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Look familiar? It's what I and others have been seeing this morning when trying to upgrade to the iPhone 2.0 firmware. Apple's servers are apparently being dismantled by heavy traffic. That's nice. But now I have a brick with no ability to call, no contacts, nothing.

Big news for TypePad members came straight from Steve Jobs’ keynote speech at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference this morning. Our own Michael Sippey demonstrated the forthcoming native TypePad application for the iPhone during Jobs’ speech to over 5,000 attendees. The iPhone SDK (software developers’ kit), released in March of this year, has been downloaded over 250,000 times and used to create thousands of applications for the iPhone.  Jobs invited representatives from just a handful of these applications to demo what they’ve built for the iPhone, and the TypePad team felt extremely proud to be included!  CNET's News.com has some great coverage of the TypePad demo.

Some cyborgs are only happy when it rains. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is bringing aboard Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson as a regular next season.

Evernote is a forgetter's dream, but the tool isn't only for those of us gone mushy in the brain. In the same way that GPS forever changed our relationship to physical spaces, the permanent, constant archiving of both the monumental and the mundane i...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Four founding members of the rock band Velvet Revolver said on Tuesday they were splitting with the group's troubled singer, Scott Weiland, citing his "increasingly erratic" behavior.

Annoyed by your iPhone's pokey Web surfing over EDGE? Well, your browsing might get a lot faster thanks to Nokia Siemens, which is promising to double the speed of EDGE wireless networks with a mere software upgrade.

Whether adjusting exposure, white balance, or hue, touching up blemishes, or distorting your image, Photoshop Express provides an easy slider and thumbnails to give you an instant preview of your image at various settings. Even undo is better than you’d expect.

Instant Messaging digsby is a multiprotocol IM client that lets you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber with one simple to manage buddy list.Email Notificationsdigsby is an email notification tool that alerts you of new email and lets you perform actions such as 'Delete' or 'Report Spam' with just one click.Social Networkingdigsby is a social networking tool that alerts you of events like new messages and gives you a live Newsfeed of what your friends are up to.

Product Description: Enjoy audiophile grade sound reproduction from your iPhone without sacrificing the ability to make or receive calls and control your music. The ProCable In-Ear Headset provides a clean and focused listening experience by insulating the wearer from outside sound and noise thanks to their super-soft, ear canal sealing ear tips. The ProCable headset improves on typical isolation-type phones by employing a unique sound valve that opens a pathway in each earpiece to allow ambient sound to enter and be heard when the music volume falls below 40 dB. In simple terms, the sound valve alows you to hear environmental or ambient sounds when your player volume is low or off. As your player volume is increased, the valve closes to keep ambient sounds from spoiling the musical experience. This provides a level of safety as the phones do not have to be removed in order to adequately hear what's around you - simply activate the players pause button and you have immediate ambient recognition. Machined from solid billet alloy and hard anodized, each ProCable earpiece is a rugged work of art that will withstand years of hard use. Available in black on black or brushed aluminum on white, the ProCable In-Ear Headset provides iPhone users with an exceptional communications experience - you'll discover new dimensions of subtleties and instruments which you've never heard before!

GREEN BAY, WI—The Green Bay Packers addressed questions concerning the current status, future plans, and whereabouts of recently retired quarterback Brett Favre by announcing Monday that they had sent him to the country to live on a beautiful farm with a very nice family.

Some 75% of the world's businesses data is still processed in Cobol, and about 90% of all financial transactions are in Cobol, according to Arunn Ramadoss, head of the academic connections program at Micro Focus International PLC, which provides soft...

Obama is favored to win the Wisconsin primary on Tuesday, but when it came to embracing the state's blue-collar Ya Hey culture, he finished dead last. John McCain spoke at a Friday night fish fry. Hillary Clinton held a town hall meeting in a bratwur...

As many as 800 vehicles remain stranded on Interstate 90 in Dane and Rock counties because of the powerful winter storm that dumped more than a foot of snow in some parts of the state on Wednesday.

Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, summed the evening up best when she said, "Tonight's speech is the 'swan song' of a presidency that is ending and will not be missed. President Bush may choose to believe that the state of our union is strong...

MySpace. YouTube. Facebook. Nearly every teen in America is on the Internet every day, socializing with friends and strangers alike, "trying on" identities, and building a virtual profile of themselves--one that many kids insist is a more honest depiction of who they really are than the person they portray at home or in school.

Music search engine SkreemR turns up a nice selection of MP3 files from all over the web whether you're looking for Mozart or Justin Timberlake. Pop in your favorite artist, song or album and get back links to MP3s (no other audio file format.) A few search operators to know:Use double quotes to pinpoint a set of words, ex. "my favorite song"Use + operator to pinpoint particular words, ex. my favorite song +extended +remixUse - operator to eliminate unwanted results, ex. my favorite song -liveGrab the Firefox SkreemR search plugin and see some of the top searches. As always, download copyrighted material at your own risk, yadda-yadda, blah-blah.SkreemR

Top 100: Songs at 89 cents, Albums at $8.99Download Amazon MP3's Top 100 Albums at $8.99 or less, and Top 100 Songs at 89 cents, unless marked otherwise. Get the music you want at a price you'll love.

The fearless duo of Han Solo and Chewbacca elevates the Star Wars Transformers line to new heights. Combine the two and you get the trusty, battle-ready Millennium Falcon, then you can take it apart for two separate figures. Features electronic light...

...appears to be joining several Web services together. Included are instant messaging clients like AIM and MSN, along with social services like MySpace, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Friendster.