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Xbox Live To Deliver Facebook and Twitter This Fall

Xbox Live To Deliver Facebook and Twitter This Fall

At the E3 conference today, Microsoft announced that both Facebook Connect and Sign-In With Twitter will be integrated with Xbox Live this fall. The Facebook Connect let’s you upload in game screenshots to your FB profile in real-time.

(June 1st, 2009)

Google Wave

Google Wave

Google has just announced Google Wave, a new in-browser communication and collaboration tool. This flexible hybrid of email, chat instant messaging enhanced with project management software could be a massive game changer for online communications and collaboration.

(May 28th, 2009)

Google Announces More Android Phones in 2009

Google Announces More Android Phones in 2009

Although we are nearly half-way through 2009 with only a couple of Android powered devices currently on the market (HTC Magic & the T-Mobile G1) and and the the Samsung i7500 Galaxy on the way, Google just announced that 18+ new Android powered devices are on the way.

(May 28th, 2009)

Microsoft Loses New Zealand

The New Zealand government has been recognized for its adoption of open source. And now, it appears they are comfortable enough with their decision to move completely away from MS. The government had established a committee of senior executives from the largest IT purchasers in the public sector to conduct the negotiations.

(May 28th, 2009)

AT&T 3G Speed Boost for iPhone Users

AT&T 3G Speed Boost for iPhone Users

Current and future users of the iPhone should be very happy to hear that AT&T starting to get the 3G act together. AT&T’s 3G network currently uses a version that tops out at an approximate maximum of 3.6Mbps. The company will begin upgrading its network this year for a potential maximum of 7.2Mbps; deployment is expected to be finished in 2011.

(May 28th, 2009)

Steve Ballmer Demos the Zune HD

Engadget got a demo of this falls release of the Zune HD, by Steve Balmer.
I cannot help but wonder if MS is going to make some serious changes to the SDK and licensing for creating applications on the Zune. Especially in light of the Zune store coming to the Xbox.

(May 28th, 2009)

Digg Content is Licensed as Creative Commons Zero

With the much deserved backlash that Digg recently received regarding their toolbar, comes some very good news by the very popular social news/networking site. As of May 27th, 209, all Digg content is licensed to Creative Commons Zero (CC0)!

(May 28th, 2009)

Jimmy Fallon Wins the Webby Award for Person of The Year

Jimmy Fallon Wins the Webby Award for Person of The Year

With a tightly integrated social network, Jimmy Fallon has done a great job bringing the internet onto his late night tv show. Now, he has picked up the 2009 Person of the Year Webby’s Award.

(May 5th, 2009)

Apple iPhone 3G Without Contracts

Apple iPhone 3G Without Contracts

Want an iPhone without having the long term contract? Well now, besides going to an AT&T location, you can go to your Apple store and get one. Keep in mind the contract free phone will set you back by $599 for the 8GB version and $699 for the 16G version.

(March 27th, 2009)

Former AOL CEO Becomes News Corp Digital Media CEO

The former CEO of AOL, Jonathan Miller will be taking over the digital assets of News Corp, becoming their new CEO of Digital Media. This move includes MySpace. This will include Fox Interactive Media and other duties. Peter Levinsohn, the current president of Fox Interactive, will be leaving his current position but will remain at News Corp.

(March 27th, 2009)

FireFox Security Update to v3.0.8

FireFox Security Update to v3.0.8

FireFox users, If haven’t updated to 3.0.8, please do so now. Firefox version 3.0.8 fixes two critical security issues that were found to exist in Firefox version 3.0.7

(March 27th, 2009)

Google Layoff of 200 People

Sometimes it seems like every week, or more, there is news of another company laying off more employees. Or worse, replacing them with cheaper ones in another country. Recently, Google announced that it was letting 200 employees go.

(March 27th, 2009)

YouTube Educational Hub Launch

YouTube Educational Hub Launch

Using YouTube as a vehicle to democratize learning is one of the coolest, unintended outcomes of its existence. YouTube EDU is a volunteer project sparked by a group of employees who wanted to find a better way to collect and highlight all the great educational content being uploaded to YouTube by colleges and universities.

(March 26th, 2009)

Twitter Now Has Full SMS Service for Vodafone UK Customers

Twitter Now Has Full SMS Service for Vodafone UK Customers

This is about time and good news for the UK, Here in the United States, and in Canada, people can send and receive tweets via SMS at no extra charge. Now the Vodafone customers of the UK do too. It’s good to see Twitter continuing to make arrangements around the world; good Twitter, good for users, good for mobile service providers.

(March 26th, 2009)