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The New York Times recently came with an infograph charting different kinds of media and the sales they’ve enjoyed.

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RIAA’s Proof That Digital Downloads are Killing the Music Industry

She proved just how techie her countrymen are : Share and Enjoy:

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As Cory Aquino’s Body Passed Through…

Everyone’s buzzing over the rumor—started by the Financial Times—that Apple’s rushing to release a tablet by September, in time for the Christmas season. And 9to5Mac was kind enough to quote the registered-user-only article generously: The talks come as Apple is separately racing to offer a portable, full-featured, tablet-sized computer in time for the Christmas shopping season, in what the entertainment industry hopes will be a new revolution. The device could be launched alongside the new content deals, including those aimed at stimulating sales of CD-length music, according to people briefed on the project… Apple is working with EMI, SonyMusic, Warner Music and Universal Music Group, on a project the company has codenamed “Cocktail”, according to four people familiar with the situation

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Apple Tablet: True or False?

A Chinese worker suspected of stealing a prototype iPhone committed suicide last week when he jumped off a 12-floor building. The former classmates of 25-yeer-old Sun Danyong allege that Sun was driven over the edge by the security team of his employers. The teamallegedly searched his house, beat him, and lock him in a room

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Man Accused of Stealing iPhone Prototype Commits Suicide

The claim that it’s easy to open up the Palm Pre to third-party software should attract some interest—or raise complaints about its lack of security. Courtesy High Caffeine Content Ah, but given how iPhones continue to chug along smoothly despite the breadth of its undeground software ecosystem, such complaints would be dubious at best. In any case, here’s what led Steven Troughton-Smith to claim ownership of “ the first jailbroken Pre in existence .”: On Tuesday, I decided to be adventurous

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Palm Pre Easily Jailbroken?

If I was attending the upcoming WWDC and Apple does reveal new iPhone functionality or a model (as rumored by so many websites online), I’d sarcastically scream the following phrases at the top of my lungs. iPhone and iPhone 3G, courtesy of Wikipedia “Oh my God!!! It can now capture video ??!?!? Fantastic!!!!!” “People can now copy and paste text from one app to another??!?! Amazing!!!!!” “Wow, people can now get an iPhone for less than $100 ?!?!??! Why, how generous of Apple!!!!!” “What, I can now send pictures, music and videos as text messages ?!?!?

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New iPhone Rumors are Hardly Breathtaking

Syndicating the syndicated: What follows is Boing Boing Gadget ’s compilation of Palm Pre reviews from all over the web.

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Palm Pre Review Roundup

A growing number of psychiatrists and doctors are worrying about the effects of constant texting on the youth, according to The New York Times : [they] say it is leading to anxiety, distraction in school, falling grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep deprivation. Dr

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Parents Key to Cutting Down Youth Texting

See what happens when your application certification process is faulty ? When the protests end and you give in, you become the butt of jokes, and of this pretend video ad by IGN .

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IPhone Baby Shaker App Saga, Part N

So people are saying that the iPhone Kindle app, which more or less provides the same ebook reading functionality on Apple’s smartphone, will kill the Kindle. Makes sense actually. After all, why spend $360 on a gadget that can only do one thing, when you can spend roughly the same for a smartphone that multi-tasks

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Why iPhone Kindle Won’t Kill Kindle