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Sony Teaser Site Promises to "Change the Way You Look at Laptops, Forever"
Posted by:Iria 1254 days ago • 104 Comments • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
What is it with companies and teaser sites nowadays? First we have the mystery Dell Adamo site, now Sony has a site up that says on January 9th, they're going to unveil a revolutionary new VAIO. READ MORE ...
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Barack Obama to Inaugurate the "YouTube Presidency"
Posted by:Iria 1291 days ago • 61 Comments • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
Every president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has held a weekly radio address. But let's face it, Barack Obama leveraged all sorts of technology during his presidential campaign, whether it be Twi READ MORE ...
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Tweet Your Vote; Make Sure it Counts
Posted by:Iria 1304 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
In a project similar to "Video Your Vote," which I wrote about earlier, Twitter has launched a site and project of its own, aimed at enabling voters to "Tweet," or rather, microblog using Twitter READ MORE ...
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IMOVIO Intros a Sub-SubNotebook
Posted by:Iria 1316 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
I remember when there used to be PDA of a similar size to this new PC ... oh, all right, the company calls it a Pocket Mobile Companion. The HP620 LX (pictured below) was simply a Windows Mobile (or READ MORE ...
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Apple's Latest Ads Gibe Microsoft's Latest Ads
Posted by:Iria 1316 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
We know from last week's Apple event that humble though it might try to be, even Apple feels the "Mac vs. PC" ads are an overwhelming success. Try as they might, Microsoft hasn't been able to com READ MORE ...
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LittleBigPlanet eBay Sellers Charging a Premium for Recalled Version
Posted by:Iria 1316 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
I wrote about a pair of references to the Quran in the background music tracks of LittleBigPlanet derailing the North American release of the game, and forcing a worldwide recall. It didn't occur to READ MORE ...
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McCain "Put the Country at Risk" with Palin Pick: Former Bush Re-Election Chief Strategist
Posted by:Iria 1322 days ago • Discuss • http://snafu-ed.blogspot.com
It is no secret that many, including conservatives, feel that Sarah Palin is uniquely unqualified to be Vice-President, whether it be on economic issues, social issues, or global issues. And now the READ MORE ...
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"Spotlight Turns to Notebooks" at Apple Oct. 14th Event
Posted by:Iria 1327 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
As expected, Apple has officially scheduled an event on Oct. 14th. The tagline for the event is "The spotlight turns to notebooks," emphasizing a notebook-focused event, which was also predicted. READ MORE ...
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Middle-School Teacher Uses N-Word to Describe Obama to Students
Posted by:Iria 1332 days ago • Discuss • http://snafu-ed.blogspot.com
You'll remember, I assume, the recent racist events surrounding this year's presidential campaign. Most recently, Barack Obama was hung in effigy at a Christian university (how Christian of them). READ MORE ...
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Jammie Thomas' RIAA Verdict Set Aside: Mistrial Ruled
Posted by:Iria 1341 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
You'll probably recall Jammie Thomas, the only target of the RIAA to take her case to trial. In October of last year the trial ended in an RIAA victory, with a $222,000 penalty assessed against her READ MORE ...
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California Bans Text Messaging While Driving
Posted by:Iria 1341 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
On Wednesday, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger began signing into law over 800 bills have sat on his desk while the California budget was negotiated. He had vowed to not sign anything until READ MORE ...
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Apple's NDA Extended to App Store Rejection Letters
Posted by:Iria 1342 days ago • 1 Comment • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
Recently some high profile rejections at the App Store have caused a storm of controversy across the blogosphere. The controversy centers around apps being rejected because they duplicate pre-existin READ MORE ...
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T-Mobile's G1 "Unlimited" Data Plan Throttled After 1 GB of Data Usage
Posted by:Iria 1343 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
Today was the introduction of the T-Mobile G1, the first Google Android cell phone. The launch event didn't include details on the service plans, but closer examination of the plans after they were READ MORE ...
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SanDisk, Record Labels Announce "slotMusic" Physical Album Format
Posted by:Iria 1344 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
On Monday SanDisk announced a new physical music format, called slotMusic, in concert with the four major music labels: EMI Music, SONY BMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group. The new for READ MORE ...
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Stephen Hawking Unveils a "Time Eating Clock"
Posted by:Iria 1345 days ago • 1 Comment • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
Don't worry: it's not a cousin to the Large Hadron Collider, which some fear can destroy the world. No, it's not really eating time. But the Corpus Clock is certainly unusual.
On Friday, Sept. READ MORE ...
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"I'm a PC," and I Was Made on a Mac
Posted by:Iria 1347 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
Microsoft's new phase of its ad campaign, aimed at renovating the image of Windows, which began with the much criticized Seinfeld-Gates ads (three of which were filmed but only two of which were air READ MORE ...
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Apple Recalls Millions of iPhone 3G Power Adapters
Posted by:Iria 1347 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
On Friday afternoon (after the stock market close, go figure) Apple recalled millions of iPhone 3G power adapters. The recall covers Latin America, North America and Japan. The problem: weak prongs READ MORE ...
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New Microsoft Commercials Are Live --- and Much Better
Posted by:Iria 1348 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
The new Microsoft ads went live on Thursday. And at the start of each ad is Sean Siler, a Microsoft employee who, luckily for Microsoft bears some resemblance to John Hodgman, the PC in Apple's ads. READ MORE ...
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How to Hack a VP Candidate's Email
Posted by:Iria 1348 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
So just how did the Yahoo! email account of Sarah Palin, John McCain's running mate, get hacked? It wasn't by brute force, or because the password was obvious (like if she used her own name, Palin) READ MORE ...
