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What some though was going to be a huge overload on Facebook’s servers was not so much after all as most people calmly came off with all their own usernames last night on the site. While their were some complaints here and there from people who didn’t get the username they were hoping for, most [...]

Lifehacker’s/Smarterware’s Gina Trapani got some really neat, and very exclusive access to the beta versions of Google’s Wave product. Wave,  described as “what email should be”, is Google’s perception of the email of the future and was showcased a one hour and twenty minute developer video showcasing it’s features.
Gina’s exclusive demo, as seen on Lifehacker [...]

Microsoft’s new Bing search engine, which we’ve covered before, is getting some attention from bloggers all across the web for allegedly seeking out “dirty” content and bringing it to users saying “The search for xyz may return explicit adult content.”
In particular, CNET’s Molly Wood was making fun of the search engine for the fact that, [...]

Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt, in a video interview with the Fox Business Network, said that “I do not think Bing’s arrival has changed what we are doing.” and also said “It’s not the first entry for Microsoft. They do this about once a year”.  Schmidt also talked about mobile phones, and said that this is their year. [...]

US Exclusive iPhone carrier AT&T is under a bit of fire from both Apple and current iPhone users. ATT is coming under fire for the fact that they aren’t going to be supporting MMS (multimedia messaging service picture and video messaging) in Apple’s new iPhone OS 3.0. They say it will be not until “late [...]

When Trillian Astra originally got started way back in 2006 (that’s like 20 tech-years), it was quiet and in a closed beta only to Trillian Pro subscribers. Back-tracking to the beginning of April when Lifehacker reported that Trillians developer, Cerulean Studios was starting to hand out invites to the software right off the bat! But now, no [...]

Starting Saturday on Facebook, users will soon begin to be able to choose a username for their Facebook profile in the format of facebook.com/yournamehere. Wow! They’re also offering the service to Facebook’s pages and it is already a hot-button topic with over 31,000 people liking the blog post by Blaise Dipersia, a designer at FB. [...]

There is some chatter going around on various iPhone/iPod Touch boards that Apple, in their new soon-coming 3.0 OS update (expected to be announced really soon), will make application re-downloads no more. But, this change is only on applications for over-the-air download, which means that you can just go back to your computer and re-sync [...]

Wow, what a day for Apple, their products and the iPhone! Today, at the Worldwide Developers Conference hosted by Apple in San Fransisco, we saw a new iPhone’s release, new 3.0 iPod Touch and iPhone OS update as well as other product announcements from Apple on topics like their new and improved MacBooks. But, in [...]

Microsoft’s new Windows 7 operating system, currently in a public release candidate test right now, now has an offical release date set for it- October 22nd, 2009. When Microsoft originally said it would be ready for the Christmas season, I guess they were right! Windows Seven’s pricing is not yet available yet, and the free [...]