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Location based social networking is facilitated by applications like Buzzd, Loopt, BrightKite and Foursquare, which allow mobile smart phone users to "check in" at either map coordinates or location – such as a business, restaurant, or event center. Recently, Facebook and Twitter added location options. Twitter announced in April that they will allow users to attach metadata to tweets. This data could include location information. Facebook ...

While there are a variety of reasons folks hate Apple, many of the most often repeated reasons boil down to two general problems: 1) Hypocrisy and 2) Draconian, closed methods. Let's take a little gander at these two general categories and see why Apple is so well described by these titles. Apple's hypocrisy takes a variety of forms, but one of the easiest to see is the advertising. Apple's ad campaigns, ever since the first, "throw the ...

Steve Jobs recently penned a missive "explaining" Apple's reasons for failing to integrate Adobe's Flash technology (a standard for games and entertainment online) into its iPhone, iPod and iPad devices. His argument? Flash "falls short" of what it could be and what is needed on a mobile device. What would Jobs have said if everyone jumped Apple's ship when their iPod batteries "fell short" of operating for more than a year? Rather than fix ...

Coby Electronics probably hasn't had this much press in the existence of the company. At the CeBIT expo in Germany at the first of March, the value – oriented consumer electronics company picked up its share of the buzz because of a brand new smartbook as reported by Engadget. The buzz isn't about great styling, open source systems, or amazing features. It's about the price. At $85, it's definitely a "value" based computer with some basic ...

Touch technology is the wave of the future of computing, and not just in handheld computing. The introduction of HP and other Microsoft based tablets at the CES this month, along with the rumors of the new Apple tablet set to debut later in January represent only the latest in the touch world innovations. HP has a whole line of touch computers, including a line of sleek desktops, as does Gateway. Printers are adding web access with touch ...

Have you ever been working on a file on your laptop, then go to retrieve it at work and realize you left the laptop at home? Do you have several computers in the home, and have to kick a family member off of one computer so you can email a document to yourself or save it to a flash drive so you can work on it on another computer? Well, I'm completely sold on a new idea that has solved this problem for me. It's made my life much simpler, and it ...

Apple has built its reputation on innovation, on breaking the mold, on thinking outside the box. But can they keep their outsider ethos when they are the standard instead of the new technology on the block? If recent and continuing developments with the Apple App Store for iPhone and the iPod TYouch are any indication, then Apple is taking on the protectionist policies more commonly associated with those big, clunky, running-scared companies ...