Michael Santo
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Those Amazon.com Android tablets which are continually speculated upon can't come soon enough for the company. For the first time ever, the Barnes & Noble NOOK Color, an Android-powered tablet, but one that's not a general tablet unless hacked, has overtaken the Kindle (now in second) as the most popular e-reader. Amazon.com is expected...
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Video: PowerColor HD 6850 1GB SCS3 Passive Review @ Hardware Canucks Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560 OC Edition Video Card Review @ Legit Reviews Motherboards and Chipsets: asdfasdfasdf Processors: [Tech ARP] Mobile CPU Comparison Guide Rev. 7.2 Memory and Storage: ADATA S511 Solid State Drive @ Benchmark Reviews TechwareLabs Review: Synology DS411+...
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Artwork via spyware has caused the Secret Service, after apparently being contacted by Apple, to seize a man's two computers, an iPod and two flash drives. That's what happens when you install what essentially amounts to a spyware program on 100 computers at Apple retail stores. Kyle McDonald, 25, installed software...
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The first official biography for Apple CEO Steve Jobs, one which has both his blessing and cooperation, has a new name. The publisher, Simon & Shuster, liked the name "iSteve: The Book of Jobs." The author had a different opinion. In reality, so did the family of the author, Walter Isaacson. He was already never quite sure about the title,...
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Folks have been wondering if we would see a Sprint iPhone now that a CDMA iPhone is available, and it seems the bad news coming from Verizon may mean some positive news for Sprint. Citadel Securities analyst Shing Yin wrote on Wednesday that Verizon's announcement that, as of Thursday, it will no longer offer unlimited data plans will give...
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Verizon has confirmed that as of July 7, it will be ending unlimited smartphone data for new customers. It's been known for a long time that Verizon would make the move, and it's been known since the third week of June that July 7 was the date, but this is the first time Verizon has confirmed it. Spokeswoman Brenda Raney told FierceWireless...
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Video: Sapphire HD 6950 Dirt 3 Edition @ LanOC Reviews MSI N560GTX TI Twin Frozr Review @ XSReviews.co.uk Sapphire HD 6770 FleX Edition Review @ OCC MSI GTX580 3GB Lightning 'Xtreme Edition' Review @ Vortez Motherboards and Chipsets: Gigabyte 990FXA UD5 Motherboard Review @ Ninjalane Foxconn H67A-S Motherboard Review @ eTeknix.com Gigabyte...
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As part of its push to unify its brand for the public launch of its Google+ social networking service, Google will rebrand two of its oldest services, Picasa and Blogger, Mashable has learned. The changes will result in Picasa becoming Google Photos, and Blogger becoming Google Blogs. In addition, several other Google properties are likely...
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Hackers are taking advantage of another highly publicized event to push spam on end users. In this case, Google+. Invitations to the new service are no long available, but even though the new social networking service is in "field test mode" (meaning somewhat imcomplete), an invitation to the service is a hot item. Pharmaceutical spammers...
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If you're wondering why Google's Realtime Search has gone offline, the answer is simple: the deal between Google and Twitter that allowed Google to display real-time results for Tweets has expired. Here's what Google said with regard to its disappearing Twitter feed: “Since October of 2009, we have had an agreement with Twitter to include...
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Video: Sapphire HD 6950 DiRT 3 Edition Review @ Neoseeker HIS Radeon 6970 IceQ Turbo @ PureOverclock ASUS GTX570 DirectCU II Edition @ OCC [Tech ARP] Mobile GPU Comparison Guide Rev. 11.4 Motherboards and Chipsets: MSI Big Bang Marshal (Intel P67 Express) Motherboard Review @ Tweaktown Processors: AMD A8-3850 Lynx APU Processor @ Benchmark...
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Most of the recent rumors about the upcoming next-generation iPhone have focused on September for its release, but a new DigiTimes report is pushing it out a month to October. However, iDevice fans might be appeased if another piece of the report is true: an iPad 3 coming at the same time. We've said before that the iPad 2 was more of a stopgap,...
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Video: HIS Radeon HD 6850 Review by Ultimate Hardware Motherboards and Chipsets: Llano motherboards from Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI @ The Tech Report Biostar TZ68A+ LGA1155 @ techPowerUp ASUS F1A75-M Pro AMD APU Motherboard Review @ Legit Reviews Processors: AMD A8-3850 Llano APU Review @ OCC TechwareLabs Review: AMD Llano A8-3850 APU AMD A8-3850...
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Google+, the Internet giant's new social networking project, is still in "field test" mode, but Facebook is already learning from it. A group of Facebook engineers has apparently been inspired by the method that Google+ uses to create groups of friends, Circles. In Google+, to add a friend to a Circle, which is just a group of friends, you...
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Motherboards and Chipsets: Asus' P8H67-I Deluxe Mini-ITX motherboard @ The Tech Report Asus F1A75-M Pro Llano Motherboard Review @ eTeknix.com Processors: AMD A8-3850 (Llano) APU and A55/A75 Chipset Review @ Tweaktown AMD A8-3850 Llano APU & Gigabyte A75M-UD2H Review @ Neoseeker AMD A8-3850 APU Review: Llano Hits the Desktop @ Hardware...
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The battle between Apple and Samsung has just been escalated. On Friday, just before a long holiday weekend, Apple filed a preliminary injunction against Samsung with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, seeking to block sales of four of Samsung's latest mobile devices. Those four devices...
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Video: MSI Radeon HD 6950 Twin Frozr III Review @ Techgage Futurelooks News Flash - Iogear Wireless HD Computer to TV Kit (GUWAVKIT2) Reviewed PCTV Nanotech T2 Review - XSReviews Sapphire HD 6450 1 GB Passive @ techPowerUp [Tech ARP] Desktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide Rev. 23 OCZ Technology Vertex 3 SSD 120GB and 240GB Review @ [H] Motherboards...
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Faster than an Amazon Associate could blink, Amazon.com sent out notices on Wednesday, telling Associates that due to California's new budget, which includes a new sales tax on Amazon.com purchases, their accounts would be terminated, IF the sales tax was signed into law (which it has). The state of California is...
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Video: MSI R6850 Cyclone PE / OC Graphics Card Review @ OCIA.net ECS GTX 560 vs Zotac GTX 560: Budget cards battle @ t-break AMD Radeon HD6850 & HD6950 CrossFire Performance @ BmR Motherboards and Chipsets: Futurelooks News Flash - MSI P67A-GD80 LGA1155 Sandy Bridge ATX Motherboard Reviewed Asus F1A75-M Pro Llano Motherboard Preview @...
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LulzSec's last set of "booty" contained malware, and although the now disbanded hacker group placed a warning about the Trojan Horse in their "press release," you had to read the fine print to be warned about it. Way at the bottom their announcement the group posted the following information: Note: In "AT&T internal data.rar", do not open...
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Abandoned as a puppy along with his mother and siblings by his original owners, and after losing his paws to frostbite, Naki'o has become the world's first dog to be fitted with a complete set of four prosthetic paws, turning him into a "bionic dog." Christie Pace was looking for a playmate for her Jack Russell terrier mix Poki, and fell in...
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Singapore has a conscript-based military (i.e., they have a draft), so they don't have to "entice" recruits to join. Nevertheless, new recruits to Singapore's military will get a primo perk. In addition to their uniform and a rifle, they'll get a standard issue iPad. Singapore's defense ministry said on Monday that about 8,000 of Apple's hit...
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