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BlackBerry gets music streaming from Sugarsync

Tuesday, July 20, 2010 14:45 No Comments

Music cloud services seem to be all the rage for iPhones and Android phones these days. However, perhaps due to its reputation as a business device, the BlackBerry has been left out in the cold in most cases. Luckily, if you use this particular mobile OS, Sugarsync doesn’t want your life to be all work [...]

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Sony says 535,000 laptops at risk of overheating

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 8:19 No Comments

More than half a million Sony laptops sold this year contain a software bug that could lead them to overheat, the company said Wednesday.
Sony has recorded 39 cases of overheating among Vaio F and C series laptops that have been on sale since January.
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Apple replaces Microsoft as world’s most valuable tech firm

Wednesday, May 26, 2010 20:18 No Comments

Apple passed a major milestone today, becoming the world’s largest technology company as measured by the total value of its shares.
Near the close of trading on the Nasdaq exchange, Apple’s market capitalization stood at $223 billion, higher than No. 2 Microsoft, which had a market cap of $219.3 billion.
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Students now get priority access to Google Voice

Friday, May 14, 2010 14:46 No Comments

Google on Friday began giving students priority access to its Google Voice service, which has remained in a closed beta since its transition from GrandCentral in March of last year.
Typically, invites for the service can take anywhere from a few hours to several months to arrive after a user signs up. But the company [...]

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BirdHerd lets you share your Twitter account (invites)

Wednesday, April 14, 2010 14:50 No Comments

Ever tried to share a Twitter account with someone else? Probably not, but there are a growing number of businesses that do it on a daily basis. And until Twitter’s own “contributors” service is available to the general public, there’s room for companies that have come up with solutions that don’t require sharing your log-in [...]

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Verizon Wireless to launch mobile payment service

Monday, March 22, 2010 12:14 No Comments

Verizon Wireless customers will soon be able to charge up to $25 a month in online purchases to their Verizon Wireless accounts.
The carrier today announced that the e-commerce payment service, based on services created by Danal will be launched later this spring.
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How to save and share ridiculously large files

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 8:46 No Comments

A few years ago it was a big deal to find a place that would let you share 1 gigabyte of files.
Things change, though. Bandwidth keeps growing, and the cost of Web storage keeps shrinking. That’s good news for people looking to share increasingly large files, be it an HD video recording or an archive [...]

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Firefox extension simplifies e-mailing on Facebook

Thursday, February 25, 2010 17:46 No Comments

User e-mail addresses on Facebook have come a long way. For years, Facebook converted them into a static image to keep potential spammers and data thieves at bay. As a result, it made copying them a serious pain, as you’d need to have whatever e-mail tool you were using in one window, and that user’s [...]

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Nearly 800 IT workers to be laid off at Boeing

Monday, February 22, 2010 11:16 No Comments

The Boeing Co. late last week issued 1,000 layoff notices to employees, many of them working in IT.
The company sent 60-day layoff notices to the workers, who are at risk of being laid off on April 23. Of those notices, about 800 went to employees of Boeing’s Engineering, Operations & Technology unit; most of the [...]

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Nearly 800 IT workers to be laid off at Boeing

Monday, February 22, 2010 8:15 No Comments

The Boeing Co. late last week issued 1,000 layoff notices to employees, many of them working in IT.
The company sent 60-day layoff notices to the workers, who are at risk of being laid off on April 23. Of those notices, about 800 went to employees of Boeing’s Engineering, Operations & Technology unit; most of the [...]

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