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Loading ...Yahoo Messenger cruises into Web 2.0 territory
By Joaquim P. Menezes -
There’s an entire slew of Instant Messaging tools out there, so what’s the big deal about an upgrade to an existing service – and a beta version at that.
The significance of Yahoo Social Messenger 9.0 beta – which launches today – isn’t just in its simpler and slicker user interface or cool new features.
9.0, it seems, represents Yahoo’s strenuous efforts to find its groove in social networking, something the company hasn’t been able to do very successfully so far.
Will Yahoo Messenger 9.0 provide a decisive answer to the likes of MySpace and Facebook.
Yahoo certainly hopes that will be the case, and in redesigning the application has focused on beefing up its social networking features.
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(1 votes, average: 9 out of 10) Loading ...The Littlest Notebook
To tell the truth, I wasn’t paying 100 per cent attention when Irving Frydman at Fujitsu offered to send along the new LifeBook U810 for review. I thought he’d be sending one of the slim, shiny laptops I’ve grown to covet over the years for their impossibly light weight, sexy form factor and richly detailed LCD displays (not to mention their correspondingly hefty price tags).
What turned up was, while tiny, certainly not like the machines I’ve test-driven before. While Fujitsu calls the U810 a notebook computer, you could argue it’s a convertible tablet UMPC. It’s smaller than a paperback, with a compressed keyboard, 5.6-inch touchscreen, built-in Web cam and fingerprint reader, and runs on Windows Vista Basic. You can get full specs here. Read the rest of this entry »
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(1 votes, average: 10 out of 10) Loading ...iPhone impersonators and the landscape of Web design
Telus and HTC launched the HTC Touch smart phone at a downtown Telus retailer this morning. One’s coming in for a full review shortly, but I had some hands-on time with it at the launch, and I must say … well, it’s a smart phone.
It’s not explicitly positioned as an iPhone competitor, but it’s implicit. David Neale, chatting after the launch, referred to the iPhone as “opening the floodgates” for similar devices. Read the rest of this entry »
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(1 votes, average: 8 out of 10) Loading ...One bad Apple
While we in Canada wait with bated breath for Apple to bestow upon us the privilege of owning an iPhone, developments south of here might tarnish the World’s Coolest Phone’s hitherto unblemished reputation.
Apple’s software update has “bricked” (as in, rendered about as useful as a) iPhones hacked to work on networks other than AT&T’s in the States. Phones with third-party software freeze. Oh, and there have been some feature upgrades, but they seem to be quite beside the point.
