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HP may use Palm WebOS for tablet

By admin • May 10th, 2010 • Category: Lead Story, Technology

Last week, we told you all about the huge acquisition that happened between Hewlett-Packard and Palm. News rolling around this week involves the talked about tablet in the works at HP, called “Slate.” The HP style iPad is rumored to be incorporating their new Palm WebOS. It may have a [...]



Android Gets More Power From Google Goggles

By admin • May 6th, 2010 • Category: Lead Story, Technology

The 2nd biggest OS in the mobile market, Android, will see a build on it’s popular Google Goggles. Basically, Google Goggles relies heavily on visual search. You can take a picture and preform a search with a photo and even scan a barcode.

The latest update relesed by Google is translation. [...]



FarmVille Worth $4 Billion

By admin • May 4th, 2010 • Category: Lead Story, Technology

How many hours out of the day do you spend thinking of that next big idea that gonna make millions? We’re around 22-23 hours a a day. Farmville, that game that annoys the hell out of you with all the Facebook updates, has recently issued shares for the company and [...]



Google Gets Set To Show Off TV Platform

By admin • May 3rd, 2010 • Category: Lead Story, Technology

Code name…Dragonpoint. Thats the name chosen for the Google TV platforms. These TVs are rumored to be released at Google’s I/O conference May 19 and 20th.

Both Sony and Intel get ready in the Smart TV department by building Blu-Ray players and new TV’s that will house Google Android built [...]



Facebook erupts privacy concerns

By admin • Apr 29th, 2010 • Category: Lead Story, Technology

Facebook’s Open Graph looks like they struck gold after just one week of it being in production. The company announced that the new social plugins supplied by Facebook have reached over 50,000 websites across the net. All in one very small week.

Last week, Facebook introduced Open Graph API and it’s [...]



HP buys Palm for $1.2 Billion

By admin • Apr 28th, 2010 • Category: Lead Story, Technology

The mobile market is more competitive than ever. Hewlett-Packard has announced that it will purchase Palm for $1.2 billion dollars. HP has expressed interest in stepping up in the popular smartphone market and now it has shown how much their willing to pay for it.

The stock value comes out to [...]



Google Street Views Show Big Brother Power

By admin • Apr 27th, 2010 • Category: Lead Story, Technology

Local business owners will be happy about Googles advances with Google Places. Google is currently promoting local business owners to create a directory page. This will in turn help searchers find your business on Google through the search engines new features. People may be a little nervous out how [...]



Bloggers Home Searched in iPhone Investigation

By admin • Apr 26th, 2010 • Category: Lead Story, Technology

A computer-crime task force that is investigating the lost iPhone prototype of Apple engineer, Gray Powell, has seized computers, a cell phone, and digital cameras from Gizmodo blog editor, Jason Chen. Chen was the one who posted photos and details about the phone that Gizmodo apparently bought from the man [...]



Steve Wozniak and the lost iPhone Prototype

By admin • Apr 25th, 2010 • Category: Lead Story, Technology

What’s worst than leaving a bar with a stranger that looked attractive only after you had a couple beers? Leaving the bar and forgetting your companies top secret iPhone prototype….oh and it was your birthday on top of that. Well, that’s what happened to the 27 year old Apple [...]



Hulu Makes A Push For Your Wallet

By admin • Apr 22nd, 2010 • Category: Lead Story, Technology

When online video streaming comes to mind, you think youtube. The emerging and second most popular service, Hulu, is striving to bring in some big revenue as the demand for catching shows viewers have missed is a must.

The rumor on the street is that Hulu will be charging a monthly [...]