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Acer Aspire One D270 Netbook Now Available For Pre-Order [Acer Aspire One D270 Cedar Trail Netbook Pre-Orders Go Live With Adorama & Sears]

By on Friday, 10. February 2012

While some may have given up on the whole netbook scene, there is still something to be said about the 10.1 inch computers. And now that the processors are getting better, the performance is getting better. That being said, enter one of the latest netbooks, the Acer Aspire One D270 [...]

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US Government Agency Switching From BlackBerry To iPhone [NOAA, US Government's Weather Agency, To Drop BlackBerrys In Favor Of iPhones & iPads For Its Employees]

By on Friday, 10. February 2012

Apple’s iPhone and iPad have been making incredible in-roads in the business and government sectors in the past few years. We’ve told you about a few of the huge companies trading in their BlackBerries for iPhones, including the recent news that civil engineering firm Halliburton was switching to the iPhone. Now, [...]

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Google Drive Coming To Challenge Dropbox, iCloud [Google Said To Be Preparing Cloud Storage Service To Be Apart Of Google Docs, Will It Work With Android & Chrome OS?]

By on Friday, 10. February 2012

Search giant Google has problems taking on established giants in their respective industries. They took on Apple with Android. They’re taking on Microsoft with Chrome OS. They’re taking on Facebook with Google+, and now, they’re setting their sights on another new industry. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google is [...]

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Office 15 for Windows 8 Complete with Metro UI Revealed [Microsoft Reveals Office 15 Beta During Windows 8 ARM Video, Release Dates Not Available Yet]

By on Thursday, 9. February 2012

Microsoft has a busy year ahead, with the company scheduled to launch its brand new, and totally redesigned, Windows 8 operating system and the new Office 15 suite that has apparently been customized to sport Microsoft’s new Metro user interface.

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7-inch iPad 3 to be Launched After the 9.7-inch iPad 3? [New Report Suggests Apple Will Have a Smaller iPad in Stores This Year, Don’t Bet Your House on It Though]

By on Thursday, 9. February 2012

The 7-inch iPad rumor keeps coming back despite the well-known Jobsian hatred for all tablets smaller than 9.7-inch, and a new report suggests that Apple will finally launch an iPad 3 with a smaller display at some point later this year, after the regular-sized new iPad hits stores this March.

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Rooted Galaxy Nexus Can Be Hacked to Retrieve Google Wallet PIN [Hackers Figure Out How to Crack Google Wallet on Rooted Devices, NFC Payment Not As Safe As Initially Believed]

By on Thursday, 9. February 2012

More and more smartphones will be able to offer NFC payments support in the near future, including the next-gen iPhone, but is the technology 100 percent secure? That’s something I always wondered about, since, after all, with NFC payments you’d be trusting a machine to keep your credit cards secure [...]

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iPad 3 Announcement Coming In First Week of March? [New Report Suggests Apple’s Next-gen iPad Media Event Coming in Early March; Release Date Thereafter?]

By on Thursday, 9. February 2012

The iPad 3 announcement and launch are two of the most important events of the first quarter of the year, which will likely overshadow any press events that will take place at the upcoming Mobile World Congress, a major mobile event scheduled during February 27 – March 1 in Barcelona, [...]

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Scosche Brings bassDOCK To All iPad Versions [Scosche bassDOCK Incorporates Speaker & Subwoofer Combination Into iPad Dock, Works For Both iPad & iPad 2]

By on Thursday, 9. February 2012

Our friends out at the Max Borges Agency sent off a tip for us about the Scosche bassDOCK, and as outlandish a spelling structure as that seems, I assure you it’s quite correct, unless the tip we got was just laden with typos. And despite the fact that that spelling [...]

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Verizon Wireless Looks Ready To Update The Droid XYBOARD 8.2 & 10.1 Tablets [Droid XYBOARD Tablet Update Detailed By Verizon; Will Bring An Improved Browser Experience, The Daily App & More]

By on Thursday, 9. February 2012

Verizon Wireless appears ready to begin rolling out the latest software update for the Droid XYBOARD tablets, both the 8.2 and 10.1 inch models. The updates have been detailed on the Verizon website and look to contain a decent amount of enhancements and improvements.

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Telus 4G LTE Network Will Go Live On February 10th [Telus 4G LTE Will Go Live In Select Markets On February 10th With The Promise Of Coverage For More Than 25 Million Users By End Of 2012]

By on Thursday, 9. February 2012

Telus has come forward with some official details in terms of their 4G LTE network roll-out. And nicely done, it looks like coverage will begin to go live fairly soon. In fact, that date is February 10th — which for those without a calendar handy, that is tomorrow.

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