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Beating the record labels: small-time artists get a fair shot on the Internet

Triston McIntyre — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:28:33 +0000

Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, Bow Wow — all performing “artists” with over the top star power. But have you ever wondered where the hidden talent is? It’s all over the Internet, and for the first time since the record labels took power from the talented [...]

To be Bold or Storm: which Blackberry flagship should you captain?

Triston McIntyre — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:27:05 +0000

Research in Motion (RIM) has been a beehive of activity as of late, releasing a veritable cornucopia of handsets to appeal to a wide range of consumers with different needs. Its two latest offerings, the Bold and the Storm, hold top [...]

Twitter: now a venue for reliving near-death experiences?

Triston McIntyre — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:53:47 +0000

Your plane just crashed, and you can feel the heat from the fire roaring outside the walls of your plane on your skin. Once you manage to escape your tin can of a cremation chamber, your first reaction is to [...]

T-Mobile screwing G1 customers with a January G2 release?

Triston McIntyre — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:38:35 +0000

T-Mobile’s flagship device, the G1, has been for the most part a great success. Widespread adoption and new customers to T-Mobile’s 3G high-speed data network have brought the customer-oriented GSM network great success. But the [...]

Decency group seeking sensorship of YouTube fights freedom of speech

Triston McIntyre — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:05:02 +0000

YouTube is one of the Internet’s greatest cooperative canvasses of expression. But there are those that feel like each person’s right to individual expression, whether that be voiced in a video, song or comment, should be limited [...]

Employers leverage cloud computing to invade your Facebook privacy

Triston McIntyre — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:52:11 +0000

Everyone’s heard it: if you’re applying for a job today (and most everyone seems to be), you’d best be careful what you put up on your Facebook profile, lest your personal photos of you and your frat buddies doing [...]

Microsoft finally unveiling Zune phone at CES keynote January?

Triston McIntyre — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:18:28 +0000

Microsoft has been steadily plugging away at its little Zune media player for some time now, and critics and consumers alike have wondered when or if Microsoft intended to make the Zune directly competitive to the iPhone by making [...]

Google rolls out full search ads on iPhone, G1

Triston McIntyre — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:18:25 +0000

Apple’s iPhone and the HTC/T-Mobile/Google G1 have arguably the closest things to full web-browsing mobile phones. Unfortunately, having one’s cake and eating it too isn’t an option for users of such phones, as Google has announced the [...]

Social DVDs: gimmicks or progress?

Triston McIntyre — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:43:24 +0000

The wonderful thing about technology today is that it changes quickly and fluidly, faster than even the savviest early adopters can keep up with. But alongside the positive changes come many advancements that are simply money-making gimmicks, which lose support almost as quickly [...]

Google’s Wonderland loses luster with economic woes

Triston McIntyre — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:36:50 +0000

Google is to job seekers is as Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory is to…well…anybody. Perks out the wazzoo and a work environment bordering on utopia have made many wish they could be Oompa Loompas for the Web giant. But even [...]