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A Week With My Verizon iPhone

admin — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 05:28:00 +0000

All the other reviews you’ve seen are from journalists who received Verizon iPhones from either Verizon or Apple and didn’t have to pay for them. I had no such loaner, so had to do the honorable thing: I bought one and used it for a week now. It cost me about $250 because I already [...]

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See your Facebook Friends on a Google Map

admin — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 04:52:06 +0000

WhereMyFriends is an interesting mashup that will show the geographic location of your Facebook friends on a Google Map. You simply connect your Facebook Account with WhereMyFriends and the app, within a minute or two, will fetch the location of all your Facebook friends and puts them on a map. You can hover or click [...]

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Eminem Chrysler Ad Wins YouTube Blitz

admin — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:24:51 +0000

YouTube announced that the winner of its Ad Blitz contest is Chrysler, for its Super Bowl commercial, which featured Eminem driving around Detroit. The contest was based on viewer votes. “It’s been about two weeks since the Super Bowl aired, but our ears are still ringing from the noise of advertisers jockeying for position in [...]

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Chrome Address Bar Could Be Eliminated in Future Release

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:11:30 +0000

Would you use a web browser that didn’t have an address bar? A report from ConceivablyTech.com points out that Google is working on new user interface layouts for Chrome, and one of these would eliminate the address bar. The publication’s Wolfgang Gruener quotes Google’s Jeff Chang as telling developers, “There are a number of UI [...]

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Another Engadget Editor Leaves, Cites "AOL Way" as Catalyst

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:57:58 +0000

The other day, Engadget editor Paul Miller announced his resignation from the AOL-owned publication, specifically blaming “The AOL Way”. “I’d love to be able to keep doing this forever, but unfortunately Engadget is owned by AOL, and AOL has proved an unwilling partner in this site’s evolution,” he wrote on his personal blog. “It doesn’t [...]

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Augmented Reality To Become Our Sixth Sense?

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:53:45 +0000

More WebProNews Videos Late last month, augmented reality developers Layar announced that it was making its platform available to all developers of iOS apps, opening the door for a lot more innovation and practical use-cases for AR technology. “All apps and services that have a location aspect can now easily and without license costs be [...]

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Yahoo Highlights Role In Creation Of Watson

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:53:31 +0000

Pretty much everyone knows by now that Watson, the Jeopardy-playing supercomputer that was able to cream two human champions, was created by researchers at IBM. And IBM’s made clear that Watson doesn’t work its magic by searching the Internet. But apparently Yahoo tech did play a role in the creation of the machine. A post [...]

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Zynga Launches CityVille In More Languages

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:53:19 +0000

Zynga said today its newest game “CityVille” is now available in Indonesian and Turkish bringing the number of offered languages for the game to eight. Indonesian and Turkish are more language ‘firsts’ for Zynga and are important markets for the company as it expands internationally. Building from the success of CityVille, an increased number of [...]

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Social Media Killing Blogs…Here We Go Again.

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:50:51 +0000

Here we go again with another one of those silly social media vs. blogs debates. The New York Times stirred the pot this time with an article called, “Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter.” “Blogs were once the outlet of choice for people who wanted to express themselves online. But with [...]

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Readability to Apple: "Your New Policy Smacks of Greed"

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:38:35 +0000

The Apple subscription drama continues. Apple has rejected the Readability app, pointing to a section in its App Store Review Guidelines, which says, “Apps utilizing a system other than the In App Purchase API (IAP) to purchase content, functionality, or services in an app will be rejected.” Readability isn’t thrilled. Readability is an app that [...]

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Access The Oscars Online

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:38:27 +0000

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has launched an online “All Access” pass for Oscar night on Oscar.com. Beginning at 3:30 p.m. PT, Sunday, February 27, visitors to Oscar.com will be able to view red carpet arrivals of actors and celebrities via multiple camera angles. During the broadcast on ABC, users can view [...]

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Facebook Chat In Hotmail Goes Live Worldwide

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:37:48 +0000

Five months ago, Microsoft announced that Hotmail users in Brazil, France, Germany, Russia, the U.K., and the U.S. could begin to chat with their Facebook friends while checking their email. Now the integration of Hotmail and Facebook Chat is complete in every place where Facebook is available. We’ll admit: this may not sound like a [...]

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$1 Billion Yandex IPO Set For This Summer

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:35:56 +0000

Anyone who would like to invest in Russia’s most successful search engine may want to start saving pennies and talking to his (or her) stockbroker. Reports indicate that Yandex, which has had little trouble fending off Google in its home market, will go public and try to raise $1 billion this summer. A post on [...]

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Alibaba CEO and COO Step Down

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:34:15 +0000

According to reports, Alibaba CEO David Wei and COO Elvis Lee have both resigned, following findings of fraudulent activity among thousands of sellers. Neither executive was found to be actually involved in the fraud, but the company found a significant increase in claims against particular sellers over the last year. In a statement, Alibaba said [...]

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Apple In-App Subscriptions Not for SaaS Apps, According to Steve Jobs

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:32:41 +0000

Apple’s subscription policy has been the subject of a great deal of controversy since it was introduced a week ago. It has been heavily in the spotlight this week, with app developer Readability having posted an open letter to Apple, In the letter, Readability creator Rich Ziade wrote: We’re obviously disappointed by this decision, and [...]

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Eric Schmidt’s Mobile World Congress Speech: Full Video

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:30:52 +0000

Google has made video available of CEO Eric Schmidt’s speech at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week. At the event, he discussed the company’s current operating system focuses: Android Gingerbread and Honeycomb, and Chrome OS. “We’ve got an OS for phones called ‘Gingerbread’ and one for tablets called ‘Honeycomb’. G and H. You can [...]

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Skype Breaks Record with 29 Million Users Online

admin — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 03:54:29 +0000

Skype has broken a new record, hitting 29 million people online. On Skype’s “Big Blog”, Peter Parkes writes: We’ve passed another milestone – at approximately 1800 GMT yesterday, there were more than 29 million people online on Skype. Another record broken, and an opportunity for us to remind you that you can get Skype in [...]

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Google Simplifies Bidding on the Display Network

admin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:58:05 +0000

Google’s display network is a great way for small business advertisers to dabble in the banner advertising space. Whilst the planning, set up and management of banner advertising through Google’s display network is fairly straight forward, one part of the process was a bit more convoluted than it should have been – the bidding on [...]

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Christchurch, New Zealand Earthquake – People Finder Tool Released by Google

admin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:47:22 +0000

Google has launched a people search tool to help people affected by the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand. With the tool, users have two options: - I’m looking for someone - I ahve information about someone The tool can be accessed here. allows people to embed the tool on their own sites as such: Get [...]

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Amazon Launches New Netflix Competitor

admin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:58:23 +0000

Amazon has announced the launch of an unlimited, commercial-free instant streaming movie and TV show service for Amazon Prime members. The service will give subscribers access to 5,000 movies and shows. Prime members will not be charged any extra. The price will remain $79 per year for the membership. The service also provides members with [...]

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