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What Are You Listening To? Facebook Users Share Music 1.5 Billion Times in Two Months
Facebook users really, really want their friends to know what they’re listening to. According to numbers released by the social networking giant yesterday, users have shared their listening activity more than 1.5 billion times in …
Hey Adobe, Thanks for Seeing the (Flash) Light
Adobe’s decision to switch to HTML5 deserves plaudits, as the company’s doing something Apple probably wouldn’t.
Check Out Every Apple Store Ever Opened, in Order
A Ph.D student shows his love for Apple Stores by posting photos of all 357 of them, from Bordeaux to British Columbia.
Ask Techland: What’s the Deal with 4G? Is the New iPhone 4G?
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What’s the deal with 4G? It’s different from each company, right? My friend said the new iPhone …
Mobile Flash Abandoned for HTML5: Adobe Surrenders, Apple Wins?
You can look at this one of two ways: Steve Jobs was right on the money about Adobe Flash, or Steve Jobs shrewdly worked to ensure he’d be right about Adobe’s mobile multimedia plugin by using Apple’s leverage to put the tool in a stranglehold. However you view it, it’s death seems all but assured: Adobe’s reportedly killing mobile …
Daily Diversion: ‘Vladimir Lenin’ School Wants to Change Name to ‘Steve Jobs’
The beatification of Steve Jobs continues. It appears that students in Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s second biggest city, might soon be attending class at a school named for the late Apple founder.
The technical secondary school is currently named for another guy who has a reputation for being “revolutionary”—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. The …
Oregon Lets Disabled Citizens Vote by iPad
America has had problems with voter turnout, but now Oregon is trying to help close that gap by letting its residents vote by iPad. This, my friends, is no time to play Angry Birds with Herman Cain.
Disabled voters in five Oregon counties are getting a serious taste of the future as officials integrate the devices into local …
Top Five Tuesday Tech Deals
It’s Tuesday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3: $55 plus $20 credit at Buy.com
Oh boy, is Buy.com going big with this Modern Warfare 3 deal. You can get the new game—available today—for $55, and you’ll get $20 worth of credit to spend at Buy.com on a future purchase.
The deal is good today only
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‘Blether’ Brings Private, Instant Group Chatting to Twitter
If you’ve ever engaged in a bit of back-and-forth with another Twitter user and you realized you needed to take the conversation off of everyone else’s timeline, you may have had to resort to multiple direct messages, e-mail, Skype, or any number of alternative communication methods. Even the dreaded “telephone” you’ve seen in the …
Facebook Boston? Zuckerberg Recruits Harvard, MIT Students
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg returned to his alma mater—Harvard—today on a recruiting swing for the world’s most popular social network. He made another trip to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well. I caught the (very) brief press conference at MIT, where Zuckerberg only had time to answer a few questions.
The …