News
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Google Offers Wants to be a Platform, Expands its Partnership Program to 5 New Cities
Last year, Google Offers, the company's Groupon clone, launched a program in New York City and San Francisco that brought deals from third-party daily-deals services like Gilt City, [...]
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Firefox 10 Launches: Promises Fewer Add-On Compatibility Issues, Enables Fullscreen API
Now that Mozilla has fully embraced its rapid-release cycle, an update from version 9 to 10 of its popular Firefox browser isn't really an event anymore. Nevertheless, [...]
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MS Office 15: Public Beta is Coming this Summer, Will Include Updated Cloud Apps
Microsoft today announced that it has started a private “technical preview” of the latest version of its flagship Microsoft Office 15 productivity suite. Currently, this preview version [...]
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Report: 25% of U.S. Cell Phone Users Now Look Up Online Prices in Stores
Before Christmas last year, there was a lot of talk about how Amazon and other online retailers now try to get shoppers to compare prices while they [...]
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Bing Officially Launches Out of Beta in Germany, Claims 20% of Germans Now Use it Regularly
While Google is facing more and more criticism these days, Microsoft quietly continues to improve its search engine Bing. While Bing is currently available in almost 40 [...]
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Opinion
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About Time: Gmail, Google Calendar and Docs Get Offline Access
Google just announced that it is finally launching offline access to Gmail, Google Calendar and Docs. Once upon a time, Google allowed users to access their data offline through Gears, but the company shelved this effort in xxx and never replaced it. Now, Chrome users can install a new plugin from Google that will give them offline access to their Gmail emails once again and Docs and Calendar will use HTML5′s ability to cache content on a local machine without the need to install a plugin.
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Germany vs. Facebook: Like Button Declared Illegal, Sites Threatened With Fine
German websites have until the end of September to remove Facebook’s ‘like’ button or face a fine of up to 50,000 Euro.
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Google’s Expanded Sitelinks: When Bigger Isn’t Better
Google’s expanded and enlarged sitelinks don’t add much to the search experience and just waste valuable screen estate.
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Technology, Social Media, and Politics: On Intellectualism
Where education and experience were once both prized and sought, this is no longer true within some circles. It began long before the arrival of the Internet [...]
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