Author Archive: Oliver VanDervoort - Page 6

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Angry Birds Adds Western-Themed Update To Game

Angry Birds Game Adds Western Themed Levels
By on Monday, 7. February 2011

One of the most popular games in the history of mobile devices is spending an awful lot of time making sure that it stays on top of the video game world. Angry Birds has released several updates over the last few months and the newest update includes new levels that [...]

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Sonos Adding XM Streaming To Its Repertoire

Sonos Streaming Home Theater Gets XM Radio
By on Monday, 7. February 2011

While the Sonos home theater system is largely worth the tens of thousands of dollars you spent to outfit your home, there is one place where the system was falling short up until now. After a long wait the Sonos home theater system was unable to stream XM Radio but [...]

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350Green Installing EV Chargers Around Various Businesses In California

350Green Trying To Make Electric Vehicle Charging A Little Easier In The Bay Area
By on Monday, 7. February 2011

Electric Vehicle charging is all well and good if you have some place you can keep the charging equipment, like safely tucked away in your garage. But driving an EV becomes far less fun when you are constantly on the lookout for a charging station, especially in a day and [...]

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Simplenote For iPad Gets Great New Features

Simplenote Finally Worth Somewhat Hefty Pricetag?
By on Sunday, 6. February 2011

Simplenote has long been one of the best note taking and word processing apps available on the iPad and one of the reasons it has long been considered one of the best is because there has been a way to get it free. Of course Simplenote also offers a $19.99 [...]

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Survey: 44 Percent Of Android, 66 Percent Of Blackberry Users On Verizon Likely To Switch To iPhone

Survey Shows Large Amount Of Verizon Users Likely To Switch To iPhone
By on Sunday, 6. February 2011

A new survey by uSamp seems to show that quite a large portion of Blackberry and Android users have some serious interest in the iPhone if they are already Verizon customers. The survey showed that a large majority of Blackberry users showed at least some interest in switching over while [...]

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New 8 GB Pink iPod Nano $120 For Limited Time

Pink 8 GB iPod Nano Can Be Had For Low Price For Limited Time
By on Sunday, 6. February 2011

Sometimes it can be hard to come up with the absolutely perfect Valentine’s Day present. You don’t know exactly what that special someone might want and you don’t want to get a present that actually insults your loved one when you were merely trying to think outside the box.

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Canada Still Discussing Metered Internet Usage

Canadian Government Still Discussing 'Disciplined Use Of The Internet'
By on Saturday, 5. February 2011

While different charges for different levels of internet usage has been kicked around in several different countries, so far none are looking as hard at metered internet usage the way Canada is. The country to the North of the US says that no plan to go to metered internet is [...]

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iPad App Store Search Gets New Features

iPad App Search Now Has Filters
By on Saturday, 5. February 2011

While searching for the perfect iPad app has never really been all that difficult if you had some idea of what you were looking for, there is now even better filters in the App store in order to better find exactly the kind of app you are looking for.

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Man Using Facebook For Blackmail Finds Jailtime

Man Used Facebook to Extort 14 Year Old Girl
By on Friday, 4. February 2011

The internet has been used for thousands of different things since its birth in the 1980s but one of the less savory reasons to use the internet has long been to send and receive dirty pictures. One man attempted to get even more dirty by blackmailing a 14 year old [...]

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NewsCorp Looking To Sell MySpace

NewsCorps Desperately Wants To Get Rid Of MySpace
By on Friday, 4. February 2011

Despite the fact that the site has actually been making a subtle comeback when it comes to both popularity and revenue, NewsCorp is apparently still looking to dump the site as soon as possible. NewsCorp confirmed that they are looking for someone to purchase the site on Wednesday in a [...]

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