Michael Santo
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It's hard to believe, but Microsoft Windows is 25 years old. Windows 1.0 was birthed on November 20, 1985. Born as a replacement for MS-DOS, Windows was GUI-based, mouse- (and keyboard-) driven, and added multitasking as well. It wasn't until Windows 3.0, however, that Windows really started to take off. Honestly, much of that was because...
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Apple is rapidly running out of time to make their promise that iOS 4.2 would launch in November. The company released a new gold master build for iOS 4.2, 4.2.1, late Thursday. As opposed to the earlier re-released GM build, which was for iPad only, this build is across all devices supported by iOS 4.x. The build is number 8C148, and reportedly...
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is backtracking so quickly you have to wonder if Apple's other co-founder and current Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave him a call on his iPhone. Earlier quoted as saying that Android would eventually become the dominant platform, he told Engadget he was misquoted. He told Engadget that "Almost every app that I have...
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Adafruit, the folks behind the bounty for an open-source Kinect driver, one that would allow end users to use the Kinect with more than just the Xbox 360, have posted a how-to guide. It should be noted, however: it's not exactly drop-dead simple. The guide comes via an Adafruit employee with the handle Ladyada. You can see, in a video...
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Yesterday, Nov. 17 was National Unfriend Day (NUD). The brainchild of Jimmy Kimmel, the day is supposed to a day when you unfriend the faux friends you have on Facebook (or any other social networking site). Kimmel gave us some guidelines to use to determine who to unfriend on National Unfriend Day. They were: If you wouldn’t loan someone...
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AT&T has finally announced its pricing and launch date for the Samsung Galaxy Tab. Not only is the (still) exclusive carrier of the iPhone the last of the big 4 carriers to announce the info, it will be the last the launch the device. AT&T will ship the Samsung Galaxy Tab on Nov. 21st. The other carriers have...
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As not expected, Facebook unveiled a messaging system on Monday, not an email system. While most have been positioning the system as a Gmail killer, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was clear in saying that: “This is not an email-killer. This is a messaging system that includes email as one part of it.”In fact, it's not called Facebook...
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Motherboards and Chipsets: ASUS Sabertooth X58 Motherboard Performance Review @ Legit Reviews ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme @ PureOverclock Zotac IONITX-P-E: First CULV-embedded motherboard @ SilentPCReview Power: Juice Pack Air for iPhone 4 @ TestFreaks Systems: Samsung NP-NF710-S02US Review @ TechReviewSource.com Jetway Mini-Top Atom Based Nettop...
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On the eve of Facebook's rumored announcement of a Facebook Webmail product, AOL announced an attempt to rise its email product from the ashes of AOL'e email, which is seeing its user base rapidly decline: Project Phoenix. Project Phoenix can be accessed at phoenix.aol.com. It is invite only, at least for now. It's hard to see how a Webmail...
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Video: Gigabyte GTX 460 1GB Super Overclock @ PureOverclock XFX HD 6850 Black Edition Review @ OCC HIS Radeon HD 6870 1GB Turbo Video Card @ Tweaktown XFX Radeon HD 5770 1GB Single Slot Graphics Card Video Review @ eTeknix.com MSI GeForce GTS 450 Cyclone Video Card @ Benchmark Reviews GIGABYTE Radeon HD 6850 1GB Video Card Overclocked @ Tweaktown...
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Broadband speed claims by ISPs are one thing, but it is real work results that are most significant. Thus, Royal Pingdom's report on the real-world state of the Internet, in terms of speed, drew our interest. Royal Pingdom used data from Akamai to come up with its results. The data is from Q2 2010 and represents averages speeds in the country....
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Verizon is going to be resurrecting the months-dead KIN One and KIN Two, it appears. Despite the fact that it seems like a truly silly decision, based on the (not even) lukewarm response to the phones, that's what a Verizon roadmap seems to show. First coming from PPCGeeks, it seemed somewhat questionable news, particularly since the...
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If you need any further validation that e-books have finally made it big, here it is. The New York Times plans to launch a bestseller list for e-books in early 2011. The New York Times bestseller lists are the gold standard for defining a book's success. The print version of the bestseller lists are divided into several categories. For e-books,...
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We know that Google has seen quite a brain drain, with many heading off to pre-IPO companies like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Although it was recently leaked that Google has given all of its employees a holiday bonus of $1,000 (taxes paid) and a 10 percent raise, that pales in comparison with this news...
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Updated: Google reportedly fired the leaker, within hours. A report by BI's Henry Blodget that Google is giving all employees a $1,000 bonus and a 10 percent raise has "sort of" been validated by Google. The original story, posted Tuesday night, said a "loyal reader" told BI that Google has given all of its employees...
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Nintendo has selected Helen Mirren to be a new face for Wii Fit. Mirren, after all, has shown that at the age of 65 she has a fabulous figure (even in a bikini, as shown at 63, two years ago). Of course, it's doubtful that Mirren has used the Wii Fit, Nintendo's motion-based fitness game, to keep that figure. Despite that, she garnered $800,000...
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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has accused a company of illegally firing an employee after she criticized her supervisor on Facebook. The NLRB filed the complaint against American Medical Response of Connecticut, an ambulance service. AMR fired Dawnmarie Souza, an EMT, after accusing her of violating a company policy...
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In 2009, Google sponsored free wi-fi at 47 U.S. airports for the holidays. This year, Google is going further, sponsoring free in-flight wi-fi on certain carriers. Google has teamed up with AirTran, Delta and Virgin America to offer free Gogo in-flight wi-fi on every domestic flight from November 20, 2010 through...
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Video: PowerColor HD5770 Crossfire Review @ OCC MSI R6870 Video Card Review @ Benchmark Reviews HIS Radeon 6850 1GB @ Viperlair Inno3d nVidia GT 430 Graphics card Review @ XtremeComputing Power: Funky Kit Review: Arctic Cooling C1 Mobile portable power pack Systems: Zotac's Zbox HD-ID34BR-U nettop @ The Tech Report Cases, Cooling & Misc.:...
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Have you ever been approached by some higher-up at work to be their "Friend" on Facebook? If so, you might have accepted their Friend request out of respect / fear. Jimmy Kimmel has called for a National Unfriend Day (NUD) to get rid of these faux friends. Jimmy Kimmel used the Wednesday’s episode of his "Jimmy Kimmel Live" show to declare...
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Only a few days after the public release of Kinect, the Xbox 360 add-on has already been hacked. It just goes to show that the hacking community can do just about anything when it puts its mind to it (Apple already knows this). In this case the impetus for hacking comes as a $2,000 bounty offered by New York-based Adafruit Industries. Adafruit...
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Video: PowerColor Radeon HD 5770 @ Benchmark Reviews PowerColor HD 6850 PCS+ 1 GB @ techPowerUp VisionTek Radeon HD 6870 Review @ Neoseeker Motherboards and Chipsets: Gigabyte GA-880GMA-UD2H Motherboard Review @ Ninjalane ASUS Rampage III Formula – Less Bling, Same Sting @ TechReaction Processors: AMD Phenom II X6 1075T & X4 970BE...
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