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iPod touch users spend more time using apps than those with iPhones

A new survey of mobile device consumers has discovered that iPhone and iPod touch owners are mostly male, though iPhone users are older and have less time to use downloaded applications than those who have an iPod touch.

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Y Combinator To Startups: “We think the iPad is meant to be a Windows killer”

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Publishers Grab Onto iPad as a Life Preserver

But merely introducing a pay structure for digital content that's free on the Web, will it be that easy for the industry to bounce back?

Condé Nast is betting hard that it will. Already teamed up with Apple on a GQ iPhone app, the publisher will also unveil an iPad version of the magazine starting with the April issue. The next month will see iPad versions of Vanity Fair and Wired, followed by The New Yorker and Glamour sometime in the summer.

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Opening ceremony secrecy breached by iPhone sneak peeks

The traditional shroud of secrecy around Olympic opening ceremonies has some gaping holes in this age of digital downloads and social networking.

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Canadian computer, IT sales see 8% hike in Q4 after flat year, laptops leading the way – Digital Life

Notebook computers were the top seller in computer and information technology products last year in Canada.

An average price drop of 15 per cent pushed laptop sales up by 31 per cent over 2008, according to a report released today by the market research company NPD Group on computer and info tech products. The growing popularity of laptops has come at the expense of desktop computers, which saw sales drop 15 per cent from the year earlier.

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A Chat with Canadian Olympics IT Guy – Olympics and tech: ‘No room to fail’ (Q&A) | Beyond Binary – CNET News

As lead integrator for tech firm Atos Origin, Alvarsson is in charge of making sure all the PCs, phones, servers, and other gear are up and running so that the judges can judge, the athletes can perform, and the media can write about it all. Their systems handle, among other things, volunteer coordination, reporting of medical issues, and the accreditation of athletes and other Games personnel.

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Vancouver Olympics Taps Artificial Freezing Technology To Keep Mountain Snow From Melting | AHN

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Apple Fast Becoming iPod, Inc. | TechWatch | Fast Company

In 2007, Apple decided it would drop the "Computer" from its corporate title and become simply Apple, Inc. At the time the change seemed semantic or aesthetic, depending on your outlook. But the move proved more prescient this morning as Apple officially brought the number of mobile devices it makes to a grand total of eight. That's one more iPod than Macintosh that exists in their lineup. Apple, it seems, has become a mobile device maker

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Hmmm…New "Internet Meter" will Officially Measure Web TV Audience

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Flickr Finally Goes Native With An iPhone App

Yahoo’s Flickr app has just gone live in the App Store.

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