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Office for Mac 2011 Makes Video Teaser Appearance [Microsoft]

Sid — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:00:53 +0000

Some of those Office for Mac 2011 features first shown off in February have appeared in a teaser video on YouTube. Word, PowerPoint, Excel and even Outlook (yes! Real Outlook!) all make appearances, as...

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HTC will ship all Android phones in China with Froyo on board, fuels fire for immediate update closer to home

Sid — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:09:00 +0000

A wordy headline, to be sure, but a pleasing one nonetheless. We came across HTC's Chinese web portal listing the Desire as coming with Android 2.2 (with Sense!) and simply had to ping the official source for confirmation. It turns out the info up the...

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LG’s Application Store launches in places you don’t live for devices you don’t care about

Sid — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:10:00 +0000

LG's official Application Store -- not to be confused with an App Store, App World, or App Catalog -- just went beta is 23 countries with the aim of serving up 4,000 apps to 33 countries (including the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain) by the end...

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LG’s Application Store launches in places you don’t live for devices you don’t care about

Sid — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:10:00 +0000

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Family Tracker iOS4 App: Big Brother For Big Brothers [Apps]

Sid — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:20:00 +0000

Family Tracker's not a new app, but this iOS4 update rescues it from near-uselessness. Thanks to the addition of multitasking, you can now track the GPS locations of family members all day, every day. ...

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Video: Test driving the Parrot AR.Drone

Sid — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:44:01 +0000

Technology editor Charles Arthur sees if he has the right stuff as he takes Parrot's Wi-Fi controlled quadricopter for a test flightCharles ArthurLaurence Topham

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An App That Turns Cameras Into Time Machines [Apps]

Sid — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:30:00 +0000

Perfectly matching snapshots-in-progress with a photo taken in the same spot from a hundred years ago is an awesome idea. Turns out, it's kind of hard. But Adobe and MIT have figured out a way to make ...

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Tweaker ports Samsung’s TouchWIz UI onto non-rooted Nexus One for reasons unknown

Sid — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:08:00 +0000

This one's been kicking around the interwebs for a few weeks now, but it has managed to grow into something of a beast during that period. Frankly, we couldn't think of less fitting way to send the glorious Nexus One out than to completely deface it a...

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HP’s webOS 2.0 ready to rock and roll this year

Sid — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:38:59 +0000

HP’s recent acquisition of Palm and all of its intellectual property has resulted in many people wondering just what are they going to do with the company as well as its jewels, where the webOS is chief among them. Well, word has finally come out that HP will be positioning its Palm webOS 2.0 as [...]

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This Week’s Best Apps [Apps]

Sid — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:20:59 +0000

In this week's well-protected app round-up: good jams, streamed and downloaded; Tron tanks, embattled; and French fiefdoms, established on the iPhone; social media links, elegantly arranged on the iPad...

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RISK Invades the iPhone, But Asia Still Unconquerable [IPhone Apps]

Sid — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:40:00 +0000

The iPhone has been out for a while now, so the biggest RISK fans have most probably sought out generic versions of the game. But for those who haven't, EA has just released an ultra official RISK: The...

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You Can Speak-To-Tweet With Dragon Dictation 2.0 [Apps]

Sid — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:48:57 +0000

Dragon Dictation has been our favorite speech recognition app for a while, and today's 2.0 update only strengthens that opinion. Not only does it bring the requisite iOS4 compatibility, but you can now...

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Our Favorite Todo/List App, Zenbe Lists, Comes to iPad [IPad Apps]

Sid — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:46:55 +0000

Zenbe has become my de-facto todo list—beating Google's and any sort of Apple solution—for two reasons: Ease of use and cross-platform compatibility. I can make grocery list on the computer...

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Nook for Android announced

Sid — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:45:53 +0000

Barnes & Noble has just announced that they will be rolling out Nook for Android, a fun and easy-to-use Barnes & Noble eReading experience which will obviously cater for folks who own Android-powered smartphones and devices. This spanking new application is the latest addition to Barnes & Noble’s slate of free, popular eReader software, and [...]

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Secunia ranks Apple first in software insecurity, Safari said to have AutoFill vulnerability

Sid — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:31:00 +0000

Bad news, Oracle. You've slipped to second place for the first time in years. The good news is that it's in Secunia's ranking of the top ten companies with the most software vulnerabilities, which is now topped by Apple -- Microsoft remains in third p...

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Apple Patent Shows Ad-Supported Version of OS X [Apple]

Sid — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:00:00 +0000

Could Apple be prepping an ad-supported version of OS X? A newly-unearthed patent shows that they've at least been toying with the idea. More »

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Flipboard for iPad app review

Sid — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:35:00 +0000

Flipboard is a new, free application for the iPad which has one basic function: to take your social networking tools (read: Facebook and Twitter) and turn them into social "magazines." As you can see from the screenshots -- which are all culled from m...

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T-Mobile webConnect Rocket 2.0 USB WWAN modem now on sale

Sid — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:28:00 +0000

Timely, no? In concert with its HSPA+ expansion, T-Mobile USA has decided to come clean with that webConnect Rocket 2.0 that we peeked a few weeks ago courtesy of a leaked presentation slide. Said device isn't drastically different than the original, o...

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Nook for Android now available to download, offers eBook lending

Sid — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:11:00 +0000

Well, what do you know? Turns out you don't actually need to invest in a Nook e-reader to enjoy the experience on your existing smartphone. And considering that the average Android smartphone will boast a display larger than your face within 2 years (...

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BlindType vows to autocorrect all wrongs with your iPhone or Android virtual keyboard (video)

Sid — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:40:00 +0000

Remember that episode of The Simpsons where Homer gets too fat to be able to dial a number? Well, he wouldn't have had that problem had BlindType been around. This soft keyboard is described by its makers as being extremely resilient to inaccurate inp...

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Apple to charge upgrade fee for iPads moving to iOS 4? (update: unlikely)

Sid — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:47:00 +0000

As if waiting around until fall to get iOS 4 weren't enough of a downer for iPad owners, the latest rumor we're hearing is that they'll have to pay a fee in order to do so. That's right, for the privilege of waiting patiently to get some semblance of m...

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A Detailed State of the Apps Report [Apps]

Sid — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:20:00 +0000

There's a lot written about the Apple App Store and Android Market, but they're hardly the only games in town. Here's your comprehensive look at the entire app ecosystem. Spoiler: it's huge. More&nb...

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Apple releases iTunes 9.2.1 and iBooks 1.1.1, fixes galore promised

Sid — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:07:00 +0000

Merely days after iTunes 9.2 hit the pipes in order to enable iPhone 4 syncing, Apple's software team has pushed out the first "minor" update since with 9.2.1. Truth be told, the list of changes, fixes and tweaks is rather lengthy for a simple point-p...

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Slot Machine iPhone Dock: Proportionally Less Depressing Than Real Thing [Slots]

Sid — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:40:00 +0000

I've learned two important things today: I can turn my iPhone into a tiny slot machine, and "appcessory" is a word now. Jackpot Slots—which is both an iPhone app and a dock—just made someo...

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This Week’s Best Apps [Apps]

Sid — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:30:00 +0000

In this week's iPhone, iPad, and Android app round-up: AT-AT's, brought down; Android input, Palm Pilot Graffiti-fied; Dracula, vanquished; calculations, beautified; Starfleet communiques, transmitted;...

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