Archive for the ‘Tech News’ Category
Wednesday, March 5th, 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.
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Monday, March 3rd, 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 ...
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Friday, February 29th, 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 ...
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Friday, February 29th, 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 ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 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 ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 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 ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 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. ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 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 ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Are you a plant enthusiast? If so, then Botanicalls has made something for you. It's Botanicalls Twitter. This company guides you through the creation of a very high tech moisture monitor that actually allows the plant to post online when it is thirsty so that you can ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
In order to protect copyright and trademark violations, Ebay has a program that allows manufacturers to log on and delete fakes. This is great for companies like Rolex, Nike, or any number of companies that get copied, but what room is there for these companies to go and abuse ...
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