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As much as we like the Kindle Fire in our office, we will admit that it has a few issues with slowdown and its user interface. Amazon is quickly learning this fact. Compared to the e-reader Kindles, the new tablet has a fairly large percentage of negative reviews on Amazon's own site and some critics are beginning to harp on the tablet as more of a hassle than it's worth. “I feel the Fire is going to be a failure,” Jakob… Read More

AT&T may be trying to buy T-Mobile (somewhat unsuccessfully, as of late), but for now, the carrier continues to offer some of the best prices and devices of any carrier. Be sure to check out the new Walmart $30 plan for a good example of T-Mobile's thinking. Unfortunately, the carrier wasn't able to secure the iPhone 4S this year, but fear not, T-Mobilites. There are plenty of good handsets to choose from. Below are our favorite… Read More

2011 has been a big year for Google, full of product announcements and growth. However, few announcements can overshadow yesterday's news that Google plans to purchase Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in cash. We'll be addressing the impact of this announcement from many angles, figuring out what it means for Android and the growing patent wars, but first, we'd like to take a moment to speculate on some of the cool ways… Read More

Something has gone wrong. Earlier this year, the 3DS was hailed by Nintendo as its most successful handheld launch to date. However, after the hordes of Nintendo devotees were finished picking up their system at midnight, sales began to decline fairly rapidly. So rapidly, in fact, that by April 27, one month after the system's March 27 launch, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata explained to investors that the fledgling system had already… Read More

It's that time of the year again, when you have two days left and you're taxes still aren't done. Luckily, mine are, so I have time to share a few apps with you. We've compiled five of the best Android and iPhone apps (and one for BlackBerry) for managing different aspects of filing your taxes on the go. Some of these apps help estimating taxes or checking on refunds, one will actually file your taxes, and two contain… Read More

Wikileaks is known for blowing the whistle on all sorts of things. But just after publishing what it claims is a list of sites banned by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) it went offline and hasn’t yet returned. The list contains sites that Australians are not allowed to access, according to Wikileaks, but the Australian communications minister has said the list is a fake, the Guardian reports, and that whoever… Read More

You’re probably familiar with the Do Not Call List, that way of making sure you avoid annoying calls from telemarketers. A group is now proposing something similar to protect online users.   Nine privacy groups – the Center for Democracy and Technology, Consumer Action, Consumer Federation of America, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Privacy Activism, Public Information Research, Privacy Journal, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse,… Read More

EarthCam, a search engine for finding webcams around the world, today announced their top 25 2005 webcams list. Topping the list are cameras which offer viewers access to the Great Pyramids, koala and panda bears, swimming piranhas and African elephants, among others. EarthCam said the top 25 list was “chosen by a panel of EarthCam producers who selected the best out of hundreds of popular webcam nominees. Generated by submissions… Read More

Jason Smathers allegedly stole AOL screen names while working at AOL offices in Dulles, Va., and sold the list to Sean Dunaway, 21, of Las Vegas, prosecutors say. Dunaway used it to send gambling ads, then sold it to spammers, a criminal complaint said. Smathers, 24, allegedly used data encryption, AOL Instant Messenger and another employee's account in April and May 2003 to cull a list of AOL customers' screen names, ZIP codes,… Read More

According to the criminal complaint, Jason Smathers of Harpers Ferry, W. Va., used his inside knowledge of AOL's computer system to steal a list of 92 million AOL customer account “screen names,” and then sold them to Sean Dunaway, who is not an AOL employee. Dunaway, of Las Vegas, NV., was accused of using the list to promote his own Internet gambling business and also sold the list to other spammers for $52,000,… Read More

A 'manual mode' creates a list of iPod tracks not in iTunes, and allows to copy desired tracks from that list. With every synchronization iPod.iTunes creates a date&time stamped iTunes playlistcontaining the tracks which were copied. This gives the option to easily add those tracks to existing playlists or to create new ones from the transferred tracks. Download here