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RIAA Says CDs Should Cost More 540

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday February 07, 2007 @01:07AM from the when-bandersnatchii-fly dept.

EatingSteak writes "The folks over at Techdirt just put up a great story today, with the RIAA claiming the cost of a CD has gone down significantly relative to the consumer price index. The RIAA 'Key Facts' page claims that based on the 1983 price of CDs, the 1996 price should have been $33.86. So naturally, you should feel like you're getting a bargain. Sounds an awful lot like the cable companies saying cable prices are really going down even though they're going up."

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Firefox 3 Plans and IE8 Speculation 274

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 12, 2007 @11:46AM from the you-need-one-or-t'other dept.

ReadWriteWeb writes "Information about the next versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer suggest that the two biggest browsers are heading in different directions. Mozilla has published a wiki page detailing its plans for the next version of Firefox, codenamed 'Gran Paradiso'. Among the mandatory requirements listed for FF3 are improving the add-on experience, providing an extensible bookmarks back-end platform, adding more support for web services "to act as content handlers" — all of which show that Firefox wants to be an independent information broker rather than a simple HTML renderer in its next version. Also in the works is Microsoft's IE8. According to ActiveWin.com, a Microsoft official at CES told them that work has already begun for IE 8 and it may be released as a final product 'within 18-24 months'. Looking ahead, it's obvious that IE will continue to hook into the advanced functionality that Vista offers."

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Submission + - Epson Closes American Tech Support; Moves to Asia

Submitted by

Rukawa Kaede

on Saturday November 04, 2006 @09:23PM

Rukawa Kaede writes: "According to this report from DailyTech, Epson is shutting down its North American call centers and outsourcing all support to some third party in the Philippines. I can understand the business decision behind this, as everyone is out to save a buck or two, but I still feel rather uneasy when my phone calls get routed to some developing country. If given the option, I might even be willing to pay a few dollars more for my hardware if tech support were to stay on a little bit more familiar ground. Score one for globalization, I guess."

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Submission + - How to get your site banned from google

Submitted by

crankshot999

on Saturday November 04, 2006 @11:59AM

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Comment Wow (Score 1) 514

by Moiph on Wednesday August 16, 2006 @04:26PM (#15922275) Attached to: Kids with Cell Phones, How Young is Too Young?

I just got my first cell phone two weeks ago, and I'm 20. I did fine without one all that time and even now I don't use it all that often. I really only got one because I won't have a landline phone in my apartment (though, I will admit, it is nice to have just in case and has proved handy a few times). Even so I mostly use it as a watch :P

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