Brennon Slattery - Author - Good Gear Guide

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Article | 6/03/2012 Next Android flavor: Key Lime Pie -- but where's Chrome?

The newest cavity-inducing Android operating system code name will be Key Lime Pie, according to The Verge.

Article | 17/02/2012 Android 5.0 Jelly Bean mobile operating system may arrive in Spring

Are you digging Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich? Well, don't get too comfortable.

Article | 1/12/2011 Apple iPhone 4 "Self-Combusts" on airplane

In what appears to be a one-off incident and not a general manufacturing flaw, a passenger's iPhone 4 "self-combusted" on an Australian flight last Fr...

Article | 13/10/2011 Cool features your iPhone 4 gets after downloading Apple iOS 5

Apple's major overhaul of its iOS operating system arrives today, but amidst the excitement comes a major concern: Will iOS 5 function properly on old...

Article | 13/09/2011 Amazon Kindle E-Book lending program: What it needs

Amazon's plans to create a subscription-based lending library of e-books on the Kindle is just, at this point, a rumor -- but, despite the novelty of ...

Article | 24/08/2011 Fox's 8-day content delay encourages piracy

Fox recently decided to stop releasing free online streams of its TV shows on Hulu the day after they air -- instead, Fox is delaying free streaming f...

Article | 4/08/2011 Facebook lets expectant parents share the news

Facebook has added a feature that lets expectant parents add unborn children to the "Friends and Family" section of their profiles by selecting "Expec...

Article | 27/07/2011 Mozilla's Boot to Gecko: A Mobile OS that could succeed

Mozilla, the makers of the Firefox browser, hopes to revolutionize the modern operating system with Boot to Gecko, a universal-platform OS primary aim...

Article | 18/07/2011 Twitter won't fly as high if it flubs Bing deal

Twitter stands to lose a lot of clout -- and money -- if it flubs its social search deal with Microsoft's Bing like it did with Google.

Article | 15/06/2011 5 possible reasons U.S. users are ditching Facebook

Have we finally grown tired of Facebook? According to Inside Facebook, more than five per cent of U.S. users abandoned Facebook in May -- that's about...

Article | 6/06/2011 Microsoft's Xbox TV service may be near

Streaming TV may soon be coming to an Xbox near you.

Article | 2/06/2011 Google's Schmidt admits to screwing up on Facebook

When former Google CEO Eric Schmidt took the stage at the AllThingsD conference, it was almost guaranteed that he would blurt out something controvers...

Article | 30/05/2011 Beware of malware even as Mac Defender details emerge

Apple users are getting new details about one malware scare, but should be careful not to fall victim to another that may be lurking.

Article | 18/05/2011 Bing, Facebook deepen ties, threaten Google +1

Microsoft has unveiled a deeper conglomerate of Bing and Facebook that harvests the power of the social Web, one year after forming a partnership to t...

Article | 13/05/2011 Chromebooks to ship with offline versions of Google Apps

One of the problems with the marketability of the Chromebook -- that it only functions when connected to the Internet -- is also a misunderstanding. G...