Poor Battery Life May Doom Zune

Zune 2.0 features impress, but battery longevity doesn't.

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24-hour Apple news video network launches

The Digital Lifestyle today launched a new 24-hour online network dedicated to Apple followers. The site mixes original programs with popular Apple/tech-related podcasts and YouTube material, as well as daily news updates and live coverage of breaking tech news events. Using live video technology from Mogulus, viewers can

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Piper: Apple Stores showing 'pull' from PC?

Holiday traffic at Apple's retail stores may reflect an increased flow of PC users migrating to Macs, say analysts with the firm Piper Jaffray. Monitoring six hours' worth of visitors to Apple Stores in the American east and midwest, the firm discovered this weekend that an abnormal 27 percent of those who passed within

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Sony 505 Digital Reader Book

While the Sony 505 Digital Reader Book is not without flaws, Sony's improvements make this model easier to recommend.

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Amazon Kindle

The Amazon Kindle is lightweight, stylish e-book reader with the ability to download new books over a wireless EV-DO network.

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Oregon challenges RIAA university subpoena

In a move likely to be closely watched elsewhere in the nation, Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers is seeking to quash a subpoena from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) seeking the identities of 17 students at the University of Oregon who allegedly infringed music copyrights.

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Napster Moving out of Music?

Cash burns as subscriptions fall.

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iPhone named TIME 'Invention of the Year'

Apple's iPhone has been selected as TIME's Invention of the Year, the magazine has announced. Five reasons are cited: on a superficial level, the iPhone is said to be extremely attractive, taking account of design touches that many technology companies do not consider, but which make a device more interesting to paying cus

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