Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Feb 8, 2012, 3:31 pm
Google’s Chrome browser, the rising star among all browsers, has finally come to Android. The catch is that you must be running Ice Cream Sandwich. The great thing is that it is fast, has spiffy transitions, intuitive tabbing, and synchronizing of everything, whether that is a plus or a minus. Ch...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Feb 6, 2012, 9:41 pm
Samsung, the South Korean corporation, let the cat out of the bag about its newest unit that joins its existing Galaxy group of devices. It is more than just power. With the sleek curves, it is also about style. The Galaxy S Advance smartphone has a Super AMOLLED display of 4 inches. With the 3G HS...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Feb 5, 2012, 10:23 pm
As ACTA treaty, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, gains more and more government support, the internet world is revolting against it. This agreement is set to establish a new ruling body that would be responsible for targeting online piracy and was drafted/signed by a variety of countries. A...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Feb 2, 2012, 8:05 pm
Almost eight years ago Facebook was in its beginnings stages being developed and nurtured by CEO Mark Zuckerburg. Despite its humble beginnings in a Harvard dormitory room, Facebook soon exploded past everyone’s expectations and has become an integral part of people’s social lives. Facebook has...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Jan 29, 2012, 4:13 pm
It’s hardly fair to group all Android OS tablets together and compare to Apple’s iPad. It is like 100 against 1, and as we used to say as children, “That’ not fair!” Nevertheless, Apple creams the whole bunch of Android hooligans whichever way you pick to look at it. You can talk about app...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Jan 28, 2012, 5:54 pm
Google, that witty, funny, and unwaveringly supportive search engine that has continued to bring us novel ideas and products, has, quite frankly let their greed overtake them. If you heard that Google employees were actively helping a man advertise illegal drugs online you’d be shocked right? Well...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Jan 27, 2012, 1:37 pm
Nokia may have slumped by $19 million in 2011 market value, but its first attempt at selling their new phones with the Microsoft operating system boosted investor confidence enough. In the final two months of 2011, Nokia sold 1.3 million Lumia handsets worldwide, or so a group of Bloomberg assembled...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Jan 26, 2012, 12:51 pm
At the CES earlier this month Windows unveiled a few demo aspects about their new Store experience and it looked impressive. Now they are finally taking the liberty of describing the entire Store customer experience from simple browsing to searching the catalog and even updating/roaming apps. The W...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Jan 25, 2012, 3:48 pm
IPv6 is an extended addressing system for networks. It provides 3.4 x 1038 addresses (about 670 quadrillion addresses for every square mm of the entire surface of our planet), compared to 4.29 x 109 for IPv4, the existing protocol (not even one single IP address per person on Earth). Herein lies the...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Jan 24, 2012, 12:10 am
Last year, in March 2011, the iPad 2 was released by Apple. Just a few months after that device was released the iPhone 4 was revamped and the iPhone 4S was released on October 4, 2011. Thousands of consumers flocked over to purchase these new gadgets – marveling in their capabilities and features...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Jan 23, 2012, 1:07 pm
On the 18th of January 2012 the world banded together in an effort to show their opposition to two acts being proposed in the United States congress. These acts, as you may already know, are the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act and aim at culling the rampant online piracy that is costin...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Jan 21, 2012, 2:53 pm
Apple is pushing to get the momentum going on another digital revolution. It is a revolution that has been trying to gather enough steam to get going for some time. Think ebooks and education. Apple has launched a new publishing software for creating textbooks. Textbooks are a real problem that des...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Jan 19, 2012, 9:07 pm
Some say that the fact that you can access your PC’s computing power remotely via mobile devices, that the PC already has one foot in the grave. Let me tell you, that the PC started smelling like road kill around 2005. It is long past burying. There will always be a need for PC’s in certain ind...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Jan 19, 2012, 1:00 am
Windows has taken the brunt of attacks from hackers over the decades. No one will argue against that statement. Very few, however, in the Open world give Microsoft credit from not locking down the hardware Mac-style. This liberal mindset has allowed alternatives to flourish, particularly in the Linu...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Jan 17, 2012, 5:36 pm
One of the strongest and loudest protesters of the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PIPA Act has been Wikipedia. In an attempt to further demonstrate their disdain for these online piracy acts Wikipedia is staging a new protest: an online blackout. The Wikipedia blackout will be in effect on Wednesd...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Jan 16, 2012, 7:03 pm
A year ago Samsung unveiled a new series of laptops known as the Series 9 laptop at the Consumer Electronics Show 2011. These incredibly thin laptops are known as ultrabooks became popular ever since their first release. Now every major laptop manufacturer is producing ultrabooks this year for the C...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Jan 15, 2012, 5:00 am
