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Google Zeitgeist 2011: Year In Review

December 19, 2011

See how people searched Google in 2011…

Steve Jobs tried to buy Dropbox in 2009

October 19, 2011

According to Forbes, Steve Jobs invited Dropbox founders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowski on a visit back in 2009, where Steve surprised them with a very generous offer to purchase Dropbox. It is rumored that Steve Jobs was willing to pay a nine digit-digit price. At that time, Dropbox had only existed for two years [...]

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Apple Ahead in US Patent Case

October 11, 2011

A US judge has made an initial ruling in favour of Apple in their attempt to take legal action against HTC for patent infringement. The verdict, which came from ITC administrative law judge Carl Charneski, is not final but is a good sign for Apple and their lawsuit that has been pending since mid-2010. If [...]

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Forget the Five?

October 5, 2011

Our hopes were high. Everyone was ready to bust down the doors of Apple and purchase a shiny new iPhone 5. We were chomping at the bit for information from the exclusive “Let’s Talk iPhone” event. We settled for reading about what was happening at the event instead of watching it. Then, after talking about everything Apple but [...]

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BlackBerry Curve 9360 – Popular with the Young

September 21, 2011

The BlackBerry Curve 9360 will be a winner with those in the youth market for a number of reasons. BlackBerry is set to release the phone come the end of September and is orientating the device to be used with the youth market. The phone comes in at a mid range price and is substantially [...]

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World of Tab meets photographer Fatsarazzi – Samsung Galaxy Tab

September 5, 2011

The Samsung Galaxy Tab has arrived and will be launched in stores all across the UK this month. With this, Samsung has launched the “World of Tab” at www.youtube.com/samsunguk where you can find videos on unboxing, reviews, and personal stories. You can also view their Facebook account at www.facebook.com/samsunguk In one of the videos (view [...]

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Tim Cook – Apple’s CEO replacement for Steve Jobs

August 26, 2011

Yesterday Steve Jobs decided to step down as CEO for Apple, after health issues for quite a while. He does remain a member of the board though, so hopefully his ideas will remain within Apple. His replacement, Tim Cook, has already been running Apple for the past 6 months or something while Steve Jobs was [...]

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Apple’s new “spaceship” HQ in Cupertino

August 18, 2011

The development proposal for Apple’s new HQ, Apple Campus 2, has now been published on Cupertino’s website. The project has not yet been approved by the city of Cupertino, but Apple is expecting to create new workspaces with their new Apple Campus 2, so Cupertino will probably not have any problems in approving the plans. [...]

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Microsoft warns against using Gmail from Google

August 1, 2011

In a weird advertisement from Microsoft (for their new Office 365), they warn users against using Google’s free e-mail solution, Gmail. Probably all Gmail users have noticed ads when you’re using the free web-based version of Gmail, but not all might know that the ads are actually based on the content of your e-mails. Google [...]

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How the iPad helped saved a relationship

July 29, 2011

I recently met up with a friend who told me something that I wanted to share with you iPad lovers and haters out there – how the iPad helped save his relationship with his girlfriend… First, a quick introduction as to how I came to know about this. I’m not ashamed to admit that I [...]

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MPAA to block Newzbin 2 access with Cleanfeed content blocking system?

June 30, 2011

Newzbin is an indexing site, kinda like Google, where you can download so-called “NZB” files that contains information about which files your newsreader client must download from the binary usenet groups, in order to magically make data appear understandable, be it a movie, tv show, a linux distribution – whatever it might be, legal or [...]

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Apple to unveil iOS 5, Mac OS X Lion and iCloud at WWDC

June 1, 2011

Apple just announced in a press release that it will be unveiling iOS 5, Mac OS X Lion and iCloud at the next WWDC to begin on Monday June 6th. Steve Jobs himself will, as usual, take the stage at the opening keynote address to make the announcements. Usually Apple doesn’t release such information before [...]

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“Streamago” – new free interactive live broadcasting by Tiscali

May 31, 2011

Have you ever wondered what would it be like to share an unforgettable or interesting event you’ve experienced while outside? How nice it would be to be able to easily and instantly share it the minute you catch it on video! Introducing Streamago, powered by Tiscali, the latest free interactive social networking iPhone application that [...]

