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Kindle Fire Gets Major Update
Amazon Fire has been out for a month and already is receiving a makeover. A major software update rollout will boost the tablet’s credentials among it critics and empower its users with new features that could boost its popularity. Although Fire has received much praise from market experts for releasing the first Android tablet priced [...]
Yahoo! Wins Huge Judgment in Lottery Scam
Yahoo! reported a $627 million win in a court settlement over an online lottery scam. The scam, propelled by a bogus Internet company, aimed to trick online users into believing they had won money prizes in a fake lottery sponsored by Yahoo!, the search engine giant. This is a preview of Yahoo! Wins Huge Judgment [...]
RIM’s New BlackBerry 10
RIM hastily renamed its latest BlackBerry platform after a U.S. company won a temporary court injunction against it. Originally dubbed BBX, the platform is set to combine the best features of RIM’s BlackBerry and QNX platforms. At the Asian DevCon conference, RIM announced that the platform will now be called BlackBerry 10 to to protect [...]
FTC and Facebook Reach Settlement
In an era where personal data can spread throughout the world at rapid pace and unauthorized access to it has never been quicker and easier, the settlement between the FTC and Facebook underscores the FTC’s willingness to soothe anxiety felt by Internet users over this issue. As the popularity of social networks are on the [...]
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Capitalizing on Cyber Monday
For a website selling any number of goods or service, the days leading up to Cyber Monday are the perfect time of year to play around with some new online marketing techniques and capitalize on the millions of shoppers looking to find a great deal on their Christmas shopping. There are several effective techniques that [...]
HTC Facebook Phone A Reality?
Facebook and HTC have declined to comment, no surprise of course. For now then, we can say these will be rumors to be proven factual at a later date. The latest news seems to be that Facebook is indeed taking another attempt at establishing a stronger presence in the mobile industry. Facebook has allegedly narrowed [...]
Samsung: New Google TVs Coming Soon
Google, the top name in internet search functionality, and Samsung, the world’s number one television manufacturer, have combined forces to produce and release a line of Google TVs. Although Samsung has publicly announced that the final signatures on the deal with Google have not yet been added to the contract, all signs indicate that everything [...]
Adobe Ending Support For Flash Mobile Player
In another disappointing announcement from Adobe this year, it seems as though the company will be ending their flash mobile player and instead shifting support behind the Adobe AIR and HTML5 technology. This marks the end of an era, as Flash has served up video and games for more than 10 years on desktop devices. [...]
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Yahoo Gets New CEO!