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Google Distributes First NFC-Equipped Google Places Hotpot

December 10, 2010 By Jerry Leave a Comment

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Google has announced that it will be starting its first local rollout of Hotpot, the Google Places recommendation/rating engine, in Portland, Oregon. Google is sending out kits, complete with window decals, to businesses around Portland. The businesses can set up the kit, set up an info page on Google Places, and slap the decal on [...]

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Meet the ViewSonic “G Tablet” (Review)

December 9, 2010 By Jerry 3 Comments

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ViewSonic is the latest manufacturer to announce an Android-powered tablet that will compete with the popular Apple iPad. The ViewSonic ViewPad G Tablet boasts a 10 in capacitive touchscreen, and runs the latest 2.2 version of Android which is designed to be consumer friendly. The 10-inch G Tablet has strong specs: a bright 1024 x [...]

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Looxcie “LX1″ Life Casting Camera Now Supports iPhone

December 6, 2010 By Jerry Leave a Comment

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Looxcie the makers of the behind the ear video cameras have just unveiled their new iPhone app that allows you to connect your camera and phone via Bluetooth. iPhone users might have been disappointed that the $199 ear-mounted Looxcie camera only supported Android when it was first released, with this app it has got the [...]

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MacTech benchmarks Office 2011, finds big gains

November 18, 2010 By Jerry Leave a Comment

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“MacTech” has released the results of its extensive benchmark study of Microsoft Office for Mac 2011. The goal was to see how well the new Office applications performed compared to Office 2008 and 2004 across a variety of configurations. The results show significant speed gains all around, particularly in general app launching times, and in [...]

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Android 2.3 Gingerbread to be launched in a few weeks;Google CEO shows off ‘Nexus S’

November 17, 2010 By Jerry Leave a Comment

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At the Web 2.0 summit, while people were expecting Gingerbread launch, Google CEO Eric Schmidt did not disappoint fully.Although there was no Gingerbread launch, but a lot of things came up this version of Android. Schmidt said Gingerbread would be out in the “next few weeks,” and it will have NFC support Showing off both [...]

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