Google, T-mobile to unveil iPhone competitor next week

Google will next week launch the first mobile phone running its Android software in a joint initiative with T-mobile, the companies have announced.

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Don't Trash It! 15 Great Uses For Your Old PC

Are you looking to trade in your old PC for the latest all-singing, all-dancing model? If you haven't yet earmarked it for a role in your household, don't rush to bin it: we Britons produce over 1.8 million tonnes of electric and electronic waste every single year, and even if you don't care about the environment per se, we're fast running out of l

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Will Yada Yada Yada help Microsoft's image?

The first new commercial in Microsoft's Jerry Seinfeld campaign. Will it top Apple's creative ads? Only time will tell.

Whoa,100Mbps. 2010. Over The Air

What if WiFi could square off or even beat WiMax or other approaches to broadband access to the Internet, over the air?Cablevision Systems Corp. plans to rollout WiFi which would transmit data at more than 100 million bits a second. This is something made possible by the Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification 3.0.

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The iPhone App Experience is About to be Destroyed... By Ads

“Ads on the iPhone deliver strong engagement for advertisers with triple, on average, the already high click-through-rates seen on mobile,” the company claimed in a press release. If that is indeed turns out to be a sustainable metric, advertisers are likely to view as iPhone as platform worth supporting.

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WebDiet: An iPhone Application Which Shows Food Nearby

According to Brown, it works by having people enter various dietary criteria that are important to them--such as being vegetarian, vegan, kosher, or wanting low- calorie or low-carb meals--and then combines that information with location-based data. In the early going, the company is focusing on restaurants and restaurant chains with online menus.

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Is Google Chrome an IE/Firefox/Opera/Safari killer?

So, it would appear that Google has plans to shake up the browser ecosystem by releasing an open source browser of its own. What does this mean for the other browsers.

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