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If you’re like me and you fire up Google Reader every single morning to go through your hundreds of feeds and news articles, it helps when you can access it easily while on the go. Sometimes you just aren’t around the computer and every last bit of news is essential either to your job or…
AT&T has just “streamlined” its messaging plans all over again, leaving unlimited mostly untouched for both individual users and those on family plans. The carrier claims that most people prefer to be on unlimited plans, anyway, so this might affect a smaller percentage of people. Perhaps it’s true: nearly everyone I know is on an…
Starbucks, in partnership with Apple, will be offering free iPhone apps every week that would otherwise cost users a few bucks. It’s a similar concept to what Starbucks has been doing with getting free music from iTunes, but instead of getting free songs, you’ll be able to walk out of their coffee shops with free…
Technology still amazes me even though I’m immersed in it every day. It’s stuff like extraordinarily tiny glass lenses that can turn mobile phones into projectors that make me saw, “Sweeeet.” And just looking at the image above, I’m confident that you readers will think the same. Look at it, it’s small like a granule…
Google has updated the Gmail app for Android, and some of the new features might help improve your battery life. The Gmail update allows users to download priority e-mails first, so that the app fetches fewer messages and uses less data, thus using less battery life. As we all know, Android can use all the…
Apple has just signed a 10-year deal with the MTA to open the largest Apple Store ever in New York City’s Grand Central Terminal. The maker of the iPhone and iPad have a few locations in NYC already, including the iconic cube store on 5th Avenue, but the coming Apple Store location at Grand Central…
Apple is airing a new iPad 2 commercial called “We’ll Always.” The general idea is that our daily routine, our daily lives and the things we’ve always done will remain the same, but the way in which we do these things won’t. In it, we see the ease at which home videos are edited, recipes…
Nokia Maps now offers an HTML5 version of its service which is compatible with Android and iPhone web browsers. While the updated version falls a little short of Google Maps, having an alternative is nice. Here’s what you can do with the HTML5 version of Nokia Maps: You can see where you are on the…
We have been waiting very impatiently for Spotify, the music service that has been all the rage in Europe, to come to the U.S. Today, that dream has come true and it’s available for $4.99 a month for Premium, and $10 a month for Unlimited. With the new music service, you can create and customize…
Evernote for Android has just been updated with a new tablet interface, and the ability to create rich text notes. Surprisingly, many of these new features hit the Android version first, and will become available for iOS soon – it’s usually the other way around. Evernote users on the Android platform, especially for those using…