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Every new phone that comes out is heralded as the new killer of the iphone, and none has yet come even close. Is it going to be even easier for any (or all) of the iPad clones to kill the Apple tablet?

In the smartphone world, the iPhone has survived more “iPhone killers” than everyone can shake all of their sticks at. Not one of the Blackberry line, nor any one of the Android phones even come close. They’re having a hard enough time defeating the iPhone as a group. The iPad had been out in the world almost unchallenged while every manufacturer in the world prepares a clone with which to challenge it. Will any single one of those competitors be able to catch up to the iPad, or has Apple simply produced another winner that will be at the head of its marketplace for a very long time?

"We all know Google Music is coming, it’s just a question of when – and what it’ll look like, of course. According to Reuters, Google hopes to launch the service as early as December 2010.

Citing unnamed ‘people familiar with the matter’, Reuters says Google’s VP of EngineeringAndy Rubin (which we likened to a Steve Jobs-caliber product fanatic in the past) is spearheading talks with music labels on plans for a digital music download store and cloud-based song locker service, which he hopes will see the light of day before year’s end.

Only thing that could get in the way of a pre-Christmas debut: the company has yet to sign a single licensing deal with the music labels, those same sources told Reuters.

It’ll be interesting to see if Google can get some of those deals signed in time for the launch of Android 3.0, code-named Gingerbread, which is expected to come in the fourth quarter of this year. Perhaps writing Santa a letter will help?"

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Conroy slams Lundy, says Australia getting net filter

via APC on 6/28/10

Stephen Conroy has ridiculed the suggestion that Australians should have a choice to opt-in or opt-out of the proposed internet filter.