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Mail Goggles: The cure for drunken emails 
MG Siegler via VentureBeat on Tue, 07 Oct. 2008
When I was in college I was definitely known for sending out the occasional late night email while not of sound mind or judgement. Most of them didn’t get me in trouble — most of them made absolutely no sense — but there was always that uncomfortable situation the next morn
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Location comes to the desktop browser with Mozilla’s Geode
MG Siegler via VentureBeat on Tue, 07 Oct. 2008
Location is a hot field in mobile computing. It makes sense — you’re on the move, and newer phones
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Apple hits 10 million iPhone goal early — its stock fails to notice
MG Siegler via VentureBeat on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
You know the stock market’s bad when Apple has a flurry of good iPhone news and its stock is still down over 8 percent in
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The Down Jones: Dow crashes below 10,000 — Nasdaq doing even worse
MG Siegler via VentureBeat on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has not closed below 10,000 since 2004. Today it looks like it might — well
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The Apple aluminum Brick road?
MG Siegler via VentureBeat on Sun, 05 Oct. 2008
For weeks, rumors have been circulating that a new Apple product code-named “Brick” was nearing completion. Some said it was a redesigned Mac Mini, others thought it would be a sub-notebook, some t
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Bailout finally passes the House — market drops on news
MG Siegler via VentureBeat on Fri, 03 Oct. 2008
The House has just passed the economic bailout plan, according to CNN. This paves the way for the Treasury Secretary to spend as much as $700 billion to buy up t
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Run web apps in full-screen native app mode on the iPhone
MG Siegler via VentureBeat on Fri, 03 Oct. 2008
With the launch of the App Store and native third-party applications for the iPhone and iPod touch, the once all-powerful web app has diminished in value. There are still plenty of good ones out there such as the Twitter client Hahlo,
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If Apple sues CNN’s iReport, it won’t be over the “i”
MG Siegler via VentureBeat on Fri, 03 Oct. 2008
Speed may be the great advantage of citizen journalism, but today we saw its downside: inaccuracy. A report this morning on CNN’s iReport, its c
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How to really sell an iPhone app: Get Apple to promote it in its retail stores
MG Siegler via VentureBeat on Thu, 02 Oct. 2008
With so many applications that get released everyday in Apple’s App Store, it can be hard for any one app to stand out. This is especially true for apps that have be
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Royalty rate frozen, iTunes is saved! (It was never going to die anyway.)
MG Siegler via VentureBeat on Thu, 02 Oct. 2008
The Copyright Royalty Board handed down its ruling today on a proposed increase in the rate that digital music download stores much pay publishers. The result? No change. It will remain at 9.1 cents a song,
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So much for that tech stock rebound: Apple, Yahoo, Google killed again
MG Siegler via VentureBeat on Thu, 02 Oct. 2008
The stock market took a plunge again today. While it wasn’t quite as bad as Monday’s free-fall, the Dow fell 348.2
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iObama: The Democrats get an iPhone app
MG Siegler via VentureBeat on Thu, 02 Oct. 2008
The campaign for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is nothing if not savvy in the ways to woo the tech crowd. After months of relentl
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Roundup: Buffet invests, M&As and IPOs sink, Mac laptops rise and more
MG Siegler via VentureBeat on Thu, 02 Oct. 2008
Here’s the latest action:
In Buffet we trust — Billionaire Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathway group is investing $3 billion in General Electric. Why the investment? GE is the “symbol of American business to the world,”
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A reminder that you have to register to vote
MG Siegler via ParisLemon on Wed, 01 Oct. 2008
Though the video below is a bit long, and completely stolen by Jonah Hill, the message is important: Vote.I think a lot of people set out with the intention to vote in a big election than forget one vital thing: That you have to register beforehand. You do -- and you have to do that soon -- registration cards have to be post marked by Octob
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Is political debate driving people to Twitter and changing its nature?
MG Siegler via VentureBeat on Wed, 01 Oct. 2008
Twitter started out as a service in which you were given 140 characters to give mundane updates about your activities at any given moment. That’s what you still see the “What are you doing?” question ab
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Imeem revamps its site for a more cohesive online music experience
MG Siegler via VentureBeat on Wed, 01 Oct. 2008
Before MySpace Music even existed, online social music service imeem had a deal with all the major labels and many of the smaller ones to str
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Could a digital music royalty price hike force iTunes into subscriptions?
MG Siegler via VentureBeat on Tue, 30 Sep. 2008
There’s some talk today that if the National Music Publishers’ Association manages to increase the royalty rates for music bought from online music stores, Apple iTunes coul
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Buy your home copy of Iron Man for only $1,200
MG Siegler via VentureBeat on Tue, 30 Sep. 2008
Dell is partnering with Paramount Pictures on a promotion that can only be described as pointless. The computer maker will give consumers the option of pre-loading a digital copy of the film Iron Man onto their new computers,
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Facebook 2.0 for the iPhone, tastes more like regular Facebook
MG Siegler via VentureBeat on Tue, 30 Sep. 2008
As promised, Facebook has rolled out a new, more robust iPhone application. Version 2.0 brings man
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