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Transcript snip: Palin: Obama...Barack Obama has an ideological commitment to higher taxes. The lessons I believe we have taught our kids would start to erode. Those lessons about work ethic, hard work being rewarded and productivity being rewarded... Female yelling off-camera, in audience: And he's a ni***r! Palin: And...and......lessons about, um, the virtues of freedom and independence while being generous and compassionate with others. From Wonkette, via Daily Kos. (Thanks, Richard Metzger)....
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Lala's business model of selling and hosting digital music was a complete abhorrence to an innovative music startup -- named Lala. When the site launched, it was a CD trading service that held up the integrity of the album and the virtues of physical content ownership in an online music market of single-track downloads and subscription-based music rentals. To its trade-by-mail CD service, Lala added CD sales, playlist creation, and for a short time even owned a former broadcast radio station. It had to ultimately scale back, though, on what would have been its most audacious move,
giving away full streaming of the major labels' catalog -- all in the name of driving song purchases.
Lala's shifting strategies through the years may have led many to think that its
recent acquisition by Apple would represent radical changes to Apple's music approach. Lala lives on a Web page, streams from the cloud, and gives users, including Google search users, one full free play of any song in its library. But Lala's business model was always, at its core, more like iTunes' than any number of streaming music companies -- from the custom radio of Pandora to the subscription downloads of Rhapsody. Those services, however, have long been better at Apple at fostering music exploration when compared with iTunes' 30-second samples.
Continue reading Switched On: Apple's song remains the same
Switched On: Apple's song remains the same originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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You'll be aware by now that Google's
cooking up an experimental high speed broadband network, which is currently in the process of collecting applications and nominations from
interested communities. Given the limited coverage planned -- anywhere between 50,000 and 500,000 people -- there's understandably a lot of competition to get your small town on Google's radar, and city officials all around the USA have been doing their utmost to grab some publicity for their locale. Duluth mayor Don Ness can be seen above taking a dip in Minnesota's icy Lake Superior (with his unfortunate underling Richard Brown taking a fish to the face), while others have held parades, danced, invented a "Google Fiber" flavor of ice cream, and even
swam with sharks for the sake of that precious fiber. Duluth, however, is the only place officially endorsed by a senator, and you can see Al Franken promote the city's virtues on video after the break.
[Thanks, b3ast]
Update: We've now also got video of the actual dip in the water, slide past the break to see it [Thanks, TheLostSwede].
Continue reading Google's 1Gbps broadband offer brings out the crazy in municipal officers around the States (video)
Google's 1Gbps broadband offer brings out the crazy in municipal officers around the States (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Interesting post by our friend Harry McCracken at
Technologizer today, pointing out that HP's gone dead silent about the
Slate ever since it announced
plans to acquire Palm. Harry was at The Big Money's Untethered conference today, and HP CTO Phil McKinney was on stage, where he "talked about the downsides of using existing operating systems for new types of devices" and "extolled the virtues of webOS." Interesting topic, since the Slate very prominently ran Windows 7. When pressed, Phil said he couldn't talk about unreleased products, which is a big change: it's been six months since Steve Ballmer first
showed the Slate at CES, and since then HP's produced
several rah-rah videos, one of them featuring none other than
Phil McKinney himself.
Harry takes this new silence to mean that the
HP Slate is dead, and we're beginning to think he's right: although we haven't heard anything definite, we definitely noticed HP's absence at
tablet-heavy Computex, and at this rate, the Slate's
rumored 1.6GHz Atom Z530 will be hopelessly out of date by the time it launches -- Intel's now showing off
Moorestown Atom Z600 tablets and it's got the Windows-tablet focused
Oak Trail Atom planned for early next year. The window's closing a little more with every passing day -- at this point, HP needs to come clean just so we can all move on to waiting for the
Hurricane.
What's going on with the HP Slate? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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