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Last week, Google launched its new Instant Search feature. This is supposed to shave off a few seconds off every search you do, resulting in billions of saved seconds for Google users. It basically starts searching as soon as you start typing, this enables you to scan through the results with each letter you...
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The Twitter account, @Israel has been sold. To whom, you might ask. Yes, you guessed it, the government of Israel has purchased the account. It used to be possible to get almost any username that you wanted on Twitter, that was before it had millions of users. Now you may have to try to...
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Today Amazon showed TV viewers which product it thinks is its biggest competition for its Kindle, not the Nook or some other e-reader, it’s the Apple iPad. In a TV ad that played on Good Morning America, they outed the iPad in a Kindle vs. iPad video. Many people know that the iPad’s one...
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You would think that the country’s or maybe even the world’s fastest internet connection would be in Silicon Valley, or maybe New York. Maybe even in Tokyo, Japan, however, that’s not the case. The fastest Internet connection speed can be found in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The unlikely small city of Chattanooga began offering one-gigabit-per-second internet...
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Today, Apple Inc. announced that Wi-Fi models of its iPad will be available for customers in China from Apple Retail Stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. They will be available on Friday, September 17, with sales beginning at 10:00 AM. This means that all the Chinese people who have been waiting to purchase an iPad,...
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YouTube is testing a relatively broad live-streaming platform. It started at 11:00 AM EST this morning. it will involve content streamed from YouTube’s partners: Howcast, Rocketboom, Next New Networks and Young Hollywood. YouTube will be working with this trial to test how people will use it, and whether it will be accepted. The new...
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For a while Yahoo Inc. has been having trouble keeping its head over water as users switch to services from rivals such as Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. As well, users have been using social networking services such as Facebook and Twitter instead of Yahoo Mail. In order to help stem this user decline,...
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GoDaddy.com, the website that sells registers Internet domain names, has put itself up for sale in an auction that could attract more than $1 billion in a possible sale. Qatalyst Partners, the firm run by veteran technology banker, Frank Quattrone, has been hired to sell the Go Daddy Group Inc. This company runs the...
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Apple will be ending their offer of free cases for all iPhone 4 owners by the end of September, they announced on Friday. After the 30th of September, iPhone owners who are still having problems with the antenna can call the AppleCare hotline to request a free case. However, it’s not clear whether or...
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If you have ever wondered how much of your personal information is stored by the many websites you access on a daily basis there is an interesting little tool that will tell you. It’s called Trasir. It will automatically display your IP address, this reveals your geographical location, it also displays the name of...
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