June 27, 2007 by Brad.

“It’s no secret or surprise that Apple pushed AT&T into whipping up some new plans for the iPhone — specialness aside, one look at AT&T and users can get lost in its myriad plans, 44 in all (including prepaid, data, etc.). “

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June 27, 2007 by Brad.

Shares of Google hit a new all-time trading high of about $535 on Monday. Analysts say Wall Street is actually underestimating Google’s growth potential. Also: Google’s acquisition rate is increasing. So far, Google has made, or is in the process of making, 12 acquisitions in 2007.

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June 27, 2007 by Brad.

This is why we love Pogue. He reviews it, goes meta, and gives Mossberg a poke. And btw, he hates AT&T’s EDGE network.

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June 27, 2007 by Brad.

The embargo is no more. Check back for updates as reviews flood the Interwebs

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June 20, 2007 by Brad.

TechCrunch is reporting that MySpace and Yahoo are in talks to merge, with MySpace getting 25% of the combined company’s stock. That values MySpace at a cool $12 billion.

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June 20, 2007 by Brad.

ThinkFree obviously has its reasons for not offering email or calendar, while Zimbra’s real power is more on the email, calendar and web services side, rather than documents and spreadsheets. In fact, although I put a ‘Y’ mark for Zimbra in documents and spreadsheets, neither product can import and export data from standard formats such as Word a

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June 20, 2007 by Brad.

A Venezuelan techie apparently has set a new record for longest WiFi link. Networking guru Ermanno Pietrosemoli established a wireless connection between a PC in El Aguila, Venezuela, and one in Platillon Mountain, a distance of about 237 miles, mostly using off-the-shelf equipment and a few hacked parts.

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June 20, 2007 by Brad.

IDC has released a new study that profiles ten relatively small, emerging software companies in Canada that it deems particularly worthy of note.

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June 20, 2007 by Brad.

There are a bunch of other online video editing tools, and we’ll take a brief look at some of them below (though again, don’t expect Avid).

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June 20, 2007 by Brad.

Blockbuster’s decision to support Blu-ray in all of its 1,450 stores is having a bigger impact than it seems. A tipster at an unnamed retailer tells us they’ve had more HD DVD player orders cancelled over the last few days than they’ve seen over the entire lifecycle. The kicker? All of them were cancelled because of the Blockbuster announcement.

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