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MP3 player and online music service compatibility wizard - CNET.com
This CNET wizard will let you choose the player you like best, then tells you which music services it works with. Make sure you don’t get bit by coming home with a new toy that won’t work with the music store of your choice.
An iPod forces […]

Tech Digest: If you have a digital camera you’ve got to try AutoStitch. This ingenious little program, unearthed by Propellerhead, is a brilliant way to create spectacular panoramic images, and it’s almost foolproof. Simply stand in one spot and snap away trying to capture as much of what you can see as possible. You don’t […]

Gizmodo: Over the next couple months Apple may be phasing out the 60GB iPod video in favor of something else, hopefully the true iPod Video that we have been hearing about non-stop for the past month, according to an Apple analyst. Apple told distributors that the 60GB iPod will be “at risk” until the end […]

Gizmodo: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Fortune magazine that the company is interested in taking on the iPod, and hinted about combining the player with a cellphone. Ballmer said, “In five years are people really going to carry two devices? One device that is their communication device, one device that is […]

Review by CNET:
Following the successful launch of Firefox 1.5 last November, the Mozilla organization has released Firefox 2 Alpha 1, code-named Bon Echo. At first blush, the differences between Firefox 1.5 and Firefox 2 are not dramatic. But spend a little time with the browser, and you’ll notice subtle enhancements, such as little Xs that […]

Techdirt Wireless:
While many, many people still feel there’s absolutely nothing wrong with piggybacking on someone’s open WiFi, the police don’t always agree. We’ve had a few stories in the past about people getting arrested for using someone else’s WiFi, or even threatening to arrest people for simply using a cantenna. The latest such story, sent […]

Engadget Mobile:
2006 is the year Sprint and Verizon upgrade their already relatively new EV-DO networks from Rel. 0 to Revision A, which will increase download speeds to 3.1Mbps (from 2.4) and upload speeds to 1.8MBps from the paltry 0.15Mbps we’ve been living with until now. Of course neither network has to enable the full pipe […]

Techdirt Corporate Intelligence: Techdirt Wireless:
For years, many people have been asking for “naked DSL” — the ability to get DSL without also having to pay for phone service. While Qwest became a supporter of naked DSL early on, the other big telcos refused to budge. They would either say there was no demand, or they […]

Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, plans to delay the consumer launch of its much-anticipated Windows Vista operating system to January 2007.
It had originally targeted Vista’s launch for the second half of 2006.
However, a version for corporate customers will be available in November this year.
Windows Vista will then be rolled out for consumers after the […]

Engadget: China’s got some businesses to protect — landline phone businesses, that is — and it sounds like no Skype VoIP licenses (enabling, for example, SkypeOut calling) are to be issued for another two years over there per government intervention. That’s bad, but what’s worse is apparently China Telecom’s declared the software “illegal” (we assume […]