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Just over four months ago, at Chirp , our Twitter developer conference, I talked about how "Twitter is too hard" and what we're doing to address that. One major area of difficulty I highlighted was getting Twitter on your phone. We did iPhone user ...
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digg_url = 'http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/02/samsung-galaxy-tab-preview/'; After a week of painful teasing , Samsung has come clean about its Galaxy Tab 7-inch Android tablet. We got the nitty gritty specs, along with some quality ...
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Today we’ve released an update to Skype for Windows. The second beta of Skype 5.0 brings a number of changes both outside and in – most importantly, you can now make group video calls with up to 10 people. It also welcomes ...
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Facebook is in the process of testing a new feature which lets you subscribe to all the actions of a specific user. In other words, you can receive notifications anytime a specific user takes an action on Facebook. It also appears to be Facebook&...
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Remember how Samsung downsized the Wave to make the Wave 723 and killed off the pricey, fancy Super AMOLED display in the process? Yeah, well, the same rule applies to the Android-powered Galaxy line -- so if you were hoping to see some m...
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Why does Digg have a new design and a new CEO? Here’s one answer, via a handy chart.
This one comes from Christopher Mascari , a Gawker Media marketing guy, and it illustrates the blog network’s traffic from social media sites. Less t...
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There's a very attractive job going at Google, with the company looking for someone to head up its Music launch later this year. Meanwhile, Android dude Andy Rubin is working with the team closely, and even meeting with record labels. More »
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Apple’s iOS has become the third most popular platform on the Internet with marketshare that’s nealry six times larger than Android. Indeed, iOS is bigger than Linux, says Net Applications .
Collectively the devices that run iOS...
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New social network built inside iTunes fails to keep out the spammers, showing a curse of social media – even inside proprietorial walls Apple chief Steve Jobs's trumpeting of the 160 million credit card holders on iTunes was a siren call to spa...
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At its core, Twitter is a “recipient-driven medium,” said CEO Evan Williams in a public conversation tonight in San Francisco, Calif. What does that mean? Williams, an unusually theoretical CEO, is happy to explain. He spoke at a high le...
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Update: We're hearing reports of people who had access to a Facebook Connect feature in Ping earlier, which didn't work, and has since been removed. So it looks like Apple really did pull Facebook support for Ping very late in the game. It's st...
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The notebook computers can overheat at the notebook's plug-in to the AC adapter, posing a burn hazard to consumers.
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Apple's entry into social media has created bumps in its relationship with Facebook.
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Facebook is apparently testing a new subscription feature that would allow users to receive alerts any time a specific friend takes certain actions on the social network. AllFacebook reports that it has noticed the new featu...
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Skype 's Windows client is showing a bit of ambition today as its latest beta version now boasts a mighty 10-way video calling implementation. The earlier v5.0 beta threw up five-way vidchat , but it'd seem Skype kept its software engineers w...
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On Aug. 13, IBM and Unica Corporation announced they had entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire Unica, a leading provider of marketing software solutions that focuses on streamlining marketing program development, execution and management to achieve improved marketing effectiveness.
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The U.S. government spends $80 billion annually on information technology. The U.S. General Services Administration is directly involved in nearly 25 percent of federal IT procurement activities through its Schedule 70 acquisition program, including ...
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Samsung’s Galaxy Tab is shaping up to be the device of IFA 2010 , and while we spent some hands-on time – complete with video – with the Froyo slate right after the launch yesterday, we thought we’d head back today to se...
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Having to dig around and find the charger that fell behind your desk to plug in your phone sucks. We have all been there at one point or another. Thankfully there are all sorts of wireless induction chargers on the market that let us just sit our sm...
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It’s $4.99 a pop at Apple’s (AAPL) digital store, and publisher Atlantic Media Company got Dow to pony up for the right to be the “launch sponsor” for the app. App developer RareWire did the technical heavy lifting.
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