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Amazon acquires European movie streaming & rental company Lovefilm

Today, Amazon, America’s largest online retailer, announced it acquired Lovefilm, one of the leading European movie rental services. Prior to the acquisition, Amazon owned a minority share of the company. Exact details of the sale were not disclosed, but reports estimate the value to be between $200 and $270 million. Lovefilm offers similar services to

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Starbucks introduces mobile payment for customers

Starbucks is introducing its Starbucks Card mobile application across the country. It enables customers to start the app, hold up a barcode on the screen to a scanner in the store, which then automatically deducts money from the customer’s Starbucks Card account in exchange for his or her favorite beverage. The application supports the iPhone,

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Google announces H.264 is out, WebM is in

Last week, in a move that has sparked much heated debate, Google announced it was dropping H.264 support from Chrome’s HTML5 video tag. According to the post at The Chromium Blog, posted by Google Product Manager Mike Jazayeri, “Specifically, we are supporting the WebM (VP8) and Theora video codecs, and will consider adding support for

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Wikipedia set to celebrate 10th birthday this week

As Wikipedia, the online resource for everything from our country’s leaders to Lady Gaga, from history to current events, nears its 10th birthday, its leaders are seeking greater diversity in its editors. Today, the majority of Wikipedia editors are male, well educated, and in their twenties, according to Jimmy Wales, the site’s founder. Wikipedia plans

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What iPhone from Verizon means to Apple

This is official, the iPhone is finally coming to Verizon Wireless. Verizon is the country’s largest wireless carrier, and it will have the phone available in stores around the end of this month. Verizon Wireless could generate sales of millions of iPhones this year. Many analysts agree that Apple will most probably sell 9 million

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In Europe, Firefox more popular than IE

According to StatCounter, Firefox browser has 38.11% of the European market share, while Microsoft IE has 37.52%. However, the situation occurred not because Firefox experience growth, but because Google Chrome took the market share away from Internet Explorer. “This appears to be happening because Google?s Chrome is stealing share from Internet Explorer while Firefox is

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New project is live – the Sauce Show

We have been recently working with a great team who produce and amazing show the Sauce. We have created a website for thisshow, and you can see it at www.thesauceshow.com. To read more about this project visit our portfolio and an official website of the show – www.thesauceshow.com.

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WordPress

WordPress is a program used for blog publishing application and designing websites, powered by PHP and MySQL. Firstly released on May 2003 by Matt Mullenweg as an Open Source project. What does it mean? WordPress is used by hundreds of people nearly all over the world, and you do not have to pay for a

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Video calls with Skype for iPhone

Skype released an update of its app for iPhone. A new version of the software allows making video calls. The new app is compatible with the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and iPod touch 4th generation with i0S 4.0 or above.

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Apple Sold 1 Million of Apple TVs

Apple sold one million units of its next generation Apple TV before Christmas. It took three months for the company to achieve this number. What is Apple TV? It is a $99 device that you can connected to your TV and which allows you to rent from a large selection of HD movies, watch Netflix

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