Michael Santo
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If you think things are tough when it comes to lining up for Apple products in the U.S., here's a tale from the Far East. China received its first batch of iPad 2s when the device launched last Friday, and on Saturday, fisticuffs ensued. Four people were injured and a glass door shattered. According to a witness, Wang...
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Following reports circulating since last week that both Facebook and Microsoft were looking into buying the popular VOIP service Skype, Microsoft has apparently emerged the winner, although it remains to be seen if the Redmond giant really won. Skype is yet to be profitable, and lost nearly $7 million last year alone. At $8.5 billion, this...
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When Amazon.com first unveiled its Cloud Drive and Cloud Player service, iDevices were left out. Attempting to play music from your Cloud Drive with an iDevice's browser simply wouldn't work. That's changed, all of a sudden, and quietly. If you visit Amazon’s Cloud Player through the Safari web browser on an iDevice, it will now work....
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Agreeing to Apple's Terms of Service without reading them has been lampooned twice in different places recently, but it's really no joke: you should know that you are agreeing to a lot when you click the Agree button without reading the Terms of Service. First, South Park's premiere episode this year set up Kyle as...
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Video: XFX HD Radeon 6790 Review @ OCC Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 and HD 5830 1GB Xtreme Video Cards Review @ Tweaktown Motherboards and Chipsets: ASUS Sabertooth P67 B3 TUF Motherboard Review @ Benchmark Reviews Sapphire Pure Black P67 Hydra @ Phoronix Zotac Mini ITX M880G Review - XSReviews Processors: AMD Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition AM3...
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Video: PowerColor HD 6950 Vortex II 2 GB @ techPowerUp Zotac GeForce GTX 560 Ti AMP! Edition 1GB Video Card Review @ ThinkComputers.org Sapphire Radeon HD 6670 Review by Ultimate Hardware Motherboards and Chipsets: Intel DP67BG: LGA1155 Mainboard from the Extreme Series @ X-BitLabs Asus P8P67 Pro Revision 3 Review @ OverclockersHQ Processors:...
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Pocket dialing is when a cell phone stuffed in someone's pocket accidentally dials an actual number. In perhaps the worst example of pocket dialing ever, three larceny suspects were arrested after police overheard planning break-ins in upstate New York when one of the pocket dialed "911." Onondaga County Sheriff Kevin...
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Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity servers were apparently running obsolete, unpatched software, and had no firewall in place, both no-nos for any company, but definitely for a company as large as Sony, trying to run a cloud-based service. In testimony in front of Congress on Wednesday, Dr. Gene Spafford of...
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The Guinness Book of World Records has proclaimed the LG Optimus 2X "the world's first dual-core smartphone." Although there are plenty of dual-core smartphones now, that can never be taken away, and it makes the proclamation official. something LG has been trumpeting for some time. The details of the announcement say...
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On Tuesday at BlackBerry World 2011, RIM showed off the upcoming Android functionality for its PlayBook. The functionality will require a yet to be released "player," however. In addition, the apps will be curated by RIM, so not just any Android app will run on the PlayBook. The "Android Player" simulates a Gingerbread (Android 2.3) smartphone....
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State Farm has just released an iOS application called Driver Feedback. The app uses your iDevice's accelerometer and GPS to "grade" your driving. It monitors the three driving behaviors that are the riskiest, and thus need to be tracked are hard acceleration, hard braking, and hard cornering. Since we know that iPhone is very good at tracking...
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Video: XFX Radeon HD 6870 Black Edition Review @ OCC MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti HAWK Video Card Review @ Tweaktown Sapphire Radeon 6570 and 6670 @ PureOverclock MSI GeForce GTX 580 Lightning Review @ Hardware Canucks Motherboards and Chipsets: MSI P67A-GD80 (B3) Intel P67 Motherboard Review @ ThinkComputers.org Memory and Storage: Funky Kit Review:...
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Apple is readying iOS 4.3.3 to fix the iOS location tracking "bug," where an unencrypted consolidated.db file continues to grow, and grow, and grow on the device. Apple will release the update within the next two weeks, or possibly sooner. This isn't a major release, so Apple can spring it on end users at any time. According to the sources,...
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Consumer Reports has (unexpectedly) come to Apple's rescue in the so-called "Thickness-gate" issue. Blogs and sites, including CNN, had been reporting that the white iPhone 4 was 0.2mm thicker than the black version, which isn't really an issue, unless the case you were using was a particularly form-fitting one. Meanwhile, Phil Schiller, in...
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Thickness-gate is a fake. That's what Apple SVP of worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller has said via Twitter. Thickness-gate is the nickname given by some over the discovery that the white iPhone 4 appears to be about 0.2mm thicker than the black one. Ernesto Barron sent a public Tweet to Apple Senior Vice President of Product Marketing...
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Sony Corporation's Executive Deputy President Kazuo Hirai held a press conference on Sunday to address the PlayStation Network (PSN) hacking. During the event, Hirai apologized to gamers worldwide, and detailed a "recovery plan" for both the PSN and Qriocity services, which have been offline since hackers attacked them on April 19. Coming...
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Video: PowerColor Radeon 6670 1GB @ PureOverclock Processors: AMD Athlon II X2 265 Processor Review by Ultimate Hardware Memory and Storage: Mach Extreme MX-GX 16GB USB 3.0 Review at Overclockers Online Legion Hardware - (Synology DiskStation DS411+) [Tech ARP] Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1 TB Portable (USB 3.0) Hard Disk Drive Review Power:...
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Verizon LTE services nationwide remain out, more than 24 hours after they first went offline. The company verified the outage on its Twitter account. The service first went offline on Tuesday night. In addition, Verizon has previously said that LTE devices would switch to CDMA mode if they were in an area with no LTE coverage. In this...
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Video: HD 6870 Roundup: Diamond, PowerColor, MSI, Sapphire & XFX @ Hardware Canucks Sapphire Radeon HD6670 Review @ OCC Motherboards and Chipsets: ASUS Rampage III Formula Intel X58 Motherboard Review @ ThinkComputers.org ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional Motherboard Review @ Madshrimps Processors: [Tech ARP] Mobile CPU Comparison Guide...
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Apple has given up on trying to trademark the term "POD" in Canada, the site Patently Apple said on Monday. PA added in the comments below the story that it feels that the abandonment of the trademark quest in Canada is just a reflection of Apple abandoning the quest worldwide. Apple first filed the trademark application in July 29, 2004....
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As the company promised, Barnes & Noble has delivered a software update to its 7-inch NOOK Color devices that push them still more in the direction of a general-purpose Android tablet, and away from being a standalone e-book reader. Some customers have rooted their NOOK Colors and installed custom ROMs, already turning their devices into...
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The CD is said to be dying. On Saturday, April 23, the man many credit as the "father of the CD," Norio Ohga, died as well, at the age of 81. Former CEO and Chairman of the Board of Sony, Norio Ohga has been credited with leading the effort to develop the CD, or compact disc. He was president and chairman of Sony from 1982 to 1995. He stepped...
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