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After almost 2 years of "borrowing" my friend's London address and using Spotify, I finally broke down and bought the $5 unlimited membership. No need for mobile thanks to Fun Radio via TuneIn and podcasts. Shawn Parker, you've finally done something right.
Now that Spotify launched in the United States, converting your old "hacked" UK-based account to a US-based account is as simple as logging into spotify.com (no proxy needed) and changing your country/zip code to the US. It will reset your previous listening time allowance to full 10-hours. The downside is "losing" tracks due to the different licensing agreements - you'll still have the names of the tracks saved in case you want to import mp3s manually, but they are grayed out so you can't listen to them. I estimate I lost about 20% of my tracks - not a deal breaker for me if I never have to mess with UK SSL proxy every 14 days. Note the purple premium tracks are due to me listening to them more than 5 times.
In the PC world, with fewer ways of differentiating HP’s products from our competitors, we became number one; in the tablet world we’re going to become better than number one. We call it number one plus.
1+ is worse than #1. Foot in mouth, now.
(Though I am looking forward to playing with the Touchpad. WebOS is a pleasant experience overall. )
"According to an official FAQ provided for a Verizon webinar, the PlayBook will indeed be getting native email, calendar and contacts apps in a "future software update," but you'll have to make do with them initially."
This is slowly becoming a joke - a 7-in tablet that's priced the same as the 10-in iPad 2, announced in Sept 2010, won't be released until April, and won't be feature-complete at launch. Is anyone taking this tablet game seriously or do they simply want a "presence" in the space to please shareholders?
I'd take the iPad 1 over this any day, especially now it's available for $299 at Verizon.
Oh wait, the PlayBook runs Android apps. Hooray for RIM.
After the good news this morning of LinkedIn acquiring CardMunch, thus making the later free, LinkedIn is now filing for its own IPO. I find the timing peculiar. Yes the market has done a fine job over '10, but the recovery is still in the works. Companies usually go public during the height of the market for the best bang for their precious equity. The company does not benefit from future market growth for its main goal to raise money now. That's one of the often cited reasons for Facebook's wait until 2012.
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