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Author Archives: Zach Friedenreich

Rumor Control: Verizon To Carry Apple Tablets

In a recent post over at TechCrunch.com, one of my favorite sources for tech related information, Peter Ha has stated that he learned through the grapevine that Apple will release their long rumored and hyped-up tablet computer with Verizon. Previously, we have heard that Verizon and Apple have been negotiating a CDMA iPhone to be [...]

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Google Wave: A Comprehensive Overview

A new type of wave is coming. Not a wave from the deep blue or one from your friendly neighbors, rather a wave that is going to revolutionize the way that we communicate through the inter webs. This new wave form is powerful enough to destroy the former rule of email as the main source [...]

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Steve Jobs Reportedly Returning To The Office

Monday, June 23, 2009, Steve Jobs was seen at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California, as reported by a Reuters reporter and Apple employees. It is unknown whether or not Jobs made an official return to work or just a visit before his actual return to Apple at the end of the month of June.
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Twitter Faces Lawsuits, Releases Verfied Accounts

Before I begin, I just want to say that I decided to get away from my usual tech announcement or review and focus on some general tech news. I can almost guarantee that anyone who has a Twitter account is following multiple celebrities. The problem with this is some people who have absolutely nothing better [...]

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Jolicloud: A Notebook’s Best Friend

As many of you may know, or may not for that matter, I wrote an article about a netbook operating system a while back, named Jolicloud. At the time of that article, not much had been released regarding the OS except a few vague screen shots, and a website that simply promised a June 2009 [...]

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Blackberry Storm 2 Coming; Blackberry Curve Overtakes iPhone

Monday, May 4th, Research in Motion (RIM) announced the future production of the “Storm 2″. Although confirmation could not be made that the device will, in fact, be called the Storm, RIM’s CEO Jim Balsillie assured Reuters that it will be coming. He also told the media that the current generation of the Storm has [...]

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Snow Leopard To Include Screen Recording

As most of you out there know, Apple will likely be annoucing the release date for their new installment of their operating system, OS X 10.6, more commonly known as Snow Leopard, at WWDC ‘09 in June. With the release of this OS there will come some updates to the ever popular Quicktime Player, which [...]

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Rumor Alert: iPhone OS 3.0 Will Include Video Editing App?

A German website, benm.at (translation found here), has discovered new evidence of yet another possibility to iPhone’s next installment of operating systems. One of the big rumors of the iPhone 3.0 OS has been the ability to utilize the camera to record video clips. We know this is possible with the current camera hardware due [...]

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Digg Toolbar Has Arrived!

Those of you that follow @KevinRose on Twitter most likely have heard about his new “DiggBar” for his Internet phenomenon, Digg.com. Earlier today, the final product was released for public use. I have been messing around with it now for the past hour or so, and it works flawlessly. The toolbar is activated by placing [...]

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Verizon To Sell Netbooks

Previous rumors of Verizon entering the world of netbooks have been confirmed this Saturday, March 28, 2009. Brenda Raney, the spokeswoman for Verizon, announced that the company plans on carrying 3G enabled netbooks by either the end of the second quarter, or June of 2009. Although information about an estimated release time-period was spoke about, [...]

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