Month: September 2010

Announcing the formal end to its iPhone 4 case program, Apple couldn’t resist getting in a parting shot at critics who complained about Apple’s handling of antenna problems affecting the iPhone 4. Apple CEO Steve Jobs discussing reception problems reported by some iPhone 4 customers. Read the original post by WBKB-TV Alpena

U.S. companies are piling on debt at levels not seen since the early months of 2008, but the capital-raising raises a question: what will companies do with their cash? Post-Labor Day investment-grade bond issue issuance topped $33.7 billion through 35 offerings. Read the original post by MarketWatch

Nine years after the worst terrorist attack on the United States, the country remembers those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001. – (AHN) Read the original post by NY Daily News

V3.co.uk got a chance to pit the upcoming Sony Reader Touch against the latest version of the Wi-Fi-only Amazon Kindle at a Sony event in London this week. Read the original post by Vnunet

Canada’s Rogers Communications plans to launch online movie rentals in mid-October as an extension to its “TV Everywhere” video service, which has attracted 250,000 customers — out of the MSO’s 2.3 million basic cable TV subscribers — in less than a year. Read the original post by Multichannel News

Irwin Silber, who as founding editor of the small but influential magazine Sing Out became a towering figure in the 1960s American folk music renaissance that brought Bob Dylan, Arlo Guthrie and numerous others to prominence, has died at age 84. Read the original post by KHWB-TV Houston

Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers received about $18.9 million in compensation for the latest fiscal year, a 33 percent increase from last year’s payout due to more generous bonus and stock awards, according to an Associated Press calculation of figures filed with regulators Friday. Read the original post by SiliconValley.com

GiveawayotDay: Scanned Text Editor form CadKas can help you to edit any scanned document without loseing anything. http://bit.ly/dmJnck Read the original post by The Globe and Mail

Look around these days, and you’ll see earphone cords dangling around many necks. Read the original post by C-Health

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Amy Winehouse watches The Libertines perform in London. Winehouse will contribute a song to the Quincy Jones tribute album, set to debut November 9. Amy Winehouse will contribute a song to the upcoming Quincy Jones tribute album Winehouse covered the 1963 song “It’s My Party,” one of Quincy’s first hits as a producer Winehouse has…

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Microsoft really isn’t that good at being snarky , but they try. Windows Phone 7 has gone RTM, and thus the company decided it was time for a funeral, not for Windows 6.5 , but for iPhone. Read the original post by WNOL-TV New Orleans

Apple set a deadline on its free case program of September 30th for its iPhone 4 free case program, and it is sticking to it. Read the original post by WNOL-TV New Orleans

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