Radio receiver,” said Bob Struble, President and CEO of iBiquity Digital Corporation, the developer of digital HD Radio technology for AM/FM audio and data broadcasting. “With new HD2/HD3 digital channels, crystal-clear sound, no subscription fees, and now, thanks to Best Buy, the ability to take digital radio on the go, it’s a total win for the consumer and one more indication that the HD Radio momentum is continuing.” The Insignia HD Radio features a full-color 1.5″ LCD screen, 3.5mm output (can be used with car stereo cable not included), 10 station presets, displays radio station, artist, and song, built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery (up to 10 hours of playing time) and comes with a stylish armband.
The site allows users to filter tweets by topic, top tweeted blog posts, most popular links as well as the most popular photos. Both link and photo searches can be filtered by most recent links and images. It also lets you narrow your stream by filtering Tweets by Technorati Tags (life, news, music, politics, etc.) and the top trending Twitter hashtags. Twittorati is a great way to find out the latest topics and personal Tweets of the top 100 bloggers, all synchronized at one place.
However, after a month, Bing has slightly increased its share from 7.81% of all U.S.based searches to 8.23%. Google, during that same time span, dropped from 78.72 % to 78.48 % of U.S. searches, a decrease of 0.24 %, according to StatCounter’s data. Looking at the two month span, April - June, Google drops to 0.59 %, while Microsoft gained to 1.02%. Microsoft is not keeping out Bing from the crowd. They are aggressively marketing Bing on television and online. Microsoft has also beat Google to searching “tweets” from Twitter users. Yet, Microsoft has lot of room to improve. Microsoft was caught off guard when one of the biggest news stories in years took place. The flood of traffic following the reports of the “King of Pop”, Michael Jackson, being rushed to a Los Angeles hospital on June 25th, where he later died, was a good test for Bing’s stability. Google first thought the surge was an attack on its servers. Mean while, later that day, Microsoft admitted that they could have done a better job delivering relevant stories during the two or so frantic hours in which searches went through the roof.
Although Microsoft’s Bing took a bite out of Google’s market share in short amount of time, the truth is that the change is not nearly as dramatic as it appears. It will take a lot more from Bing to become the ‘King of Search Engine’. Like Twitter, when it comes to instant news courage, Microsoft Bing’s search result architecture has failed to keep up with the public demands. Microsoft Bing yet, has more room to improve its performance. But one thing is certain, Google needs to start worrying about Bing.
The Pirate Bay lost the lawsuit and was found guilty of facilitating copyright infringement in April this year. The four co-founders of The Pirate Bay, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström, were sentenced to face a year each in prison, pending appeals in addition to a $3.6 Million fine. Music and film companies including Warner Bros. (WMG.N), MGM, Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox Films, Sony BMG (6758.T), Universal (GE.N) (VIV.PA) and EMI had sought damages of more than 100 million Swedish crowns ($12.6 million) to compensate for lost revenues. “We would like to introduce models which entail that content providers and copyright owners get paid for content that is downloaded via the site,” said Global Gaming CEO Hans Pandeya, in a statement. Two weeks ago, The Pirate Bay launched a VPN service promising to make file sharers and other internet users more anonymous online. About 180,000 people have signed up for the $7 monthly service. A week later, they announced the “beta extreme” testing of a YouTube-like service called VideoBay. The VideoBay site is using two open-source technologies: Ogg Theora for video and Ogg Vorbis for audio to handle its media playback. Unlike YouTube which requires Adobe Flash Plug-in to playback video and audio. Padeya said “Pirate Bay draws enormous amounts of Internet traffic but added that it needs to adopt legitimate business models to stay in operation.” “The Pirate Bay site is among the top 100 most visited Internet sites in the world. However, in order to live on, The Pirate Bay requires a new business model, which satisfies that requirements and needs of all parties, content providers, broadband operators, end users, and the judiciary,” said Pandeya. “Content creators and providers need to control their content and get paid for it. File sharers need faster downloads and better quality,” he added. The Pirate Bay (TPB) has more than 6 million registered users, and they regularly share multimedia content like movies, TV shows, music, etc. that would be otherwise impossible to get legally. The excellent recent example was The X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie, which was available online, almost a month before the release in theaters worldwide. Obviously, the links were taken down. While it is not certain whether the site would continue pointing the way to free files, the long time users and supporters of the website are very upset and disappointed with the decision they have made. I think they have a good reason to because The Pirate Bay will likely become a ‘cash cow’ with new ownership in place.
This is, apparently, a reasonably common phenomenon–the hot iPhone. Around the forums, people are blaming Push features and bad batteries, and all sorts of things. Apple doesn’t seem to have responded to the complaints. One user reported that he was recording video when the phone became very hot and died. Another–this is on the Apple Web site, in the forums–says there is a heat sensor inside that will record overheating and can be used to demand a replacement phone from the folks at the Genius Bar. We’ll see about that. Will there be an iPhone 3G S recall? Based on my experience, no. Still, battery problems are the stuff of which recalls are made and Apple has not been immune from them in the past. |
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Apple Inc. released an update of its iTunes to version 8.2.1 which bans the biggest rival the Palm Pre from iTunes. The iTunes software now adds function that will verify Apple devices and ban third-party devices from getting access to its software and online store. 
You are looking at the world’s first HD Radio portable device called Insignia NS-HD01. It is available now at Best Buy for $50. The retailer and the supporters of HD radio are hoping to transform the technology into never seen HD radio experience.
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Microsoft’s ‘Bing’ search engine wants to give Google a run for its money. Bing continues to gain market share against the worldwide search engine leader, Google. Bing officially launched on June 3, initially taking over what was previously the Microsoft ‘Live Search’ market share.
“By most reports, Bing did not deliver the best experience for our customers soon after TMZ posted the news on their blog,” wrote Jacquelyn Krones, senior product planner for Bing News. “As 
The notorious ‘The Pirate Bay’ (TPB) known for its BitTorrent trackers (often illegal) has agreed to sell the website for $7.7 Million to a Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X AB, announced this morning.
There are new reports surfacing that new 3G S iPhone batteries are