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• Google Maps starts to use landmarks for directions ...

  Filed under: Google , Search , Web Online mapping sites have pretty much changed the way I get directions. I don't take an atlas with me when I hit the road. Instead, I print out some directions and take a sheet or two of paper with me in the car. And I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in this. Step by s ...

• Easeus Todo Backup is a simple, free hard drive cl ...

  Filed under: Utilities , Windows , Freeware Easeus Partition Manager became one of my go-to drive utilities after the first time I used it. They're now offering a hard drive cloning utility, and it's just as handy. Unlike Partition Manager, there's only one version of Todo Backup , and it's total ...

• Fugly Friday: iPhone-EZ Products

  Filed under: Fugly Friday Today's sign that the Comic Sanspocalypse is nigh comes to you from iPhone app developer iPhone-EZ Products . The dreaded typeface, loathed by designers and comics fans alike, is splashed liberally all over the IPhone-EZ, and even in the company's app icons. Yes, that app l ...

• Opera 10.5 alpha here soon, may finally include sp ...

  Filed under: Browsers No, that's not Opera 10.5 pictured above, it's 10.2 alpha. 10.5's first snapshot won't be available for a few more days -- likely on the 22nd of December -- but it could be a very important release for the boys from Oslo. In typical Opera fashion, the first murmurings about ...

• Younicorn: turn anyone into a unicorn with your iP ...

  Filed under: Fun , Photo , iPhone Of all the novelty photo apps we've seen on the iPhone, Younicorn might be the weirdest. It turns anyone into a glowing, psychedelic unicorn, and it's based on the simple philosophy that everyone looks better with a long, pointy horn growing out of their head. Youni ...

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• Verizon: Even with higher termination fees, we sti ...

  By Tim Conneally , Betanews Verizon has filed its response to a December 4 Federal Communications Commission probe which examined the carrier's recent increase to early termination fees for subscribers with "advanced devices" such as BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Android and Palm handsets. The FCC a ...

• Cisco acquires 4G tech vendor Starent Networks for ...

  By Tim Conneally , Betanews Today, Cisco announced that it has completed its acquisition of Starent Networks, a name that has been popping up in greater frequency as wireless networks evolve into their next generation. Starent deals in core multimedia technology used in all types of mobile radio net ...

• Slow performance may have triggered Visual Studio ...

  By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews A delay of what Microsoft Developer SVP S. Somasegar calls "back a few weeks," in the final release of Visual Studio 2010 and its accompanying .NET Framework 4, is the apparent result of performance issues that beta testers would not let rest. Somasegar's post yest ...

• Add-ons make Google Chrome for Linux beta competit ...

  By Jack M. Germain, LinuxInsider Google finally released a beta version of its Chrome Web browser for Linux on December 8, slightly more than one year after releasing its Chrome browser for Windows. The wait was worth it, especially given the more than 300 extensions already available to customize t ...

• Live Poll: Should Facebook give you your privacy?

  By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews Now that Facebook has altered its privacy policy for users, what statement best reflects your personal stance on social networks' privacy policy? (polls ) Last week's change to Facebook's privacy policy resulted in tens of thousands of users being directly confron ...