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  1. Best Buy Cloud Music Service Debuts: Lacklustre

    With Google, Amazon and Apple all offering robust online multimedia download portals, most companies would steer clear of such a crowded and competitive market. But not big-box retailer Best Buy, which recently launched its own music service. Not impressed, say industry experts. There are so...
  2. Microsoft relaunches, revises SkyDrive, its Dropbox competitor

    As officials have been hinting in recent weeks, Microsoft has relaunched and updated its Windows Live SkyDrive cloud storage service. Is there any service that Microsoft can keep their greedy hands of of it and not compete with them. All I see is $ signs for Microsoft. Read Full Story...
  3. Windows 8 UI Revolution Triggers Fear and Loathing

    Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows The new Windows 8 user experience has triggered excitement in the Windows user community, but also some fear and loathing for competitors and their supporters, and for developers. I'm happy to see Microsoft's competition on the run for a change, but the...
  4. Duff: Microsoft leapfrogs over Apple with Windows 8

    Companies that take risks don't just make healthy profits for themselves; they can drive a whole industry forward, inspiring competition and forcing older companies to step out of their comfort zone. Source: Yahoo! News
  5. "Fukushima Melt" A delicious new chocolate

    "Fukushima Melt" A delicious new chocolate that doesn't melt in the mouth. This chocolate melts in the box before you even open it. A new nuclear powered chocolate that will melt through the bottom of the box and any flimsy shelving and will creep across the floor and deliver the chocolate to...
  6. Microsoft said to launch Windows 8-branded tablet

    In the wake of Microsoft‘s first “Windows 8” preview, reports have surfaced that the PC software giant plans to launch its own Microsoft-branded tablet to compete with Apple‘s iPad line, and the growing variety of Android-based tablets. According to DigiTimes, the device will be a collaborative...
  7. Report: Microsoft-branded Windows 8 tablet in the works

    A report from Taiwanese tech site DigiTimes says that Microsoft is considering making its own branded tablet to compete with the iPad. Source: Yahoo! News
  8. On tap Monday: Microsoft Xbox Kinect news, Apple iCloud, Windows 8

    Expect two tech announcements on Monday from Microsoft and its competitor Apple. Source: Yahoo! News
  9. VIDEO Pranksters affix Windows logo to upcoming Hamburg Apple Store

    A group of pranksters disguised themselves as construction workers on Saturday in order to post a Windows logo onto the facade of a future Apple Store in Hamburg, Germany. The .WAV Collective posted a video of the prank taking place, as noted by MacNN. In the video, a fake construction crew...
  10. Adobe still in denial about Flash and Apple

    Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen claims there will be 130 million smartphone devices running Flash by the end of 2011. Maybe - but what about performance and power drain? Indeed, as Walt Mossberg of All Things D told Narayen during a recent interview at the D9 conference, he has "yet to test a...
  11. Microsoft's Windows 8 Could Have HP WebOS Competitor

    HP plans on porting its webOS onto other manufacturer's devices, setting the stage for a 2012 conflict between it and Microsoft's Windows 8. Link Removed
  12. Windows 8 will destroy Apple's Ipad dominance

    Opinion In Windows 8, Microsoft has something that can wreck Apple's 2012 Link Removed
  13. Samsung files motion to see Apple's next iPhone, iPad

    Samsung has fired back at Apple with a motion that would require the company to turn over advance copies of the "final, commercial versions" of the company's unannounced next-generation iPhone and iPad by June 13, 2011. Apple and Samsung are locked in a heated dispute over whether Samsung's...
  14. As Adobe gets sued for killing FreeHand, Corel gently offers its alternatives

    A group representing over 5,000 users of vector drawing software FreeHand has filed a class action lawsuit against Adobe Inc. in the California District Court for antitrust violations. Adobe almost acquired FreeHand in 1994 when it acquired Aldus, but the Federal Trade Commission put a...
  15. [SOPHOS] The 2011 #DecoDeme challenge - the final, official version

    The final, conference-ready code for the #decodeme challenge is here. Each year, at the AusCERT conference, Sophos publishes a challenge in the form of a T-shirt. Visit the Sophos stand and you can pick up a T-shirt for yourself. Solve the challenge and you're on your way to winning a remote...
  16. Pole dancing seeks an Olympic leg-up

    Exotic dancers want to be part of the Games and stranger things have happened – but why don't we try superinjuncting? Having started out totally sleazy and ended up halfway respectable, pole dancing has travelled in the opposite direction to the Olympic movement. Yet the former is pushing...
  17. Microsoft's Secret Plan To Disrupt Google Maps On The iPhone

    Microsoft wants developers to use Bing Maps in their iPhone and iPad apps, and has given them a tool to help. It's yet another example of how Microsoft is hedging its bets in mobile by supporting Apple's popular platform, even as it tries to get iPhone developers to port their apps to...
  18. Show jumping bunny rabbits compete in hopping mad course

    Rabbit show-jumping may not be an Olympic sport but try telling these bunny athletes that the course they were competing in wasn't for London 2012 hop-fuls. The very hoppy bunny, Snoopy from Jena, Germany, earns his carrots by trying to jump as high as he can around specially designed...
  19. Sony unveils its first tablet computer to take on Apple

    Link Removed due to 404 Error Sony, a laggard in the booming tablet market, launched its first tablet computers in an ambitious attempt to grab the second spot in the market created and dominated by Apple's iPad. The gadgets will use an operating system based on Google's Android 3.0...
  20. Pop's Diner and a hobbit house: It's Shed of the Year time again!

    An American-style diner, a museum and a house for a hobbit are among the entries for this year’s Shed of the Year competition. And you thought a shed was simply somewhere to store tools or keep your bike... Others up for the 2011...