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Mobile phone companies are now testing a new way of getting new customers. They are doing this by having ads for their devices appear on the devices of their competitors. This exposes their products to users who are already using something similar so they may be interested in what the competitor is offering. The...
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We all expected the Kindle 3 to be a hit, but what we didn’t expect was for it to be the #1 Bestselling Product in Amazon History. Well, that’s what the Amazon Kindle 3 has become, the Bestselling Product in Amazon History. Now that is a pretty big accomplishment. It means that the Kindle...
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A man named Paul Butler recently made a map of the world. His map is a bit different from the maps that we are used to as he made it using data graphs. He is a Facebook intern, so it was not unusual that he would use his information there to make a graph....
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For most Americans jury duty seems to be a chore. Sure, it’s their constitutional right and all, but for most people it’s not all that fun. However, there seems to be one man who can find humor within a courtroom, and that man is Steve Martin. Throughout this past week, Steve Martin has posted...
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As an internet user of today, you should be well aware of the dangers posed by URL shorteners. If you aren’t ware of them, well, the main, most important danger is their abilty to mask potentially malicious links. This means that if you click on a shortend link you may potentially be killing your...
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You may remember how in September Craigslist decided, with pressure from American lawmakers, to shut down its “Adult Services” section in the United States. That was great news to many Americans who didn’t approved of the controversial portion of the classified ads website. That was great news at the time, however, now comes even...
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iPhones may be very popular, however, as of today, Google’s Android has been in space. Google wished to do something special for the launch of the new Nexus S. They decided to literally launch it. They got the phone, or actually, 7 phones, up in space by means of weather balloons. Google employees constructed...
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Skype, one of the world’s most popular forms of video communication through the internet has crashed. This will inhibit communication for millions of users who are trying to talk to their relatives or loved ones at home for the holidays. The company has acknowledged the outage through a series of tweets. Skype also gave...
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The Federal Communications Commission has approved “high-level rules of the road.” These rules have been designed to ensure that internet service providers grant everyone equal access to the web. The vote was 3 to 2, with Democrats and Republicans on both sides, respectively. Commissioner Michael Copps, a Democrat, signed off on the rules, but...
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Your smart phone will has become even more usefull than it already is. An iPhone app that was released a few days ago called Word Lens allows you to translate foreign words on the go. How, you might ask? Well, you just point your phone’s camera at a sign written in a different language...
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