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Review: TechRestore

By Robert Kaneko This review is going to be slightly different for me. Instead of reviewing a product, I am looking at a service. I think that’s important to note, since any time you are looking at a service, there is a very human element to the experience. TechRestore is a company that specializes in […]

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Accessory

Elgato Releases Turbo.264 HD Video Converter

Accessory provider Elgato announced the release of its new Turbo.264 HD video converter on Thursday. The USB hardware converter can convert HD and AVCHD content into a wide range of standard and HD video formats. Users can then edit movies before copying them from a camera, splice movies together, and download movies to your Mac […]

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iPhone

CBS Mobile Launches TV.com, Allows Free Streaming to iPhone, iPod Touch

Following up on other streaming-television efforts, CBS Mobile has released

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Review: Roxio Toast 10 Titanium and Toast 10 Titanium Pro

By Robert Kaneko Roxio has once again updated their flagship authoring software package. The latest update, Toast 10 Titanium, continues the natural evolution of a mature product. It gives the user some hints about where Roxio might go with the product as we begin to approach the end of the general use optical storage era. […]

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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: For Apple, Google is a better dance partner than YouTube

y now you’re aware that Google acquired YouTube for $1.65B in stock yesterday. Back in late August GigaOm’s Robert speculated that Apple was “the company that would benefit most” from an acquisition of YouTube. At the time, I wrote that an Apple acquisition of YouTube wasn’t as crazy as I originally thought but that Apple might have a problem with YouTube’s valuation and exposure to copyright claims.