Tech Week In Review 1-28-2011
$700 Motorola Xoom Launching Feb 17th at Best Buy An internal Best Buy document leaked to Engadget nails down February 17th as the launch date for Motorola’s highly anticipated Xoom tablet. The Xoom features the latest and greatest version of the Android operating system, Honeycomb, which was designed to run better on tablets. The document [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 1-21-2011
Motorola Bootloader Policy Motorola has recently come under fire regarding their bootloader policy. Motorola’s devices are developed so that the bootloader is locked. This means you can’t root them. So, even though they make some of the best and most popular Android handsets on the market, many Android fans steer clear. When one of these [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 1-14-2011
VLC Removed from Apple App Store VLC, a very useful multi-format and Open Source media player, was removed from Apple’s App Store due to licensing issues. Usually, Apple is at fault in situations like this, but the situation here is a bit more complex. A Nokia employee by the name of Rémi Denis-Courmont basically twisted [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 1-7-2011
Mac App Store The Mac App Store officially launched yesterday, giving you access to a bunch of Mac OS X applications for your Apple desktop or laptop. The Mac App Store makes it easy to find and install applications, but the implications of this new software distribution method are still unknown. Lifehacker tells us both [...]
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Facebook and MySpace Research by danah boyd touched on how many teens viewed Facebook and MySpace. To put it simply, many of those involved in the study viewed MySpace as “the hood” or the ghetto while seeing Facebook as “cleaner.” With Facebook now more than 500 million strong and MySpace struggling to stay relevant, the [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 12-31-2010
Guy Makes Money Suing Spammers You thought you hated spam, but nowhere near as much as Daniel Balsam. He hates spam so much that he went back to school, got a law degree, and now sues spammers for a living. Eight years ago, Balsam was working as a marketer when he received one too many [...]
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