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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has issued a 12-page press release denouncing Spotify and detailing its intentions to “destroy Spotify” like they did with Napster in 2001.   According to data from Nielsen SoundScan, the total sales of physical (real) CDs amounted to only $31.42 in Q4 2011. The RIAA claims Spotify, which allows users to stream music through their PCs for free, is a major reason why CD sales have dropped nearly 300,000% [...]

Sunnyvale, CA – After publically admitting that CEO Scott Thompson falsified his resume with a fictitious computer science degree, Yahoo is now taking an even closer look at their helmsman’s questionable curriculum vitae.   “Through our due diligence it has come to light that Scott was not, as clearly stated on his resume, a founding member of the seminal hip hop group Run-D.M.C.,” said Yahoo Board Member David Kenny. “But he sure had us fooled. [...]

Waco, KY–Super Chess Computer Deep Blue’s career-defining moment came in 1997 when he squarely defeated previous chess world champion human Garry Kasparov. Yet shortly after his landmark victory, Deep Blue failed numerous “human-intervention” tests, sending his career into a downhill spiral. Following his sound defeat, Kasparov had expressed public concern over humans tampering with Deep Blue during their bloodbath of a chess match.   We here at CachedTech recently caught up with Deep Blue in [...]

San Francisco, CA–Following the release of Klout for iOS, an application that allows users to more obnoxiously broadcast their presumed internet importance, über-conscious socialites and iPhone owners around the world are rejoicing.   Klout, a social media analytics site, measures so-called “Social Influence” on a 1 to 100 scale.  This k-score, as it is known to internet fame fiends, is determined via a complex algorithm based on information gleaned from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, MySpace, LinkedIn, [...]

Redwood Shore, California – Hoping to shed its reputation for overly complex and virtually unusable software, Oracle has recently rebranded its perplexing Rdb database product. Now known as Hello Kitty Numbers, the new offering includes all the functionality of its previous offering but has a “softer” interface, according to Oracle spokesperson Trisha Dooly.   “Data should be fun and fuzzy,” said Dooly. “Just because you’re crunching numbers for 16 straight hours in the dark basement [...]

  In what appears to be a recurring pattern in today’s competitive social media world, what began as a fun game between celebrities ended in an angry feud battled out on Twitter.   One week ago, Brett Favre (the hall of fame NFL quarterback) and Anthony Weiner (a former US Representative better known for his phallic-sounding name than for his social policies) met at a Sex Addicts Awareness meeting in downtown LA. As is currently [...]

NOTES FROM THE FUTURE: January 17, 2013   United States officials have employed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) to uncover a terrorist sleeper cell on Myspace, reports ReutersFuture. CISPA supporters are calling the event a major victory for legislation originally maligned as “dangerous,” now scoffing at those who once considered the bill to be “setting a scary precedent.”   “When we saw that people were actually using the site, we got suspicious,” [...]

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Oakbrook, Illinois – Realizing that today’s teenagers and young adults would rather tap on their iPhones than stop to eat a cheeseburger, McDonalds has begun testing new McTap Meals in select markets.   Instead of serving meals in traditional fast food containers, McTap Meals reportedly consist of a thin layer of “dehydrated/condensed food and food by-product” that’s “downloaded” to a sheet of “radiant” cardboard resembling the iPhone or iPad.   And as a bonus, rather [...]