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Droid Enters Ring Against BlackBerry, iPhone

Submitted by Webmaster on Friday November 06, 2009

Motorola and Verizon on Friday make available to the public the Droid: the touch-screen, Android 2.0-based smartphone that is perhaps the most aggressively feature-rich phone on the market today based on the Google-driven mobile OS.

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Cellular/Mobile Phones > IPhone

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Beta Roundup: Social Networking, Twitter and Messaging Clients

Submitted by Webmaster on Thursday November 05, 2009

Internet-based communication is changing so quickly these days that there seems to be an endless stream of beta releases. Yesterday, Simon wrote about some of the latest browser betas; let's look at a few products and services for interacting with social networks, Twitter and instant messaging.

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Technology > Marketing/Promotion

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Look At Yourself In Google`s Mirror

Submitted by Webmaster on Thursday November 05, 2009

Ever wonder how much Google actually knows about you?
To answer that question Google has released Dashboard.
Every bit of information ever collected by Google about you -- from your web history, the videos you've watched on YouTube, to the documents you've opened in Google Docs -- will be available for review in Dashboard.

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IT Vendors/Companies > Google

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100,000 apps on the iPhone milestone

Submitted by Webmaster on Thursday November 05, 2009

Yes, there are more than 100k apps now available on the iPhone. But useful apps? Sponge-worthy apps? Apps that you will use more than once? Not so many

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Cellular/Mobile Phones > IPhone

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Windows 7: Microsoft`s Multimedia-Friendly OS

Submitted by Webmaster on Wednesday November 04, 2009

I've always believed in the separation of church and state: My desktop computer stays in my home office, and my TV and entertainment gear stay in the living room. Sure, sometimes there's crossover between the two & I like to view Web-based streaming video or shows I've downloaded on my big-screen TV, for example.

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IT Vendors/Companies > Microsoft

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iPhone Informer -- Touching the iPhone This Week

Submitted by Webmaster on Wednesday November 04, 2009

Time for our Wednesday feature that highlights some of the latest iPhone news! Apple is tooting its own horn today with the official announcement of over 100,000 apps available in the iTunes App Store. That's definitely an accomplishment unmatched by any other mobile platform and adds to the appeal of Apple's handset. While I wish there

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Cellular/Mobile Phones > IPhone

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YouTube`s Content Head Leaves to Join Ben Silverman`s Co.

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday November 03, 2009

Jordan Hoffner will leave his position as head of content partnerships at YouTube to join Ben Silverman's new content endeavor at IAC. The announcement was made yesterday at YouTube and paid Content was the first to report it.

Coming from NBC, Hoffner was an injection of big media know-how when he joined YouTube after it was acquired

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Popular Websites > YouTube.com

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Orange UK Unlimited Plan for iPhone Seems to Prohibit Almost Everything

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday November 03, 2009

The BBC noticed something a little off when they investigated the new pricing structure and terms of use for the the iPhone deals Orange is about to begin offering on November 10. First, it turns out that far from sparking a price war, Orange has basically adopted the same deal that O2 currently offers, with

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Cellular/Mobile Phones > IPhone

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Peek unveils dedicated Twitter device

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday November 03, 2009

Peek has debuted a dedicated Twitter mobile device, it said on Tuesday.

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Technology > Marketing/Promotion

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HP says some Windows 7 printer drivers are coming

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday November 03, 2009

Windows 7 users may find there are no drivers yet for their Hewlett-Packard printer, although the company said it expects to release some new compatible drivers soon.

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IT Vendors/Companies > Hewlett-Packard Company (HP)

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Opera Mobile for Symbian Gains Turbo, Speed Dial and Tabs

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday November 03, 2009

We haven't had much good news on the Symbian front of late & declining market share and hot apps for nearly every other platform come to mind. That's why it's worth the mention that Opera Mobile 10 is ready for a public beta test on Symbian devices. The new user interface shares much from Opera

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Technology > New Feature/Release

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The Internet Has Sent Marketing Back to Its Roots

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday November 03, 2009

Traditional marketing, limited on the Internet to promotion or 'messaging, has room to evolve

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Technology > Marketing/Promotion

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Windows 7`s share jumps 40% in first week of release

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday November 02, 2009

Windows 7's market share surged nearly 40% in the week following its release, according to Web measurement company Net Applications.

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Technology > Business

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Chrome to Pass Safari in Browser Market Share

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday November 02, 2009

For October, OS X 10.6 and iPhone OS 3.0 continued to make incremental gains in market share, as did Safari. Unfortunately for the Apple web browser, Google's Chrome is gaining faster.

Compiling data from more than 160 million visitors to its worldwide network of sites, web metrics firm Net Applications has released numbers for October.

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Internet Browsers > Google Chrome

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Mac Market Share Hits All-Time High Following Windows 7 Launch

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday November 02, 2009

Microsoft's advertising strategy with the latest installment of Windows is basically to none-too-subtly deride its predecessors, and it does appear to be helping Windows 7 gain traction among consumers. Unfortunately, it also might be contributing to the success of Mac OS X, or at least, it is't doing anything to slow down the steady progress

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Technology > Business

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Microsoft: Worms are most prevalent security problem

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday November 02, 2009

The Conficker worm continues to be one of the most prevalent threats facing PCs running Windows, according to a new security report published by Microsoft.

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Technology > Security

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Why E-Books on Phones Can Succeed

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday November 02, 2009

Folks are finally starting to pick up on something we've been saying for years & there is a market for e-books on phones. Before you start the & it's painful to read books on the small screen & comments, hear me out. I agree with those comments, but only to a point. I've read dozens of entire

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Technology > Business

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DiVitas mobile collaboration goes to iPhone, Android, RIM

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday November 02, 2009

Mobile unified communications vendor DiVitas Networks has added iPhone, BlackBerry and Android to the set of platforms it is supporting with software to access desk-phone and presence features on cell phones.

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Technology > Business

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Google`s Voice Is Silent In Some Rural Areas

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday November 02, 2009

Google Voice, the phone management service offered by Google, is blocking customers' calls to about 100 phone numbers that were generating excessive long distance fees in the Midwest. Lawmakers and AT&T have cried foul, and the dispute is renewing focus on a controversial practice that lets some phone companies charge inflated fees.

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IT Vendors/Companies > Google

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OS X Killing Intel Atom Support -- No Hackint0sh for You!

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday November 02, 2009

What is the most definite way that Apple can convince the netbook crowd that there will never be a Mac netbook? By killing off support for the Intel Atom processor family, that powers virtually all netbooks. It is being reported that Apple is going to do just that, in the next version of Snow Leopard

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Operating Systems > MacOS X

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