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Google Releases New Themes for Gmail and Google Calendar
01 Jul 2011 by Kevin Ivanca / 3 Comments
Dear people living under rocks this past week: If you haven’t noticed, Google has decided to tackle bold new things recently, with widespread success. First, they came out with Google+, a type of digital, communal gathering site that allows one to keep up with friends and collaborate with them (Which I am sure that Techerator will summarize into article form). And that was pretty cool. But t...
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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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Harry Potter eBooks To Be DRM Free
24 Jun 2011 by Kevin Schulte
Personally, I am not a fan of publishers locking down eBooks with intrusive and unnecessary DRM. It devalues their product and does little to prevent piracy anyway. It’s unfortunate that almost all major publishers and digital book distributors continue to sell their books with such a handicap. One giant name in the book industry, however, is looking to shake things up. J. K. Rowling, autho...
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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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Network Neutrality and Where You Should Stand
22 Jun 2011 by Jake Joraanstad / 3 Comments
From quick searches and online collaboration, to gaming and video streaming, the Internet has made many things possible. A key factor in this beautiful technology is its openness. That is where the issue of network neutrality comes into play. This article explains the current state of this openness and the proposed laws that attempt to change it.
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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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The 5 Best Features Coming To Apple’s iOS5
20 Jun 2011 by Andrew Kalinchuk
At Apple’s semi-recent keynote event, Steve Jobs announced a slew of new software and features that would be gracing his beloved ecosystem of Apple-powered devices. Most importantly, he outlined what we could expect from Mac OS X Lion, and the much-anticipated iOS 5. The latter software update comes with a ton of improvements that touch upon almost every major gripe that users have had with ...
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Wii 2: A Speculative Look at Nintendo’s Newest Console
17 Apr 2011 by Derek Johnson
It's-a me! Mario! I believe-a you have-a my cup! For those of you who don’t know, it has been confirmed that Ninendo’s next generation console will be announced at this year’s upcoming E3 expo. The highly anticipated console being revealed is the Wii 2. Sources say that the Wii 2 (code named “Project Cafe”) will be HD and at least as powerful as the current Xbox 360 a...
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How to Profit from the AT&T/Alltel Merger
15 Apr 2011 by Derek Johnson / 1 Comment
Now that AT&T may be acquiring T-Mobile, their acquisition of Alltel in a few states since the Verizon/Alltel merger is old news. By now everyone has pretty much figured out the jig. Every current Alltel customer gets a free AT&T phone because the two networks use different technologies, and a current Alltel phone won’t work on AT&T’s network (CDMA and GSM stuff). Recently, I stum...
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HP WebOS – What’s Coming?
28 Mar 2011 by Andrew Kalinchuk
The world of smartphones is both overpopulated and fiercely competitive. We have seen various platforms fail quite spectacularly while others have risen to incredible heights. That same market is happy to let smartphone operating systems like Symbian fall to the wayside and cheers in jubilation as Apple’s iOS dominates the scene. With Android and Windows Phone 7 clearly making a splash on th...
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