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• Switched On: Apple's brash Flash clash rehash

  Published: July 31, 2007, 4:07 pm

  Tags: Adobe, Apple Tv, Appletv, Flash, Iphone, Ross Rubin, Rossrubin, Switched On, Switchedon

  Filed under: FeaturesEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment: For all the attention on the love-hate relationship between Apple and Microsoft, there's another software superpower with which Apple is increasingly butting heads. Apple was an early investor in Adobe and an early

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• Switched On: MacBook mini would answer iPhone's call

  Published: August 6, 2007, 3:49 pm

  Tags: Apple, Foleo, Iphone, Macbook, Ross Rubin, Rossrubin, Switched On, Switchedon, Ultraportable

  Filed under: Cellphones, LaptopsEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment: A few weeks ago a two-part Switched On column (see: here and here) discussed Apple's approach to the iPhone keyboard. I agreed with Apple's reasoning that, for a phone, or at least this first iPhone, the

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• Switched On: The Foleo imbroglio (Part 1)

  Published: August 13, 2007, 6:24 pm

  Tags: Pam Foleo, Pamfoleo, Ross Rubin, Rossrubin, Switched On, Switchedon

  Filed under: Features Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment:If anything, Palm's Foleo seems like it was designed to elicit instant geek cred. It's small, thin and light, and its solid state storage helps provide long battery life. It has instant-on capabilities and

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• Switched On: The Foleo Imbroglio (Part 2)

  Published: August 20, 2007, 3:26 pm

  Tags: Palm Foleo, Palmfoleo, Ross Rubin, Rossrubin, Switched On, Switchedon

  Filed under: Features, Handhelds, LaptopsEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment: Last week's Switched On identified two groups of early adopters that have damned Palm's featherweight Foleo 10-inch screen unseen. The pricey purists won't give up the capabilities of Windows

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• Switched On: The WiMAX Window (Part 2)

  Published: September 7, 2007, 3:56 pm

  Tags: Ross Rubin, Rossrubin, Sprint, Switched On, Switchedon, Wimax, Xohm

  Filed under: Features, WirelessEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment:Last week's Switched On discussed some of the promise of WiMAX as delivered through Sprint's Xohm service. There are at least three larger open questions about the prospects for WiMAX, particularly as an

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• Switched On: Fruit versus fowl

  Published: September 12, 2007, 3:19 pm

  Tags: Amazun Unbox, Amazununbox, Apple, Itunes, Nbc, Ross Rubin, Rossrubin, Switched On, Switchedon

  Filed under: FeaturesEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment: As most Americans were getting ready for a peaceful Labor Day, it was war between Apple and NBC as the two companies couldn't agree to terms for carrying the network's shows on iTunes. A punchy media had a field

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• Switched On: Touched by a hacker

  Published: September 18, 2007, 6:47 pm

  Tags: Hackers, Humor, I M In Ur, I Minur, Ipod Touch, Ipodtouch, Ross Rubin, Rossrubin, Switched On, Switchedon

  Filed under: FeaturesEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment: I glanced at the clock, 1:36 PM. Perhaps I should not have gotten my hopes up. For weeks I'd been exchanging e-mail with an elite hacker who promised to speak with me about the latest attempt to free hardware from

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• Switched On: Seeking neutrality in the hi-def format war

  Published: September 24, 2007, 7:24 pm

  Tags: Blu Ray, Dvd, Hd Dvd, Ross Rubin, Rossrubin, Switched On, Switchedon

  Filed under: Home EntertainmentEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment: Paramount's recent announcement that it would (again) release future titles only in HD-DVD shifted that format's position in the high-definition disc war. HD-DVD had been resting on Universal's shoulders

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• Switched On: The DAP, the Frap, the pap and the gap

  Published: October 8, 2007, 6:10 pm

  Tags: Apple, Ipod, Lala, Music Discovery, Musicdiscovery, Napster, Rhapsody, Ross Rubin, Rossrubin, Siwtched On, Siwtchedon, Starbucks, Subscription Services, Subscriptionservices

  Filed under: Features, Portable AudioEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment: The iPod and iTunes haven't ostensibly suffered for (and have arguably gained from the) lack of a subscription music service. However, while such services have proven a tough sell to consumers at

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• Switched On: Cap'n magicJack's port of call

  Published: October 16, 2007, 11:24 am

  Tags: Magicjack, Phone, Ross Rubin, Rossrubin, Switched On, Switchedon, Usb, V Phone, Voip, Vonage, Vphone

  Filed under: Features, Misc. GadgetsEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment: Inventions and incentives have fueled the those using voice over IP to battle the imposing inertia of landline incumbents, as well as the cellphone's continued cannibalization of long distance. The

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• Switched On: iPhone SDK won't chase hackers away

  Published: October 23, 2007, 12:04 am

  Tags: Hackers, Iphone, Ross Rubin, Rossrubin, Sdk, Switched Pn, Switchedpn

  Filed under: FeaturesEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment: The better part of a trade show keynote and six months of anticipation preceded the iPhone's launch, but a casual post on Apple's Web site signaled its relaunch as a platform supported by third-party native

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• Switched On: Channeling Chumby (Part 1)

  Published: November 7, 2007, 3:42 pm

  Tags: Chumby, Ross Rubin, Rossrubin, Switched On, Switchedon

  Filed under: FeaturesEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment. For nearly as long as the Internet has had value to average consumers, companies have sought ways to deliver its infotainment more conveniently. Early efforts such as WebTV, the hackable Netpliance i-Opener, and

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• Switched On: Rainforest fire (Part 1)

  Published: November 27, 2007, 2:48 pm

  Tags: Amazon, E Books, Kindle, Ross Rubin, Rossrubin, Sony Reader, Sonyreader, Switched On, Switchedon

  Filed under: Features, Misc. GadgetsEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment. Naming a product "Kindle" might be a bit unusual for a company named after a giant waterway. Did Amazon have visions of Fahrenheit 451 for its electronic book reader? Perhaps, at $399, the product

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• Switched On: Rainforest fire (Part 2)

  Published: December 3, 2007, 3:18 pm

  Tags: Amazon, Kindle, Ross Rubin, Rossrubin, Sony Reader, Sonyreader, Switched On, Switchedon

  Filed under: FeaturesEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment. Last week''s Switched On discussed some of the similarities and differences between Amazon's Kindle and the Sony Reader. Where the Kindle really sets itself apart, though, is more in the buying of books than

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• Switched On: Vudu starts on its to-dos

  Published: December 11, 2007, 5:33 pm

  Tags: Ross Rubin, Rossrubin, Switched On, Switchedon, Vudu

  Filed under: Features, Home EntertainmentEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment. Imagine a history in which broadcast television programming was not sent directly to television sets. Rather, it was sent to another, more expensive device in the home with a smaller screen. If

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