Google’s Six-Front War

While the tech world is buzzing about the launch and implications of Google’s new social network, Google+, it’s worth noting that Google isn’t just in a war with Facebook, it’s at war with multiple companies across multiple industries. In fact, Google is fighting a multi-front war with a host of tech giants for control over some of the most valuable pieces of real estate in technology. Whether it’s social, mobile, browsing, local, enterprise, or even search, Google is being attacked from all angles. And make no mistake about it, they are fighting back and fighting back, hard. Entrepreneur-turned-venture capitalist Ben Horowitz laid the groundwork for this in his post Peacetime CEO / Wartime CEO, saying Larry Page “seems to have determined...

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Personal Reflections

I don't usually do personal writing let alone a reflection but here its goes. When I started blogging this year in mid-September, I wasn't really sure what to expect. I knew what blogging was but I had no idea what it would exactly involve and how much work it would take. I had the idea that the writing would be personal writing, kind of like a diary, and thus wasn't too interested in the whole idea. I had no idea that blogging could include thing like Gizmodo and Engadget, sites that I love to read. In beginning, most of my posts were amateur, summing up articles that I liked from sites like Gizmodo. They looked amateur as well, using one of Bloggers standard template. All in all, I couldn't take the writing i was diong seriously. However...

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Reflections

As I reflect on my blogs I realize that I have learned a lot about blogging and it has enhanced my blogging experience. I have learned a lot about what I have blogged about regarding phones and devices. I think I will continue to blog through these upcoming years just maintain the blogging mindset I so much enjoyed. I think that the class should give an opportunity for student to conglomerate and make blogs that have more than one writer, this way it is easier to write and encourage other group members to write as well.  ...

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M18x makes its arrival

As stated earlier, alienware was set to release its m18x, and it finally hit the store in the last few days. As stated in the previous article, I gave a list of possible specs that had been leaked on the net a few weeks ago. Now that it is up, here is a list of what will be the approx. specs and cost of a very high end version of the system, with only a few different softwares pre-installed, no virus protection in this set-up, but 4-year warranty, and office installed. PROCESSORIntel® Core™ i7 2920XM Overclocked Turbo Boost to 4.0GHz (8MB Cache) This is a factory over-clocked i7 as it says, that runs at 4.0, but i'm sure that if this case is good enough with a good enough fan, you can easily push it to around 4.3 or 4.5 without it like setting fire to your favorite pair of pants OPERATING...

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Alienware M18x Landing Imminent

When anyone thinks of high-end, gaming laptops, Alienware is the first name that usually comes to people's head. With the companies long standing history, and its reputation for building the most advanced computers on the consumer-end of the market, the release of information on a new line of laptops has created quite a stir. However, the reason that this is so important, is just the insanity of this laptop in particular. While alienware, as stated prior, is known for making the best of the best, I feel that with this, they are taking it to a new level. Here's some of the specs on it: (high-end) Intel i7 processor, 3.6ghz factory, probably the 6-core model that you can get factory overclocked to ~4.1ghz NVidea or ATI dual graphics cards,...

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Ralph Lauren's Solar Backpack

So let’s say that you’re a hiking enthusiast how also has an array tech gadgets. What happens when your phone or iPod runs out of juice? All you would have to do is plug into nifty the Ralph Lauren RLX Solar Panel Backpack and you’d be good to go. Now this isn’t the first solar but it’s definitely the best looking one. It comes in both black and orange but will set you back up $795....

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Droid Bionic Delayed Until Summer

Even though the Motorola Droid Bionic was announced early this year at CES alongside Verizon’s HTC Thunderbolt and its AT &T counterpart the Motorola Atrix, it’s just be confirmed that its launch will be delayed until this summer. Even then, it’s been said that it will then later be available for purchase sometime during the third quarter (late summer). So basically we are looking at a release date of sometime between late September and early October, a far reach from the proposed quarter one – quarter two launch date. A Motorola spokesperson says that the reason for the delay was that the company is “incorporating several enhancements to make this an even better consumer experience.” This most likely due to feedback they received since...

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