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Journal Journal: The Death of the iTunes Music Store? 2

Journal by larry bagina
The Drudge Report is reporting that Universal Music Group (the largest record company) will not be renewing their contract with iTMS. Universal, you may remember, is being paid a license fee for every Zune sold and was widely rumored to be demanding the same concession from Apple.
Handhelds

Submission + - In-depth Review of the iPhone

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: As more blogs coming out with in-depth reviews of the iPhone, it sounds like it will make Steve Jobs even richer:

"It is indeed revolutionary, super-sexy and insanely easy to use. This is a phone you could give your multimedia-lovin' mum and she'd get the hang of everything quickly. And she'd appreciate the large icons too . Steve Jobs wasn't exaggerating when he said this was the best iPod Apple has ever made. The fantastic wide screen display, responsive and beautiful cover flow, good audio quality and support for every file that a regular iPod should make this the darling of iPod fans. The phone works well in terms of volume, voice quality and reception. It's powerful enough to compete with smartphones but the lack of a physical keyboard and 3rd party applications (including an Office suite) mean it falls short for those with serious business needs. If you simply need excellent email, a superb web browser, RSS and attachment viewing, then it will suffice."
Microsoft

Submission + - Vista is watching you!

Submitted by greengrass
greengrass writes: Are you using Windows Vista? Then you might as well know that the licensed operating system installed on your machine is harvesting a healthy volume of information for Microsoft. In this context, a program such as the Windows Genuine Advantage is the last of your concerns. In fact, in excess of 20 Windows Vista features and services are hard at work collecting and transmitting your personal data to the Redmond company.

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GUI

Submission + - New Magic vs. The Old GUI

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Interesting perspective on Google as a "new magic" user interface, taking over from GUIs, like GUIs took over from CLIs: "What other "magical" approaches are there to the things Google doesn't do? It's like asking, circa 1985, what else can you do with a graphical user interface other than help people run an operating system?"
Education

Journal Journal: Firstborns Raised to be More Intelligent

Journal by Cyspeth
The Long held beleif that first born children are genetically more likely be more intelligent than their younger siblings has at last been debunked. It turns out that its how the children are raised that matters... And why am I not surprised? "Even if a child had lost an older sibling and was raised as the eldest, their IQ was higher by an average of 2.3 points than their younger siblings." http://www.worldnewsaustralia.com.au/region.php?id=137876&region=3

Windows Chief Suggests Vista Won't Need Antivirus 361

Posted by CowboyNeal from the steadfastly-bulletproof dept.
LadyDarth writes "During a telephone conference with reporters yesterday, outgoing Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin, while touting the new security features of Windows Vista, which was released to manufacturing yesterday, told a reporter that the system's new lockdown features are so capable and thorough that he was comfortable with his own seven-year-old son using Vista without antivirus software installed."

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