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A leading UK retailer has let slip some details on what it expects from the next-gen iPod touch — and you don

As demoed at Google I/O as part of GoogleTV, Youtube has released ‘Leanback’ for computers today.  There are gobs of Flash involved so it doesn’t work on iDevices; nor will it ever.  But it’s not bad for those with Mac Mini mediacenters, however.

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Somehow, it doesn’t seem like a fantastic idea to base a new streaming video on Flash, especially when a company like Google could do a lot with HTML5.  Ten seconds in, I am already getting beachballs.  That being said, this is kinda cool when it works.

Any concerns that Apple

You wanna work at Apple? Well, perhaps you can, if you

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That mental image isn’t making our holiday any better.  HuffPo says that two of the most powerful men in the world once shared a double date.

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, two titans of tech, have been friends, competitors, and colleagues. They’ve even gone on double-dates.

Is that plural?  Who were the ‘lucky’ ladies? Was this a deleted scene of Pirates of Silicon Valley?   Anyone have any backstory on this one?  

Apple could be missing a trick in China because the company doesn

Interesting discussion from Techcrunch. 

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Speaking of the need to apply a disruptive business model to the traditional TV, the evolution of the iTunes Store into the iTunes network and Apple

Apple v. Google is of course in the spotlight in the latest interview with Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, in which he claims his company does not

UPDATE: ApplePR has thrown this report into dispute.

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Opera Software has introduced Opera 10.60, claiming its new browser is the fastest around and up to 50 percent faster than the previous version.

The browser employs up-to-date open standards, adds new features, improved security and is more stable than before.

Speed is the key claim: The company suggests its speed enhancements translate into a faster browsing experience for users on modern JavaScript-heavy sites such as Gmail and Facebook.

Geolocation is one of the built-in features, so your current position can be set on the map when using maps, though you can switch this feature off.

Opera is also first to market in fielding the open WebM format that gives you optimized video right in the browser on all platforms. Support for offline applications also appears in this release.

The Opera Turbo compresses the data going over your connection up to a factor of two or more, for those congested connections at caf

You think corporate bigwigs want to carry around some Cisco vaporware? Apple

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Attention UK The iPhone 4 is now almost completely sold out on every carrier and retailer offering the device — O2 is the last network with any of them left.

O2 only has a few of the devices left and that

The Google-owned AdMob service has confirmed that smartphone ad requests have doubled in the last two years with the iPhone and iPad accounting for 40 percent of May

SAI tells us AOL wants to sell MapQuest — they even updated it yesterday –and they seem to think Microsoft wants it. Well, we know another company that could use help in Maps….

Cisco is developing a way Flash and the iPhone iOS can co-exist peacefully — a network-based solution that will sort out video off the device for playback on a device.

Speaking to Computerworld, Marthin De Beer, senior vice president of emerging technologies, said, “We have a solution for Steve’s problem,” [with Flash].

The company — which incidentally licensed the iOS trademark it owns for use by Apple — is putting together a network-based technology called the Media Experience Engine.

Media Experience Engine will operate inside carrier networks to transcode video from any input device into formats in which it can be received by any other device.

Hosted on the network itself, I suspect this is the optimal solution to enable the widest access to the most numerous video format for any device. It is a step up from solutions like this, which are hosted extrinsically to the network itself.

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The Apple iPhone 4 signal non-issue issue just won

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I can’t help but think of the opportunity lost by Apple not including a camera on the iPad.  Cisco unveiled its Enterprise Android Tablet, called Cius, today.  We’ll withhold judgement until we see one, but have a feeling that corporate IT is going to be pushing these down people’s throats rather than thinking outside of the box and buying iPads.

The usage case seems pretty interesting, but again, it is all about the execution.

Moving away from all the reported snags and SNAFU