Archive for December, 2010 - Page 29

Motorola Droid Pro Software Update Now Available

Verizon Rolls-Out Latest Droid Pro Update, Brings Improvements Stability & Performance, Audio On Voice Calls & More
By on Thursday, 23. December 2010

A new software update for the Motorola Droid Pro has just begun rolling out. And while this looks to be a nice one, before anyone gets super excited, it is not anything related to Gingerbread. Of course, I would hope that not many would complain about that fact given the [...]

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Chrome For A Cause Raises $1 Million In Just Five Days

First Chrome For A Cause A Million Dollar Hit
By on Thursday, 23. December 2010

If the very first Chrome For a Cause initiative is any indication than Google is definitely onto something regarding charity work integrating with the internet. From December 15th to the 19th Chrome users opened more than 60 million tabs, raising more than $1 million for Google’s partner charities.

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Craigslist Shuts Down World Wide Adult Services Listings

Craigslists Shutters Listings That Were Used For Prostitution, Child Trafficking
By on Thursday, 23. December 2010

Just months after Craigslist shuttered all “Adult Services’’ listings in the United States it has done so across the globe. The online classifieds giant had faced quite a bit of pressure from State Attorneys General to get rid of a category they say was used for prostitution and on far [...]

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HTC Teases Announcement At Verizon Keynote At CES

HTC Teases Another First 4G Phone, Names The Day Of The Verizon 4G Keynote, We Wonder What It Could Be...
By on Thursday, 23. December 2010

A new teaser page has been discovered from HTC. The site, associated with some sort of Yahoo text messaging service, shows three different phones, one covered, the HTC EVO 4G and the T-Mobile G2. The EVO 4G is the ‘first 4G’ phone, the G2 is the ‘first 4G phone at [...]

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Sony Says It Will Sell 15 Million PS3s By End Of March

Sony PS3 Sales Figures Will Hit 15 Million By March Of 2011
By on Thursday, 23. December 2010

In another sign that perhaps the economy is starting to turn around in a positive way, Sony’s CEO Kaz Hirai made a statement yesterday in which he touted his company’s projected sales of the Playstation 3. Hirai said that Sony is well on its way to selling 15 million PS3’s [...]

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LG Optimus 2x Android Smartphone To Arrive In Europe In January 2011

LG Makes If Official, Optimus 2x With Dual-Core Tegra 2 CPU Coming To Europe Next Month
By on Thursday, 23. December 2010

As each day passes it seems we are hearing more and more about the LG Optimus 2x Android smartphone. Of course, many remember this as the handset that will arrive with a dual-core Tegra 2 processor. Sadly though, only some of what we are hearing is fact and quite a [...]

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Firefox 4 Beta 8 Launches With Major Fixes In Tow

Latest Firefox 4 Beta 8 Best Version Yet Of Firefox 4
By on Thursday, 23. December 2010

One could say that releasing all the betas of Firefox 4 was not doing Mozilla any benefit. The previous seven versions of the Firefox 4 Beta came complete with all sorts of problems and bugs but it appears that Beta 8 might be the one to really build the final [...]

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American Airlines Yanks Business From Orbitz Travel Service

American Airlines Pulls Flights & Fares From Orbitz Discount Travel Site
By on Thursday, 23. December 2010

American Airlines has yanked all of its flights off of the discount travel site Orbitz in the final move of a bitter dispute. At the heart of the dispute is (of course) money and the fees that get tacked onto the purchase of airplane tickets.

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Mobilicity Announce A New (Old) Offering, The Sharp Mobilflip, Aka Sidekick

Canadian Carrier Mobilicity Goes Slightly Retro, Announces The $99.99 Sidekick, Dubs It The Mobiflip
By on Thursday, 23. December 2010

While we still have a special place for the Sidekick and what they were doing years ago, that is just what it is — years ago. But that does not seem to have stopped the Canadian pre-paid wireless carrier Mobilicity from launching the Mobiflip. And as you can see from [...]

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Instagram Reaches One Million User Milestone, Sets Sights On Android

Instagram Plans To Expand Past iPhone App Success, Will Launch An API, Improved Website & Android App
By on Thursday, 23. December 2010

If you follow tech news, with a little emphasis on the iPhone you have likely heard about the photo app called Instagram. After all, it has received more than its fair share of coverage and praise. But that is not to say it isn’t well deserved.

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