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Recycling Old Electronics is a 50-50 Trend, Minus 11
The growing competition amongst manufacturers has introduced the world to wonders like never before, including the smartphone, HDTV, iPad and the high-power laser pen. But all the new gadgetry also a has a flipside, as it directly influences our ecosystem. As mentioned by Retrevo: “Based on a 2008 EPA report, we calculate that by the ...
The Sprint ID Android Software Launch and Foreseen Advancement
Sprint has launched this Wednesday a brand new theme and demographics-oriented software for Android phones (the LG Optimus S, the Sanyo Zio and the Samsung Transform at least for now), called Sprint ID. This content platform automatically unpacks pre-selected apps, graphics, audio, etc. onto the Android, as provided by Sprint’s content partners. With big names ...
IE’s Market Share is falling, to Less than %50
Once dominating over %90 of the entire browser market, IE is critically slipping off of its 10-year reign, dropped down to %67 two years ago, and now to a descending figure of %49.9 as reported by StatCounter, a web analytics firm. The former Windows-synonymous, and uncomfortably pre-installed, browser is still in use by the majority ...
Freedom of Speech is Spreading throughout the WWW, but Seriously Libya.
A recent warning by blogger Ben Metcalfe sent out shortly after the seize of one of his domains (a .ly one, AKA Libya), also reported here, alerts that .ly domain holders may be looking at a crusade of sorts against their URLs shorteners. These are being shut down, unless attuned with the Libyan Islamic/Sharia Law, ...
Twitter DM Loophole, Shortly after Massive JS Attack
A recent report has uncovered a security loophole in Twitter, concerning users’ private direct messages (DMs). It’s one that can potentially give web developers easy access to private information exchanged between two individual users. After numerous concerns regarding privacy breaches in the Twitter API, the pessimists had proven to be right, and while Twitter has ...
Zynga Expands Once More, this Time towards Dallas
After announcing earlier this morning their new VP David Ko, former Head of the U.S Audience unit at Yahoo!, Zynga has made yet another significant step forward, and acquired the legendary Bonfire Studios; now renamed to Zynga Dallas. The mastermind behind Halo Wars and Age of Empires will now be developing original IP for the ...
Toll-Free TV Broadband? BoxTop.tv Is Making it Happen.
A very fresh start-up appropriately named BoxTop has recently emerged out of Silicon Valley, and is now diving straight into an accelerated roll-out of an entirely new platform. FreeBand, as the start-up named it, is aimed at delivering free broadband to homes, businesses and even government sectors, and is supported by none other than TV-based ...
Syncplicity’s Launches All-in-One Business Edition for the Cloud
The long-time file management solutions provider Syncplicity launches today’s its significantly improved and featured-pack new Business Edition. This introduces numerous and notable concepts, highlighted and realized, as well as the extremely time-saving and simplifying capacity for users to operate in their own native environments, without allocating them to yet another place for data storage. “Syncplicity ...
Juniper Networks Enters the Echo-friendly Arena
Juniper Networks, the international cross-sector provider of high-performance network infrastructures, heads straight into the green tech arena with a recent report launch. In the advancing (and ever-updating) roll out of their efforts to “connect everything and empower everyone”, they’ve set themselves an aim to contribute to more responsible and efficient business operations. This is in ...
Windows 7 Launches in One Week: T-mobile & AT&T Join In On the Profit
T-mobile and AT&T join forces under the wing of Microsoft to launch an HTC Smartphone in one week from now, as reported by sources. The rather anticipated device will run on Microsoft’s most recent and hottest-debated attempt to gain back its share of the mobile market – Windows Phone 7 – and will finally reveal ...