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Creating 'Moments' of Your Life

It’s hard to maintain a monogamous relationship with one photo-sharing Web site. You will sign up with a service and use it as your primary online repository for a while. You may even familiarize...

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Second Chances: T-Mobile Tries Again

As the saying goes, you never get a second chance to make a first impression. But it never hurts to try. This week, I tested the T-Mobile myTouch 3G with Google (GOOG), which is the company’s second...

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New Netbook Offers Long Battery Life and Room to Type

The brightest spot for Windows PC makers in this awful economy has been the relatively new category of small, light, minimalist and cheap laptops called netbooks. But there are some significant...

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Return of the Steve

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The Motorola CLIQ: WINR or LOZR?

Motorola has finally announced its bet-the-company Android handset. At GigaOM’s Mobilize 09 event in San Francisco this morning, Sanjay Jha, Motorola’s co-CEO and CEO of the company’s handset division,...

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A Windows to Help You Forget

In just two weeks, on Oct. 22, Microsoft’s long operating-system nightmare will be over. The company will release Windows 7, a faster and much better operating system than the little-loved Windows...

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Motorola's DEVOUR: WINR or LOZR?

Verizon this morning copped to what the blogosphere has been jawing about for weeks now: Motorola’s Devour is to be the wireless carrier’s next Android handset. Arriving at market next month, the...

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Google Buzz Makes Gmail Less Socially Awkward

Can a microblogging twist on Gmail raise Google’s profile in social networking? We’ll soon find out. At an event at company headquarters today, Google announced Google Buzz, a new Twitteresque status...

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Google Buzz Isn't Exactly Humming Along

These days, it’s near impossible to use a computer without running into a social network. Web sites encourage people to “tweet” links to their articles via Twitter; photo-sharing sites nudge users to...

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In Mobile Gymnastics, the Motorola Backflip Scores a 6

Touch screens are now prevalent enough on mobile devices that I find myself touching the screens of every new gadget I see. My trusty index finger of a stylus is ready at all times to swipe, pinch,...

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HP ePrint Printers, for Those Who Prefer Their Spam in Hard Copy

Hewlett-Packard makes a fair bit of money selling printers, but it makes even more selling print cartridges, where its margins are 20-plus percent. So it’s in the company’s best interests to do all...

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New Chinese Internet Document Redlines BS Meter

Though it has given no indication otherwise, China would like the world to know that it has no plans to allow free access to online content–Google’s “new approach” to the country be damned. In a...

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Staying Connected While Traveling

Q: We’re a retired couple who travel in and out of the U.S.A. and need to keep in touch with our e-mails and Schwab account on line. Please recommend a netbook or laptop for this that we can use all...

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Google Owns Up to Owning Slide

Confirming leaks from earlier this week, Google today officially announced it has acquired Slide, maker of social gadgets and games. “Slide has already created compelling social experiences for tens of...

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Tackling 54,000 Photos With Two Programs

Taking photos is fun. Sorting and editing them is not. I’ve got 54,220 photos on my computer, including a few would-be National Geographic covers but far more out-of-focus portraits and poorly exposed...

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The Social Web's Big New Theme for 2011: Multiple Identities for Everyone!

Mark Zuckerberg famously said: “Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.” Although he later clarified, “I wasn’t making a value judgment,” maintaining multiple...

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Do We Need a Better Way to View Facebook Photos?

The average Facebook user has access to more than 100,000 photos taken of or shared by their friends, according to a sample taken by startup Pixable. But the only way to view them is by scrolling...

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Internet Access in Hotel Rooms

Q: I have a 3GS iPhone. Is there a way to connect it to the Internet cable found in hotel and motel rooms? A: Not that I know of. But you can do this indirectly by creating your own Wi-Fi network from...

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Mining Facebook to Make a Real Photo Album

As kids, we’re taught to share and share alike, and nowhere is this more clear than on Facebook, where some 600 million users share private details about their lives—and a lot of that sharing involves...

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What To Do After MobileMe Goes Away?

Q: When Apple’s MobileMe service goes away in June 2012, what happens to the stuff I have stored on iDisk? Will Apple still store my material someplace else remotely on one of its servers that I can...

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Exclusive: Backupify Closes $5 Million in Round Led by Avalon Ventures

Backupify, a cloud-based service that backs up the content of several social networks — including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn — and also the contents of Google Apps accounts, has landed a $5 million...

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Larry Page Seems to Be Running Low on Products to Kill

Google CEO Larry Page has made an active practice of cutting deprioritized, ignored and non-key products. In the past year that’s included Gears, Knol, Wave, Buzz, Code Search, Aardvark, Google Labs...

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Move Over, Picasa

Q: I have a new iPad and am trying to learn how to use it. Is it possible to move any of my Picasa photos and/or my music over to this thing? A: Assuming your music is on your PC or Mac, it’s easy to...

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A Hangout for All Your Social-Network Photos

Nowadays, people are storing a lot of personal photos on a variety of social networks. They capture photos with their smartphone cameras, instantly share them with Facebook, Twitter or Instagram and...

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Google Killing Off a Few More Products in Some Late Fall Spring Cleaning

Google said on Friday it has a little more spring cleaning to do, announcing it would kill off several more products beyond those put on the chopping block in July. The latest crop of products slated...

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