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Since Google Plus opened up to the public back in the summer, businesses and organizations have been crying for the right to participate. Finally yesterday afternoon November 7th, Google opened the floodgate and businesses and organizations were allowed to create pages for Google plus. As soon as the door was open up a crack the tide poured in. Yesterday it
I want to thank the Gadget Professor Don Baine for stepping in while I was in Los Angeles. Many of you asked how to get more of Don's show, well you can subscribe to The Gadget Professor here at GNC in the second column of the website.. Ok lost of tech and I get you all caught up on the
By an overwhelming majority (61%), the citizens of Longmont, Colorado, passed a measure that would allow them to offer commercial use of their 17-mile fiber optic network. This is despite the fact that Comcast and CenturyLink, the local broadband providers, spent nearly $300,000 on a campaign against the measure. Longmont, Colorado is a city of 87,000 people situated near the
Today Ford announced their latest advertising initiative, which involves the gaming world. No, you won't be able to play Angry Birds in your car via Sync, that would likely prove dangerous. What Ford is doing is branding their vehicles in video games, and it's actually not something new. They have been at this for a while, beginning in 1995 with
Ford today is announcing some major upgrades to MyFord Touch, that will improve performance, stability and usability. This upgrade available in early 2012 will be free to all current owners of vehicles that have MyFord Touch. Owners will receive a USB stick with a complete system update to do themselves or they can have the system upgraded on their next
What do these four articles have in common. European Commission suffers ‘serous’ cyberattack Cyber-espionage attempts on U.S business are on the rise Symantec exposes wave of cyber-espionage attacks Hackers Wreck Havoc on Palestinian Internet Services They are all signs that cyber espionage is growing as a threat in today’s increasingly interconnected world. Not only for the U.S but for other
Over the weekend, an amazing piece of detective work by the WebOS Internals team and some crowd-sourcing via Twitter has revealed that there approximately 4.2 million WebOS users, give or take. Every WebOS phone or tablet user has to create a profile in order to use their device. Each profile has a unique identifier, a number that appears to simply
EA, one of the most popular game makers, has been in the mobile market for some time now. Thanks to a deal with some handset makers, like Motorola, preview editions of their games come pre-installed. That's great but, of course, to get the whole game you have to pay up. Also, in some cases the games are not even an
This week Yahoo put out a magazine style newsreader called Lifestand for the iPad. I am constantly looking at these types of applications having tried both Zite and FlipBoard, so when Lifestand became available I decided to give it a try. First like both Zite and FlipBoard it is beautifully made and well design. Setting it up is easy and
Did you ever wonder what everyone around you is doing with their constantly-out smartphones? Well, Mobclix did some research about what cell phone users are clicking and came up with a snapshot of what goes on in a single minute of usage. Some of the results may surprise you - like 4,111 ads were clicked on. Some may not -
Wireless expert WDS is reporting that high failure rates in Android handsets are costing mobile network operators as much as $2 billion per year in dealing with repairs and returns. Reviewing the four leading mobile operating systems, its study found that Android-based devices seemed more prone to failure as 14% of technical support calls on Android were for hardware, versus
Picture by Morio The Japanese Government is taking contingency planning to a whole new level by proposing to build a backup city for Tokyo. Situated 300 miles to the west of Tokyo on an old airport, it would have capacity for 50,000 residents and space for 200,000 workers. At the time of a disaster the capital would move to this
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