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The wireless industry has two major news for consumers. For one, the iPhone has some healthy competition from Google’s Android phone which T-Mobile will be the carrier and will be released today. Second, Verizon released a press release stating they are no longer requiring contracts and will stop charging ETFs.

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AOL (finally) Acknowledges Competition on Homepage

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Believe it or not, AOL updated their homepage to allow third-party authentication into their e-mail competitors. I chalk this up to a last-ditch attempt to appeal to their users so they don’t change their homepage away from AOL. However, despite this, most of the features in this change go well above and beyond the technical [...]

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The Web is Not an OS (or a Series of Tubes)

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Since Google Chrome was released, the Techochamber has been bouncing a lot of feedback about the new Web browser from Google. One theme of discussion is pertaining to the possibility for Google to attract Microsoft users toward being loyal to Google. Michael Arrington said a rather embarassing comment that the Windows OS is a “layer,” [...]

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Over the Labor Day weekend, Google fed the tech blogosphere a chewy piece of news — the equivalent to peanut butter — the Web couldn’t stop chattering about it. They’re planning on a new project aimed at the Web browser market. I might as well share my feedback on it since I was asked by [...]

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All Your E-Mail Are Belong to Us

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Breaking! — That defines Google’s free e-mail service that millions of users count on and the news of this kind. It appears GMail had just taken a massive blow, resulting thousands of users becoming locked out of their account. This should serve as a reminder of the great power Google yields. *UPDATED BELOW!*

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