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So you’ve heard about Google’s step into the social arena with Google Buzz.  You’re either one of the many who are waiting on Google to green light your Gmail account so you can get buzzin’ or you may be one of the less enthusiastic who are, quite frankly, exhausted by number of outlets that require

Yesterday Google took the wraps off its new social networking service appropriately named ‘Buzz.’   It completely integrates with your existing Gmail account, and builds on some of the best features of Twitter and Facebook, while adding a few of its own.   Videos for example, play in window, and URL’s now include images.  All small touches,

Released on Nov. 27, 1998 in Japan, and on Sept. 9, 1999 in North America, the Sega Dreamcast was the last console system released by the company, bringing to an end a lengthy and rich history in the home video game history.  The question is, and has bothered fans of the system for years, is

When the Palm Pre made it’s television debut last year, its ads were met with an overwhelmingly negative perception.  I think we can all agree the ads were creepy, Palm’s message was lost, and the device took a back seat to a bizarre Tamara Hope.  When the less powerful Pixi took the stage, it gave

Every iteration of the iPhone resurfaces one of the most popular complaints many users have with their iPhones and iPod Touches; no Flash support.  This omission was heard louder than ever when Apple showed off their new iPad, where users expected the full internet on what was being touted as “the best browsing experience.”  Since

Every time you turn around there is another group or study about how Twitter has stopped growing as fast as it used to, and that must mean that no one cares about the service any longer.  Well, the problem is that there are a lot of people in industries such as television that seem to think it

So you’ve decided to delve into the world of e-books. The idea of being able to carry around a thin device that contains all of the books you could ever want to have access to is quite appealing. You’ve picked the e-reader you want and … then you start doing the math. E-readers have become

Land lines don’t get as much love as they used to, but with a VOIP system, which sends your voice over the internet and lets you take your phone number wherever you go, you have a modern alternative to always having to pay the phone company. The unit cost $249, and beyond that, you can

In 1979 there was only one thing on my mind for Christmas: A Big Trak. While I realize a goodly number of you weren’t even a twinkle in your parents eyes at that time, I was 8-years-old, and I was obsessed.  A Big Trak was going to be mine, oh yes it was.  I really

Just in time for 2010’s TED Conference, AT&T announced that the first TED mobile conference app is available as a web app or downloadable mobile app for iPhone, Android, and Nokia users.  This year’s TED conference runs from February 10th through the 13th where a lineup of speakers are set to present new ideas that

It would appear from the latest data on the sales of smartphones that no matter what operating system or manufacturer you choose, sales are way up across the board. According to new research from IDC, the sales of smartphones reached a new record level in the fourth quarter of 2009. According to the company’s research,

Roaming around the internet is made a simple and gratifying experience thanks to the efficiency and accuracy of search engines like Google. But how does Google decide what to show first?

As far as original content, we haven’t really given cameras the attention they deserve.  There’s a whole world of knowledge that exceeds anything I’m familiar with, so in an attempt to shed some light on the subject, today’s TechnoBuffalo ‘User Blog Feature’ comes from Ryowxyz.  Based out of the UK, Ryowxyz has a running series

We love smackdowns here at TechnoBuffalo.  Whether it’s putting consoles head to head in our virtual octagon or Brandon and I facing off over Windows Mobile, we’re all for a fight.  The next round we have is the Verizon Palm Pre Plus Vs. The Google Nexus One.  Both offer native multitouch, fantastic web browsers, and

There are times when a company comes up with a technology that you have to wonder just who they think the target audience is.  There is an old saying about, “just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should.”  That was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the Samsung

It appears that all of the speculation about the $9.99 e-book somehow surviving can be put to rest now as a third publisher has decided to have a little chat with Amazon over its pricing for the Kindle. First it was Macmillan that told Amazon the pricing was going to have to come to an

If you were one of the millions of viewers that tuned into Super Bowl XLIV last night during the 3rd quarter, perhaps you caught the first Google television ad to debut here in the states.  Originally posted to Google’s YouTube channel on November 19th, Parisian Love is the first of several “search stories” at ad

The past few months Android has really come into its own, and matured as an OS.  While at launch it just a fun experiment, it’s now an extremly capable scalable alternative for business professionals and teens alike.  The final piece to the complete Android puzzle has been given by Google in the form of multitouch,

The Internet has been buzzing now since the rumor hit that Facebook is working on a webmail application that is codenamed “Project Titan.”  While this does seem like a natural next step for the monolithic social network that now boasts over 400 million users, the question is do we really need it? TechCrunch recently said

Every time you play your Sony PlayStation, Playstation 2 or Playstation 3, do you take a moment to say, “Thanks, Nintendo!”?  You don’t?  Well you should, because it’s unclear if it hadn’t been for Nintendo’s indecisiveness if the PlayStation would have ever been born. When the Super Nintendo launched in 1991 (and in 1990 in

You’d expect breaking into the email-providing business and gaining any substantial marketshare to be no easy feat.  After all, you’d be competing against the giants like Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, and Aol.  Reports last year guessed Microsoft, the largest in the world, to have just over 250 million total users.  If TechCrunch’s sources are correct, Facebook

One scarcely used features that’s often overlooked by many Mac users is the Dashboard.  The Dashboard brings subtle time savers to the front of your screen, allowing you to calculate, tweet, check the weather, and a whole lot more.  Windows users can add many of the same widgets to their desktop, accessing them quickly with

There was a time where every blog under the Sun had the ubiquitous ”Digg” button so that you could vote their stories up on the popular news aggregation site, but seemingly over night those buttons got replaced with the Twitter ReTweet buttons from TweetMeme.  What happened?  What caused this sudden shift in the social landscape, and is

Things don’t seem to be headed in the right direction over at NBC.  First we learned they’re selling out to Comcast (or Xfinity), then we had the oh-so-popular Conan debacle, and now they’re making some outrageous claims against Boxee when questioned as to why they were blocking the little black box from accessing Hulu’s content.

Yesterday, Google updated the Nexus One’s YouTube profile to include the first part in a series of short films that document its creation.  This five-part series will give the world a behind-the-scenes look at handset development and refinement that went into the Google-HTC partnership bringing the Nexus One to life.  Each consecutive short will roll