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Why Dedicated Media Players are still cool

With all the cell phones to come out in recent times packing video players, mp3 players and a whole host of other media functionalities, its not hard to see why MP3 players as well as PMP’s (Personal Media Players) are taking a real hit. Recently Apple announced (no surprise here), that its iPod line was [...]

Author: , Tuesday August 18, 2009
Categories: Gadgets

Best WordPress Plugins

A few years ago when the name WordPress was mentioned, most people would not know what it was. But thanks to the popularity of blogging and “the new media” WordPress has become a well known name in the internet community. Other then the small blogs which use it, WordPress is also used on major sites [...]

Author: , Saturday August 15, 2009
Categories: The Web

Three Things That Are Holding Back The Sony PS3

It has been 2 ½ years since the PS3 has launched and since that time it has been trailing both the Wii and Xbox 360 in sales. Granted it has been doing better then it has a year ago, but you’d expect that Sony would be able to convince hardcore gamers that the PS3’s superior [...]

Author: , Saturday August 1, 2009
Categories: Entertainment, Games

Microsoft And Yahoo Finally Strike Deal

Well it seems that both Yahoo and Microsoft have reached an agreement regarding their search deal. You might remember that it has been close to two years that both companies have been going at each other with Microsoft even making a $44 billion bid for the embattled search engine. Under the new deal however, both [...]

Author: , Thursday July 30, 2009
Categories: Microsoft, Yahoo

Why you should not be an early adopter

Every so often you have a gadget or technological device that sets the wire news on fire. Recently we’ve been hearing much ado about Windows 7, iPhone 3GS, OSX Snow Leopard, SSD drives, OLED TV, HD cell phones and need I mention the Palm Pre and Blackberry’s first all touchscreen phone. The common trend among [...]

Author: , Wednesday July 22, 2009
Categories: Misc

Palm Mojo SDK Released

Its not everyday that you have a phone that lives up to its hype, a few that have in recent years has been the iPhone, Razr, Omnia, Touch HD and more recently the Palm Pre. But the big difference between all these phones is their OS. iPhone runs Apples mobile OSX, Omnia and Touch HD [...]

Author: , Saturday July 18, 2009
Categories: Gadgets, Mobiles, Palm

Microsoft Reinventing Itself

2008 was Microsoft’s worst year to date in terms of press coverage. In no small part to Vista, Windows Mobile (lack of development), XP downgrade fiasco and not to mention all the antitrust lawsuits, lent Microsoft a bad hand in the computer game. At first it seemed like a failed attempt to revitalize an already [...]

Author: , Thursday July 16, 2009
Categories: companies, Microsoft

Google Needs Standards Too

After taking a look at the latest set of devices and gadgets to make it to the market, one thing is becoming clear. We are in desperate need of some gadget standards. You know the type of standards we currently have for automobiles, such as every car uses between 12” and 20” tires. All have [...]

Author: , Monday July 13, 2009
Categories: Gadgets

Android vs. webOS

So far we’ve heard quite a bit of comparisons between the webOS platform and OSX (for the iPhone), as well as Android vs. OSX. But so far, comparisons between both Android and webOS have been nonexistent. What makes this lack of coverage quite interesting is the fact that both operating systems are built off similar [...]

Author: , Thursday July 9, 2009
Categories: Mobiles, Operating Systems

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