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Facebook + Spotify (and how to use Spotify internationally)

May 26, 2011

Facebook and Spotify teams up to provide a new music service to Facebook users. The new service will probably be named “Facebook Music” or “Spotify on Facebook” and is said to be launched in as soon as just two weeks, according to Forbes. Apparently there’s no money shifting hands in this deal, Facebook doesn’t pay [...]

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Kaspersky compares Android security with Windows

May 25, 2011

Increasing security threats and issues on the mobile operating system, Android, has Kaspersky comparing Android with Windows in their recent “IT Threat Evolution for Q1-2011“: Overall, the situation with the Android OS is becoming similar to the current situation with Windows: There is a plethora of Android devices with outdated software which includes various unpatched [...]

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How big a data plan do you really need for your iPhone?

March 21, 2011

iPhone sales really took off in the Summer of 2008 when the iPhone 3G came out. Then another huge boost came in the Summer of 2010 when iPhone 4 was released. In between we also saw the upgraded 3G, known as iPhone 3GS, but the sales didn’t increase as much as when the “3G” and [...]

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Apple presents iPad 2 & iOS 4.3 — Yeah, I’m getting one!

March 2, 2011

To some surprise, Steve Jobs himself took the stage during his medical leave of absence, as he “didn’t want to miss it”, as he said, since they had been working on the product (iPad 2) for awhile. Before the iPad 2 presentation, Steve Jobs explained how 100 million books were downloaded so far from iBooks [...]

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New Cookie law might require users to “opt-in” on Danish websites

March 1, 2011

We have covered the European Union “cookie issue” in a few previous articles: February 2009: New Cookie Law Will Require User Consent Before Placing Cookies December 2009: The Dreaded Cookie Law Crumbles November 2010: EU’s Cookie Law still being chewed on – might end up requiring users to “opt-in” for browser cookies… Now there’s once [...]

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Sony expands headphone offerings with 3 new ranges

March 1, 2011

Sony today announced three new ranges for their headphone offerings: The MDR-Z1000 professional monitor headphone takes recording studio quality sound to the next level by using innovative design and cutting-edge materials. The MDR-Z1000 draws on decades of professional audio know-how by Sony, fusing innovative design and cutting-edge materials to deliver uncompromised performance in critical production [...]

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Apple reveals new MacBook Pro’s with Sandy Bridge, AMD graphics and Thunderbolt I/O

February 24, 2011

Surprise, surprise. As if the world didn’t already knew that Apple was going to release Sandy Bridge MacBook Pro’s in the near future – well, the near future has arrived, because today the Apple Store was updated with new MacBook Pro models. All of them with the new Intel Sandy Bridge Core i5 and i7 [...]

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Google To Launch Their Own Version of Popular Groupon

January 30, 2011

You probably know about Groupon by now. It’s a site that gives users special deals on area restaurants and attractions. They send you the offer, and if you’re interested, you say okay. When enough people say yes, the deal goes into effect. These deals offer incredible savings on all kinds of things. What you might [...]

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Sony Ericsson to launch PlaysStation app store

January 27, 2011

As you have probably read already, Sony Ericsson will soon come out with a PlayStation mobile phone based on Android and with dedicated PlayStation buttons. But in addition to the PlayStation phone, Sony Ericsson just announced a new app store which will be known as PlayStation Suite. To start with, you can download games for [...]

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Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, takes medical leave. Tim Cook in charge.

January 17, 2011

BusinessWire has posted a message sent from Steve Jobs to all Apple employees, indicating that he will be taking a medical leave of absence to focus on his health. There’s no mentioning of how long he’s going to be away but he will still be involved in major strategic decisions, though Tim Cook will run [...]

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PokerStars launches new concept – Online Home Games

January 16, 2011

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while you’ll remember that I sometimes like to kick back with a little bit of online poker. I don’t play on a high level as I don’t have enough time to maintain my skills. If you want to get the most out of your money playing online [...]

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