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• One on One: Christopher Poole, Founder of 4chan - 'Moot' started it when he was 15 (he's now 22), but his parents didn't know about it until two years ago. • Palm's new price target: $0 - Analysts predict...
Mobile
Microsoft
Research In Motion
BlackBerry
Nokia
Traditionally, most businesses - and quite a few home users - wait until the first service pack before upgrading to a new version of Microsoft's Windows operating system. Their logic: By Service Pack 1, most of the major bugs have...
Software
Microsoft
Windows 7
Here it is: Your Friday open-comment thread on TechBlog. This happens every Friday - except when it doesn't - and it's a tradition around here. If you don't know the drill, it goes something like this: • You leave a...
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• Apple Swears iPad Partners to Secrecy - If you've got an iPad for development, Apple requires you to keep it under lock and key, in a room with blacked out windows and tethered to a fixed object, according to...
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Businesses have traditionally been laggards when it comes to adopting new computer technology. Due to costs, training issues and plenty of inertia, they cling doggedly to what works, even if something new may work better. That's certainly been the case...
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Microsoft
Windows 7
• When Couples Fight on Facebook, Everyone Knows the Score - A couple from Spring is the focus of this NYTimes piece on couples airing their grievances on Facebook. • IT's 'love affair' with Windows XP ending, says survey -...
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Amazon
There's a certain type of computer user who, for one reason or another, can't or won't upgrade to newer versions of software. Whether it's out of fear, laziness, necessity (a work PC that's locked down, or an app that's incompatible...
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Firefox
• AT&T/Rogers Nexus One now for sale - But it's only sold unlocked, without subsidies, for $529. • Day 74 Sales: Apple iPhone vs. Google Nexus One vs. Motorola Droid - In the first 74 days of sales, the Nexus...
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Microsoft
Nexus One
Android
One of my pet peeves as a Twitter user is people who use location-based services like Foursquare and Gowalla to post their "check-ins" and accomplishment automatically to their Twitter accounts. Location-based networks are all the rage among social media users...
Online
In this story in today's Chronicle, we talk about the latest craze in smart phone apps that let users broadcast there whereabouts. The tech-savvy set at South by Southwest used many of these apps to let others know where they...
Online
• @anywhere - Interactivity via Twitter will soon be enabled through any site. You'll be able to interact with me and other Twitter users right on TechBlog, or chron.com. And Twitter launches "At Anywhere" platform, integrates tweets, profiles across the...
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Comcast has launched its DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem service locally, though it's initially available only to a small part of the area. DOCSIS 3.0 is the next generation of cable modem technology, with theoretical speeds of more than 150 megabits...
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Comcast
Saturday, we had a story about Houston companies trying to get attention at SXSW. It included Werkadoo, a job matching site; Favitt, a dressed up search engine; Natuba, a photo sharing site; and Recycle Match, which helps companies find buyers...
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You may not know who Tim Bray is, but if you have an Internet connection and a Web browser, you benefit from the fruits of his labors. Bray was one of the inventors of XML, a technology critical to...
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Apple
Android
There's no shortage of startups at SXSW this year that tap the GPS technology in phones to determine where a user is located. And the techies overtaking Austin this week have been broadcasting their whereabouts throughout the session, Aside from...
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Steve Lee, a product manager at Google, took some time to talk to me at SXSW about Latitude, Google's service that lets smart phone users broadcast their location to others. The service hasn't gained as much traction as apps that...
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• AT&T's network up to SXSW iPhone onslaught - After last year's #attfail, Ma Bell 2.0's efforts keep its voice and data networks robust at SXSW appear to have paid off. Now, how about New York and San Francisco? •...
Other
There's a lot of developer talk and geek speak at South by Southwest, with attendees discussing everything from coding to hardware. But a number of startups at the conference this year are pitching products that help make technology easier to...
Online
• Apple's Spat With Google Is Getting Personal - The two companies, which once had a warm partnership, are now at each others' throats. • Dead iPad battery: Never mind replacing it, Apple just sends another iPad for $99 -...
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Digg
Apple
For years, developers have been talking about the potential for retailers to tap into GPS technology in phones and directly send coupons and offers to consumers when they're near a specific store. But it never really took off. As...
