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About Craig Lloyd
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Google To Acquire Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Billion
15 Aug 2011 by Craig Lloyd / 2 Comments
Despite being a small contender in the mobile market with only a 3% market share and a net loss of $56 million in Q2 2011, Motorola Mobility (Motorola’s handset division) is being acquired by Google for a cool $12.5 billion. Of course, it has to pass through the government and Motorola’s shareholders first, but if the acquisition really happens, it could be big. From the press release:...
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Apple Releases Sub-$1,000 iMac For Education-Only Use
11 Aug 2011 by Craig Lloyd
Just in time for all the back-to-school shenanigans, Apple has silently added a cheaper iMac model to its lineup of all-in-ones. This new 21.5-incher is priced at just a dollar shy of $1,000 and comes packed with a last-generation 3.1GHz Intel Core i3 processor, 2GB of RAM, 250GB of hard drive real estate, 256MB of AMD Radeon HD 6750M graphics, and has OS X Lion pre-installed. However, a Thunderbo...
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Apple Reigns As Largest Smartphone Manufacturer; Android Still Rules Mobile OS Marketshare
08 Aug 2011 by Craig Lloyd / 1 Comment
It’s pretty impressive that a company that only sells one type of phone in a given year has grabbed the top spot of the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer (it’s also pretty impressive that the same company has more cash than the U.S. government). Apple now owns 19.1 percent of the smartphone market share followed by Samsung with 16.2 percent and Nokia, RIM, and HTC finishing...
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AT&T To Throttle Top 5% of Heaviest Unlimited Data Users
01 Aug 2011 by Craig Lloyd
If you’re one of the veteran AT&T users that have been grandfathered into an unlimited data plan and are set to stream all-you-can-play TV shows, movies, and music from your smartphone, be prepared to have your data speed throttled if you make it into the top 5% list of AT&T’s heaviest unlimited data users come October 1st. However, AT&T will be kind enough to give you mult...
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Apple Updates MacBook Air and Mac Mini; OS X Lion Released
20 Jul 2011 by Craig Lloyd / 1 Comment
Today is a big day for Apple. They’ve released updated versions of their MacBook Air and the Mac Mini along with finally unleashing the Mac OS X Lion into the Mac App Store. Their new MacBook Airs are now equipped with newer Sandy Bridge chips, Thunderbolt ports, and backlit keyboards. The 11-inch model includes a 1.6GHz Core i5 processor, 64GB of solid-state storage, 2GB of RAM, and starts ...
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Google’s Swiffy Converts SWF Files to HTML5
30 Jun 2011 by Craig Lloyd / 1 Comment
Amidst of all the recent announcements from Google comes a lesser-known feature that’s available now in Google Labs. It’s a small service called Swiffy, and it will convert SWF (the file format for Flash) files into HTML5 versions for use in most modern browsers like Chrome and Safari. Google says the process works by first converting the SWF file into a JSON file, then rendering it u...
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Tiered Data Plans Coming To Verizon July 7
23 Jun 2011 by Craig Lloyd / 6 Comments
Thanks to an official training document that has been leaked, the rumored tiered data plans for Verizon customers are definitely coming. Android Central ended up with the leak, which contains a slew of details about the new data plans that will most likely answer some of your hankering questions. The most important aspect of the change are obviously the different data/price options. Plans will st...
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Mozilla Officially Releases Firefox 5.0
21 Jun 2011 by Craig Lloyd / 3 Comments
It looks like Mozilla is following through with their promise to churn out new releases of Firefox faster than ever. After just three months of Firefox 4.0′s official release, Mozilla is hitting the ground running with Firefox 5.0, which is out now for your downloading pleasure. What’s new in this freshly updated version of Mozilla’s web browser? Well, you won’t see much ch...
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Let Anyone Send Files to Your Dropbox with JotForm
06 May 2011 by Craig Lloyd
Let’s say a family member or close friend wants to show you vacation pictures, but 1) There are too many files and 2) Even when zipped, the file size is too large to attach in an email. You suggest they sign up with Dropbox, a free way to sync and share files across any computer. The trouble is, your friend or family member is too stubborn to sign up for a free account (who doesn’t l...
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The Best Sense ROMs For Your HTC Android Smartphone
20 Apr 2011 by Craig Lloyd / 7 Comments
If you have an HTC smartphone and are anything like me, you just can’t seem to get away from HTC’s Sense user interface. It’s sleek, intuitive, and has way more features than what the stock Android UI offers. While some custom ROMs like CyanogenMod are quite popular, I could never quite stick with them because of the absence of HTC Sense. However, you can still get all the great ...
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