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Verizon helps us citizens call Chile

by Savan Thongvanh March 1, 2010

As of late we’ve had the unfortunate pleasure of witnessing some high profile corporate citizenship. Yesterday Verizon added to the list of good deeds done by American companies by allowing , through March 6th, calls from the US to be made without fees for residential log distance users. (more…)

Recognizr and Web 3.0

by Jason Patocka February 23, 2010

Sick of typing in search fields? Having trouble making small talk when trying to pick up cute strangers at the local tap? Well have we got an app for you…..
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AT&T joins the Android game with Motorola’s BACKFLIP

by Savan Thongvanh February 18, 2010

Today Motorola announced another offering with AT&T.  Motorola’s BACKFLIP will be AT&T’s first phone with Android.  The phone will be available March 7th.

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The cloud gets more crowded

by Savan Thongvanh February 16, 2010

Google is making could computing more and more mainstream today. People are computing the cloud and not even knowing what it is.

However as corporations try to trim budgets and cut corners they’re looking more and more to the cloud. Two major players today in the enterprise computing sector made announcements that they’d have more cloud offerings. (more…)

Could this be the iPad and iPhone’s long awaited camera?

by Savan Thongvanh February 15, 2010

I think we’ve all realized that the mobile device race is not about size anymore. Today’s race is about feature density and Toshiba has leapt past all of it competition in the mobile camera department.

Today Toshiba announced a TWELVE megapixel camera and chip for mobile. With most a US domestic cameras using cameras at or below 5 megapixels this is a chip that really pushes Moore’s law.
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Canadian TV brings the 2010 Olympics to your iPhone

by Savan Thongvanh February 12, 2010

With the start of the Olympics here who better than the Canadians to keep us on top of the events. Canadian TV has an iPhone app to help you stay on top of your Olympic Games.

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Zombies Verruckt Map Now Available on iTunes

by Savan Thongvanh

While the iPad is in the headlines awesome things are still happening on the iPhone. For example one of my favorite parts of one of my favorite games, Call of Duty: World at War has release one of it’s hit bonus maps for iPhone!
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Square, Inc’s new Square, credit card payment for the masses

by Savan Thongvanh February 11, 2010

Square Inc’s aptly named device, the Square allows anybody to take credit card payments. And I mean anybody. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey as come up with a solution great for everyplace from a individually owned boutique to the farmer’s market.
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Google buzz for iPhone, a screen by screen tour

by Savan Thongvanh February 9, 2010

Today Google announced buzz and the internet is abuzz.  The jury will be out on Google’s new all encompasing approach to social media but we’ll take you through screen by screen through a tour of  the buzz iPhone app.

Hit the jump and start the tour!
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Microsoft releases a litney of security patches

by Savan Thongvanh

Microsoft today released a laundry list of security bulletins and patches. The security patches and bulletins released today covered an array of vulnerabilities ranging from bugs in it’s almost prehistoric MS Paint program to some core vulnerabilities.

Windows updater should pick up these updates if you have it enabled. Read more to see if you’re affected (you probably are).

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