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New Twitter Mobile Site Plays Nice With Feature Phones

As the discussions of multi-core processors and gigabytes of RAM tend to be the norm here, we easily forget that there’s still a niche market for the not so smart feature phones. Fully aware of this, Twitter has retooled its mobile website to offer phones that aren’t too bright a similar experience to what smartphone owners

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Mozilla Planning Metro-Themed Firefox for Windows 8

Mozilla has announced that it hopes to have a Metro-themed version of the Firefox browser ready for testing by the second quarter.

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Safari Continues to Gain Ground in the Browser Wars

The numbers for July of which Web browsers are winning the current browser wars shows a dark horse coming up on the outside that no one seems to be watching very closely. Lets take a look at the chart for this month and see how it stacks up against the previous. All measurements are according

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Spotify Finally Launches in the United States

After what seems like an eternity, Spotify, the music service that took Europe by storm, has finally launched in the United States. There were rumors, false starts and dashed hopes aplenty when it came to if this music service would ever come to the United States, and there was even an extended exclusive private beta

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Chrome Now Accounts for Over 13% of the Browser Market

The numbers are in for June of which Web browsers were leading the way for the month, and once again Google Chrome cracked through another barrier. Lets take a look at the chart for this month and see how it stacks up against the previous. All measurements are according to NetMarketshare. It was just last

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Free Mighty Eagle in Barnes and Noble Magic Places

Load up the giant wooden slingshot and catapult yourself into the nearest Barnes and Noble if you’re an Angry Birds freak and happen to own a NOOK Color. America’s favorite literature chain has teamed up with Rovio and will now be implementing Angry Birds “Magic Places” into 700 stores nationwide. Furthermore, Rovio is offering the

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Chrome Now Accounts for Over 12% of the Browser Market

The numbers are in for May of which Web browsers were leading the way for the month, and there was a surprising shift in which browser showed the most growth. Lets take a look at the chart for this month and see how it stacks up against the previous. All measurements are according to NetMarketshare.

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Safari Shows the Most Growth in Latest Browser Results

The numbers are in for April of which Web browsers were leading the way for the month, and there was a surprising shift in which browser showed the most growth. Lets take a look at the chart for this month and see how it stacks up against the previous. All measurements are according to NetMarketshare.

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Road Trip Tech: Using Yelp For Food On the Road

Planning a huge road trip this year? If you’re hitting the highway this summer, there are tons of applications and tech that can help you get where you’re going and find what you need when you get there. I’m a tremendous fan of the road trip, and am going to be going on quite a

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Flock Browser Will Socialize No More

First the Flip video camera line, and now Flock? It seems the technosphere is doing some Spring cleaning, as the social browser has now become the latest innovation to land on the defunct pile. The notice that went out today, which stated that support will be discontinued starting April 26, 2011, urged users to migrate

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Microsoft Releases Preview of Internet Explorer 10

Not satisfied to sit on their laurels after the launch of Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft is already at it again with the release of IE10 Platform Preview 1. Microsoft has gotten back into the browser wars in a big way with IE 9, and it looks like the company wants to keep the momentum going.

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Chrome Continues Growth Spurt in Latest Browser Results

The numbers are in for March of which Web browsers were leading the way for the month, and there were a few surprising shifts in the percentages. Lets take a look at the chart for this month and see how it stacks up against the previous.  All measurements are according to NetMarketshare. Is there any thing that can

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Hands-on With Amazon’s Cloud Drive And Player

Earlier this week Amazon launched its Cloud Drive, and Cloud Player service. The cloud drive allows you to store 5GB of music for free that you can then access from any computer or Android phone. If you buy an MP3 album from Amazon your amount of available storage jumps to 20GB. So, how easy is

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Internet Explorer 9 vs. Firefox 4: Battle of the Browsers

Much has been said lately about Microsoft’s newest version of Internet Explorer, but Mozilla is picking up the slack with the release of Firefox 4. Since both of the well-known companies have been losing customers to Apple and Google, it is no surprise that they have respectively attempted to use their large install bases to

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Firefox 4 Officially Launches

After a seemingly endless round of beta releases, Mozilla has officially launched its Firefox 4 browser.  Not surprisingly, the non-profit company promises that Firefox 4 is the best version yet of its software, and it better be as the company is quickly losing some ground in its share of the browser market. Mozilla is promising

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Firefox Continues To Lose Ground While IE Fights Back

The numbers are in for Feb. of which Web browsers were leading the way for the month, and there were a few surprising shifts in the percentages. Lets take a look at the chart for this month and see how it stacks up against the previous.  All measurements are according to NetMarketshare. Chrome Firefox Internet Explorer Opera

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Google Chrome Market Share Breaks 10% For First Time

Google Chrome has started off the year with a bang, cracking 10 percent of the browser market for the first time ever. Lets take a look at the chart for this month as well as looking at how it stacks up to the beginning and end of last year.  All measurements are according to NetMarketshare. Chrome Firefox

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Google Launches Cloud Printing for iOS

A company knows it has a winning idea on its hands when others start to implement their own solutions to the technology. It looks like Apple’s AirPrint and AirPlay is one of these innovations. If you remember back in April 2010, Google announced that it would implement Cloud Print, which would let you print from

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Sparrow For Mac Coming To App Store

To say email has become an integral part of our lives is a gross understatement, as most of us get dozens of emails everyday. The question of how to manage all the information still remains. There are many email clients out there, but it seems as if they all lack one feature or another. Well,

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Do Nothing For 2 Minutes Challenges You To Do Nothing

Do Nothing For 2 Minutes offers you a simple challenge that you can’t miss as it’s the name of the site. Can you keep yourself from touching your computer for two minutes? That’s exactly what Do Nothing For 2 Minutes wants to see if you’re capable of, and let me tell you folks, it isn’t

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Mozilla Blocks Skype In The Firefox Browser

Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox browser, has placed a “soft block” on the Skype toolbar in all versions of the program. It isn’t very often that you hear about Mozilla having to block anything from being used in the Firefox browser, but it does happen often enough that there is a Blocklist page to

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How To Backup Firefox

During a recent change in laptops, I was reminded of one of my favorite freeware programs that it always amazes me how few people know about: MozBackup. One of the biggest pains when moving computers is setting up your browsers again just the way you want them.  If you’re anything like me, you’ve customized the

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Google Chrome Ends The Year On A High Note

The Dec. 2010 report for browser market share is out, and once again Google Chrome blew the doors off of everyone else, while Internet Explorer hit yet another new low for the year. Lets take a look at the chart so far for this year according to the measurements of NetMarketshare. Chrome Firefox Internet Explorer

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Google Chrome Ends The Year On A High Note

The Dec. 2010 report for browser market share is out, and once again Google Chrome blew the doors off of everyone else, while Internet Explorer hit yet another new low for the year. Lets take a look at the chart so far for this year according to the measurements of NetMarketshare. Chrome Firefox Internet Explorer

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Mozilla Proposes New Privacy Icons

Privacy is a big concern amongst us today: What personal information is accessible, by who, when, where and how. It all seems pretty mysterious, almost like there’s a mythical information bank in every neighborhood where the “bad guys” can go, look around, and get your information. Well, except for the physical building that’s exactly what

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