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Google Realtime search engine enhanced, highlighted

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Google has decided to point out the new additions it has done to its real-time search engine.  The Internet giant has done this by giving Realtime its own website. Google and its search-engine rival Bing hotly competed in autumn to come up with an agreement with Twitter and Facebook to feature real-time status updates into [...]

August 27th, 2010 | Posted in Featured,Technology | Read More »

Toyota Corolla recall affects 1.1 million vehicles including Matrix models

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Toyota Motor Corp. announced a recall of about 1.1 million Corollas and Matrix vehicles with model years 2005 to 2008 due to a problem with the engine control modules or ECMs. The recall is the latest in the series made by the Japanese automaker this year. This time it is intended to fix the 1.8-liter [...]

August 27th, 2010 | Posted in Business,Featured,Technology | Read More »

Garmin Nuvi Recall: GPS manufacturer withdraws 1.25 million units

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Due to the danger of causing fire, Garmin, the company which makes  Global Positioning Devices (GPS), has volunteered to recall 1.25 million units of its Nuvi brand, with about 800,000 alone sold in the U.S. The devices contain a battery (supplied by another company which remains unnamed) which is liable to overheat when attached to [...]

August 26th, 2010 | Posted in Business,Featured,Technology | Read More »

Google Voice lets users make phone calls using Gmail

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Google announced today the roll-out of a new Gmail feature: phone calls. Using their Gmail accounts, users based in the United States can now call to any place  in the U.S. and Canada for free, at least for this year.  Phone calls to other countries will cost as little as $0.02 per minute. Users will have [...]

August 26th, 2010 | Posted in Featured,Technology | Read More »

‘Facebook Places’ — Facebook’s new feature

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Facebook has introduced a new feature called Facebook Places.  It is very similar to services like Foursquare and Gowalla which allow users to let their friends know their location using  the Global Positioning System (GPS) of their mobile phones. Facebook users can simply click the “check in” button that displays a list of places and choose [...]

August 19th, 2010 | Posted in Featured,Technology | Read More »

Supply Manager from Apple charged with bribery and accepting kickbacks

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Paul Shin Devine, 37, who has been a global supply manager at Apple since 2005, was charged for accepting kickbacks from Asian companies located in South Korea, China, Taiwan and Singapore. Devine received the kickbacks after sharing corporate secrets and confidential information to the companies that supplies iPhone and iPod accessories. According to court documents, [...]

August 15th, 2010 | Posted in Featured,Technology | Read More »

Oracle takes Google to court over Android software ‘patent infringement’

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In a proverbial Goliath versus Goliath clash, Oracle Corp. filed a patent lawsuit against Google Inc. late Thursday over the software used in Google’s Android smartphone. Oracle claims that Google’s development of the Android software via Java technology is patent and copyright infringement.  Oracle legally took possession of the technology when it bought Sun Microsystems [...]

August 14th, 2010 | Posted in Business,Featured,Technology | Read More »

Paul Teutul Jr. goes back to building bikes for his own company — Paul Jr. Designs

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To many viewers of the hit Discovery Channel hit series American Chopper, it seemed Paul Teutul Jr. did most of the work while his father Paul Sr. castigated and pushed him around. Fans of Paul Jr. and those who like his bike designs will rejoice at the news that he will soon begin designing and [...]

August 13th, 2010 | Posted in Entertainment,Featured,Technology | Read More »

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