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I'm not a big fan of leaving a trail of abandoned logins. Thanks in advance.

The Chrome Web Store looks like the native iTunes store. That is not a compliment. Despite that it is still better looking than the Android Market Web Store. The best thing I can s…

I find it incredible someone with enough expertise to build the project and get it on the Mac Store can be so clueless with regard to licensing. Not only are they using unlicensed …

Nevermind the cheap device. The $25 per month service that includes 300 minutes, unlimited text, and unlimited data is the real story here. http://www.virginmobileusa.com/cell-phon…

No more awkward than Apple using Samsung to fab its chips.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2009/09/123_52401.h... South Korea built vast infrastructure around IE6 and ActiveX. Just a year ago a full 60% of Korean traffic still cam…

Until the W3C officially adopts a royalty free codec as part of the HTML standard, Google and Mozilla should assume HTML video is dead. They might as well make the tag inoperable b…

Is Mozilla intentionally trying to create market confusion? It isn't obvious from the name, but this is built on XULRunner and has no relation to Google Chrome.

I'm not sure about the IRS, but I know for a fact non-profits have been in a bind with Apple for years for just that reason. Apple wants 30% of the donations. Or rather, Apple will…

It's downright ridiculous if section 11.2 is applied universally. So does Apple get a cut of Cisco's WebEx contracts whenever a customer decides to fire up the free iOS app? Does A…

Why didn't Google's investigation go further? Why didn't they decompile the IE8 toolbar to figure out what it was really doing? Maybe that's against the DMCA and Google can't admit…

My understanding is that Amazon was guaranteeing some publishers the same profit per sale that they would get from a hardback book in exchange for allowing Amazon to fix the price …

Nexus S? Nexus One? Nokia N900? OpenMoko FreeRunner? OpenPandora? There are more than a few more powerful alternatives to an iPhone that are open source and ready to hack. Most of …

Let me know when they finally ban the pink plastic shopping bags from Chinatown.

The point is the competition still lags, so Apple still has a free pass with users and developers. And if the competition suddenly caught up, Apple only needs pull back just enough…

There are other troubling inconsistencies as well. But I decided to stop there. I only want the author to go back and fix his numbers, I don't want to write the article for him. Wi…

This reminds me of the "no intermediate code" snafu that was later repealed. Apple keeps testing the boundaries of what we will tolerate because it knows it can get away with it wh…

Something is wrong about the author's numbers here. The Consumer Expenditure Survey the author cites says the 25-34 year old that spends 37.1% of their salary on housing is only ma…

At $79 per year, Amazon Prime is cheaper than Netflix streaming only (12 x $7.99 = $95.88 per year). And you get free 2-day shipping to boot. It's an incredible value. Almost too g…

I agree. Since when was Great Lakes a region? Most people call it the Midwest.

Why not? CES saw over 100 tablet launches, most of them Android based. Every big company should make their own Android spin. Even Disney has one: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/17…

OpenPandora had great promise. When they started it there was nothing more powerful. But now it's slower than even the most dated Android phones on the market. 600 mhz A8? We're in…

Institutional investors love predictability. But the company needs to be nimble and avoid making unnecessary commitments.