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Apple News: Apple’s Web Music Streaming Service To Launch This Summer Adding to earlier reports suggesting Apple’s web music service, The Verge game out essential piece of information saying that Apple made really good progress and is all set to launch its web music service iRadio (rumoured) this summer. With the World Wide Developer conference scheduled for summer it might be a good time to launch iRadio service as well….

Apple News: Consumer Reports: Apple still tops in reliability The Consumer Reports cover story looked at best brands in electronics. The reliability section was based on Consumer Reports’ annual Product Reliability Survey, and reported on computers from Acer, Apple, Dell, eMachines, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Sony and Toshiba. Read full story => ZDNet Technology News: European Parliament Passes Resolution Against ITU Asserting Control Over Internet Today, the European Parliament passed a…

I got my first personal computer, the Altair 8800, in 1975. It came as a kit and included only the parts to build a case, power supply, an 18-slot card cage (with four slots available), an 8080-based CPU card, and a memory card with 256 bytes of memory (not 256k or 256mb, but 256 bytes). Oh my, those were the days. What memories! Teletype machines, paper tape, boot loaders, ADM-3…