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Friday, den 7. March 2008

Yesterday, Apple’s Software Development Kit (SDK) was released to developers who want to develop software for the IPhone. With the announcement, they also added that any software for the IPhone would either be downloaded through the App Store, which resembles the Music Store already on the IPhones, and the ITunes Store. While I would argue [...]

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Friday, den 7. March 2008

A freshman at Ryerson University in Ontario is awaiting his committee meeting to discuss a possible expulsion for… brace yourself… using Facebook to run an online study group. This group had 147 members (including himself), and he is being charged 146 charges of academic misconduct (one for every student but himself). So, what’s the problem [...]

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Wednesday, den 5. March 2008

One of the newest additions to the Google software list is Google Streets. This is an addition to Google Maps that actually lets you go down to street view to see the surrounding area. This will help all those people who are direction handicapped by adding landmarks to the list. Check it out (when you [...]

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Monday, den 3. March 2008

Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple computers, recently spoke in Australia, and had less that favorable opinions about Apple’s IPhone, Macbook Air, and Apple TV. Some of the criticisms are the lack of the G3 broadband network on the Iphone, the lack of a DVD drive and ethernet port on the Macbook Air, and the 24 [...]

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Friday, den 29. February 2008

Ubuntu has created a website called Brainstorm which offers users a venue for requesting new changes/features, and also voting on other users’ ideas. This tool will help both the development community and the programmers at Ubuntu design and implement the features that users actually want instead of constantly being two steps behind Microsoft and Apple. [...]

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Friday, den 29. February 2008

Surprising nearly every tech in the industry, Microsoft has announced that they will be lowering the price of Vista in 70 countries. This is the first time that Microsoft has done this. The reductions in the prices will be highest in developing countries where piracy rates are the highest. The US will see minimal rate [...]

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Thursday, den 28. February 2008

With the new FireFox 3 browser coming close to completion, benchmark after benchmark is being run on nearly all the popular browsers to see how they stack up. Cybernet News writes about how the daily build of the new FireFox 3 browser renders java more quickly than all of the other major browsers. Read More [...]

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Wednesday, den 27. February 2008

I have been thinking about something lately. Why has the price of technology risen so much over the last few years? It seems that even the older stuff still costs a lot of money. Because of these high prices, it’s almost impossible to build a computer for the same price as purchasing one from Dell [...]

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Wednesday, den 27. February 2008

Back in 2004, Microsoft lost an antitrust ruling in the EU. The summary: Microsoft had to offer competition some of the key information at a reasonable price to competitors. Now these competitors aren’t in the operating system business. No, they are in the media player, browser, etc. business. These are actually areas of business that [...]

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Tuesday, den 26. February 2008

Are you a person who wants to do what you can to preserve the environment? Well, now the computer has become the target of energy savings. Let’s face it, many people leave their computers on all the time. If you still have a computer with a Pentium 4 processor or older, you are using a [...]

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