Category: News
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Thunderbolt Technology Unveiled by Apple and Intel
It comes as no surprise that Apple’s powerhouse ‘Pro’ line of notebooks has undergone its predictable annual refresh. Making its debut with powerful, updated internals, an HD Camera for Facetime, and an all new Thunderbolt (I/O) technology, Apple has once-again solidified its spot at the top of hardware design. For a change, cameras and processors…
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Motorola Atrix – The Future of Mobile Computing
With practically everything available at our fingertips via smartphone, “What could the mobile market possibly do next?” I thought. We have 1 GHz processors in most new smart phones, an incredibly powerful, ever-growing Android OS, the simple and beautiful iOS 4, turn-by-turn navigation, mobile Google Docs, 4G wireless connections, video chat, 720p video recording, 1080p video…
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Three Sheets coming to Spike TV February 8th
If you like a little history on your bar drink, are a fan of the Travel Channel, or just like to watch people act goofy after throwing back a few drinks, then “Three Sheets” is definitely a show to check out. For those of you who don’t know, “Three Sheets” is a show all about…
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Don’t Run or Walk, Sit for Something
When Jeremy Haberman left home to run a few errands with his family on another brisk Lake Nokomis morning, he wasn’t expecting another cause-related 5-kilometer walk and run to cross his path. His normal route was closed yet again. Frustrated, Haberman said to his wife, “You know what I’m going to do? I’m going to…
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Farewell Firesheep, Facebook Rolls Out Secure HTTPS Option
After the Firesheep fiasco of last October, most people became keenly aware of how insecure they were on unencrypted websites like Facebook and Twitter. (In case you missed it, Firesheep is an add-on for Firefox that allows a malicious user to take control of your account on unsecure non-https websites when browsing on wi-fi) Firesheep…
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Latest LauncherPro Update Adds Sweet New Transitions
It’s been over a month since we last heard from Federico Carnales, developer of the awesome Android homescreen replacement application LauncherPro. He’s been busy completely rewriting LauncherPro from scratch, but recently found time to push out an update to the current version that adds some very cool screen transitions. For the uninitiated, LauncherPro is one…
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Schmidt, Schmidt, Page, Schmidt: An Ode to Google’s Breaking News
By now you’ve no doubt heard the news: Eric Schmidt is stepping down from his position as Google CEO and will be replaced by Google co-founder Larry Page. Schmidt joined Google in 2001, and has guided the company towards huge growth and tremendous profits (and by tremendous, I mean $25 billion in a year). Schmidt…
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Sparkfun’s Free Day: A Giveaway Meets a Server Stress Test
Two hours – that is all it took for $150,000 to be given away on the internet. Now for most of us, it seems very foolish to let $150,000 just be burned off like the fuse on a stick of dynamite. But for the electronics prototyping distributor Sparkfun, it was a calculated, well-planned charity. This…
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iPhone 4: Coming to Verizon on February 10
After years of wanting and months of speculations, the iPhone is finally coming to the Verizon network. I honestly never thought this would happen! Announcement A press conference was held this morning in New York City. At the press conference, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam and Apple COO Tim Cook, along with Verizon Wireless CEO Dan…
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Microsoft Unveils a Slimmer, Smarter Surface 2.0
How’s that for alliteration? When Microsoft first unveiled their Surface technology in 2007, I was impressed with the possibilities that could be had when combining advanced displays with accurate, multi-touch optical recognition. Their original product combined a 30” display with a series of cameras to establish the position of inputs (like your hands), which produced…