John P. Mello Jr. - Author - Good Gear Guide

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Article | 22/12/2010 Kindle Sales 60 per cent higher than expected

Amazon is on track to sell eight million Kindles this year. That's 60 percent more of the electronic readers than analysts predicted would be sold, <a...

Article | 21/12/2010 Watch out Android marketplace! Here comes Windows

Nattering nabobs of negativism aside, the marketplace for Windows Phone 7 apps is doing quite well, thank you. A recent analysis from IDC shows that t...

Article | 18/12/2010 Yahoo backs off killing Delicious

One way to gage the popularity of a product is to propose killing it. Coca Cola found that out the hard way. Now Yahoo has discovered it too with its ...

Article | 15/12/2010 Seagate debuts fast green drive

Seagate has introduced a new high-speed, eco-friendly hard drive for low-power personal computers. The 3.5-inch desktop drive spins at 5900 RPM and in...

Article | 16/12/2010 More than 60 tablet computers debuted this year

Although you may not have heard or seen most of them, more than 60 tablet computers produced by almost 50 manufacturers were introduced around the wor...

Article | 9/12/2010 Comcast releases free app for Android phones

Comcast has released its free mobile app for smartphones in the Android Marketplace. The app, which was introduced for the iPhone last year, allows us...

Article | 29/11/2010 Twitter's challenge: Personalization, co-founder says

Making Twitter meaningful on a personal level to its users is the biggest challenge facing the microblogging service in the future, according to forme...

Article | 25/11/2010 News service proposed by Twitter co-founder

A news organization with 175 million reporters around the world? Not quite. But the co-founder of Twitter, Biz Stone, wants to harness the membership ...

Article | 20/11/2010 Rumour: New Palm mobile - 5-inch Screen; February launch?

Palm is reportedly working on an over-sized smartphone with a five-inch display -- and it could be ready as early as February 2011, says website GoRum...

Article | 17/11/2010 Google Voice makes reprise on iPhone

Google Voice is finally available for the iPhone.

Article | 16/11/2010 Comcast unwraps iPad app

Comcast subscribers can now control their cable boxes with their iPads.

Article | 5/11/2010 Developers Will focus on WinPho7, Android apps in 2011

The iPhone will be losing some of its popularity among developers, advertisers, and publishers next year as the app makers try to diversify their offe...

Article | 28/10/2010 Verizon stores to start selling iPads tomorrow

Apple's iPad will make its long-awaited sales debut in more than 2,000 Verzion stores tomorrow. The nation's largest wireless carrier will be offering...

Article | 23/10/2010 iPhone passes Blackberry in global shipments

In the race for worldwide smartphone dominance, Apple has finally passed Research In Motion. During this year's third quarter, 15.4 million iPhones we...

Article | 19/10/2010 Facebook privacy failure: Latest in long line of blunders

Facebook's latest privacy blunder is just the latest in a long line of SNAFUs for the world's largest social network. Here are some of the social netw...