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Google Rumored to Be Buying Valve
Posted by:Iria 1349 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
For those of you who haven't heard of Valve, it's a gaming company, famous for games such as Half-Life, which really made the company's mark, as well as follow ups such as Day of Defeat, Counter-S READ MORE ...
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Say Goodbye, Bill and Jerry
Posted by:Iria 1349 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
It was all planned this way! Seriously. That's the spin Microsoft is giving, as it's been announced that the nearly universally panned Microsoft commercial series involving Bill Gates and Jerry Sei READ MORE ...
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Hackers Break into Palin's Yahoo! Email
Posted by:Iria 1349 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
Sarah Palin, John McCain's running-mate, has come under fire for using her private Yahoo! email address for state business. The reason? As a public official she's supposed to use her official email READ MORE ...
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Android Launch Event Date Gets Confirmed
Posted by:Iria 1349 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
On Tuesday, at a session at its Google Developer day in London, Google's Mike Jennings demonstrated a working Android mobile phone for "the first time in Europe." The slides (one above) clearly se READ MORE ...
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Blackberry or Spouse? 35% Would Choose Blackberry
Posted by:Iria 1351 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
Perhaps these Blackberry users need to visit this U.K. theme park, which announced itself to be a PDA-free zone in May. StudyLogic interviewed 1,500 people on behalf of Sheraton Hotels & Resorts as p READ MORE ...
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Google Chrome: a First Look
Posted by:Iria 1364 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
For those of you who were anxiously awaiting the release of Google Chrome, the new browser that Google just announced yesterday, Google had an 11 AM PDT press conference, and dished the details, as w READ MORE ...
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Apple Confirms Sept. 9th Event: Let's Rock!
Posted by:Iria 1364 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
Apple has confirmed the rumored September event with a Sept. 9th date for a "special event." The event is at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco at 10:00 AM PDT and is titl READ MORE ...
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Job Posting Reveals Planned App Store for Windows Mobile
Posted by:Iria 1366 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
A job posting spotted on ComputerJobs.com shows that Microsoft is looking for a Senior Product Manager for a project called Skymarket, a "a v1 marketplace service for Windows Mobile." READ MORE ...
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Aardvarks Get More Spam Than Zebras: Study
Posted by:Iria 1367 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
Email spam got you down? Is your first name Aaron? A study by Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton shows that the first letter of your email address has a lot to do with the amount of READ MORE ...
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Google: "No Trespassing" Doesn't Mean "No Street View"
Posted by:Iria 1372 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
As reported by the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, a Google Street View driver passed two "no trespassing" signs to collect pictures images of a residence 1,200 feet from a county road, putting Street V READ MORE ...
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U.S. Broadband Sucks, But Less So on the East Coast: Study
Posted by:Iria 1373 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
Despite the fact that California, specifically Silicon Valley, is thought to be the heart of technology, it's the East Coast that rules in terms of broadband speeds, according to a study by affordab READ MORE ...
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Microsoft to Try "Going Hip" with Seinfeld Ads
Posted by:Iria 1376 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
Let's be honest: even if you use a PC you have to admit the Apple "Get a Mac" ads are hip, funny, and clever. Despite my PVR, I will stop in the middle of a commercial skip and watch a new "Get a READ MORE ...
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MobileMe Users Get Another Subscription Extension
Posted by:Iria 1379 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
All I can say is: I hope Apple gives iPhone users the same level of love to make up for the horrible 3G problems some of us (incuding me) have been having.
In July Apple announced a 30-day extensi READ MORE ...
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What's a Goofy Webmail Address Reveal About You? More Than You Might Think
Posted by:Iria 1380 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
Ever wonder if choosing a webmail address such as honey.bunny77@hotmail.com says anything about your personality? Well, researchers at the University of Leipzig did, and they recently published a pap READ MORE ...
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A BSOD of Olympic Proportions
Posted by:Iria 1385 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
Most of us who have used a Windows PC know what a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) is. Well, there could be no more perfect timing for a BSOD than this. Right when Li Ning was rounding the lip of the Bird READ MORE ...
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Lotus Cranks Up the Hybrid Volume
Posted by:Iria 1388 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
You may recall I wrote earlier about how quiet hybrids are, and the test conducted by the U.S. National Federation of the Blind's Committee on Automotive and Pedestrian Safety. And yes, a hybrid car READ MORE ...
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Drop Safari, at Least for Now: Consumer Reports
Posted by:Iria 1390 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
In their latest State of the Net survey, Consumer Reports (CR) warned that Mac users tend to mistakenly believe that the Mac itself is a barrier against malware and the like, and thus tend to be a li READ MORE ...
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Researcher Uncovers iPhone App "Kill Switch"
Posted by:Iria 1391 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
Remember NetShare, the iPhone tethering app that went up, down, up, and finally down (probably forever)? It turns out, even though some users managed to snag it before Apple took it down, if they wan READ MORE ...
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Google: Complete Privacy No Longer Exists
Posted by:Iria 1397 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
It's been discussed before: in this information-filled age with all our personal data in databases that are vulnerable to leaks, as well as much of our behavioral data being gathered by corporations READ MORE ...
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Scrabulous Returns to Facebook with a Triple Word Score: a New Name
Posted by:Iria 1397 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
Hasbro can now stop worry about a server overload on its Facebook Scrabble application: only two days after disappearing from Facebook, Scrabulous is back, but with a new name (Wordscraper), and mino READ MORE ...
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Copy / Paste Functionality About to Reach the iPhone, More or Less (Mostly Less)
Posted by:Iria 1400 days ago • Discuss • http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com
Copy & Paste functionality is one of the most desired iPhone features, and as such, software developers Proximi may have struck gold with MagicPad, which they recently submitted for inclusion to the READ MORE ...
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