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Wednesday, 28th April 2010

Apple Acquires Personal Mobile Assistant Siri

According to a number of well-informed sources, Apple just acquired Siri, the personal mobile assistant that won the SXSW BizSpark Accelerator competition last month. Nobody at Siri is allowed to talk about this acquisition before Apple makes its own announcement, but our own sources confirm that this acquisition has indeed happened. These rumors…

Mobile Frederic Lardinois comments

MP3tunes Launches Free 10GB Music Lockers with iPhone Streaming (Exclusive Invites)

MP3tunes, which was launched by tech entrepreneur Michael Robertson in 2005, allows its users to store their own music in the cloud. Until today, however, the amount of free storage on MP3tunes was limited to a relatively meager 2GB. Now, however, the company has decided to up the ante and plans to give its users 10GB of free storage which can be…

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Cloud Computing

Oregon First To Go Statewide With Google Apps For Education

The state of Oregon's Department of Education is opening the option for any school in the state to use Google Apps for Education, a free service that gives K-12 schools access to the application suite. According to Google, Oregon is the first state to take advantage of the program. The estimated statewide cost savings for school districts using…

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iPhone #1 Device for Opera Mini in U.S.? Not Really.

Opera is claiming this morning that iPhone users were just clamoring away for an alternative browser and when Opera Mini hit the app store this month, the iPhone vaulted to the number one spot, surpassing long-time holder of the number one spot, Blackberry. While we can't argue with the fact that Opera hit the top of the App Store in every country…

Mobile Mike Melanson comments

Facebook's High Pressure Tactics: Opt-in or Else

Facebook users who choose not to link their user accounts to Facebook's public Pages are ending up with blank profiles containing no information at all. If you haven't experienced this problem, it's probably thanks to the somewhat high-pressure tactics Facebook is using to get you to accept these changes. The next time you visit your Profile page…

Social Sarah Perez comments

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