In the United States there is fierce competition between e-readers, especially between the two biggest names in the business: Amazon and Barnes & Noble. While both the Kindle and the Nook have incredible features and are fantastic e-reading devices, a new contender recently emerged overseas and was ...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Jan 14, 2012, 7:54 pm
Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs announced at the Consumer Electronics Show Tuesday that the S4 processor, their latest creation, will be loaded later in 2012 into notebooks, smart TVs, and smartphones, and digital media adapters. They are not joking either. There are more than 70 devices designed around th...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Jan 12, 2012, 9:12 pm
Beautiful and simple. This is how every mobile operating system should be. For some, having a bright mind was enough to create beautiful and simple things like Apple does. In Google’s case it took years to find a person capable to raise the bar and finally create something simple and attractive as...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Jan 11, 2012, 9:15 pm
Take a gander at the newest Windows Phone Nokia is sporting about at the CES 2012. It is called the Lumia and it’s the thinnest Windows Phone yet and it is Nokia’s first phone capable of handling high speed LTE data transfers. The Nokia Lumia was built exclusively for AT&T (yes, Verizon is left...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Jan 10, 2012, 10:29 pm
Acer Iconia Tab A200 did not pass without notice through the FCC’s hands, but it was clear we would soon see it in the U.S. The press release announced a release date for January 15th. The price is not so bad, either, starting at $330. It is a good price for a 10-inch tablet ready to be loaded wit...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Oct 27, 2011, 8:47 pm
Nokia has finally come up strong, but it still has many catch up to do. The Finnish mobile manufacturer made a strong statement October 26 by unveiling two spanky-new Smartphones. One of the mobile devices is for customers transiting from featured phones to Smartphones (especially in the developing ...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Oct 26, 2011, 2:03 pm
Big Brother, Holocaust, and the Rapture all come to mind when hearing the news about Biometrics. Both the government in general and Homeland Security are increasing their efforts toward widespread biometrics. However, recently 9 million Israelis have had their information stolen. Whenever a foreign...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Oct 25, 2011, 2:03 pm
Microsoft wants in on Yahoo, but it is playing it safe. It is rumored that they want to buy preferred stock in Yahoo and provide financial support to their deal partners. In this way, they are making a move to take over the company. However, it is not all so clear. The Redmond tech giant has been i...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Oct 24, 2011, 1:40 am
Walter Isaacson, former editor of Time Magazine, had over forty interviews with Steve Jobs over the years. He has recently released about two hours worth of recordings to the 60 Minutes staff for their upcoming special. In the interviews you can hear Steve Jobs’ views on Microsoft and Google. Isa...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Oct 23, 2011, 2:58 pm
So much hoopla, followed by so much disappointment – this mars Apple’s debut of the iPhone 4S. Appearances can be deceptive, though. What has changed inside may not be visible from without. So let us have a look at the guts of the iPhone 4S and see what has changed in Apple’s partnerships by w...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Oct 22, 2011, 8:21 pm
Back in Q3 2004, Motorola released their popular phone coined the “Motorola Razr V3.” Fast forward 7 years and you get the Motorola Droid Razr. Though the Razr stopped its production in 2009, and “died off” in 2008 from the release of the iPhone 3G, it is said that this new Razr will bring ...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Oct 22, 2011, 11:19 am
By now, most of you guys should know about the new Google/Samsung device-Galaxy Nexus and Android’s new platform-Ice Cream Sandwich. As usual, in this post we will be unveil some features of the smartphone in comparison to other hot smartphones. As an Android device, the specs must be outstanding...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Oct 21, 2011, 10:41 pm
A couple of days ago, Research In Motion was at fault for a serious outage of four days, world-wide. They wanted to reimburse their loyal BlackBerry customers, but didn’t know how to take on the challenge. Unfortunately, they have not catered to the existing customers of RIM, but they certainly ma...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Oct 20, 2011, 10:06 pm
Wow, the cell phone and smartphone industry has certainly dominated the technological websites across the World Wide Web. Today we’ll be discussing something out of the ordinary: a high-tech scanner that takes scanning to a whole new level. From Lexmark, to Epson, to Kodak; name brand scanners ar...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Oct 19, 2011, 2:37 pm
Amazon has done everything it can to subvert that traditional publishing industry. The first step in its devious plan was to wean readers off of the bookstores. Now it is prying writers free from their publishers. This Fall will see more than 120 books published by Amazon across a spectrum of genre...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Oct 18, 2011, 5:55 am
The Apple iPhone 4S was released on Friday, October 14th and was a major hit worldwide. It certainly got me interested as soon as I heard the news that it was going to be released. The core features of the device are: the A5 processor (similar to the iPad 2), the 8-megapixel camera with auto focus ...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Oct 17, 2011, 7:17 pm
The new iPhone 4S is not merely an improvement on the already successful iPhone 4. It indicates a radical sleight of the hand in business focus for Apple, away from hardware and onto software and online services. In particular, the iCloud is now an integral feature, and perhaps the chief feature of ...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Oct 14, 2011, 5:38 pm
