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This article was written on July 31, 2007 by CyberNet.

There seems to be a lot of news in the land of Apple today, so instead of covering everything in-depth, we’ve got all the Apple headlines in-brief:

iTunes Store has Sold over Three Billion Songs

• Wowy! The iTunes store has sold over three b-b-billion songs! The iTunes catalog currently features over five million songs, 550 TV Shows, and 500 movies (hmm… this number seems pretty low to me). They are now the third largest music retailer in the United States and I still have yet to make a purchase from them.

Bejeweled Free for iPhone!

• Bejeweled is considered a classic, and now you can get it for free on your iPhone. The maker of the game, PopCap Games has created a version made especially for the iPhone that is played in the Safari browser. You can find the game at www.popcap.com.

Source: CrunchGear

Apple Sued by Eminem Publishers

• Apple has been sued by Eminem’s publishers who claim that Apple broke copyright by selling Eminem’s music which they were not authorized to sell. It always amazes me when issues like this come up. The lawyer handling the case, Owen Sloane says the Apple suit is an example of a larger problem in the music industry where labels have the right to sell CDs but not downloads. Why an artist wouldn’t want their music to be available in the form of a download where they get paid is beyond me.

Source: MacNN

Apple’s iPhone Patents

• Unwired View has an interesting post which shows some of the Apple patents that were filed which cover some of the iPhone’s features like the “intelligent keyboard.” Within the single patent for the virtual keyboard, there were 136 “specific user interface innovation claims” which means that competitors who want to create something similar will have a difficult time!

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The Core i5-540M is still quite rare on the ground, but we’re hearing word that Intel is already prepping the assembly line for its successor. A new Core i5-580M has been dug up by the sleuths at Notebook Italia, who say it’ll run at a default 2.66GHz and ramp up to 3.33GHz via Turbo Boost when needed. Those numbers compare favorably to the 2.53GHz and 3.06GHz of the 540M, and if Intel and company get their timing right,the 580M should be stealing some of that Core i7 thunder just in time for the back to school shopping rush. Won’t hear any complaining from us if that turns out to be the case.

Intel Core i5-580M speeding toward a fall release at 2.66GHz? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 May 2010 04:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on August 22, 2007 by CyberNet.

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Isn’t it great when sites like Amazon are given information regarding a product, and they publish the details right away. I think Amazon is known for leaking pricing and release dates of items, and they’re at it again with the HP MediaSmart Home Server.

Amazon had two different pages setup for the MediaSmart Servers: a 500GB model and a 1TB model. Both of them had the launch prices posted (which I’ve provided below) and have since been removed. The release date, announced as September 15th late November, will mark the beginning of a bright future for Windows Home Server.

Here are the specs as provided by Amazon:

• HP MediaSmart EX470 (GG795AA#ABA)
  Cost: $599 (£299)
  Processor: AMD LIVE 64 1.8 Ghz Sempron
  Storage: 500GB (1 x 500GB)
  Dimensions: 9.7 x 9.2 x 5.5 inches
  External USB Ports: 4
• HP MediaSmart EX475 (GG796AA#ABA)
  Cost: $749 (£374)
  Processor: AMD LIVE 64 1.8 Ghz Sempron
  Storage: 1TB (2 x 500GB)
  Dimensions: 9.7 x 9.2 x 5.5 inches
  External USB Ports: 4

The HP MediaSmart Servers will also be supplied with the HP Photo Webshare software, which makes it easy to securely share your photos with friends and family. I’ve also heard that this software will let other people share photos with you. I’m really interested to see how that will work.

Unfortunately there is no mention of how much memory (RAM) the computers will have, but I would guess that they will be supplied with at least 1GB. Overall I think the price for the system sounds reasonable, and I may have to consider picking one of these up.

Source: We Got Served [via Engadget]

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How’s your memory today? Specifically, can you remember the last time AMD had a legitimate claim to the desktop performance crown? Don’t hold your breath, the latest and greatest Phenom II still can’t steal the spotlight from Intel’s spectacular top-of-the-line Core i7-980X, but if prices actually matter to you, you’ll wanna read on. Whereas you’d need to shell out $999 to get six cores from Intel, AMD is offering you its flagship 3.2GHz 1090T model at a reasonable $285, or an even more affordable option with the 2.8GHz 1055T at $199. The T in those names stands for Turbo Core, which automatically downclocks half the cores in order to provide a little extra speed (up to 500MHz more) to the other three. Reviewers agreed that its inclusion helped significantly improve single-threaded performance, to the point where the faster (in default clock speed) 3.4GHz Phenom II X4 965 was falling behind in benchmarks. The general opinion by the typically jaded journalists was that AMD has finally regained some pep in its step and that these new 6-core CPUs are going to give Intel’s upper midrange offerings something to worry about. Lest we forget, the 1090T and 1055T also retain socket compatibility with current AM2+ and AM3 motherboards, making upgrades a cinch too. The full reviews await below.

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AMD’s 3.2GHz hexacore Phenom II X6 1090T comes out for a review roundup originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Looking back through our archives, you’ll find plenty of user dissatisfaction with the 3G reception on Google’s Nexus One. Blamed alternately on T-Mobile’s inferior 3G coverage and on software bugs, the problem was expected to be banished with an over-the-air update in early February. The update came, but the trouble also stayed. It might now be time to finally lay those last lingering hopes for rectification to rest, as Google has directly responded to calls for a bigger and better OTA patch by explaining that it’s no longer working on “further engineering improvements.” That’s a pretty conclusive sign that the problem is in the hardware, particularly when you peruse the support thread in question and the reception comparisons users have been doing with other handsets. Well, at least you know for sure now.

[Thanks, Ryan]

Google ‘no longer investigating’ fix for Nexus One 3G issues, advises ‘changing your location’ originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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