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Life without the iPhone: It’s definitely doable

August 21, 2010 by Dave Knadler

Occasionally you see these stories about people deciding to do without their smart phones for a day, or a week, or possibly 10 days, just to see if it can be done — or if their heads will indeed explode from sheer lack of connectedness, as seen in the 1981 movie Scanners. As of […]

Filed Under: Iphone, itunes

Music for a song? That’s theft

April 8, 2009 by Dave Knadler

I’m not outraged that Apple has bumped the price of its music downloads a cool 30 percent, a move followed a day later by Amazon and then by Wal-Mart. I’m not sure why they don’t raise the price 50 percent, or 100 percent, or 1,000. The music industry is on the ropes, after all, […]

Filed Under: itunes, Music

Same old content, new higher price

May 13, 2008 by Dave Knadler

As much as I liked The Man From U.N.C.L.E as a kid, I don’t recall ever lusting to see any particular episode more than once. In fact, we’d usually scorn the summer reruns as being beneath our dignity. Same with Bonanza, or Mannix, or Petticoat Junction. You’d fight for a place in front of […]

Filed Under: hbo, itunes, television

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