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WSJ: Sony Readying Download Service To Challenge Apple The Wall Street Journal writes today that Sony is planning to go head-to-head with Apple’s movie and television download iTunes service, readying its own internet enabled video store. The report indicates that Sony will capitalise on the technology built into the PLAYSTATION 3, PSP and Bravia televisions to carve out a slice of the video download market.

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Monday, March 03, 2008 21:22 Recommend article: Sydney (Australia) - If you have co-founded a company and spent a better part of your life in it, does that mean you need to adore every product that came out of the company? If you ask Steve Jobs, one part of the famous duo that created Apple, the answer is yes. You should even adore those products and religiously buy them as soon as they are released. But then again, Steve Wozniak never was your typical co-founder.

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March 3, 2008 05:11 PM Apple reportedly has failed to reach its goal of offering 1,000 movies for rent on the iTunes store by the end of February. As of the last day in February, iTunes had a total of 770 titles, including movies for rent and for sale, according to a tally compiled by Macworld.com . In checking the list of movies for rent on iTunes through an Apple TV or a computer, Macworld found 351 and 378 titles, respectively, far short of the 1,000-movie goal.

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Last year, Apple CEO Steve Jobs faced heated questions about the company’s stock options scandal, which appears largely forgotten a year later. But not completely. The AFL-CIO Reserve Fund has submitted a shareholder proposal asking that shareholders have the opportunity to ratify the compensation of Apple’s executive officers. Such a vote would be non-binding, the group said, but it would give shareholders an opportunity to express how they feel.

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Advertisement Processor pace is another decision - there’s the option of either a 1.6 or 1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo on a slick 800MHz front-side bus with 2GB of 667MHz of DDR2 RAM for fuel and a 4MB Level 2 cache. The machine received from Apple for this review was fitted with the 1.6 Core Duo, 2GB of RAM and a 80GB Samsung drive.

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24-inch computer with aluminum keyboard and mouse. The revolutionary design is another CaseCruzer travel solution. This breakthrough Pelican carrying case with its custom foam interior protects slim monitors against the jolt and impact of rocky roads, careless baggage handlers and bustling trade shows. The case is 27.38 inches in length and width, and 16 inches high. It weighs about 38 lbs when empty.

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Records are nothing new for the Apple Valley wrestling team. The Eagles began the state tournament already holding state standards for dual-meet state titles (15), appearances in team championship matches (21) and consecutive trips to state (27). The record book got a little thicker Saturday, however, as five Eagles won individual state championships. That tied the mark set by Forest Lake in 1993 and set a record for all-time state champs by one team.

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While looking for ways of speeding up the performance of the upcoming Firefox 3 browser, developer Vladimir Vukicevic said this week that he came across dozens of secret tweaks built into WebKit - the software at the core of Apple’s own Safari browser. Separately, security researchers said this week they have found a way of locally bypassing the security of Mac OS X’s Keychain password system.

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March 3, 2008 (Computerworld) This is the second in a series of articles as Computerworld follows AWC’s transition to Apple over the course of a year. Hindsight, as they say, is always 20/20. Less than five months after going public with plans to immediately start replacing its Windows-based PCs with Macs, Auto Warehousing Co. was forced to push back the project by more than a month. That was last December. The reason was not a lack of money, manpower or executive support.

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The Time Capsule comes with a Hitachi Deskstar drive, contrary to Apple marketing claims. Apple’s much-hyped marriage of a network-attached hard drive and a wireless access point, the Time Capsule, has been thoroughly dismantled by eager early adopters and it’s revealed something interesting. One of the main selling points of the device, and one that Apple made a big deal of in the original marketing materials, was the use of ‘њserver grade’ќ hardware ‘“ specifically, the hard drive.

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