iPhone users now have a new nickname courtesy of BlackBerry CEO (at least the current one) John Chen. While speaking at the Oasis Montgomery Conference this week Chen was asked about the popularity of the iPhone. The CEO must have been at the top of his game because he was quick to respond “I call…
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Next year, the movie ‘Back to the Future’ predicts that we’ll have flying cars and hoverboards as our modes of transportation. Unfortunately, from where we are standing now, it looks like there’s still a lot of technological advancements before we can reach that point in the future. We’re currently excelling in producing almost anything in touchscreen technology,…
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Cold. Snow. Even colder. More snow. That’s basically been the weather for the past month here in Minnesota. To help me keep track of weather conditions throughout the day, I’ve been using Yahoo! Weather. Yahoo! Weather is a much better app than the one included on an iDevice and other weather apps I’ve used because…
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The news broke yesterday the replacement Microsoft CEO five months after Steve Ballmer announced that he’d be retiring. So who is it? Satya Nadella – the company’s executive VP of cloud and enterprise. With Microsoft struggling to maintain the market share it once held critics wonder if staying within the company was the right decision….
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Google’s Motorola experiment has been short lived as recently it was announced that China’s Lenovo Group would purchase Motorola Mobility’s smartphone business for $2.9 Billion Dollars. If it seems like it wasn’t long ago that Google bought Motorola Mobility that’s because it was less than two years ago the $12.4 billion transaction occurred. While there…
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I like Bejeweled, but I’m not a fan of the game’s many clones, which is why I was hesitant to play Doctor Who: Legacy. I’m a new Who fan, so the game caught my eye, but I went in with low expectations because I assumed I was in for a simple matching game. I was…
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This isn’t about the iPhone 5S being the best phone ever. There are a lot of excellent phones now, and it’s great that we have so much to choose from. Before I made my decision, I did a lot of research, which I suggest everyone should do. I decided to stick with Apple for three…
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With the year coming to a close, it’s a natural time to reflect on some of the highlights of the year. Comparing various types of apps to each other is odd; after all, a productivity app is very different than a game, so I’m not ranking my favorites of 2013. The Simpsons: Tapped Out…
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I have killed thousands of digital people while playing various games, but I’ve never really killed many animals. At first, Deer Hunter made me uncomfortable. The game is a hunting simulation. During the first levels the prey stood still, so there wasn’t much of a challenge. However, as the game progressed, it became challenging. Sometimes…
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What exactly IS Geekation? Geekation 2014, or #GK8TN for the hashtag-infatuated sort, is a gathering event that pulls together an international group of geeks, nerds, and like-minded people for a extended weekend of discussions, activities, parties and other tomfoolery that feeds our big, geeky hearts. In other words, “A Meetup, to Geek Out” Where is…
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