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		<title>SoundCloud Hits 10 Million Users</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SoundCloud announced today that it has reached 10 million registered users. Last January, the music platform web site only had 3 million users. To celebrate, SoundCloud co-founders Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss launched a new feature today called “Story Wheel,” which “allows anyone to record their own narrative around a series of images to tell a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding SOPA &amp; PIPA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch this talk from TED to understand the background and mechanisms of SOPA and PIPA.]]></description>
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		<title>Websites To &#8220;Go Dark&#8221; In Protest</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Student warning!&#8221; Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales tweeted on Monday. &#8220;Do your homework early. Wikipedia protesting bad law on Wednesday!&#8221; The bad law is the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act and the backlash officially starts tomorrow. See here for more info. Wikipedia&#8217;s decision to participate with a 24-hour blackout was a decision of the Wikipedia community, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letters of Canadian Law in 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like Michael Geist&#8217;s blog, and especially this posting of the alphabetical rundown of the year.]]></description>
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		<title>Seagate and Western Digital Reduce Disk Warranties</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seagate and Western Digital, the largest hard disk drive (HDD) manufacturers in the world, both announced that they will reduce warranty coverage on some of their hardware in the new year. The two companies produce the hard drives in most major computer brands, and both companies recently bought out their competition (Western Digital bought Hitachi, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RIP Napster</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, after 12 years, the company that sparked a revolution in how we purchase music online, is no longer. Rhapsody, the largest on-demand music service in the United States, bought its assets, intellectual property and subscribers last month from parent company Best Buy for an undisclosed sum and a minority stake. The acquisition nearly doubles Rhapsody&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Jobs passes away</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day after the new iPhone 4S was released, the world lost Steve Jobs. It was only a few weeks ago that Jobs had decided to step down from the company he built &#8211; twice &#8211; and the world was dreading what he was dreading, he had cancer. Jobs was a perfectionist, he was obsessed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keyboard projection</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five years ago, I wrote a quick blog post about the laser keyboard that would project a keyboard. The technology exists but no one has applied to it a mobile phone, yet. Aatma Studio created some great concept videos about cool features that should be included in the iPhone 5 expected to be available this Fall. Check this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft to buy Skype</title>
		<link>http://www.alexreid.ca/2011/microsoft-to-buy-skype/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 09:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft is about to buy Skype for between $7-8 billion $8.5 Billion reports the Wall Street Journal, the biggest acquisition the company has ever made. This move would make Microsoft a major player in the video calling and telecommunications market. Think cell phone partners.]]></description>
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		<title>The Anti-Piracy Chip</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 02:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intel released their second-generation Intel Core processor recently, showing off some new toys at the annual Consumer Electronics Show, and Hollywood is very excited about it. For one, the chips offer improved efficiency, reduced power consumption and enhanced graphics handling; specifically, the chips are promised to deliver better video streaming (1080 p HD) and other [...]]]></description>
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