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Google+ Users Are Still Mostly MaleIf you were to throw a dart at Google+, it would be more than twice as likely to land on a man’s profile as a woman’s profile. Although the social network, according to recent estimates, has improved its gender ratio since it first launched, men still drastically outnumber women. Soci... Firefox Turns 7, Releases a Polished Firefox 8 [REVIEW]It’s a big week for Mozilla, as Firefox celebrates its seventh birthday and Firefox 8 hits the interwebs. In recent years, Firefox has lost ground to browsers such as Google Chrome. Yet Firefox remains a significant and important part of the browsing landscape. Firefox 8 is Mozilla’s ... Siri in the Kindle? Amazon Buys a Voice Recognition StartupSome CEOs like to shout their acquisitions from the rooftops. And then there’s Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who would prefer that you didn’t know his company just bought a startup called Yap. Here’s how cloak-and-dagger it got: Yap technically merged with a subsidiary called Dion... Google Adds +1 Button to Image SearchGoogle‘s proliferation of the +1 button continued Wednesday as the company added the feature to image searches. The button, which was introduced in March as an answer to Facebook’s “Like,” is equivalent to a stamp of approval from Google users. Over the past few months, +1... Adobe Stops Development of Mobile Browser Flash [REPORT]Adobe has ceased the development of Flash Player for browsers on mobile devices, ZDNet reports citing an upcoming announcement from Adobe. “Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app ... Amazon Reveals Kindle Fire Apps: Facebook, Netflix, Pandora and MoreAmazon disclosed Wednesday which companies will immediately offer apps for the Kindle Fire, ahead of the device’s Nov. 15 launch date. Android apps and games from Facebook, Netflix, Pandora, Twitter, Zynga, Rovio, EA, Gameloft, PopCap, Rhapsody and The Weather Channel, among many others, wi... National Emergency Alert System Flops: Were You Alerted? [POLL]No Alert on Cable TV Click here to view this gallery.It seems the first ever test of a national alert system on TV and radio failed this afternoon. We’ve heard reports that the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency alert, scheduled to be issued at 2 p.m.... 10 Tips and Tricks for Better Google+ Brand Pages1. Access Your Brand Page Once you've set up your brand page, you access it through your personal Google+ profile. On your home page below your name and avatar pic is a drop down menu. Open this menu to see your page, click on it to access it.Click here to view t... Cable Companies Battle Digital Divide With $9.95 a Month BroadbandCable companies Cox, Charter and Time Warner Cable have teamed up with Microsoft and Best Buy in an initiative that will offer broadband Internet to low-income families for $9.95 a month and PCs for $250. The program, called Connect To Compete, is part of an outreach by the Federal Communications... Teachers: Embrace Technology or Students Will Leave You BehindRobert Romano is the CEO/Founder of BookheadEd Learning, where his vision has blended the traditional and technological experiences of reading in the company’s flagship product, StudySync®. You can read more about his company at StudySync.com. We ask our students to be good observers, conside... |