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[13 Mar 2009 | 2 Comments | ]
T-Mobile G1 Phone with Google – $97.99 only

The black, white, and bronze flavors of the T-Mobile G1 are available on Amazon for $97.99, a huge $302 off it’s actual price.

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[5 Mar 2009 | One Comment | ]
Kindle “muted”

Selectively.
A few days after the release of the improved version of it’s eBook reader Kindle, Amazon has announced that it would give publishers the right to turn off the “text-to-speech” option for specific titles as they see fit. This decision was taken following protests voiced out by the president of the Authors Guild, Roy Blount Jr., in his write-up in NewYork times. As per Blount, “Kindle 2 is not paying anyone for audio rights” and this undermined the market for the professional audio books that are sold separately.

Amazon, on the …

Headline, Security »

[28 Feb 2009 | No Comment | ]
Facebook gets hit twice in a week

The last weekend, many Facebook users got a notification stating that some of their friends “has faced some errors when checking your profile”. It also provided a link for the user to click and “View the Errors Message” which would lead to a lot of personal information being shared by unsuspecting users. More details can be found in Trend Micro’s anti-malware blog.

Last afternoon, a similar threat surfaced on Facebook…