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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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CES 2012: Google To Put Big Money Into YouTube Channels

Nine Figure Budget, Carte Blanche Content Creation Going Into YouTube Channel Blitz Coming Soon
By on Thursday, 12. January 2012

YouTube, surprisingly,had a keynote out at the 2012 CES event, but what wasn’t really too surprising was what came out of that keynote. Specifically, reports are now emerging of a push from YouTube (and Google of course) to put a whole lot of money into the development of content that’s [...]

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Bing Overtakes Yahoo In Search Engine Market Share, Say Reports

Bing Is Now Second Most Widely Used Search Engine In US, Google Still Ahead By Wide Margin
By on Thursday, 12. January 2012

Interesting news slipped out today about the growing popularity of Microsoft’s upstart Bing search engine. Turns out that, in the United States, Bing is now the second most widely used search engine there is. And though Google is still top of the search engine food chain, there’s evidence enough out [...]

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