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AT&T to Unleash Motorola Super Phone

As the mobile carrier war heats up, AT&T announced yesterday what the telecom giant is calling “the world’s most powerful smartphone”.  While the validity of that statement remains to be seen, the new Motorola ATRIX 4G certainly has the numbers to backup the claims. The new phone, which we unfortunately could not call a “mega [...]

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HP Announces Digital Learning Suite for Schools

Although the funding for K-12 schools in the US is not exactly overflowing, many school districts still manage to spend a good chunk of money on failed technology.  HP Digital Learning Suite is the latest attempt by a PC maker to offer technology solutions for the classroom that actually work well in a school environment. [...]

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Googler Wael Ghonim Missing in Egypt

Google, the Internet search giant, say their head of marketing for the Middle East and North Africa has been missing since the upheaval there began. Anyone with information is urged to call the following number…..

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Google’s Bing Sting – Is Microsoft Copying Google?

Google is having trouble staying out of the news, and this time, they have leveled accusations against Microsoft claiming the software company is copying their search results.  The most interesting thing about this story is that Google has actually gathered evidence suggesting that Microsoft is using information gathered from Internet Explorer users to copy search [...]

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Google Unveils Museum Art Project with Virtual Tours

Google has partnered with museums all over the world to create “Art Project”,  an online repository of more than 1,000 works of art in what the search giant is calling “extraordinary detail.” Google is already known for digitizing books, and one does not usually have to travel far from a library to get to a [...]

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The End of the Internet as We Know It

“You have reached the end of the Internet,” exclaimed the computer in one famous commercial, “Please go back.” For the average Internet user, the concept of the “end” of the Internet is beyond comprehension. It would take years to surf every single website, many of which are not even indexed in search engines and are [...]

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New York City Selects IBM to Move CITIServ to the Cloud

The City of New York has selected IBM to deliver a “more efficient, smarter technology platform” for CITIServ, New York’s modernization plan that calls for an updating of its aging data infrastructure that serves more than 50 city agencies. By streamlining the delivery mechanism for these city services, New York will ultimately reduce energy consumption, [...]

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Google Anti-Webspam Algorithm Now Live

A week ago, Matt Cutts, Principal Engineer at Google, wrote a blog post about the “webspam” that frequently appears in Google’s search results and the measures the company was taking to reduce them.  Today, Cutts confirmed suspicions that the new technology is now live and working in Google’s search results. Webspam essentially refers to websites [...]

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Lenovo and NEC Join Forces to Take Japan

Lenovo was already huge, and NEC practically owned Japan already, but now the two have joined forces in the way several transformers join together to form a bigger one. They are calling it the “Largest PC Group in Japan”, a title that really does not do the joint venture justice. Lenovo is one of the [...]

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SecondMarket Receives 2011 Technology Pioneer Honor at Davos

Every year, the World Economic Forum honors 31 technology start-up companies that are the most innovative and have significant impact on the world. This year, SecondMarket, the largest secondary market for illiquid assets, was the only financial service firm to be recognized. The annual conferences, held in Davos, Switzerland and Tianjin, China, highlight the achievements [...]