Ever since Steve Jobs posted his thoughts on future of DRM on apple.com, there’s been a fierce discussion anywhere you look. The ivestment gurus, company executives, musicians, bloggers, critics, even a few totally drunk old ladies at the local retirement village have been debating it to the death. OK, only kidding, they weren’t that drunk [...]

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A newly announced multimillion-dollar building project in Dubai will reportedly take inspiration for its design from the iPod. Officials have said that the “iPad” will be based on the design of Apple’s MP3 player.

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The tower will be perched on top of a docking station, and will ape the iPod by sitting at [...]

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The world’s first radio broadcast took place a hundred years ago, on Christmas Eve 1906.
The broadcast, a programme of live music, readings and phonograph recordings, was transmitted to ships in the Atlantic Ocean by Reginald [...]

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Got a Wii today and writing this article on it. It is a bit slow, but it can be easily done. Going over to computer now.
10 minutes later… on Mac now.
We were driving to Gold Coast today with kids, and my wife wanted to buy some grapes before getting to the beach, so we turned [...]

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The iPhone has been finally released. However, not as an Apple, but rather as a Linksys product. Linksys is a division of Cisco, who owned the trademark iPhone since year 2000 when they purchased Infogear, who registered the name in 1996.
So, the question remains, will Apple release their ?Phone in January and what are [...]

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In 1956 IBM invented the first computer disk storage system, the 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control). This system had a storage of 5 MB and it had fifty disks, each being 61 cm (24″) in diameter.

It wasn’t necessarily a very portable device, so maybe we should stop complaining about those [...]

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