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Google Fiber Kansas City Rollout Gets Delayed [Google's Super-Fast 1 Gbps Fiber Connection Gets Delayed In Winning City Due To Dispute Over Wiring Placement]

By on Friday, 20. January 2012

We’ve been following the Google Fiber launch since its inception almost two years ago, and the current word is not looking at all good for either Google or Kansas City (the one in Kansas, anyway) as a delay has cropped up. The issue here is one of wiring placement, and [...]

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Google Updates The New Account Sign-Up Process [Google Changing Things Up; New Accounts Now Required To Create A Google Profile, Google+ Page & Gmail Account To Get Started]

By on Friday, 20. January 2012

We have yet to see anything official come from Google, however it looks like they have recently begun making some changes in terms of the new account sign-up process. And by changes, we mean that it now appears as if anyone looking to get set up with Google will be [...]

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Hulu Plus Gets Hacked To Appear On More Devices [A Recent Hulu Plus Hack Throws Open The Streaming Video Doors To A Variety Of Portable Devices That Couldn't Previously Handle It]

By on Thursday, 19. January 2012

I’m growing increasingly fond of Hulu. There’s a lot of television in there, and much of it is at least reasonably good. And the price is right, especially if you’re willing to put up with just a bit of advertising, and much less than the average television show on a [...]

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Apple Unleashes New iTunes U App [Apple's Big Event This Morning Brought Out The iTunes U App With A New Feature, Now Geared Toward K-12 Students As Well As Collegiates]

By on Thursday, 19. January 2012

Since Apple no longer joins in the fray out at CES, they’ve pretty much gone to hosting their own media events, which pretty much always offer something new and interesting in the way of news. And today’s event was no exception. We’d already heard something about Apple’s plans to dominate [...]

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Wikipedia App Now Available For Android Devices [Wikimedia Foundation Releases An Official Wikipedia App For Android, Can Be Found In The Android Market & Requires Android 2.2 Or Later For Use]

By on Thursday, 19. January 2012

It looks like Android users have gotten another app, an official Wikipedia app. The app has recently been released into the Android Market by the Wikimedia Foundation and as one would have guessed, the Wikpedia app is available for free.

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Apple To Unveil Bliss Textbook Project At Tomorrow’s Event, Say Reports [Apple's Big Unveiling To Be The Bliss Textbook, Said To Be Inspired By Al Gore's Our Choice Book]

By on Wednesday, 18. January 2012

With Apple’s big press event set to hit tomorrow, a report has already slipped out suggesting just what the fuss will be about. Tomorrow’s big announcement from Apple is said to be a textbook project, as we’d already sort of figured. But the Bliss textbook project–as it’s being called–is going [...]

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Notification Control Aims To Help You Get Your Email Notifications Under Control [Like MyPermissions For Web Service Permissions, Notification Control Offers A Launching Pad To Get Your Email Notification Alerts Down To A Manageable Level]

By on Wednesday, 18. January 2012

A short while back we saw a site launch called My Permissions. That site was a simple site, a launching point of sorts that allowed you to easily click over to see which services you had authorized for use with online services. And well, it looks like we now have [...]

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Google Kicks Off The “Good To Know” Campaign [Google Good To Know Campaign Covers Online Privacy & Protection With A Public Service Announcement Style]

By on Wednesday, 18. January 2012

We should all know that internet security and safety is a real issue. You know, things like using a unique and proper passcode for each and every site you visit that requires one. And well, lets just say that despite knowing better, even the best probably get lazy from time [...]

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Google+ Is Getting Meme Friendly [Google Rolling-Out The "Adding Funny Text To Photos" Tool, Should Make The Potential For New Meme Creation A Bit Easier]

By on Tuesday, 17. January 2012

We have seen Google announce and begin to roll-out some fairly nice changes to Google+ recently. Some of the most recent came just a few days back when Google announced that Google+ would be getting a “visual refresh” for Hangouts. And well, it looks like they have since returned with [...]

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The Pirate Bay to Stop Serving Torrent Files [Popular .Torrent Search Engine & Download Site to Cease Serving BitTorrent Download Files But Will Only Serve Magnet Links]

By on Friday, 13. January 2012

The Pirate Bay is usually the place to go to for .torrent downloads. But amid emerging peer-exchange technologies and the need to reduce server costs, the popular download site will lo longer serve .torrent files within a month’s time.

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