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Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is running for the US Senate seat currently held by Barbara Boxer. So is former Silicon Valley House representative Tom Campbell. Fiorina’s campaign has produced a video accusing Campbell of being a “fiscal conservative in name only … a wolf in sheep’s clothing.”
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Mobile developer Mippin is bringing their popular news and social media aggregator application Buzz Deck to the iPhone. The application was originally developed for Android, and was also a winner of Google’s 2009 global app challenge.
Buzz Deck’s big claim to fame is its collection of auto-populated topic [...]
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Seesmic, a client for reading status updates across Twitter, Facebook and other services, just launched an update to its Android app that supports multiple accounts.
It also remembers your position in the timeline, so you don’t have to miss incoming tweets. There are a couple other little fixes [...]
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The “personal assistant” label gets attached to a lot of websites and applications, but it’s always an exaggeration. Usually the service in question can only tackle a small slice of what a human assistant would do, such as organizing your emails. Plus, you can’t just tell the app what you want, [...]
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Mplayit, maker of the mobile app catalog that lives inside Facebook, will release a report later today that lists the top games in their collection. Tetris, The Sims 3, and Wheel of Fortune are among the winners. So are Tap Tap Revenge and Rock Band.
On Mplayit, users [...]
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They’re like chocolate and peanut butter. Appolicious, an iPhone / Android app review site with social network tools built in, has acquired AppVee, which carries 1,100 professional video reviews, both for iPhone at AppVee.com and for Android at AndroidApps.com. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Appolicious, whose [...]
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It’s a sad day for fans of the ever-popular iPhone e-book reader application Stanza. Developed by Lexcycle, the app offers e-books for purchase, as well as a lengthy selection of public domain works. It was notable for having a gorgeous and easy-to-use interface, as well as the ability to transfer books [...]
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As business and commerce go mobile, payment technology is playing catch-up, trying to come up with a simple and powerful way to allow businesses to accept credit card payments on the go (because who even uses cash anymore?).
One possible answer is PAYware, the mobile-payment system coming from [...]
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Since Apple announced its forthcoming iPad tablet device last week, there’s been quite a bit of banter about its shortcomings. The device has no camera, no phone, no Flash support, and doesn’t allow multitasking, just to name a few of the issues.
But before you conclude Apple’s made [...]
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As far as I’m concerned, no one has completely solved the problem of delivering all the on-the-go computing capabilities I need in a truly portable device. You may have experienced this yourself, if you’ve tried to use your laptop in a cramped space (say, the backseat of a car or the [...]
Ever wake up, perform your morning routine and walk our the door to find your car buried under four feet of snow? It’s those moments you wished you had woken up 20 minutes earlier to have time to shovel and get to work on-time. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to automatically wake up earlier if there was bad weather and you needed the extra time?
