Target is the first major retailed to roll out a mobile-coupon program. Register for the program by texting the word “coupons” to the phone number T-A-R-G-E-T. Registered users receive periodic text messages that provide links to access discount bar codes in your mobile Web browser. Scan the bar code from your smart phone display at [...]
The Mobile World Congress was held in Barcelona Spain last week, and companies involved in the mobile phone industry traveled from far and wide to attend and show off their latest technologies. Among the highlights from the event were some major announcements that promise to propel the industry forward by increasing competition between the big [...]
This past week Google unveiled its own social network: Google Buzz. This isn’t Google’s first attempt at being social, Google Orkut, Open Social, and Latitude, are previously released applications designed to support online social engagement, but none have garnered much attention. Google Buzz, on the other hand, has made quite a splash in its first [...]
Amazon has had its hands full since the announcement of Apple’s upcoming iPad tablet computer. The iPad is expected to compete strongly against Amazon’s Kindle eBook reader. Besides the many and varied applications that will run on the iPad, it will also offer a robust iBookstore that will feature titles from popular publishers that include [...]
After months of speculation and anticipation, Apple’s latest creation is finally unveiled. Last Wednesday, with a packed amphitheater of journalists poised on the edges of their seats, Steve Jobs and colleagues showed off Apple’s new tablet PC, the iPad. Since then bloggers and journalists have been filling pages with there impressions of the iPad ranging [...]
The Consumer Electronics Show has concluded in Las Vegas, launching a number of new technologies and providing insight into important technologies of 2010. The three product categories garnering the most attention were 3D HD television, tablet and slate computers and ebook readers, and smartphones and superphones. Last year’s CES saw the introduction of the 3-D [...]
The iPhone has changed the face of computing by putting the Internet in the palm of your hand. While the iPhone is an amazing device, users of the iPhone and phones running Google’s Android operating system have been frustrated by a very limiting aspect of these top-of-the-line smart phones. While users pay for unlimited Internet [...]
Child pornography is a disturbing crime that has become amplified by the ease with which photos and video can be transferred over the Internet. This week 57 people were arrested in Canada in a child porn crackdown. Last year, Australian police broke a child porn ring that stretched across 170 countries and led to the [...]
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