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Khula Project Wants to Make Privacy Policies Readable
Privacy policies and terms of service policies are generally so long and full of legal jargon that few users ever bother to read them. There are, of [...]
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Spotify Now Lets Users Temporarily Block Facebook Sharing
Spotify, the popular streaming music service, was one of Facebook’s launch partners for the Open Graph launch last week. The relationship between the two companies is so [...]
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One Company’s Way to 5-Star App Store Reviews: Paying Users in Virtual Currency
I was browsing Apple’s App Store yesterday, looking for some interesting new games to play during a very long flight I have coming up later this week. One of the apps that stood out as I was browsing the role-playing games section was GAMEVIL’s Destinia (iTunes link). It’s the #1 role-playing game in the U.S. store, has almost 5,000 reviews and a 5-star rating. There are not too many 5-star games out there for $0.99, so I took the plunge. Sadly, the game is a major disappointment. The graphics aren’t optimized for the iPhone 4’s display, the controls are bad, the music repetitive and it’s just plain boring as a game. So how did it get a 5-star rating?
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Amazon Announces $199 Kindle Fire Tablet, $149 Kindle touch 3G, $99 Kindle touch and $79 Kindle
Amazon today unveiled its long-rumored tablet: the Kindle Fire. Based on Android, but with a custom-designed user interface, the Kindle tablet will cost $199 and go on [...]
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Firefox 7 Has Arrived: Faster and Leaner
Mozilla today launched the latest stable version of Firefox. While some enterprise users are not very happy with the new, faster release schedule for Firefox (this is [...]
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