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SFist Tech Roundup: A Nano In Your Pocket

Not everybody has love for Apple in their pants — a new update to iTunes was released and bloggers are outraged. The issue is a new MiniStore panel underneath the library view. As you

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SFist Tech Labs: Speculate Different

What actually happened was a little less earth-shattering, more a confirmation of what had already been announced. Apple's big push was the release of the first two Intel-based Macs:

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SFist Tech Roundup: Consume!

The keynote announcements from Google are in line with the more believable rumors of the past couple of days: the Google Video Store, a partnership with CBS and other video content providers for

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SFist Tech Labs: What's Inside the Google Cube?

But as it turns out, all the excitement has been going on here in our very own idyllic backyard of Mountain View. As adventure-seeking tech writers sought to unlock the Mysteries of

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SFist Chuck: New Year's Revolutions

Best Gadget of 2005 The iPod Nano. As pernicious as my gadget fetish is, I still get more than a little unnerved when people talk about consumer electronics using words like "sexy&

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SFist Tech Labs: OK to Play

We're happy about the injunction, and not just because it guarantees kids will be able to develop the skills they'll need to survive in an increasingly zombie-slaying and

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SFist Tech Roundup: The Usual Suspects

Google bought stock in AOL, after the latter turned down possible deals with Microsoft, and earlier Yahoo and Comcast. Google also made additions to its services by adding GMail access from mobile phones,

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SFist Tech Labs: They Also Make Computers

We already mentioned ThinkSecret's post about a Mac mini-based home media hub, and it's also speculating on the content delivery system that device will use. AppleInsider is claiming

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SFist Tech Labs: With a Name Like Yahoo, It Has to Be Delicious

The del.icio.us announcement got a great big steaming pile of comments and website/blog coverage, much of it positive, but much of it taking part in a pre-emptive backlash dogpile

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SFist Tech Roundup: Bad Blood

Speaking of bad blood, Yahoo announced it would undercut eBay-owned Skype by adding Voice Over Internet Protocol capability to its Yahoo Messenger at cheaper rates. The National Broadcasting Company joined the Apple

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SFist Tech Labs: We've Got a Report Due On Space

That scandal, plus a less intense scuffle over the history of podcasting and the influence of vee-jays thereon, prompted Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales this week to change the site'

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SFist Tech Roundup: format c:\

Intel is jumping on the home media center bandwagon with its new VIIV technology, specifically aimed at creating media PCs. SFGate's take explains how Intel is having to work with content

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SFist Tech Roundup: The Media Is the Message

Kaleidoscope We may not have the Xbox 360's awesome home media center capabilities, but we may not even need them, if Apple rumor site Think Secret's speculation is correct.

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SFist Tech Roundup: My AIBO Ate My Homework

Steady on, San Francisco! The city, if not the entire blogosphere, is still reeling from the lack of a SFist Tech Roundup post last week. But we have a very good excuse. All

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SFist Tech Roundup: sunday Sunday SUNDAY!

ComBots are coming to Fort Mason next weekend, so you can all knock yourselves out watching robots with sawblades and blowtorches cutting each other up and setting each other on fire. We'

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SFist Tech Roundup: Just Like You

They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and if the same goes for intellectual property theft and encroaching on other people's business, then a lot of people should

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SFist Tech Roundup: Tomorrow Dies Forever Today

You'd think that for a city on a fault line, situated right next to the world's biggest proving ground for new technology, the Bay Area could come up with

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SFist Tech Roundup: Tumbleweeds

Howdy, folks! It's been a powerful slow week for tech news, so in honor of the Fry's in Palo Alto, we'll take the "roundup" in

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SFist Tech Roundup: They, Robots

The tech lab crew took a field trip to San Jose last week for the RoboNexus international robotics convention. It's the second year of the convention, and it's the

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SFist Tech Roundup: A Very Brady Bulletin

When we agreed to open the SFist Tech Labs to the public with this column, we had visions of writing about new cell phones and PDAs and MP3 players, web applications, and all

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SFist Tech Roundup: Zeptointerest

Apparently the rest of the world wasn't satisfied with our "look at how small it is" defense for the iPod nano, as they've gone and made Apple

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SFist Tech Roundup: That’ll Be All, Jeeves

Oakland-based “global web property” Ask.com announced late last week that they’re phasing out the Jeeves persona that was beloved by some. Their reasoning was “user confusion,” in that bewildered users

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SFist Tech Roundup: Three Companies

Big things are happening at SFist Tech, as part of our ongoing bitter rivalry against the cow-molesters at SFist A&M and those stupid frat jocks at University of SFist. This