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Monday, February 27, 2012
Stage 2 Networks Acquires VOIP Division of Consolidated Technologies
Stage 2 Networks' customers will have additional service options integrated or added to their current hosted solutions. - Stage 2 Networks, a cloud communications leader in the New York metropolitan area with a portfolio of hosted voice and data services, is buying the hosted voice over IP business division of Consolidated Technologies, a converged technologies company and Avaya gold partner. The acquisition allows fo...
Kindle Touch Available in Australia… But at What Price?
At this point in time Amazon will only ship the Kindle Touch WiFi to Australia. Up for preorder now on both BigW and Dick Smith is the Touch WiFi for $185AU for release on March 5th and the Touch 3G for $249AU for release on the 13th of March. The only question I’ve got is why ? To grab [...]
Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2012/02/23/kindle-touch-available-in-australia-but-at-what-price/
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Amazon Cloud Player review: functional, not mind blowing, and still US-only
It's hard to believe: our world-spanning network, our Internet, which is the cornerstone of free speech and free society -- which, on a good day, is capable of causing populist revolutions -- is still crippled by banal geolocation restrictions. We are, of course, talking about Amazon's two latest offerings, both of which are only available in the United States. Last week it was the excellent Android Appstore for Android, and today it's the Amazon Cloud Player for Web and Android.Along with Cloud Player, Amazon also launched Cloud Drive, which is basically just like any other cloud storage digital locker. It's not particularly feature rich, and there's no real reason to use it over something like SugarSync or SkyDrive -- it does work outside the US, however.
Its primary purpose, as far as we're concerned, is that it stores your your Cloud Player music in a subdirectory. You get 5GB of Cloud Drive storage for free, and then it's $1 per gigabyte per year if you need more space.
The Amazon Cloud Player itself will not, to put it bluntly, blow your mind. It works, but it's very much an early, and possibly rushed, release. Let's dive in to the Web and Android players for a closer look.
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Amazon Cloud Player review: functional, not mind blowing, and still US-only originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sony Officially Unveils The Xperia P And Xperia U At MWC
While the idea of skipping Sony's event to watch a beautiful Barcelona sunset was strangely appealing, we nevertheless come to you from Sony's press event where the recently divorced company has just (officially) revealed two new handsets, the Xperia P and the Xperia U.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/q0UFf77duzk/
Opera 11.10 gets HTML5 File API support, IMAP improvements
On the IMAP front, Opera now supports special folders like sent items, spam, and trash. It also better handles duplicate items in Gmail -- such as those which appear in all mail and under your custom labels.
Opera 11.10 now partially supports the HTML5 File API as well, which means your favorite Web apps (like Gmail) may soon begin adding Opera to the list of supported browsers.
You can download the latest Opera 11.10 snapshot for Windows, Mac, or Linux from the official release post.
Update: The Opera 11.10 RC is now available, as pointed out by SlashZaku in the comments. Thanks!
Opera 11.10 gets HTML5 File API support, IMAP improvements originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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LG Shows Off New Pics of That Ultra-Thin 55-Inch OLED TV
LG's UK division reveals photos of its newest OLED television display, which purports to be "the future of TV technology."
Source: http://feeds.pcworld.com/click.phdo?i=872a0fcaf340b4e6f2733e8791c11768
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Words With Friends for Android updated, promises "smoother game experience"
You might be happy to hear that a couple of days ago Zynga released an update which promises to solve many of the Android-specific issues, such as notifications not popping up.
Sadly, installing the update is not a smooth experience; you have to manually uninstall the previous version, and then go to the Android Market and install it. What's nice is that it doesn't lose your saved games - this screenshot shows a game I've started before the update and continued after updating.
How's the new update working out for you? Let us know in the comments!
Words With Friends for Android updated, promises "smoother game experience" originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
LG Rolls Out Voice-Controlled TVs With a Magic Remote
Being first to the market is always important, and LG's voice-controlled remote control is officially out of the gate.
Source: http://feeds.pcworld.com/click.phdo?i=8f13ab763148f834c1348e0c986f0cfb
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Saturday, February 25, 2012
Verizon Wireless settles with FCC over false data charges
The Federal Communications Commission reached a record $25 million settlement on Thursday with Verizon Wireless over false data charges, in a move meant to show that the agency is stepping up scrutiny of consumer billing practices.
Source: http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=eb57972d9eb6dc4428c7f8eed7e14f1a
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VIA Introduces New Quad Core Mini-ITX Motherboards
Look, not everyone needs a sizable motherboard with eighteen PCI slots. And for those in that camp, there's VIA. The company has just launched he world's first quad core Mini-ITX boards featuring the latest VIA QuadCore E-Series processor. The VIA EPIA-M900 and VIA EPIA-M910 are the first two Mini-ITX boards to feature the 1.2GHz VIA QuadCore...Source: http://hothardware.com/News/VIA-Introduces-New-Quad-Core-MiniITX-Motherboards-/
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Steve Jobs Biography Criticizes Microsoft, Ballmer
A good chunk of Walter Isaacson's new biography of Steve Jobs focuses on Microsoft and Bill Gates. 
In the book, he characterizes former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates as "a business person" but not someone who necessarily made great products: "He ended up the wealthiest guy around, and if that was his goal, then he achieved it. But it's never been my goal, and I wonder, in the end, if it was his goal."
In the same passage, he also discussed Microsoft as a company. "They've clearly fallen from their dominance," he said. "They've become mostly irrelevant. And yet I appreciate what they did and how hard it was. They were very good at the business side of things. They were never as ambitious product-wise as they should have been."
Microsoft, of course, would strenuously disagree with those assertions. The latest edition of Windows has sold more than 450 million licenses, and the company continues to maintain a dominant position in business software. While the jury's still out with regard to its cloud efforts as revenue generators, platforms such as Office 365 are making inroads against Google and other companies in that area.
But Apple has framed itself as primarily a mobility company, with products such as the tablet and smartphone, and that area has also proven troublesome for Microsoft. Windows Phone has attracted critical praise but not enough sales to dent either the Apple iPhone or the growing family of Google Android devices; and Microsoft remains largely absent from the tablet game until the launch of Windows 8 sometime in 2012.
Jobs also had some things to say about current Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. "When the sales guys run the company, the product guys don't matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off," he said. "It happened at Apple when Sculley came in, which was my fault, and it happened when Ballmer took over at Microsoft." As a consequence, "I don't think anything will change at Microsoft as long as Ballmer is running it."
Microsoft's efforts with Windows 8 (particularly when it comes to tablets) and its revamped Windows Phone strategy (which involves a host of new manufacturing partners, including Nokia, in conjunction with the wide-ranging "Mango" software update) will determine whether Jobs' prophecy plays out. If those efforts succeed in a big way, then Microsoft could have a turnaround story in mobility to rival Apple's own. If they fail, then Redmond has some very serious problems.
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