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Alleged Uber dirty tricks have me concerned enough that I do not want to utilize their service as my primary ride-hailing app. It looks like Lyft will be getting the high majority of my business. If the proposed class action lawsuit is true and they were using computer hacks to overcharge customers and underpay drivers, they are truly the scum
My Pixel C upgraded to Nougat 7.1.2 at the weekend and after the obligatory reboot, I was presented with Google's best efforts to enforce round icons across their own suite of apps. It's embarrassingly bad. It's one thing to create circular icons with roundness in mind, but to make round icons by slapping a white disc into the background is
Everyone wants more data. Especially mobile users. The obvious solution would be for telcos to just give everyone unlimited data. But, they're not ready to do that just yet. That's why AT&T launched its new Stream Saver program for mobile video: Stream Saver allows you to watch more video on your wireless devices while using less data by streaming content
Dave Winer recently announced the release of the Electric River desktop RSS aggregator for Mac. Electric River was created within the Electron programming language and it uses elements from the open source River5 project. The Electric River app is a friendly RSS aggregator currently available as a downloadable Mac app (Winer hopes Linux and Windows versions of Electric River will
Tech pundits have devoted many words in recent years to the coming demise of the desktop Macintosh. At one time, these machines were Apple's bread and butter. But with the explosive success of Apple's mobile devices, many have speculated that Apple has unofficially changed its focus towards phones and tablets, leaving new development of full-fledged computers to flounder. Sure, there's
As part of the president's immigration reform H-1B visas are going to become much harder to get for entry level programmers and those that are running outsourcing companies. The H-1B process has been abused by some companies and the attorney general is promising to sue those companies that use the H-1B visa and the associated workers to replace well bodied
The iClever 20W Wireless Speaker for $49.95 is a good price for what it brings to the table, the sound quality is what you would expect for a low-end Bluetooth Wireless speaker that will give your 14 hours of continuous play before charging the 4000 mau battery. I have been using it on my back porch where I go sometimes to work.
The Athena-R2 AC2600 Wi-Fi Router by Amped|Wireless is the first router I have tested for them so my approach to doing this review was to hook it up in place of the current router I have powering the network here and let her rip. We have had the router in place for 2 weeks and subjected it to as
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