Tuesday 29 March 2011

Four Reasons To Avoid the BlackBerry PlayBook

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March 29, 2011
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Four Reasons To Avoid the BlackBerry PlayBook The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet shows some promise, but here are four compelling reasons not to get the RIM tablet.
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Amazon Cloud Drive and Cloud Player: A Hands-On Tour Storing files to Amazon Cloud Drive is a straightforward process and Cloud Player does what it's supposed to, but there are a few nitpicks with the service.
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Hotmail's Active Views Get More Active Web companies can now produce e-mails that behave like webpages. The idea is to let Hotmail users take action on e-mails without having to hop out of Hotmail at all.
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A Better Way to Put Phone Video on TVs A standard called MHL (Mobile High-Definition Link) allows the TV to charge your smartphone via an HDMI connection and deliver video to the set.
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Sexy Tweet Spam Sent by Official Twitter Bot, Researchers Say It's a mystery why an official Twitter bot was sending out spammy tweets that drove traffic to adult Web sites.
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McAfee's Website Full of Security Holes, Researcher Says The McAfee.com website is full of security mistakes that could lead to cross-site scripting and other attacks, researchers said in a post on the Full Disclosure site on Monday.
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Acer's Iconia Dual-Screen Tablet, Notebook Combo Available for Pre-Order Acer's innovative Iconia dual-screen tablet and notebook combo is available for pre-order and goes on sale next month.
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My Mom Reviews the iPad, Her First Computer David Worthington documents his mom's fresh perspective on using the iPad in an enlightening interview.
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Free Android Apps: 11 Great Utilities for Your Phone You can never have too many Android apps ... especially when they're free. Here are 11 downloads that deserve a spot on your device, each designed to add functionality to your Google phone and enhance your overall Android experience.
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iPhone 5 Delay Rumors: Will Apple Hold Out Until After WWDC? Speculation suggests that the iPhone 5 is more likely to arrive some time this fall, or even in 2012, meaning Apple may break its annual update cycle and make iPhone fans wait longer for refreshed hardware.
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Feds Want Employee's Laptop in B-1 Visa Case Undisclosed federal authorities are seeking the work laptop of an Infosys worker who sued the firm after it allegedly asked him to help get temporary B-1 visas for employees who required H-1B visas.
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What Happens If You Microwave the Nintendo 3DS? Why bother with sledgehammers, knives, or your own two feet when you can simply drop a $250 piece of cutting-edge gear in a microwave?
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Mass Effect 2 'Arrival' Download Arrives BioWare's final expansion for Mass Effect 2 arrives today, unlocking a narrative coda linking it to Mass Effect 3's full-scale alien invasion.
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Kindle Will Bypass New York Times Paywall Amazon says that Kindle-users who subscribe to the Kindle Edition of the New York Times, priced at $20 a month, will receive free access to the Times' website.
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Groupon vs. the Price of Gasoline How many Groupon customers routinely calculate how much it will cost in gas money to drive for these deals? And how many more will do so if, as experts predict, the price of gasoline climbs past $4 and heads for $5?
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eSports Update: Interview with MLG Founder Sundance DiGiovanni You can't talk about American eSports without talking about Major League Gaming. Read on for an interview with MLG founder Sundance Giovanni.
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Firefox 4 Dominates IE9 in Market Share, But Does It Matter? Since its release, Firefox 4 has set an unofficial record for downloads in a day, while Internet Explorer 9 hasn't exactly burned up the wires. As a result, Firefox 4 market share is rocketing, while IE9's is on a gentler growth curve. Sound like bad news for Internet Explorer. But does it really mean anything?
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Why iPads Will Beat E-Readers As the market moves from paper to a primarily electronic medium, a new generation of authors will rethink what it means to write a book, and come up with ways to take advantage of the iPad's capabilities.
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Tunebug Turns Tabletops Into Boom Boxes Tunebug turns pretty much any hard surface into a decent speaker for digital music
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Apple Mac Buying Guide A Mac is just another personal computer but call it a "PC" and you'll get a lot of heat from Apple fans.
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