Blood Bath At Blackberry

Unfortunately this headline is not uncommon. Blackberry continues to go through changes. As we reported earlier this month, Blackberry's "innovative" CEO Thorstein Heins is out after the latest failed attempt for the company to sell itself. In his place, Fairfax, Blackberry's biggest investor, has installed former CEO of Sybase, John Chen in his place. Now [...]

Has Marissa Mayer Lured Katie Couric To Yahoo?

Reports were running rampant late last week that Katie Couric, the once favorite face of the Today Show, may be abandoning network television for Yahoo. AdvAge reported on Saturday that a deal bringing Couric to Yahoo could be announced before Thanksgiving. Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo, has been working diligently on making Yahoo a [...]

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Black Friday Deals At The Microsoft Store

Are you a Microsoft lover? Are you planning on heading to your neighborhood Microsoft store instead of an Apple store or Best Buy on Black Friday? Well if that's the case, here are the Black Friday deals going on at the Microsoft store.  Now unlike the big boxes, Microsoft is at least waiting until midnight [...]

Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile & AT&T To End Premium Text Message Billing

If you've ever signed up for a text message service that you thought was cool only to see your cell phone bill riddled with $9.99 charges and gotten frustrated, those days are over. As part of an effort spearheaded by Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell along with regulators in 44 other states, have pushed the [...]

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The Party’s Over For Turntable.FM

A couple years back getting into Turntable.FM was a right of passage. Once you got into the music based social network you could provide the tunes to your friends that were in the room with you. It was a great way to share music and turned wannabes everywhere into mini-djs of sorts. It was really [...]

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Moto X On T-Mobile & AT&T Getting Android 4.4 Kit Kat Now

Is this a signal that long waits for Android updates are a thing of the past? When the latest version of Android, version 4.4 Kit Kat, was officially announced alongside the Nexus 5, it was also revealed that Google wanted this version of Android to be able to go on a lot more devices than [...]

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Microsoft Crushes 1M Xbox One Sales In Less Than 24 Hours

We can't say it wasn't expected but by 5:00pm Eastern time on Friday reports started coming in that Microsoft had sold over 1 million Xbox One units since they went on sale at midnight. Sony had announced they sold 1 million PlayStation 4 units in their first day of sales as well. Their first day [...]

Better Late Than Never! Windows Phone Gets Instagram

It was just ten days ago that Windows Phone users got to experience Vine the breakthrough six second video app from Twitter. It took about 8 months to get released on the third major smartphone os. While 8 months may seem like a long wait, it fails in comparison to how long Windows Phone users [...]

Appnation V Is Less Than Two Weeks Away, Techfaster Has Your FREE Tickets

The world of Apps is exploding. It seems these days that everyone has an app and if they don't they want one. But where do you go after that initial idea? How do you take your app from the basement to the board room? Where can you learn the ins and outs of the app [...]

The Llama’s Ass Has Been Kicked: WinAmp Finally Bites The Bullet

For many of us, our first experience with downloading music online included Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning's Napster. Once you downloaded whatever it was you wanted from the file sharing service you probably used Winamp to play those MP3's because it really "whipped the llama's ass". The line about the llama was the audio file [...]

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