Investors are begging Apple to pay dividends from its huge stash of cash. With billions in reserve for that rainy day, Apple is playing the game the same way Steve Jobs would have had them play it. This is the fortitude that took them to the top. Finance chief Peter Oppenheimer is refusing to relea...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Oct 13, 2011, 9:31 pm
The horror finally ended for Research In Motion (RIM), as co-CEO Mike Lazaridis confirmed that the outages within BlackBerry’s network are over. The service outage held a duration of four days and shocked many of BlackBerry’s users world-wide. Research In Motion co-CEO Mike Lazaridis later apolo...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Oct 13, 2011, 1:51 pm
News just came in today that AT&T Wireless will be releasing five all-new Android devices. Although the release of the Samsung Galaxy S II was expected to be the biggest hit since the first Galaxy S, word has come in that AT&T will bring in: the Samsung Captivate Glide, Pantech Pocket, AT&T Avail, S...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Oct 12, 2011, 4:02 pm
Just a few days ago, there were many rumors on behalf of Apple’s old iDevices: the iPod Classic and the iPod Shuffle. These rumors were in regards to the “end of production” for these products. In addition, Microsoft also had some rumors about ending the production of their mp3 player, the Zun...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Oct 11, 2011, 6:59 pm
Google+ is still not liked and now Google’s pouting about it. Their social networking product, Google+, has fallen into the mud, face first. The only thing worse is that no one’s laughing, no one even cares. Google made vain attempts to bolster public perspective of Google+ by limiting it to in...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Oct 9, 2011, 5:45 pm
India isn’t buying smartphones. Apple is out, BlackBerry is in. India accounts for over 600 million active subscribers. Apple’s appeal strikes Norwegians more than Indians. Nokia and RIM are tapping into the gold of the world’s second biggest market for mobile technology, since the growth rate...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Oct 9, 2011, 12:36 pm
Ever since the announcement of the iPhone 4S and the passing of Steve Jobs, the technology aspect of the news has stirred up to be quite interesting. For instance, the pending release of Android’s new operating system: Ice Cream Sandwich(Android 4.0) and the next Google Smartphone called Nexus Pri...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Oct 8, 2011, 12:48 am
Sprint has announced that their unlimited data plan will include iPhone 4S phone. Opting for such a popular device will surely bring more customers to Sprint network becouse of their relatively cheap rates. In comparison to AT&T and Verizon’s rates (which do not have an unlimited cap), the rate fo...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Oct 5, 2011, 8:35 pm
A sad breaking news for everyone. Just few minutes ago, we found out that Steve Jobs passed away. Unfortunately, Steve Jobs was just 56 years old and fought with a hard enemy. Earlier this year, the iconic leader of Apple, left his CEO position (due to health problems) and awarded Tim Cook as the ne...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Oct 4, 2011, 7:58 pm
Finally, the moment that everyone was waiting for: The release of the next-generation iPhone device (well, sort of). The rumors circulating around the web never ceased to change opinions about what kind of handset Apple would release next. Well I’m here to put those rumors to rest. Here are the fa...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Oct 4, 2011, 7:50 am
This year has been an exciting year when it comes to technology; the release of the Galaxy S II, the   next-generation iPhone/iPod Touch, Google Plus, and more! What has been buzzing lately outside of the handset industry? Well, the social networking websites have had numerous disputes regarding ...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Oct 2, 2011, 9:49 am
Many of you are familiar with Mozilla’s famous Firefox. For you Firefox users, you are probably familiar with the newly released Firefox version 7. The updated version was released not too long after the sixth installment of Firefox. It appears Mozilla started updating their Internet browser quite...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Oct 1, 2011, 9:39 am
Not only is the next iPhone and upgraded Galaxy S II popular these days, in Japan, the Sharp AQUOS 102SH has hit the news and the specifications are absolutely amazing! In the United States, the Sharp brand has not made a huge success at this point. However, if this specific phone hits the market i...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Sep 29, 2011, 9:47 pm
As many of you know, Apple’s iPhone has become exceptionally popular. However because of this, some of Apple’s own products have suffered, leaving them obsolete and “uncool.” In Q4 of 2001, the very first iPod was released to the public, and it only had basic portable music player capabiliti...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Sep 28, 2011, 7:33 pm
A few days ago, a blogger named Nik Cubrilovic reported that Facebook’s new API’s allows applications to post messages on the new Timeline, without users’ intervention. The blogger explains that this new API is an extension of Facebook Instant, called “frictionless sharing” and although y...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Sep 28, 2011, 7:15 am
Only a few days remain until the next generation iPhone is to be announced and sources all over the web are reporting that the magic date will be October 4, 2011. A bigger question still has not been addressed: What will Apple be releasing? Sources all over the net suggest that the next tier iPhone...
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Andrei posted an article on It's a Gadget - Sep 27, 2011, 5:27 pm
Publishers of magazines were elated thinking of selling their wares on iPad in 2010, but as we turn the page of the calendar and face this year, they are singing slightly off key. Their optimism has boiled dry. While they are still eager, there is a strong vein of skepticism that carries over to Ama...
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