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19 March 2010 ~ Comments

Tech Week in Review 3-19-2010

Google Nexus Coming To Sprint
A lot of people I know have Sprint, which boast the largest voice calling area in the US. This is twice the coverage of AT&T and 10x the coverage of T-Mobile. If you’ve been waiting in the wings, hoping that by s…

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19 March 2010 ~ Comments

Twitter To Rank Search Results By Popularity

According to Twitter Developer Advocate Taylor Singletary, Twitter will begin to order search results according to how popular each tweet is, rather than how recent the tweet is. Singletary says, “This is a beta project, but an important first step t…

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19 March 2010 ~ Comments

$99 Marvell Moby Tablet For Education

This ARM-powered tablet device from Marvell offers students whatever they may need in a slick and light-weight device. Soon, they will announce a pilot program for the device which will run in a struggling US school district. Features include: eReader …

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18 March 2010 ~ Comments

Xbox 360 Gets USB Storage Support

In documentation obtained by Joystiq and confirmed by two other sources, it appears that the Xbox 360 will get USB Mass Storage support in an upcoming 2010 update. In the document, a senior developer at Microsoft says, because of “increased marke…

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18 March 2010 ~ Comments

Getting Started with Pip.io

Pip.io is a web application that allows you to interact with your social network natively, while also integrating other social networks like Facebook and Twitter. It’s basically a social networking operating system, acting as the glue between you…

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18 March 2010 ~ Comments

Zillow Comes To Android With Extra Features

The popular real estate application Zillow has come to Android today, hoping to duplicate the success of their previous iPhone application. They have added a few new features to the Android offering that should help get the ball rolling. These include …

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17 March 2010 ~ Comments

Latest Chrome Release Adds Automatic Translation

The latest stable version of Google’s Chrome browser adds the ability to translate web pages on the fly. It also adds a rich set of privacy controls to fine-tune your browsing experience. Keep in mind that this is the latest stable version, so yo…

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17 March 2010 ~ Comments

Google Goes Hard at Microsoft with Exchange Migration Tool

Today, Google announced a new tool that makes it simple for current Microsoft Exchange customers to move into the cloud and switch to Google Apps. Tensions between Microsoft and Google have been mounting in this arena. Each has come out with videos bas…

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17 March 2010 ~ Comments

Canon Looking to Snag “.Canon” Top-Level Domain

If this title didn’t make much sense to you, it’s understandable. This story caught me off-guard as well and what Canon wants to do here seems pretty odd. Rather than being happy with an official-looking “canon.com” web address …

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16 March 2010 ~ Comments

Microsoft IE9 Will Support HTML5, But Not XP

Microsoft unveiled a preview release of Internet Explorer 9 today during their Mix 10 keynote. It aims to support all the latest web standards. You can grab the preview from http://www.ietestdrive.com, unless you happen to run Windows XP. It seems IE9 …

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16 March 2010 ~ Comments

Nexus One Now Compatible with AT&T 3G and Canada

The moment you’ve all been waiting for has arrived. The Google Nexus One phone is now available for AT&T customers. Up until now, it’s 3G technology wasn’t compatible with AT&T and could only be used with T-Mobile and some oth…

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16 March 2010 ~ Comments

PayPal Revamps iPhone App and Enables Bump Transfers

PayPal recently overhauled their iPhone App and added a few features to make it much more useful for users. Not only is the redesign visually appealing, but the interface itself has been greatly enhanced. You can get it for free here.
Also benefiting g…

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16 March 2010 ~ Comments

Getting Started with Springpad

Springpad is a free web application that wants to help you remember those things you think are important or interesting. It offers a web clipper, a mobile application, and a posting email address to help you save things and keep track of what you have …

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15 March 2010 ~ Comments

Apple iPad Pre-Orders Fluctuate and iPad Gets a Makeover

It has been estimated that Apple has already received about 150,000 pre-orders for the device, which will be delivered some time in April. Apparently, this doesn’t even include people who have pre-ordered at their local Apple Stores. The 150,000 numb…

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15 March 2010 ~ Comments

Twitter Announces @anywhere To Take Twitter Everywhere

Today, during a keynote speech at SXSW, Twitter founder Evan Williams talked about what’s going on with the popular micro-blogging platform. Among other things, Ev mentioned a new set of web frameworks, known as @anywhere, that will allow website own…

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