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By now you’ve probably heard of Google Android even if you aren’t some alpha geek. Have you sat down and thought much about it? It’s just a minor player, isn’t it? How can it compete with the iPhone, with the Symbian-based phones (Nokia) of the world, with Palm (especially with the release of the Palm [...]

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After a rather long hiatus (3 months or so since anything substantial?) I am about to get back to the grind. The past three months of my life have been spent spending as much time with my mother as possible after she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Last week she passed away with dignity and [...]

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Being the dork that I am I just had to download Apple’s Safari 4 public beta release yesterday. I’ve already got a few “good for you Apple” and a couple “why…why would you do that?” items with just one day’s worth of use but my initial reaction is “I like it!” First off, Apple claims [...]

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The Samsung Instinct is just loaded with features. It’s won “best of show” awards. It’s been regarded as the best of the “iPhone competitors”. Sadly, as great of a phone that it is, it will be just another competitor that gets left in the dust as the iPhone gains traction. Chia Town readers know I [...]

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So I tried it. I wanted to like it. I wanted soooo so badly to like it. I just couldn’t. Apple’s Safari came up lacking big time for me on a PC (Crappy old Dell running XP). It had some of the things I require in a browser (tabbed browsing being the main one) and [...]

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Yes…Vista STILL blows. I had the joy of helping set up a machine almost a year and a half ago to be tested for interactive media and such. This test machine was sent by Intel, had Vista Media Center Edition (forgot which beta it was) loaded on it, and we were to see how it [...]

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So ZapMedia Services, an Atlanta based company is suing Apple over alleged patent infringements regarding iTunes and the iPod. Now, maybe there is or is not a case…that remains to be seen. However, I can’t help but be a little sceptical when I try to get some information on ZapMedia Services (hey, I’m in Atlanta, [...]

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Apple released their roadmap for the iPhone today, talking about what they plan on doing with it, showing developers what they’ll be able to do with the SDK (it’ll be much better developing apps for the phone istself rather than the web browser), and my two favorite additions to iPhone functionality are 1) adding MS [...]

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It’s about damn time. Microsoft said that the new browser they’ll be throwing out to the masses (Internet Explorer 8…only in beta right now) will adhere to the same set of standards at the rest of the browsers out there. This news blurb came out without much fanfare, but let me tell ya, this is [...]

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