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Consumer Reports Says Apple Has The Best Tech Support, Acer/Gateway/eMachines The Worst

A D M I N — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:51:13 +0000

Consumer Reports has a new report on which computer company has the best tech support. Apple wins! That’s what happens when the same company controls the hardware as well as the operating system (and several of the most prominent pieces of software). The highest ranking PC manufacturer is Dell for desktops and Lenovo for laptops

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Consumer Reports Says Apple Has The Best Tech Support, Acer/Gateway/eMachines The Worst

Evri Acquires Radar Networks In Semantic Search Consolidation

ACMAir — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:50:51 +0000

After shopping itself around to all the major search engines, Radar Networks finally found a buyer in another semantic search startup.

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Evri Acquires Radar Networks In Semantic Search Consolidation

Euro Startup Competition Plugg Names Fits.me Its Winner

ACMAir — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:42:13 +0000

Fits.me , a virtual fitting room for internet clothing retailers based on robots (yes really) has won the European startup competition in Brussels, Plugg . It’s actually even cooler than it sounds. By creating robotic shape-shifting manakins and testing how people reacted by seeing clothes on the robot with their dimensions, sales actually went up

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FlyScreen Adds Foursquare To Its Android Lock-screen App

vertical8 — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:48:53 +0000

FlyScreen , the mobile phone lock-screen replacement from Israeli startup Cellogic, has added Foursquare integration to its Android app ahead of this year’s South by Southwest festival. The new Foursquare widget lets users of the location-based social network access its main features, including the ability to quickly find places nearby, “check-in”, share their location with friends via Foursquare, Twitter and/or Facebook, as well as access their foursquare friends-list.

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FlyScreen Adds Foursquare To Its Android Lock-screen App

Perseids, John Hughes, And G.I. Joe Are Trending Topics On Wikipedia

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:46:40 +0000

Google has Google Trends , Twitter has trending topics, and now so does Wikipedia. Pete Skomoroch at Data Wrangling built a trending topics page for Wikipedia .

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Perseids, John Hughes, And G.I. Joe Are Trending Topics On Wikipedia

OpenGL 4.0 Comes Out To Play

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:05:15 +0000

With Microsoft becoming increasingly marginalized in areas like mobile media, DirectX is becoming less of a must-use toolset and more of a gaming-specific one. The other side of the coin is, of course, the increasing relevance of standards like OpenGL, OpenAL, and OpenCL: powerful cross-platform systems for graphics, audio, and parallel processing . You may remember OpenCL from its debut on the Mac in Snow Leopard, and OpenGL ES of course powers the UI on the iPad .

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Motally Brings Mobile Analytics To Smartphone Games

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:58:41 +0000

As mobile gaming takes off, developers will need in-depth analysis to determine consumer behavior with their games and adjust their games accordingly. Motally , which provides user-action tracking services for the mobile web and apps, is expanding its product base today offering a targeted analytics service aimed towards mobile games on the iPhone, Android and Blackberry platforms. The service is currently in private beta, but developers will be able to sign up to use the service

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The Magic Mouse, Fixed At Last

vertical8 — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:41:08 +0000

I handle a lot of mice in this job (right now I’m using the Mionix Naos 5000 ) and I have to say that if a mouse were, like the Magic Mouse , shaped completely wrong for human hands, I would throw it away and never speak of it again. Others, while perhaps more crafty, are far less principled, and will go so far as to fabricate a silicone crutch to rest their hand on. There, I fixed it!

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Motorola To Replace Google With Bing On Chinese Android Phones

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:30:18 +0000

If I were a spit takin’ man, I’d do a spit take right now.

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Motorola To Replace Google With Bing On Chinese Android Phones

MyEdu Will Be Your Curriculum Guide And Virtual College Advisor Rolled Into One

vertical8 — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:00:03 +0000

Do you remember to the days of college, when you were required to sort through your curriculum and career goals with your designated college advisor? Education startup MyEdu aims to replace this by helping students virtually access their academic information and create a roadmap tailored to their career goals.

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