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The deployment of Google Apps in Los Angeles – the same deployment that’s supposed to save L.A. $5.5 million over the next five years and inspire many other cities to follow its example – isn’t going according to plan. Although it appears that neither side is entirely to blame, several problems have cropped up.
A group [...]
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Search has been evolving for years, and it looks as though its really starting to enter a new era entirely. While search and social media may be two different animals, it is becoming more clear that they’re directly related, and will continue to be more mixed into one another.
We’re already seeing search engines attempt to [...]
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If you, as a kid, enjoyed playing the classic Super Mario Bros game on your old Nintendo console, here’s something that you should try over the weekend.
Game developer Jay Pavlina has created a Flash version of the original Super Mario Bros game that you can play with your computer keyboard in a web browser. [...]
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Barnes & Noble has introduced “Unlimited Free Express Shipping” to all of its members for orders placed online and ship-to-home orders placed in store.
All Barnes & Noble Members orders will be automatically upgraded to Free Express Shipping and will arrive in three business days or less, with no minimum purchase required and no limits.
“Extending [...]
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Google announced today that has provided mapping (via the Google Maps API) for a couple of highway safety initiatives around the use of cell phones in vehicles.
The first such initiative is Oprah’s “No Phone Zone“, which lets users make a pledge under three different options: no texting, no texting plus handsfree calling only, and no [...]
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The global mobile phone market grew 21.7 percent in the first quarter of 2010, a strong rebound over the first quarter of 2009, according to the latest report from IDC.
Vendors shipped 294.9 million units in the first quarter of 2010 compared to 242.4 million units a year earlier.
Smartphones and a recovering traditional mobile phone category [...]
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Rather than just announce some partnerships, or even parade a few unfinished prototypes across a stage, Google may share some rather important information regarding its TV software with developers at Google I/O. Enough info for developers to start making apps, perhaps.
Jessica E. Vascellaro and Don Clark reported this morning, “Google Inc. is planning to introduce [...]
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Last week Google changed the Local Business Center to Google Places, and along with that change came some new features for local businesses.
Among those changes was the addition of Google’s tag advertising. For $25 a month, businesses (in certain cities) can use Tags to highlight their listings on Google.com and Google Maps. These are yellow [...]
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A lawsuit filed by language software firm Rosetta Stone against Google for copyright infringement has been dismissed by a federal judge.
In its lawsuit, filed in July 2009, Rosetta Stone alleged that Google allowed third parties including individuals involved in software piracy to purchase the right to use Rosetta Stone trademarks or other terms confusingly similar [...]
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If you have been waiting to try content-aware fill and other new features that are bundled in Adobe Creative Suite 5 applications, here’s some good news.
The 30-day free trial versions of all Adobe CS5 applications are now available for download on adobe.com. These are fully functional so you can test-drive every [...]
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If you’ve been waiting for it, you probably already had your calendar marked, but today the iPad with Wi-Fi +3G is here. In case anyone forgot, Apple sent emails out today reminding everybody.
Apple will actually not begin selling the new iPads at its stores until 5pm, and is closing down the stores from 4pm to [...]
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I’ve seen a lot of angst over the past week about Facebook’s moves to open up your data to other applications.
To really understand how huge these changes are I had to get away from Silicon Valley and come and hang out with the geeks in Kinneret, Israel where famous VC Yossi Vardi [...]
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This morning TechCrunch reported, citing an unnamed source, that HP has cancelled the Windows 7 based slate PC because the team at HP aren’t too pleased with the performance of Windows 7 as an OS for a tablet computer.
HP may also be abandoning Intel-based hardware for its slate lineup simply because it’s too power [...]
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The current breed of iDevices (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad) share an almost similar on-screen virtual keyboard and therefore, you just have to master a common set of keyboard shortcuts to type a little faster on any these devices.
Let’s quickly recap the 10 most useful typing shortcuts for your iDevice:.
Tip #1: If you want to [...]
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Keyboard Shortcuts to Speed Up Typing on an iPhone or the iPad
The Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing today about issues surrounding the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and if it should be updated to address online data collection practices, social networks, and the mobile web.
“It is clear that the single biggest change impacting the privacy of children since the adoption of COPPA has been [...]
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