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May 5, 2008
Ed Kohler Facebook Explained in the Weekly Evil TinyURL.com Blocked by Panera Bread Who Profits From Your Content When You're Dead? Where Offline Shopping Beats Online Today Amazon's 50 Product Page Features...





February 8, 2007
Ed Kohler The Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper ran a story on the front page of startribune.com with the following headline and excerpt: Robber steals student's iPod "An armed robber stole an iPod from an Asian-languages and literature senior from the University...





January 6, 2007
Ed Kohler Internet: $60 -- Comcast Rants: Free Cable Internet access is going up from $45 to $60 per month plus possibly an additional $3/mo for modem rental in Minneapolis, and people are NOT happy. (tags: cable internetaccess comcast qwest)...





January 4, 2007
Ed Kohler What Jobs told me on the iPhone "You want to meet Steve Jobs to persuade him that Apple should build a tablet computer, or an iPhone? Then besides having a big purchasing budget and persuasive reasons, you'd better bring...





December 13, 2006
Ed Kohler Does the IRS really want your World of Warcraft gold? - Howstuffworks "After filing with the IRS, he tried to find out from various IRS employees if he was supposed to claim his castles and gold and other online...





December 10, 2006
Ed Kohler Cell phone privacy bill passes congress!: AMERICAblog "Today U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer announced the passage of his comprehensive legislation that would criminalize the practice, known as pretexting, of both stealing and selling cell phone, landline and voice over...





December 8, 2006
Ed Kohler Google begins limited test of radio advertising - Yahoo! News "Google Inc. said on Thursday it has completed the development of its widely anticipated radio advertising system and begun a limited test allowing customers to buy ads via its...





December 1, 2006
Ed Kohler How iTunes Hurts Podcasting Product Spotlight: LogMeIn Suite We're Making Wireless Internet Progress in Minnesota How to get a techie's money: GO MOBILE! The Slingbox challenge: Place-shift my media but with a better CODEC...





November 27, 2006
Ed Kohler EU says more than half e-mails are spam "The biggest culprit of spam remains the United States, which accounts for 21.6 percent of spam coming into the 25-nation EU. China is the second-biggest producer with 13.4 percent, while EU...





November 1, 2006
Ed Kohler Web reaches new milestone: 100 million sites - CNN.com "Within that, there are some that are busy and updated more often, and that represents the active sites, which are at about 47 or 48 million," he said. (tags: internet...





October 30, 2006
Ed Kohler Is HD Radio Worth It? (by Jeremy Zawodny) "The way I see it, most HD Radios seem to pretty expensive ($150+) and I'm not seeing much of a benefit. Therefore, I ask you (my technically minded often leading edge...





October 25, 2006
Ed Kohler Treo Family Comparison Chart: Understanding The Differences: Treonauts "I have included all the specifications and highlighted the areas where there are clear differences between one or more Treo smartphones (most accessories will work across all Treo smartphones except the...





October 24, 2006
Ed Kohler Jon Johansen hacks FairPlay, the Apple iTunes closed system - October 30, 2006 "Johansen, now 22 and widely known as "DVD Jon" for his exploits, has also figured out how Apple's iPod-iTunes system works. And he's using that knowledge...





October 23, 2006
Ed Kohler O'Reilly Network -- Open Tools for MySQL Administrators "MySQL provides some tools to monitor and troubleshoot a MySQL server, but they don't always suit a MySQL developer or administrator's common needs, or may not work in some scenarios, such...





October 22, 2006
Ed Kohler What's the difference between Blu-ray and HD DVD? "Like the legendary (if lopsided) battle between VHS and Betamax, Blu-ray and HD DVD are each striving to win the next format war. It's too early to declare a winner, but...





October 21, 2006
Ed Kohler Quantcast - Open Internet Ratings Service An alternative to Alexa. Not quite ready for prime time, but working on some interesting web metrics. (tags: statistics web analytics metrics) Video-hungry users could push Net to brink: Nortel - Yahoo! News...





October 20, 2006
Ed Kohler And so it begins: YouTube nukes 30,000 videos "In the first major mass removal of content in its history, YouTube has removed nearly 30,000 videos after being contacted by a number of Japanese rights-holders, according to the Japan Society...





October 19, 2006
Ed Kohler Apple: iPods, Macs rock earnings - Oct. 18, 2006 "Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple said Mac shipments surged, climbing 30 percent to 1.61 million during the quarter. Laptops led sales of Macs, accounting for $1.34 billion in revenue versus $869 million...