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Android Market Still AWOL for Motorola Droid X Users
In the misty distance of recent history—September to be exact—some owners of Motorola Droid X awoke to discover that the recent upgrade to their phone had also dropped the Android Market from their handsets. This bug left those affected unable to access anything related to the market—putting them in a predicament because it’s the only ...
Logitech Rescues Unused DVD Players with Universal Remotes
This should probably come as a surprise to no one, but Logitech recently commissioned a study that shows many people are becoming increasingly frustrated with remote controls. The survey and press release are a bid to help advertise their new line of Harmony remote controls, marketed to these irritated masses. In fact, one element of ...
Flash Hits the iPhone: Skyfire Browser Approved
This development comes on the heels of the Skyfire application release for Android phones. As Apple prohibits Flash-based applications and applets on the iPhone, Skyfire has developed a browser that circumvents this problem by translating Flash into HTML5 on the fly (in the cloud) and then passing it back to the in-phone browser. Apple Insider ...
HP’s New Product Launch Edges out IBM, Cisco
In a dryly worded press release today, HP has announced a new business strategy that will tap into cloud-storage and -computing for high end projects with big business and government. The offering, packaged as “Instant-On Enterprise” will provide a whole series of solutions that will leverage cloud-computing alongside giant infrastructures along four pillars: applications, infrastructure, ...
Xbox 360 Dashboard Update Prepares the Way for Kinect, ESPN
A giant graphical shift is happening down in Xbox 360 dashboard land as users see that a new update is available for download. Microsoft is paving the way for their new motion tracking sensor system, implementing support for ESPN, and has even modified the way that people experience their own avatars. Just the facts? We’ve ...
Holiday Cheer from T-Mobile with Cheap Androids and Data Plans
Filled with holiday merriment, T-Mobile has decided to pass their own excitement on to their customers by putting together a bunch of cheap Android phones and affordable data plans to go with them. Four smartphones, each under $100, and two new data plans set for the average family (if they’re heavy data using families, that ...
LimeWire Ghost Town After Shut Down, Still Clings to Future Plans
LimeWire has let go of 29 of their 100-person workforce in the wake of a federal injunction against their operations. However, in spite of this, the peer-to-peer software outfit keeps intimating that they’re continuing work on a music-related project. Peter Kafka from All Things D waxes thoughtful on the subject in his article, I don’t ...
Facebook Cleaning Up Its Streets and Its Image
Whenever we post our personal information on the Internet, it becomes available to everyone—even people we’d rather not saw it—and in some cases, unscrupulous companies will use this information against us. In a recent debacle, a few Facebook developers were caught using an unexpected trick to identify app users and sell their public information combined ...
Gag Order Denied for SAP in Oracle Lawsuit
A quick update from SAP vs Oracle lawsuit land from Digital Daily, Bad news for SAP, Hewlett-Packard, its new CEO Léo Apotheker and anyone else tarred and feathered in Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s recent fusillade of anti-SAP broadsides. A federal judge has denied a request for a gag order in the increasingly contentious legal battle ...
The Location-based Fires are Burning: FourSquare and Facebook Places Compare Size
Right now user metrics are being held side-by-side to show that Facebook Places is outstripping Foursquare by a dramatic margin: 30 million pairs of feet for Facebook vs only 4 million dipping into Foursquare. So the question arose, does this mean that Foursquare is doomed? Probably not, says an article posted at Business Insider, But ...