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Reviewing the Nokia Lumia 900

When it hits AT&T stores next week, the Nokia Lumia 900 could be the best smartphone on the market. If Apple released a piece of hardware as sleek and beautiful piece as the Lumia 900, the world would bow at its feet and marvel at Cupertino's latest masterpiece. But that is not going to happen with the Lumia 900. The key phrase here is "could…

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Blogging

Twitter Acquires Posterous

If you're a user of the short-form blogging service Posterous, you may want to consider backing up your content and migrating to another platform. That much is quietly being implied by Twitter, who just made the bold and somewhat unexpected move of acquiring Posterous. Both companies promise that the service Posterous users know and love will…

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International

Twitter Speaks Mandarin

Twitter will support Chinese language in the coming weeks, according to a research report published today. It's not clear how well that will help Chinese users in the mainland, since the service has been banned since 2009. It may not make much of a dent at all in Twitter's hopes to capture the hearts and minds of Chinese-language users of the…

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Microcontent

Tumblr Surpasses 10 Billion Posts

Microblogging and curation platform Tumblr reached its 10 billionth post today, marking another milestone for the hip and ever-growing service. The service currently hosts over 28 million blogs, which are used to publish tens of millions of posts each day. The site's total posts hit 10 billion earlier today, according to the company's "about…

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Microcontent

Microsoft $250k Bounty on Rustock Operators

Microsoft is stepping up its action against the operators of the Rustock botnet that terrorized computers around the world for years before it was taken down in March. The software giant is offering up to $250,000 for information leading to the capture and conviction of individuals responsible for the botnet. With that type of cash as an incentive…

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Google

Bing's Travel Search, So Much Better Than Google, Gets Even Better

Google does almost nothing interesting in travel search. Bing offers a much more compelling travel search experience and today added a new little feature that makes me want to use it even more. Search on Bing for the phrase "fly to..." and the name of a major destination city and you will now see an automatic display of the best dates to fly from…

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Finance

PayPal's Micropayment Solution Opens to the Public

Online payment company PayPal has opened up its micropayment solution to "game developers, media publishers, or anyone interested in selling digital content on a global scale." The solution was first announced last October when the company said that the upcoming feature would offer "a competitive fee structure for micropayments, with pricing at 5…

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Blogging

WordPress Slides into 1 Million Mobile Users with Nokia App

It's been just two years now since WordPress, the popular blogging platform, released its first mobile app. Today the company is celebrating reaching the million mobile user mark by releasing another app - this time for Nokia smartphones. It's amazing to think that, as WordPress mobile project developer Isaac Keyet writes, "each day thousands…

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Microcontent

PayPal Introduces its Micropayment Solution

Keeping good on a promise made earlier this summer, PayPal, one of the most popular online payment providers, announced today the unveiling of a micropayment solution. According to the company, the new product will offer low fees and a seamless integration that "lets consumers pay for digital goods and content in as little as two clicks".

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Blogging

Posterous Gets an iPhone App

Posterous, the minimalist blogging platform, may have allowed users to post to their blogs via email, or even the specially-formatted Posterous for mobile devices, but now it's gone that one extra step. Posterous for the iPhone is here, allowing users to post, manage their settings, upload media and even geo-tag their updates.

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Reviewing the Nokia Lumia 900

Twitter Acquires Posterous

Twitter Speaks Mandarin

Tumblr Surpasses 10 Billion Posts

Microsoft $250k Bounty on Rustock Operators

Bing's Travel Search, So Much Better Than Google, Gets Even Better

PayPal's Micropayment Solution Opens to the Public

WordPress Slides into 1 Million Mobile Users with Nokia App

PayPal Introduces its Micropayment Solution

Posterous Gets an iPhone App