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<a href="/article/10459"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10459', 'show')">Sony Drops Ebook and Reader Prices</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10459" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10459">It's a race to the bottom, as Sony matches Amazon's price of $9.99 for the ebook versions of bestsellers for its Sony Reader. The company also announced two new Reader models for $199 and $299.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=1" class="category">Entertainment</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 04 Aug 2009 | <a href="/article/10459#comments">2 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10446"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10446', 'show')">Time Capsule Bumped to 2 TB</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10446" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10446">Apple has quietly upgraded the Time Capsule backup appliance and wireless base station, providing models with 1 TB and 2 TB capacity at the same price points as the previous lineup.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/10441"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10441', 'show')">Eye-Fi's Geo Targets Apple for Wireless Photo Transfers</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10441" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10441">The $60 Eye-Fi Geo Wi-Fi memory card transfers images from a camera over a local Wi-Fi network, stamps them with Wi-Fi-derived geographic coordinates, and imports the pictures into iPhoto.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10431" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10431">Apple introduced AirPort Wi-Fi networking just about 10 years ago at Macworld Expo New York, and you can once again see Phil Schiller jumping from a platform onto an inflatable pad while holding the original iBook. Steve Jobs notes in the keynote that Apple worked over 18 months with Lucent to develop the system, which explains why AirPort performed better than any other 802.11b systems for years to follow.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10432" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10432">The latest version of Skype for Mac brings two unique features: screen sharing and metered access to for-fee Wi-Fi hotspots worldwide. The developer says voice and video quality are improved, too.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10427" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10427">AT&T's CEO admits at a conference that "a day in the future" the firm may not be the only U.S. carrier to offer the iPhone. He also tries to brush off network problems, and claims he's an iPhone abuser when he travels to find problems "with Web surfing, app using, and e-mailing." Because none of his subscribers do those things, of course.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10428" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10428">Jeff Bezos, founder and chief of Amazon.com, posted a short but succinct apology for removing books from Kindles; Amazon didn't have the right to sell those books, but Bezos acknowledged that the removal was "stupid, thoughtless, and painfully out of line with our principles." For background, see "<a href="http://db.tidbits.com/article/10417">Double Plus Ungoods: Amazon Unpublishes Orwell</a>," 2009-07-19.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10421" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10421">Barnes & Noble has opened up the electronic book market a bit with 700,000 titles (500,000 from Google Books) that can be read with eReader software for Mac OS X, Windows, iPhone, and BlackBerry. Best sellers are priced at $9.99. The firm's books can be read on the forthcoming Plastic Logic eReader, but not via the Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle models or Kindle software.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10424" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10424">Clearwire says that it will provide Mac OS X drivers for its so-called fourth-generation (4G) WiMax wireless network service on 17-Aug-09. So far, Clearwire's multi-Mbps network is available only in Atlanta, Baltimore, Las Vegas, and Portland, OR.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/10417"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10417', 'show')">Double Plus Ungoods: Amazon Unpublishes Orwell</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10417" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10417">When told that a publisher was distributing electronic versions of books by George Orwell without the rights, should Amazon have deleted them from Kindles without the permission of the Kindle owners? Probably not, but it's not as Orwellian as it seems at first. The company says it won't do it again.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/10400"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10400', 'show')">Google Chrome OS to Power Netbooks in 2010</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10400" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10400">Google has announced - but not shipped - Google Chrome OS, a stripped-down operating system based on the Linux kernel and designed to give inexpensive netbook computers access to Web applications.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=2" class="category">Opinion</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> and <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 09 Jul 2009 | <a href="/article/10400#comments">7 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10376"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10376', 'show')">Why AT&T Has a Lock on the iPhone</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10376" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10376">A recurring refrain from those who hate AT&T and those who don't want to be locked down is that they'll wait until there's a choice of iPhone carriers in the United States. Don't hold your breath.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 26 Jun 2009 | <a href="/article/10376#comments">5 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10374"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10374', 'show')">AIM for iPhone Adds Push Notification</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10374" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10374">AOL releases free and for-fee versions of AIM for iPhone that feature push notification. Time for text messaging and its high fees to go away?</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 24 Jun 2009</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10368" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10368">A Lego Brickworld conference attendee writes up his Jack Bauer-like recovery of an iPhone that was nicked at a sketchy bar.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 22 Jun 2009</div></div></div>
<a href="/article/10362"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10362', 'show')">Tag Radio Songs for Later Purchase While You Drive</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10362" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10362">iTunes Tagging lets you mark songs on a radio to which an iPod or iPhone is connected. While the feature has been around for over a year, this is the first time the stars have been aligned for easy use.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=1" class="category">Entertainment</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 19 Jun 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10364"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10364', 'show')">Security Experts Urge Google to Secure All Sessions</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10364" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10364">A letter signed by dozens of leading security researchers, including the R in RSA, urge Google to adopt secure Web connections for all services.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=13" class="category">Safe Computing</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 19 Jun 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10356"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10356', 'show')">Adobe Tests Fast Browser Previewing for Designers</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10356" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10356">Adobe BrowserLab lets you see how major browsers will display - or mangle - your Web pages. That's not a new idea, but Adobe has created the most elegant and quickest method so far, and the company has just gotten started.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=4" class="category">Media Creation</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 18 Jun 2009</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10360" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10360">The new iPhone 3.0 software includes a better way of handling recurring hotspot logins by capturing the gateway login page information that you enter and re-joining the network automatically. This new method also introduced some bugs in existing Wi-Fi connection managers. Glenn Fleishman explains all at Macworld.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 18 Jun 2009</div></div></div>
<a href="/article/10357"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10357', 'show')">AT&T Improves and Clarifies iPhone Upgrade Eligibility</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10357" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10357">AT&T seems to have heard the cries of its confused and frustrated iPhone customers by making more people eligible for the most highly subsidized iPhone 3G and 3GS pricing. The company also clarified how it calculates eligibility for upgrades.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 17 Jun 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10359"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10359', 'show')">Find Your Lost iPhone or iPod touch with iPhone OS 3.0</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10359" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10359">The new iPhone OS 3.0 software adds a feature that will thrill the hearts of the absentminded: Find My iPhone. The feature plots a handheld's position on a map in MobileMe, and allows remote sound and alerts - or wiping the phone's data completely.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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