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Business
All the Apple Store Data You Could Possibly Want to Read
2:17AM Matt Buchanan | So, I’m at the opening of the fancy new Apple Store on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. They’re talking about how awesome their retail is and whatnot. I’ll have pictures up shortly. But for now, digits. More »
Music
It’s Almost 2010 And CDs Are Not Dead Yet?
7:00AM Jesus Diaz | I’ve started to buy vinyl records again. It’s not because of the sound. It’s the touch and the pretty pictures. Obviously, vinyl is not why CDs are dying. Zoom-zoom in, digital boys and girls. More »
Random Stuff
64% Of Men Don’t RTFM Before Calling Tech Support
12:30PM Chris Jacob | Gadget Helpline, a UK tech support service, found that well over half of their male customers didn’t even bother to read the manual before calling tech support. C’mon guys, is that the best we can do? More »
Software
1:51AM John Herrman | Windows 7 rolls past Snow Leopard in just a week, almost everyone still runs XP, and Vista, which didn’t even crack one-third of its predecessor’s install base, is doomed to be forgotten. This is the world outside Gizmodo, people. [Ars]
Reality Check
1:51AM John Herrman | Windows 7 rolls past Snow Leopard in just a week, almost everyone still runs XP, and Vista, which didn’t even crack one-third of its predecessor’s install base, is doomed to be forgotten. This is the world outside Gizmodo, people. [Ars]
Software
iPhone Ebooks: The New Fart Apps
Random Stuff
Only 3% Of Americans Think It Should Be Legal To Text And Drive
12:47AM Matt Buchanan | I didn’t think 97 per cent of Americans were in agreement about anything, but apparently they are about texting while driving: They think it should be illegal. A mere 3 per cent don’t care, or didn’t answer cause they were busy texting. More »
Software
Microsoft’s Favourite Windows 7 Statistic
2:00AM Matt Buchanan | Sure, 91 per cent of release candidate testers surveyed said they’d recommend Windows 7 to friends and family. But, undoubtedly, Microsoft’s favourite statistic is that 80 per cent of Mac users in the survey said they’d recommend Windows 7 to friends and family too. More »
Business
AT&T Sells More iPhones Than Ever Before
11:10PM Mark Wilson | AT&T’s quarterly earnings are out, and we have a crazy stat for you: Of 4.3 million new phones activated by AT&T last quarter, 3.2 million were iPhones — that’s 74 per cent. More »
Phones
Graphs Prove iPhone To Be Most Successful Gadget Ever (Sort Of)
1:00PM Dan Nosowitz | These charts, from the Web 2.0 Summit, show the iPhone’s growth in both data usage and sheer sales compared to other blockbuster gadget releases — and (not without caveats, natch), it blows most of them out of the water. More »
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