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Best Black Friday Deals: In-Store & Online
It seems like everyone in North America in either done with the Black Friday madness, or are just getting started. Most shoppers planned weeks before, outlining what stores to hit first, and where they can take bathroom breaks. Creating a plan saves time and energy. But if you’re one of those people who just goes ...
AT&T, T-Mobile Preps For $4B Break-up Fee
Earlier this week FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski presented another hurdle towards the AT&T-T-Mobile merger when he announced that he plans to push for an administrative hearing to deter the deal. Genachowski stated that over the months of scrutinizing the merger, he concluded that the merger would result to a massive loss of US jobs and ...
Cyber Monday For Surf-Savvy Shoppers
Cyber Monday is the shopping “holiday” after Thanksgiving. The term was coined back in 2005 with the rise of online shoppers found in the workplace. If you’re not into going out and joining in on all the ruckus during Black Friday, or you just really love to shop and you feel that Black Friday is ...
Helpful Apps For Your Black Friday Shopping Spree
Are you ready for the Black Friday chaos? Whether you’ll be braving the shops on Friday or will be staying at home and just doing some online shopping, I’m sure that you’ll need some help in managing and accomplishing all your shopping needs. Here are a few apps that I know you’d appreciate if you ...
Windows 8 Will Be Easy to Install, Upgrade
Windows users are either using Windows XP, Vista or 7. Windows XP is a decade old while Vista is about four years old–dinosaurs in the tech world especially, with the availability of Windows 7. So what happens when Windows 8 is launched onto the market? Will previous Windows versions be considered remnants of the ...
7 More Casualties as Google Cleans House
Over the years, our house gets cluttered with so much junk that eventually we have to let go of some stuff. Most of us find ourselves holding on to junk, thinking that we might need it again someday. But Google doesn’t seem to have a problem getting rid of the junk in their trunk. Back ...
Tablet Retail Better Prepared for Holiday Shoppers this Year
Thanksgiving and Black Friday are fast approaching, and retail stores are gearing up to accommodate the massive throng of shoppers come Friday. In the past, Black Fridays have always been chaotic. Yeah, it’s crazy, but you can’t blame people for wanting to take advantage of the massive price cuts you can find on this ...
FCC to Take AT&T-T-Mobile Deal to Administrative Court
Ever since AT&T announced it plans to acquire T-Mobile, it’s been jumping hurdle after hurdle trying to make this tall order of a deal work out. The Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is one of the biggest obstacles that AT&T faces in the T-Mobile deal. From the very beginning, he’s questioned the impact of ...
Mobile Gaming Is Now HTML5-philic
Adobe recently pulled Flash for mobile, the technology that allows users to view multimedia content on their mobile devices. Flash support also allows app to properly function a little bit better on our handsets, so there are a lot of apps that require Flash. With Flash’s fall from grace many wonder if this signals the ...
Buffy the Facebook Phone Slays Rumors and Reputations
There’s an ongoing project that involves a phone maker, an operating software provider and a social networking site. can you guess which companies these are? Facebook is a no brainer, so who is the phone maker and the OS provider? Facebook chose between Samsung and HTC, but opted for the latter. As for the OS, ...