http://tech.peekbase.com Peek technology in one base Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:20:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://tech.peekbase.com/psystars-lawyer-psystar-not-done-yet http://tech.peekbase.com/psystars-lawyer-psystar-not-done-yet#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:20:02 +0000 admin http://tech.peekbase.com/psystars-lawyer-psystar-not-done-yet December 21st, 2009 Last night on the Talkcast, we talked about the big news last week that Psystar seemed to be down for the count, and the consensus was that we’d heard the last of them. But not so fast: their lawyer now says that they’re not calling it quits just yet. The company that ... 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