Apple Computer named Google CEO Eric Schmidt to its board of directors today, creating a high-profile link between two of Silicon Valley’s most prized companies as they try to expand their recent successes and topple Microsoft as high technology’s kingpin.
Schmidt becomes Apple’s eighth director.
“Apple is one of the companies in the world that I most [...]

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SpiralFrog has announced an agreement with Universal Music Group to to make their catalog available for free downloading in the US and Canada via SpiralFrog’s advertising-supported service.
Robin Kent, SpiralFrog’s CEO, noted that the company’s research revealed that consumers are more than willing to ‘pay’ for their content by watching non-intrusive, contextually-relevant, [...]

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What’s next for Apple’s iMac development department? After world-changing G3 iMac, fabulous G4 lamp design and astonishing G5/Intel iMac what could be possibly done to make iMac even better, cooler, sexier?
Maybe the answer is only one click away. Adam Benton’s vision of 30″ transparent screen iMac is a breath-taking example how “Think Different” can be [...]

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Apple has released MacBook firmware update addressing mooing problem with their latest line of portable computers. New firmware (v. 1.4f10) regulates operation of the fan in the MacBook and number of users who installed it report significant drop in temperature.
It appears that the fan now is running all the time, although at the low speed, [...]

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MacWorld UK reports that Steve jobs will not deliver the keynote at this year’s Mac Expo in Paris. In fact, not only won’t it be Steve jobs, there won’t be keynote at all.
Clémentine Tisserand confirmed the lack of keynote by simply saying “There will be no keynote at this year’s show”.
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If you are a fan of Wordpress or you are just thinking of getting into the world of blogging, then a newly released book “WordPress 2 - Visual QuickStart Guide” surely is one for you.
Available from Amazon, this easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide shows you how to install, use, and customize WordPress to get the most from [...]

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