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Capture Ideas On the Go: Idea Organizer For the iPhone

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday November 24, 2009

Here’s the thing. There’s one thing I can count on having on me at all times, and that’s my iPhone. It stands to reason, then, that in a pinch, my Apple wonder device is what I turn to to keep track of stray ideas and thoughts that might otherwise go unrecorded, lost forever to the

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AOL Web Designers In Dulles Told Their Jobs Will Disappear

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday November 24, 2009

AOL Web designers in Dulles should not expect to have jobs by the end of Q1 2010, several sources tells us.
Dulles's design team supports AOL News, Sports, Money, Health and Living. Thirty to 40 people work under SVP Marty Moe's media operation in Dulles, but only 10 to 12 of them are in design.

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Technology > Business

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Star Wars: Trench Run Brings the Force to the iPhone

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday November 24, 2009

Star Wars: Trench Run is finally here and this thing is utterly beautiful, packed with authentic audio and video from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and boasting impressive gameplay visuals.

Trench Run is based around the Rebel assault on the Death Star at the end of George Lucas' classic 1977 movie. Piloting an X-Wing

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Cellular/Mobile Phones > IPhone

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Facebook worm spreads with a lurid lure

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday November 24, 2009

Some Facebook users have been infected with a worm after clicking on an image of a scantily clad woman, which then redirects the victims to a pornography site, according to security researchers.

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Social Networks > Facebook

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Online `Love Machine` Proposed for Employee Retention

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday November 23, 2009

Second Life founders have a new venture aimed at measuring and publicizing employee reputation on the Web

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Technology > Software

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Reason to Quit: Apple Warranties Void for Smokers

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday November 23, 2009

I quit smoking four years ago, but before that, I was a dedicated smoker for a solid decade. Luckily, I never had any Mac trouble that would necessitate a warranty replacement during that ten years, or I might’ve been out of luck. According to Consumerist, Apple has denied Applecare warranty service in at least two

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Why Hasn`t the Web Killed SNL?

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday November 23, 2009

The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly has a piece on that comedy stalwart, Saturday Night Live, that almost reads like a surrender treaty. The article basically says that while there are some chuckles, the show just is a bit toothless, but that “Saturday Night Live is a pop cultural machine that’s likely to continue until

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Technology > General

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Brin: Two Google Operating Systems May Become One

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday November 23, 2009

It has been difficult for Google to explain away the seeming conflict between Chrome OS and Android.

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Windows Mobile vs. Android: WinMo is Better Than You Think

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday November 23, 2009

Android is the hot phone platform, with market share growing at a rapid pace, and Android phones being touted all across the web. I have been impressed with how far Android has come in a relatively short time, and it has a major accomplishment how well it has penetrated the market. Windows Mobile has seen

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Microsoft technology reduces network redundancy

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday November 23, 2009

Researchers at Microsoft Research India have developed a compression and redundancy elimination technology that can operate as a host service in enterprise systems without the use of accelerator devices over a WAN.

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Acrobat.com Revamped -- Better Interface, New Features

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday November 23, 2009

Over the weekend, Adobe launched a revamped version of Acrobat.com, its web office and collaboration suite. This is the first major upgrade to the service since it left beta last summer (as covered by Thursday) and provides some much-needed productivity enhancements to this service.
An early concern of mine when Adobe made the leap to web

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Apple Speaks: Schiller Defends App Store Approval Process

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday November 23, 2009

In what BusinessWeek is describing as "his first extensive interview on the subject," Phil Schiller, everyone's favorite Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing for Apple, has defended Apple's application approval process.
I've read through it a few times, and I'd hardly call it "extensive." I think it's more accurately described as "PR spin" more than

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Microsoft To Pay Content Providers to `De-index` from Google

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday November 23, 2009

It is no secret that Microsoft is doing whatever it can to eat away at Google's immense market share of the search market, with Bing being its most ambitious effort yet. Well, it seems the battle just got a whole lot dirtier, as The Financial Times has uncovered news that Microsoft has approached several news content providers, offering them money if they "de-index" their sites from Google.

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Ruby shining on Java, Windows, and Mac OS

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday November 23, 2009

Implementations of the dynamic language leverage popular platforms to broaden its appeal.

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Web Development > Ruby

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Apple`s decade: How it can hit $500

Submitted by Webmaster on Friday November 20, 2009

Plus: Five features of a good investment

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Vid-Biz: BBC, Sony, Blu-ray Sales

Submitted by Webmaster on Friday November 20, 2009

BBC Gives Technical Details of Its New iPlayer On the Wii; the U.K. broadcaster has encoded streams using H.264 at a 700 kbps bit rate, compared to 1.5 Mbps for regular TV or even 3.2 Mbps for HD. (BBC) Speaking of British TV, the U.K. version of YouTube debuted its new site section that hosts

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Technology > Business

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Jobs` Personal, Terse Reply to Developer

Submitted by Webmaster on Friday November 20, 2009

Gotta love that Steve Jobs. He never was one to hold back, and even now, when he's the CEO of the Universe (or something like that), he won't be found spouting corporate speak.
CrunchGear tells the story of a small software development company called The Little App Factory. It made an app for the Mac called

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Yahoo`s search news shortcuts gain `tweets,` videos, photos

Submitted by Webmaster on Thursday November 19, 2009

Yahoo has enhanced its Web search engine's news "shortcuts" by adding Twitter posts, photos and videos to them, the company announced Thursday.

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Search Engines > Yahoo Search

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Google Android Chat Icons -- Helpful Tool or Privacy Breaker?

Submitted by Webmaster on Thursday November 19, 2009

Yesterday, Google introduced a Gmail Labs feature that tells you if your friends are online using an Android device. I can definitely see some benefit to this — before even sending an instant message to someone, you gain a little context of that person’s mobility. And that can help dictate the message scope you send.

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Cellular/Mobile Phones > Android

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Cut the Drama: Private APIs, the App Store & You

Submitted by Webmaster on Thursday November 19, 2009

I’ve had a rant building up for a few weeks. A rant about developer’s treatment at the hands of the App Store submission procedure. However unlike many rants on the topic, mine is not directed towards Apple. It is directed towards the iPhone developers who complain about the poor, unfair treatment they get, carrying their

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