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Explosion At China’s Foxconn Plants Kills 2, Injures 16

By Nicholas McMillen On 22/5/2011. no comments

Explosion At China’s Foxconn Plants Kills 2, Injures 16

Rarely does the tech-world see “good” news coming from China’s Foxconn plants (more recently as a result of the unfortunate suicide of an employee expected to have leaked information about Apple’s iPhone). Foxconn is fairly well-known for manufacturing devices for companies such as Apple and Dell, though it’s steadily stayed in the eyes of the world as various complaints surface over the years regarding the company. Friday evening one of Foxcon’s iPad 2-producing plants located in southwestern Chengdu, China had ...

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webOS Log Hints At Future Netbook And Keyboardless Smartphone

By Nicholas McMillen On 22/5/2011. no comments

webOS Log Hints At Future Netbook And Keyboardless Smartphone

HP has been steadily adding webOS-based devices to it’s lineup since it’s acquisition of Palm, more recently with the release of it’s HP Veer 4G. As of now webOS is available only on mobile phones and tablets…but a developer recently discovered while poking around in webOS logs several notes hinting at a future netbook to be added to the family. Similar news was first brought to light when leaked training information surfaced and revealed a netbook to come at some ...

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Google Begins Sending Out Google Music Beta Invitations

By Nicholas McMillen On 21/5/2011. no comments

Google Begins Sending Out Google Music Beta Invitations

Several days ago Google concluded it’s I/O 2011 developer conference, where the company unveiled a handful of goodies (including Chromebooks, Android 3.4 and Android Market rentals). Among the sea of announcements was also the unveiling of the invitation-only Google Music Beta, a personal mobile/browser music-streaming service. Reports today began pouring in from happy applicants that were lucky enough to receive an invitation to the service, initially offering up (free) cloud-based storage space for up to 20,000 songs. The service requires ...

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Kansas City, Missouri To receive Ultra High-Speed Google Internet

By Nicholas McMillen On 19/5/2011. no comments

Kansas City, Missouri To receive Ultra High-Speed Google Internet

Technology-overlord Google and Kansas City, Missouri mayor Sly James held a press conference at Kansas City’s Union Station Tuesday to reveal it’s plans to supply the town with Google’s experimental high-speed fiber-optic internet (reportedly up to 100 times faster than a traditional broadband connection). Kansas City, Kansas was first to be chosen by Google to receive a trial period, the company later moving on to other cities as time progressed and the “kinks” in the system were ironed out. Those ...

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Netflix And Miramax Sign $100 Million Multi-Year Streaming Deal

By Nicholas McMillen On 18/5/2011. no comments

Netflix And Miramax Sign $100 Million Multi-Year Streaming Deal

Great news for Netflix users: the company recently signed a multi-year deal with Miramax  films (to the tune of roughly $100 million) to bring 700+ movies put out by the company, including Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Clerks, Amélie, Apocalypse Now Redux, Kill Bill, and Adventureland. This deal is also a “first” for Maramax, as it’s never offered it’s content to be streamed with a digital subscription until now. Starting June of this year, Miramax movies will be available via Netflix ...

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Review: Fedora 15 With Gnome 3

By John Froggatt On 14/5/2011. no comments

Review: Fedora 15 With Gnome 3

As with any other review situation results will vary drastically depending on the person, that being said my current personal “setup” consists of the following: Trisquel OS which runs Gnome 2 by default, though I installed the Gnome Shell. Day to day operations with it were very enjoyable. It’s single horizontal bar offers much more screen space (an essential feature for those with smaller screens). Many helpful features were provided, such as the ability (with one mouse gesture) see everything ...

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Ubuntu 11.04 (a.k.a. Natty Narwhal) Beta 2 Released And Available For Download

By John Froggatt On 14/5/2011. no comments

Ubuntu 11.04 (a.k.a. Natty Narwhal) Beta 2 Released And Available For Download

Several weeks ago Canonical released the final version of Ubuntu 11.04. The new update replaces the Gnome 2 panel with Canonical’s newly developed Unity UI. The beta versions of Unity were plagued with poor performance issues…crashing and locking up regularly, though the official version released with 11.04 has improved significantly. Ubuntu 11.04 in a whole looks fantastic, though some minor annoyances became more apparent after only several days use. Small inconveniences such as the horizontal application bar not appearing, the ...

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Youtube To Offer Full-Featured Movies From Popular Studios

By Nicholas McMillen On 13/5/2011. no comments

Youtube To Offer Full-Featured Movies From Popular Studios

Salar Kamangar, Youtube head, confirmed in a blog post Monday that the online video-sharing service reached agreements with Sony, Universal and Warner Brothers studios to offer a wide variety of subscription-free full-length movies. “It’s a Saturday and you want to watch your favorite YouTube star’s show, a big Hollywood movie, a clip of your friend’s weekend in Austin, a newly-released music video, a global sporting event, a live concert and breaking news from Japan. Six years ago, when YouTube first ...

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Crash Course: Google I/O 2011 Conference (Day 2)

By Nicholas McMillen On 12/5/2011. no comments

Crash Course: Google I/O 2011 Conference (Day 2)

As expected, day two of Google’s I/O conference was focused greatly on the company’s Chrome-related projects.  Just as we did for day one, GizmoDigit is here to offer a Crash Course on the day’s events. Chrome Web Store in-app purchases Chrome’s December-launched Web Store will soon offer developers to take advantage of a Google-provided in-app purchasing system (taking only a 5 percent cut). The Web Store will be available world-wide and in 41 languages. Chromebooks Google announces it’s Chrome OS-specific ...

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Google Chrome Web Store Now Available Worldwide And Include In-app Purchases

By Nicholas McMillen On 12/5/2011. no comments

Google Chrome Web Store Now Available Worldwide And Include In-app Purchases

Google today at it’s Google I/O 2011 conference revealed (among other things) that it’s Chrome Web Store would be available world-wide to anyone with a Chrome web browser and include in-app payments. The Chrome Web Store initially opened in December 2010, providing a whopping 17 million application installations since it’s launch. Roughly 160 million people have downloaded the Chrome browser itself since it’s release. The browser-based market will offer developers an updated Chrome API which includes a 5 percent “sale” ...

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