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2008 February

Get Coupons Right On Your Cellphone

Cellfire is an interesting service that provides coupons right on your cellphone for several popular locations including Hollywood Video, Subway, and Dominos Pizza. While the existing deals are limited, they have been adding new partners regularly.
After signing up you access the site from your phone or from their Cellfire application. During the registration you [...]

FriendFeed Helps Track Your Friends Online

FriendFeed, a service launched by several ex-Google employees, has just opened up into public beta. The site allows you to track your friend’s activity across many social networks like Digg, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and many more. All of your friends activities will be organized into one feed, similar to the news feed on Facebook.
When [...]

Yahoo Launches Digg Competitor and Opens Up Search

Yahoo has announced to big projects recently. The first is Yahoo Buzz, a Digg-like site featuring stories from a select number of sources. This is the biggest difference between Digg and Buzz, users cannot submit stories on Buzz. Users can only Buzz up (or down) a story. Yahoo not only incorporates the number of Buzzes, [...]

Apple Upgrades the MacBook and MacBook Pro

Apple announced some minor upgrades to the MacBook and MacBook Pro’s today. The upgrade is mostly just an increase in specifications, although the MacBook Pro’s did get the Multi-touch touchpad found on the MacBook Air’s. Here are the new stock configurations (there are higher optional upgrades for all models). And in typical Apple fashion, pricing [...]

Microsoft Drops HD-DVD, What Took Them So Long?

Microsoft has finally announced their plans to stop production of the HD-DVD players for the Xbox 360. What took them so long? Toshiba, the big HD-DVD backer, left before Microsoft. Microsoft still plans to offer warranty support for any existing players.
Microsoft also said they don’t believe this will harm the Xbox 360. They do offer [...]

GrandCentral Invites

Want a GrandCentral invite? Google has announced that anyone with a Blogger account can register for GrandCentral using this link. It looks like it works even if you don’t have a Blogger, but they are free to create if you don’t have one.
For those that don’t know, GrandCentral is Google’s service to provide one phone [...]

iPhone SDK To Be Delayed?

Those looking for official iPhone apps may have to wait a bit longer. BusinessWeek is reporting that the iPhone SDK may be delayed. The date may be pushed back one to three weeks. Apple previously claimed the iPhone SDK would be out by February. There are also rumors of an Apple event in the end [...]

Microsoft Promises More Interoperability

Microsoft has announced they will open up more documentation for their API’s and protocols. Documentation will be free to make sure any developers will be able to properly interact with Microsoft’s software. The documentation was previously only available under a trade secret license. This new documentation for Windows Vista, Office 2007 and their business software [...]

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