Zune HD always mystified us…not for its design or its features, but more so because no one ever thought of taking this little device and stuffing it with phone capabilities. But it looks that as of Christmas time 2010 we’ll have just that with Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Series. Destined to be a complete overhaul of their phone software, it will take a more lifestyle-centric approach while remaining productivity-friendly. Rather than using a convention icon-based layout, Windows Phone 7 has a more organic layout with rich animations and real-time updates based on your social media feeds and messages. The phone also takes on the full Zune music player experience and they’ve even thrown in a mobile version of Office for editing and sharing documents.... Read more

• Could Bing be the new Google on the iPhone?
• Got the money? You too can be on Rock Band!
• New Valentines day candy asks you to “Tweet Me“!
• Wanna read a fun article pontificating upon the upcoming Apple Conference on the 27th?
• This is interesting…the Kindle adds apps in a move that looks to respond to Apple’s forthcoming Tablet.
• How safe are your passwords?
• How to turn your Nexus One into the multi-touch beast it’s not (but was intended to be)
• The Zune Phone? It just sounds wrong.
• Firefox 3.6 is here! Check out its new features!
• Oh Tetris…how we love thee.

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• One sure way to get yourself banned from the iPhone app store…make up fake reviews about your product!
• Speechless? Google now searches image.
• In the future, there will be iPod players in vacuum cleaners. For real..
• Whatever happened to Friendster?
• Microsoft  softly kills the recession-friendly priced Windows 7 Family Pack. Sniffle.
• What’s this JooJoo thing everyone’s been talkin’ about this week?
• We’ll believe it when we see it!
• A study released Wednesday from the University of California, San Diego, reports that the average American consumes a whopping 34GB of data and 100,000 words of information per day.
• Send a lot of information via your iPhone? AT&T is getting ready to milk you dry…
• Chrome for Mac!

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• Inventor of Spam given a flimsy four years in prison!?
• CES 2010 is still a few months off but already companies like Lenovo are throwing some bones.
• Obsessive-compulsive multitaskers click here!
• Could an iTunes-like program for magazines save the publishing industry? The major publishing houses are considering just such a thing.
• Big Brother Google? Details on the information sharing deal between Tivo and Google.
• The Apple-Microsoft war hits Saks Fifth Avenue!
• A new study finds Mac users to be more creative.
• Google adds off-line attachment viewing feature.
• Blackberry App World gets an App from Ebay!
• USB 3.0 strikes December 7th.
• A new study finds that women are better with technology and gadgets then men. We find womanly men are the best with gadgets.
• Craigslist, Napster and the iPhone among the top ten “internet moments” of the last decade.
• Happy Black Friday! Shoppers click here.

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• Microsoft will open up some retail stores next year in Cali and AZ. Oh yeah…Microsoft plans to open up a store right next to Apple in Midtown New York. Touche!
• No more Sexting while driving say your elected officials..or at least no more texting while driving.

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• Barnes & Noble plays capitalism and finally gets into the e-book game and more juicy dirt on Amazon.
• An amateur discovers a scar on the face of Jupiter which appears to be spreading. Time to go to the doctor?

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First it was the notebook, then the netbook, the computer pad, the ipod and now we have quite a bevy of portable computers. As computer technology becomes more mobile, the same applies to its accessories…like a mouse. The problem is that a mobile mouse often needs to perform in less-than-hospitable circumstances and on surfaces other than a mousepad. We’ve even used our laps with not much luck (besides, it looks funny). BlueTrack technology is Microsoft’s panacea, which aims to improve mouse response beyond the existing laser and optical methods.... Read more

• With all the jubulee surrounding the new iPhone 3GS, you may have missed the announcement of the Snow Leopard OS that will provide “first-class support for Microsoft Exchange users,” in turn making Apples more alluring to current Windows users.
• The Webby Awards got Bar-Mitzvah’d this year (their 13th)! Check out the winners and losers here!
• Apparently it is all too easy to set up a fake celebrity Twitter account and Twitter is about to do something about it.

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• The Palm Pre arrives this Saturday and already has its share of lovers and haters. Anyone else wanna weigh in?
• Lets hope Alltel is starting a trend with their new one-year contracts!
• Steve Jobs 2.0 in the near future?
• NOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! Hulu…charging…for…content!?!?!

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Project Natal (we’re calling it Project Natalia, which sounds much more fierce and a lot less birth-y) is the counter attack Microsoft has finally promised to deliver, defending itself against the awesomeness of the Nintendo Wii.... Read more