Friday, March 25, 2011

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MySpace declining faster than ever as News Corp. tries to sell off ailing site

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MySpace is continuing its slide into the abyss, and actually its decline appears to be speeding up. How long left for this once giant of the Web? As noted by TechCrunch [...] Related posts: News Corp. gives MySpace final warning News Corp admits MySpace “lost its way” News Corp. looking to offload MySpace

Apple telegraphs future GPUs

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As always, the latest operating system update, Mac OS X 10.6.7, has been mined for information about Apple’s unannounced platform development plans. Thereupon, we’ve got clues about which graphical processing units could be showing up in the iMac makeover said to be in the cards for May. As the owner of a less [...] Related [...]

RIM drops drink-drive apps after senator complaints

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Research In Motion has pulled two BlackBerry applications that warn users of an impending DUI checkpoint after complaints by four senators. But the makers of the apps have defended their use. The two applications, Trapster (pictured) and PhantomALERT, alert [...]

Android Phones get bigger cameras

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If your motto is 'The best camera is the one you have with you" and you have one of a small group of Android smartphones, you may be very close to right, except for your good camera. How many times have you driven or walked by [...] Related Posts: Aussie Kogan Android smartphone mystery The [...]

New iPhone-Android ‘Color’ app may be risky

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Some users rave about the new mobile app "Color," which is a sort of a combination of location-based and photographic networking for Android and Apple smartphones, even though it may over-share personal data. Setup is easy and usage is [...] Related posts: Report: Android handsets now outselling Apple’s iPhone Weak Android sales mean Verizon needs [...]

Has Yahoo found “the future of search”?

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Yahoo has launched an experimental feature designed to return answers before the user has finished typing the question. It’s along the lines of Google’s Instant Search tool, but with the results better organized. The new tool, Search Direct, has several “instant” [...] Related posts: Yahoo launches “Sketch-a-search” Yahoo tests customizable Alpha search engine Yahoo beats [...]

‘Color’ is an edgy app for iPhone and Android

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Take a picture of yourself in situ and upload it to everyone within 150 feet, then wait to see what happens. Is this a James Bond film, a recipe for trouble in the near future, or a smartphone app. As it turns out, it is at [...]